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The Seven Seals is a phrase in the Book of Revelation that refers to seven symbolic seals that secure the ''book'' or ''scroll'', that John of Patmos saw in his ''Revelation of Jesus Christ''. The opening of the seals of the Apocalyptic document occurs in Revelation Chapters 5-8 and marks the Second Coming. In John's vision, the only one worthy to open the ''book'' is referred to as both the "Lion of Judah" and the ''"Lamb having seven horns and seven eyes"''. The ''7 seals'' contained secret information known only to God until the Lamb/Lion was found worthy to open the scroll and to look on the contents. Important scrolls being secured with seals is mentioned in earlier Bible examples including Book of Daniel 12:4... (The prophecy was to be sealed up - not understood - to the end of the age.〔Unger, Merrill F, ''The New Unger's Bible Handbook'' revised by Gary N. Larson (Moody Press, 1998), p. 301〕) Upon the "Lamb" opening a seal from ''the book'', a judgment is released or an apocalyptic event occurs. The opening of the first four Seals release ''The Four Horsemen'', each with their own specific mission. The opening of the fifth seal releases the cries of martyrs for the "word/Worth of God". The sixth seal prompts earthquake cataclysmic events.〔"And I saw when he opened the sixth seal, and there was a great earthquake" (Rev. 6:12)〕 The seventh seal cues seven angelic trumpeters who in turn cue the seven bowl judgments and more cataclysmic events. == Interpreting the seven seals == Certain words and phrases used in Revelation had a clearer meaning to ancient readers familiar with objects of their time. For example, important documents were sent written on a papyrus scroll sealed with several wax seals. Wax seals were typically placed across the opening of a scroll, so that only the proper person in the presence of witnesses, could open the document.〔 This type of "seal" is frequently used in a figurative sense, in the book of ''Revelation'', and only ''the Lamb'' is worthy to break off these seals.〔 From the Reformation to the middle of the 19th century, the ''seals in Revelation'' have been interpreted through various methods, such as the historicist view that most Protestants adopted and the views of preterism and futurism that post-Reformation Catholic circles promoted. Idealism was also a fairly major view that became realized since the time of Augustine, Bishop of Hippo (AD 345-430). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Seven seals」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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