As the Book of Revelation continues two more seals are broken.
The Fifth Seal is actually a promise of vengeance by The Lamb for the martyrs. They cry out for vengeance for their deaths and the Lamb Promises it to them. To be honest this idea of God is love is put to the test here as the lamb seems to be offering no quarter to those who killed his saints but instead tells the martyrs to wait until there are more of them. More killed for Christ and joining them at the throne. I suppose any one of the seven churches undergoing persecution would have been comforted by this thought. In fact it is probably for their benefit it is written.
The Sixth Seal is summed up in one word. Fear. What the seal does is cause darkness, earthquake and signs in the heavens. It reminds us of the great power God has to inform us of his judgments and that his wrath is always their for the disobedient. The churches with problems would have taken note that this Lamb thus speaking to others could speak the same way to them.
Both seals demonstrate the justice of God that is coming. Those wronged will be avenged and those that are in the wrong should fear the Just One and his wrath. Lessons that the world should learn again and again even today.
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