The fifth seal is more of an event in time, testifying the final up-evil of persecution against the Nazarenes prior to Pagan Rome’s final judgment. During his reign at the turn of the 4th century Diocletian launched the tenth and most bitter persecution against the Nazarenes.
Revelation Part 7 – Pale Horse and Rider by Bill Sanford
During Decius (249-251) second year as Emperor history records a disastrous plague ravaged the earth for almost twenty years killing millions. Now with civil war and revolution, economic and agricultural ruin, and heavy taxes and poverty, the next phase is the complete breakdown of the Roman society. Famine and disease swept the empire and barbarians on Rome’s borders pressed in …