This is the Baymau podcast with Marty Solomon. I'm his co-host Brent Billings. Today we

examine some of the context behind the seals of the scroll that are opened and what happens

when they are. What do we make of all this apocalyptic chaos?

All right, I'm confident we can jump right into the sixth chapter. We're used to this now.

We got this down. We know we're doing. So we've learned some more of the common questions to ask.

So as usual, we're going to be looking for insight into the culture,

for a century Greco-Roman world, and we're going to be looking at the quoted text. We're going to be

looking for text in context, the Hebrew scriptures, being placed within the first century context.

We're going to look for that within all these teachings. So first, let's take a cursory look at the

culture sitting just behind this chapter. But let's start with some words from the chapter. Give us

a revelation chapter. Six. I watched as the lamb opened the first of the seven seals. Then I heard

one of the four living creatures say in a voice like thunder. Come. I looked and there before me

it was a white horse. It's rider, held a bow, and he was given a crown, and he rode out as a conqueror

bent on conquest. All right, all this talk about conquest would ring loud and clear in the ears of

the early readers. A Roman conquest was built upon the words of Julius Caesar. I'm assuming these

are probably Latin. I don't know really how to talk Latin, say Latin, speak Latin, Vini, Vidi, Vici.

I think I got that right. Oh, believe so. All right, sweet. I came. I saw. I conquered.

Later on, there would be a Roman slogan. We'd find kind of all over currency and different things,

but Rome had a slogan later in the empire after Julius Caesar that said, I believe Augustus has

adopted sun was one that brought it on the scene. Piety, war, victory, peace. That was the Roman

slogan. Piety, war, victory, peace. It was a linear narrative. You want peace? Well, I'll tell you

what brings peace. First, you need piety. You need to be committed to the faith of our fathers.

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