As we continued in the Revelation series this past Sunday, we looked at the breaking of the seven seals, unveiling the plan of God to end human history and begin the eternal age. With each of the seals, God’s plan includes his sovereign control over the events of human history and Satan himself. With the first seal, God releases human depravity to run its course. As the seals continue to be opened, the inhabitants of earth pursue conquering one another, causing an outbreak of civil war that gives way to famine and disease. All of these seem to be guided by the intentions of Satan until a fourth of the earth has experience death. The seventh seal reveals the return of Jesus as the Lamb to bring about the end of death and suffering, ushering in the re-creation of all things.
