Angels are shown to be evil, haters of humans, and ambivalent toward God. God is shown (in this show) to be indifferent – callous – toward humans, "a deadbeat dad" in Dean's words. Those angels who are for the humans rebel against the orders of Heaven to do so. Heaven is shown to be a weird space where all who go there have their own little scenes that sometimes intersect with others' scenes, but mainly are isolated. Angels can intrude into these scenes, and so those humans who get there learn to dodge them.
The "four horsemen of the apocalypse" – taken from the Book of Revelation's 6th chapter – are shown to be individual characters having traits pertaining to, respectively, war, famine, pestilence, and death. These are like comic book stereotypes of those symbolic riders of their horses, the last three of which in reality standing for waves of destruction increasingly moving across the earth as judgments sent for various reasons.
In Revelation 6, the first horseman, who sat on a white horse, wore a crown, and went forth conquering, is Christ, or His gospel of salvation, going forth through the earth winning hearts by his love and truth (with war and trouble following hard after Him), although some good commentators do differ on this interpretation of the first horseman. In a separate writing these things will be gone into in depth.
So there are really three horsemen who work ill, the one on a red horse, with a great sword, who took peace from the earth; the rider on a black horse, signifying famine, and the one on a pale horse – of a sickly greenish color – killing by various means.
It's fascinating to see the working out of these forces up through the almost 2,000-year period of this prophecy to our own day, all these things constantly intensifying.
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As the 4th season draws to a close (what a disappointment to learn this will drag on into a 5th!), we hear the cursing of God by a "good" angel – Cass – and then see such a distortion of the Revelation's vision of "harlot Babylon" as relegates it to meaninglessness. In fact, John's Apocalypse shows the symbolic visions of Babylon and its final destruction to be most pertinent to our own days. All this is lost in Supernatural's popular disinformation orgy.
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Rather than, in reality, Death having entered the world through sin – by the alienation of the first man from the life-source of God – we have Death personified as a character supposedly "as old as God", and one who says he will eventually take God's life also.
All the ideas in this fiction are so bizarre compared to the reality of spiritual truths.
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We are left in the 4th season with Sam having tricked – and spiritually overpowered – the devil, casting him back into Hell, although Sam went there also, for the devil had been possessing Sam and was in Sam's body, and the only way to put Satan "back in his cage" was for Sam to jump in while possessed.
Dean is somehow made out to be a "true servant of God" in the next to last (21st) episode, though how such a foul-mouthed ungodly – yet likable – rake could be called such defies reason.
There are no "redeeming qualities" in Dean – or in any of us – that would warrant such an exalted title, "a true servant of God".
What redeems us is the cleansing we receive through Christ's blood (an innocent life given for the guilty), and His death for sin in our stead – and further, that righteousness of absolute moral perfection which is the Man Christ Jesus' bestowed upon us as a royal gift of the heavenly Father to His beloved children. Washed clean of all defilement – anything that would render us unworthy to stand in the presence of the infinitely holy God – and clothed in Christ's own righteousness, we have been redeemed from the realm of darkness and made fit to stand in Heaven, now adopted sons and daughters in the royal family of God.
But Jesus Christ is totally absent from the Supernatural deception (save for one brief curse). For if He were to be in it – as He really is (accurately depicted in the New Testament) – He would show the lie of the whole series, a tawdry little fantasy seducing multitudes from a right understanding of things with eternal significance.
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