Mr. Mauro, referring to the "book written within and on the backside," the book of the seven seals, says: "The fact that the book is written on both sides suggests the two spheres wherein the risen Christ was given 'all power,' namely, heaven and earth. It also suggests the two sides of creation, the outside, or physical, and the inside, or spiritual" (The Patmos Visions, p. 182).
This is surely a fanciful idea. We should have thought that it obviously suggests that the judgments had been sealed up; that is to say, God went on in longsuffering mercy with this world, and that the writing on the backside indicates the overflowing of the judgments that must burst forth in righteous government in this world.