The opening of these six seals generates two questions: 1) How long?
(Revelation 6:10), and 2) Who can stand?
(Revelation 6:17). These two questions come from two very different assessments of the work of Jesus Christ. It is fitting that today’s readers reflect on these two contrasting assessments in relation to us.
17 for the great day of their wrath has come, and who can stand?”