When the Catholic Church inherited Rome, Rome was mostly pagan. In order to bring pagans into the church the Vatican adopted many pagan practices and beliefs. Such as goddess worship and idol worship.
The Book of Revelations in the New Testament lists the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse as conquest, war, famine and death, while in the Old Testament’s Book of Ezekiel they are sword, famine, wild beasts and pestilence or plague.
Genesis 12:3
King James Version
3 And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.