These are better understood if we remember that bound books are unknown in Scripture, and that the seven-sealed book in Rev. 5 was really great roll fastened at intervals throughout its length with seals in such a way that only the part from the first to the second seal could be unrolled by the breaking of the first, and so on. The interpretation of the seals hardly belongs to our province. Generally, they represent the successive dealings of God In judgment with this world after the church is seen complete in heaven in ch. 4; that is after the Lord’s return, according to 1 Thess. 4, and before His coming in 1 Thess. 5