Revelation 6:7-8

This is where I feel that we are in prophecy right now.

Let me explain that a little bit further. The book of Revelation was written on a scroll. It was rolled up in much the same manner as (I hate to use this analogy) a roll of toilet paper. It was not like a book that we are familiar with pages. Now, they had books, but the prophecy of Revelation was not written in a book. It was written on a scroll. And as it was written, it began to be rolled up, and every so often a seal was put on. This seal was usually a gummy substance like wax, and it was melted, poured on to the page, and then the roll was advanced a little bit further, and then of course, the wax solidified and that portion of the roll, then, would no longer be able to be opened until the seal was broken.

Seven of those seals were put on there. And then when the seventh one was put on there (which would be the first one that would be broken) the book was completed. You will find, then, in Revelation 4, that the apostle John saw the completed scroll there, and he actually wept because he did not think that there was anybody there that was worthy to open up the scroll and see what was written in there. He wanted to know what is on there, what is coming. Of course the Lamb was worthy to open it, and then He began, the Lamb did, to break the seals. This is important to understanding how these prophecies are fulfilled.

When the first seal was broken, if the scroll was re-closed, it would no longer seal because the seal had been broken. Therefore what we understand from that is once the seal is broken, the prophecy begins and nothing can stop it from that point on.

If the first one, let us say, was broken in 50 AD, it began and it continues until the Lamb who was worthy stops it. In other words, it was opened, and it continues to this day.

Then the scroll is unrolled a bit further and the second seal is broken, and now we have wars, and rumors of wars, taking place along with the false prophets. Then the third one comes along and it is broken; and then the fourth; and then the fifth. And now you have all of these horrible prophecies operating in parallel, every one of them working from the time that they began.

But we also know from other prophecies that as we get to the time at the end, even though the prophecies began to be fulfilled way back in the first century, they are gradually going to intensify as we go to the end.

If you could imagine a graph in which the fulfillment of the first seal reaches the point of a certain level of intensity, and then it wanes. Then the second one is broken and it begins to parallel the first, and it reaches a period of intensity. But the first one, it also reaches another period of intensity that is higher than the last peak, then the next time it drops less—does not go down quite as far as it did the first time, and then it comes back up again and we have another wave of false prophets coming. And then it diminishes a little bit, but it never goes back down as far, until finally we are going to get to the end, and we are going to have all seven of these things going on at the same time, every one of them at the peak of intensity.

I believe that all six of the first six have been opened. We have not gotten to the seventh one yet. There have even been minor fulfillments of things that occurred in the 6^th seal that have occurred in the past, but that thing is far from being fulfilled.