Every book has a title or could be given one that is appropriate for it.  Of course, the book with seven seals (Rev. 5:1) could rightly be entitled THE SEVEN SEALED BOOK, but this title would hold no hint concerning its content, other than the obvious suggestion that what's between its covers must be quite important.  Add to this that John saw Almighty God holding it in His "right hand," and the thought that it "must be quite important" becomes quite an understatement!

     Pertaining to my proposition, what originally caught my attention concerning THE DAY OF THE LORD being a fitting title for this book is how my understanding was helped when I began to think in these terms.  Because of the convergence of the prophetic puzzle pieces relating to where we see this book about to be opened (and other evidences), I submit that the time of God's "Day of the Lord" judgment is what this book is all about.

     As far as the actual beginning of the Day of the Lord, consider Joel's prophecy, quoted by Peter on the Day of Pentecost.  In Acts chapter two we read, "The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before that great and notable Day of the Lord come" (vs. 20).  As evidenced by John's seeing of these identical celestial signs at the time of the opening of the 6th Seal, this part of Joel's prophecy will be fulfilled when this seal is opened (Rev. 6:12).  Moreover, we see this happening just before the people cry in their distress that the "great Day of His Wrath is come" (Rev. 6:17).  Any perceived snag relating to this happening after the 6th Seal instead of the 7th Seal is alleviated when it is realized that both the 6th and 7th seals will be opened the same day.  This means that the day that the 6th Seal is opened, the time of the "great Day of His Wrath" or the "great and notable Day of the Lord" will have come indeed.

     That both the 6th and 7th seals will be opened the same day is evidenced by something that we find in Revelation 7:1-3.  In this interlude between the 6th and 7th seals, John sees four angels that are instructed to wait on the specific destruction they are about to effect until the 144,000 Jews of verses 4-8 are sealed.  This sealing is not something that will take a month, a week, a day, or even an hour.  When we are saved, our sealing happens immediately.  Then, shortly after the 7th Seal is opened (Rev. 8:1), we see evidences of these four angels following through on their destructive activity.  Note the "third part" destruction that takes place relating specifically to the earth, the trees, and the sea in Revelation 8:7-8 (cp. 7:1-3), just after the first two of seven other angels begin to sound their trumpets.

     As far as the ending of the Day of the Lord, Peter speaks to this in his second epistle.  In II Peter 3:10-13, we find that in the time of God's Day of the Lord judgment, "the heavens shall pass away with a great noise" and "the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up" (vs. 10).  John writes of this happening in Revelation 20:11, concurrent with the time that the Last or "Great White Throne" Judgment is about to take place.  We know that the time of God's Day of the Lord judgment will end after all the unsaved are "cast into the Lake of Fire" (Rev. 20:15), for right after this, John begins his account of that "Happily Ever After" part for God and all of His saved (Rev. 21-22).

     In short, what the foregoing shows is that the time of God's Day of the Lord judgment will begin the day that the 6th and 7th seals are opened, at which time we can rightly gather that the Lamb will open the book.  Then, once this time of God's judgment begins, it will continue until the end of the Last Judgment.  This is very helpful to realize.

     Back to the book itself, as I indicated in the opening paragraph, the very nature of such a sealed book being held in the "right hand" of Almighty God bespeaks that its opening would represent something unfathomably major.  With all that begins to take place the day this book is unsealed, this is certainly substantiated.  On that day (which could be today!), the bottom is going to drop out of things in this world, on a level like unto what happened in the days of Noah.  Interestingly, what John began to see at this time ultimately concluded with the passing away of this present world (Rev. 21:1).  Truly, THE DAY OF THE LORD would be a fitting title for this book!

     From a little different angle, what is between the covers of the Seven Sealed Book are accounts of what will happen from the time after the rapture until the destroying of this present world and the final judgment of the unsaved.  With this realization, and from this perspective, a more thought provoking title for the book with seven seals might be, THE END.  In any case, my understanding has been greatly helped by thinking in these terms, and I believe that yours will be too.

     Finally, for an interesting perspective on the book with seven seals, try to imagine each page in it as representing one year of time.  Whereas seven pages would represent the Antichrist's rule during the seven years of Daniel's 70th Week, Christ's Millennial Reign would be represented by a thousand pages!  This shows the time of the Antichrist's rule as being merely "a drop in the bucket" so to speak, occurring in the transition time between the last day of the Church Age and the day that Christ returns to reign.  The time of the Antichrist's rule is really short-lived, for it falls between the days just mentioned (both literally and utterly).  When Christ comes again for every eye to see, the battle for supremacy will be no contest, and long will be the rule of the true King of kings, and Lord of lords!

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