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The opening of the seals of the document occurs in Rev Ch 5–8 and marks the Second Coming of the Christ and the beginning of The Apocalypse/Revelation. Upon the Lamb of God / Lion of Judah opening a seal on the cover of the book/scroll, a judgment is released or an apocalyptic event occurs.
The third seal is broken and the third of the four living creatures introduces a black horse, whose rider carries a pair of scales, which represent famine. The fourth seal is broken and the fourth of the four living creatures introduces a pale horse, whose rider has the name Death and Hades follows him. He is given authority to kill with wars ...
Second Seal: A red horse appears, whose rider is granted a "great sword" to take peace from the earth. (6:3–4) Third Seal: A black horse appears, whose rider has "a pair of balances in his hand", where a voice then says, "A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and [see] thou hurt not the oil and the wine."
The fourth seal prophecy seems to mark the malignant climax of the evils of the two preceding seals, to which no such limitation is attached. Turning to a reading in Jerome 's Latin Vulgate which reads "over the four parts of the Earth", [ 65 ] [ 66 ] it requires that the Roman Empire should have some kind of quadripartition.
The traditional historicist view of the Seven Seals spanned the time period from John of Patmos to Early Christendom. Protestant scholars such as Campegius Vitringa, [62] Alexander Keith, and Christopher Wordsworth did not limit the timeframe to the 4th century. Some have even viewed the opening of the Seals right into the early modern period. [63]
He applied recapitulation, identifying the seven "seals" with the seven "trumpets" and seven "bowls". According to him, the Apocalypse describes six periods of the church's struggles. The seventh period was to be the earthly Millennium, which would begin in 1260 (the number 1260 comes from Apocalypse 11:3, where it mentions 1,260 days).
Revelation 14:1: Then I looked, and behold, on Mount Zion stood the Lamb, and with him 144,000 who had his name and his Father's name written on their foreheads. [2] Revelation 14:3–5: and they were singing a new song before the throne and before the four living creatures and before the elders. No one could learn that song except the 144,000 ...
The Giving of the Seven Bowls of Wrath / The First Six Plagues, Revelation 16:1-16. Matthias Gerung, c. 1531 Fifth Bowl, the Seven-headed Beast. Escorial Beatus Statue of an Etruscan priest, holding a phialē from which he is to pour a libation; the plagues of Revelation are poured out on the world like offerings.