Welcome back to another episode of five minutes in church history.

Last week we started a conversation about the making and the history of the Apocalypse Tapestry.

This week let's continue our conversation by discussing the content of it.

This tapestry is like the stained-glass windows in the Middle Ages.

Both served to visually instruct a mostly illiterate audience.

Well, before the weaving of the apocalypse tapestry that began in

1377, no one had undertaken a complete visual representation of the book of the of revelation.

And as we mentioned, this tapestry

was originally 140 meters or 450 feet long

and each panel was 20 feet high. The overall tapestry was divided into six

parts and the panels alternate with a brilliant red or a striking blue background.

It opens with a panel called The Reader.

John is depicted holding a scroll,

and he is looking out on the viewer and one hand points to the scroll.

He was reminding us of those opening words of revelation chapter one that blessed is anyone who reads this prophecy and

also Blessed is anyone who sees it.

The next panel depicts the seven churches.

Then comes panels depicting the throne seen in heaven.

A particularly moving panel depicts the Agnes Day,

the Lamb of God pierced through by a spear and then the seals are opened and

now it gets really interesting.

Monsters start appearing.

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