Chapter 4 is like the scenery of a stage. In chapter 5 the drama begins. John sees a scroll with seven seals in the right hand of the One on the throne (Revelation 5:1). What it contains we are not told. Perhaps it is God’s plan for the restoration of the world. “But no one in heaven or on earth or under the earth could open the scroll or even look inside it” (v 2–3). So John “wept and wept” (v 4). So much is lost. He has seen the glory of God in heaven and God holds