Fourth Section of the Seventh Seal
“The Great Day of Ail-Shaddai”
The son of Man similitude, seen by John originally, in the midst of the seven lightstands, reappears in this chapter. As the Lamb that had been slain, he saw him take the seven-sealed scroll then unrolled, and which no man could open or “see” (ch. v. 6,7); but in this chapter, as the Lion of the Tribe of Judah, who had prevailed to unroll the scroll, he sees him with a little scroll in his hand unrolled, or opened. He stands with his right foot upon the sea of the ten-horned dominion; and his left on the earth of the two-horned dragon power; burning with devouring fire: and roaring with the voice of a lion in the utterances of seven thunders; and in the annunication, that there should be, chronically, no more time: but that in the days of the sounding of the seventh angel, or third woe, the mystery of the Deity as he had declared the good news to his servants the prophets, should be finished.
John, as a representative of his constituents, digests the little open scroll of seventh vial judgments. He is embittered in the execution of them, but sweetened by the results; for he executes on peoples, nations, tongues, and kings, the judgments written; and afterwards rejoices in “victory over the beast, and over his image, and over his mark, and over the number of his name.”
See “Tabular Analysis,” Vol. 2pp. 120-124