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Now I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals; and I heard one of the four living creatures saying with a voice like thunder, “Come and see.”
Do you not see where it says, "opened one of the seals?" This implies the Lamb had a choice of seals to open meaning all seven seals were available to him. Now look at this verse which absolutely shatters your theory.
And I saw in the right hand of Him who sat on the throne a scroll written inside and on the back, sealed with seven seals.
If the seals were rolled up, John would have seen only one seal as the others would not be visible to him. John saw the seven seals, sorry.
That refers to the Writing:
Enduring Word Commentary:
b.
Written inside and on the back: This means that this scroll was unusual. It wasn't common practice to write on both sides of the scroll. This means that whatever information was on this scroll, there was a lot of it - almost more than the scroll can contain.
i. Ancient scrolls were read
horizontally, not
vertically. The rolls of the scroll were on the left and the right, and
the writing lay in narrow columns about three inches (8 centimeters) wide, written on a substance somewhat like brown paper. The scroll was held in the left hand, and unrolled with the right; as the reading went on, the previously read portion was re-rolled. On such a typical scroll, the Book of Revelation would fill a scroll 15 feet (4.5 meters) long.
Revelation 5 - The Lion, the Lamb, and the Scroll
I just looked at that verse in SEVERAL VERSIONS, and YOU MISSED LOCATION OF THE COMA. It's location, clearly refers back to the Writing, which was on the front and the BACK side of the scroll; and NOT that the Seals were on the back. If the seals were on the Back of the scroll, you would have a major misunderstanding. The Scroll has no BACK it is round, and even if you wanted to call the OUTSIDE after it was rolled up the Back, the Coma would belong ahead of the word
and and NOT after the word
back. Therefore
back refers to the writing and NOT the seals.
ALL OF THESE Versions are worded almost IDENTICAL WORD FOR WORD, and all place the coma after the word BACK:
Revelation 5:1 (NKJV) (and also: KJV, ASV, NASB, HCSB, ESV, NRSV)
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1 [/SUP] And I saw in the right
hand of Him who sat on the throne a scroll written inside and on the back, sealed with seven seals.
NOW LOOK at the Versions that had a slightly different wording for Clarification:
Revelation 5:1 (ISV)
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1 [/SUP] Then I saw in the right hand of the one who sits on the throne a scroll
written on the inside and on the outside. It was sealed with seven seals.
Revelation 5:1 (NIV)
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1 [/SUP] Then I saw in the right hand of him who sat on the throne a scroll
with writing on both sides and sealed with seven seals.
Revelation 5:1 (YLT)
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1 [/SUP] And I saw upon the right hand of Him who is sitting upon the throne a scroll,
written within and on the back, sealed with seven seals;
Revelation 5:1 (GW)
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1 [/SUP] I saw a scroll in the right hand of the one who sits on the throne.
It had writing both on the inside and on the outside. It was sealed with seven seals.
Revelation 5:1 (NJB)
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1 [/SUP] I saw that in the right hand of the One sitting on the throne there was
a scroll that was written on back and front and was sealed with seven seals.
Revelation 5:1 (BBE)
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1 [/SUP] And I saw in the right hand of him who was seated on the high seat,
a book with writing inside it and on the back, shut with seven stamps of wax.
Revelation 5:1 (NLT)
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1 [/SUP] Then I saw a scroll in the right hand of the one who was sitting on the throne.
There was writing on the inside and the outside of the scroll, and it was sealed with seven seals.
NOW look at the same Scroll being described by Ezekiel:
The scroll John saw in God's hand is the title deed to the earth, which He will give to Christ. Unlike other such deeds, however, it does not record the descriptive detail of what Christ will inherit, but rather how He will regain His rightful inheritance. He will do so by means of the divine judgments about to be poured out on the earth (
6:1ff.). While the scroll is a scroll of doom and judgment, it is also a scroll of redemption. It tells how Christ will redeem the world from the usurper, Satan, and those men and demons who have collaborated with him. Ezekiel describes this same scroll in his vision of heaven:
"Then I looked, and behold, a hand was extended to me; and lo, a scroll was in it. When He spread it out before me, it was written on the front and back, and written on it were lamentations, mourning and woe" (Ezek. 2:9-10).
The chapter divides naturally into three sections: the search for the worthy one, the selection of the worthy one, and the song of the worthy one.
MacArthur New Testament Commentary, The - MacArthur New Testament Commentary – Revelation 1-11.
The song opens with a reaffirmation that Christ is
worthy... to take the book and to break its seals. He is worthy because He is the Lamb, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, and the King of kings and Lord of lords. To
break the book's
seals means to enact the judgm
ents written in it. Then, further reinforcing Christ's worthiness, the song continues, for You were slain, and purchased for God with Your blood men from every tribe and tongue and people and nation. That phrase elaborates on the statement of
verse 6 that the Lamb had been slain, explaining the significance of His death. It was Christ's substitutionary, sacrificial death that
purchased for God... men from every tribe and tongue and people and nation. Purchased is from
agorazō, a rich New Testament word for redemption that pictures slaves purchased in the marketplace and then set free. At the cross, the Lord Jesus Christ paid the purchase price (His own
blood; 1 Pet. 1:18-19) to redeem
men from every tribe (descent)
and tongue (language)
and people (race)
and nation (culture) from the slave market of sin (cf.
1 Cor. 6:20;
7:23;
Gal. 3:13). Those four terms appear together also in
Revelation 7:9;
11:9;
13:7; and
14:6 and encompass all of humanity.
MacArthur New Testament Commentary, The - MacArthur New Testament Commentary – Revelation 1-11.
I will have to admit that the Bible is not specific as to the LOCATION of the Seven Seals, but only mentions there are SEVEN of them, and ONLY CHRIST is worthy to open each one of them. Seven on outside would be the ROMAN way to seal a DEED and such a Document by Roman LAW had to have seven Seals. "
When a scroll was finished, it was fastened with strings and the strings were sealed with wax at the knots." BUT, Roman Scrolls were a single roled up piece of parchment, and NOT a two sided Hebrew style of Scroll:
Now in this NEXT picture, I find the Artist's placement of the Seals on the Scroll, interesting. It would be another way to be sure that only one section or Column could be read at a time:
Now there is a placement of the seals that I never thought of. All seven can be seen and YET you can open and read each segment or column one at a time. Will we know for sure this side of heaven, where the seals were located on the Scroll that John SAW? NO, John did not give us that information; however I still lean towards the idea that they were placed so that as each seal was broken, then prophecies therein HAPPEN.
Why Do I believe that? BECAUSE THAT IS WHAT IT SAYS:
Revelation 6:1-17 (RSV)
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1 [/SUP] Now
I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seven seals, and I heard one of the four living creatures say, as with a voice of thunder, "Come!"
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and behold, a white horse, and its rider had a bow; and a crown was given to him, and he went out conquering and to conquer.
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Whenhe opened the second seal,
I heard the second living creature say, "Come!"
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4 [/SUP] And out came another horse, bright red; its rider was permitted to take peace from the earth, so that men should slay one another; and he was given a great sword.
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Whenhe opened the third seal,
I heard the third living creature say, "Come!"
And I saw, and behold, a black horse, and its rider had a balance in his hand;
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and I heard what seemed to be a voice in the midst of the four living creatures saying, "A quart of wheat for a denarius, and three quarts of barley for a denarius; but do not harm oil and wine!"
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Whenhe opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living creature say, "Come!"
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And I saw,
and behold, a pale horse, and its rider's name was Death, and Hades followed him; and they were given power over a fourth of the earth, to kill with sword and with famine and with pestilence and by wild beasts of the earth.
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Whenhe opened the fifth seal,
I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain for the word of God and for the witness they had borne;
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10 [/SUP] they cried out with a loud voice, "O Sovereign Lord, holy and true, how long before thou wilt judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell upon the earth?"
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11 [/SUP] Then they were each given a white robe and told to rest a little longer, until the number of their fellow servants and their brethren should be complete, who were to be killed as they themselves had been.
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When he opened the sixth seal,
I looked, and behold, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth, the full moon became like blood,
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13 [/SUP] and the stars of the sky fell to the earth as the fig tree sheds its winter fruit when shaken by a gale;
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14 [/SUP] the sky vanished like a scroll that is rolled up, and every mountain and island was removed from its place.
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15 [/SUP] Then the kings of the earth and the great men and the generals and the rich and the strong, and every one, slave and free, hid in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains,
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16 [/SUP] calling to the mountains and rocks, "Fall on us and hide us from the face of him who is seated on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb;
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17 [/SUP] for the great day of their wrath has come, and who can stand before it?"