After noting that he found the Jesuit (i.e. Preterist--RB) method of eschatalogical interpretation unsatisfactory, Pond tells us how he came to settle on the historic Protestant method of interpretation (i.e. Historicism).

Furthermore, Pond states that, "avoiding the theories of Rationalists and Roman Catholics on the one hand, and of the Adventists (Premillennialists--RB) on the other, the plan of interpretation which we have pursued is the same which has been held by the great body of evangelical ministers and Christians in America and in England for the last hundred years."

In The Seals Opened Pond aims to open Revelation to all Christians, but also deals with some controversial points in chapters which deal with the dating of Revelation and a review of Moses Stuart's Preterism.