Seven seals
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The seven seals are a concept in the Bible found in the Book of Revelation: it is believed that when the world reaches its end seven seals shall be opened. A book with seven seals are first mentioned in chapter 5, verse 1. In chapter 6, the first six seals are opened by the Lamb, one by one. Chapter 8 starts with the opening of the seventh seal.
These seals contain symbols of death, famine, world wars, martyrs, earthquake, open war, and the antichrist. It also states that there shall also be seven trumpets of the end: one is man judged, seas turned to blood, water turned to blood, sores, plague, no birth,and introduction to the seven bowls of life. The bowls are a third of the sea, men, water, animals, ships, crops, and earth engulfed into an infinite abyss.
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[edit] Art
- The Seventh Seal is a film by Ingmar Bergman.
[edit] Literature
- Seven Seals is a poem written by D.H. Lawrence in 1916.
[edit] Branch Davidian
David Koresh encouraged his Branch Davidian followers to think of themselves as "students of the Seven Seals".
[edit] See also
- Eschatology, a part of theology and philosophy concerned with the final events in the history of the world
