- FIRST GENERAL DIVISION OF THE SCROLL
The First Four and the Sixth Seals, representative of the judicial manner of “taking out of the way” the Pagan constitution of the “Dreadful and Terrible Fourth Beast”, which withheld the revelation of “the Lawless One,” (Dan. 7:7; Apoc. 6; 2 Thess. 2:3-9; Apoc. 12:15,7-13) and the consequent manifestation of the Catholic mystery of Iniquity, or Man-of-Sin Power, in the heaven of said beast, or “Great Red Dragon.”
time of events
From A.D. 107 to A.D. 324
The First Seal
The arrowless Bowman, symbol of the conquest of the Roman Empire through the influence of Christ. The “crown” or Stephanos (coronal wreath) on his head was the symbol of victory. The epoch of the first seal (A.D. 96-183) saw the reigns of what historians term “the good emperors”: Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, and the two Antonines. The first three years of the reign of Commodus continued the era of peace, but then personal pride and suspicion began to dominate him, and he initiated a reign of terror and moral decline. This was followed by a train of events that brought Pagan Rome to an end to be replaced by Papal Rome (the 6th Seal).