The silence in Heaven serves a very specific purpose.
And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour. – Revlation 8:1.
Of the many hard-to-decipher passages in the Book of Revelation, verse 1 of chapter 8, is one of few attempt to interpret. The Seventh Seal is a monumental event in Heaven, but what does it mean? Why is there silence in Heaven? This article will attempt to explain the meaning of the silence in Heaven and explain why it is a critical aspect not just of end times events but of the life of every person who has ever lived.
The Meaning of The Silence in Heaven
“Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand.” – Revelation 1:3.
In our article, Who Are The Four Horsemen of The Apocalypse?, Beginning and End detailed the meaning of the first four seals of Revelation 6. The Seven Sealed Book was given to The Lord Jesus Christ upon His triumphant ascension and return to Heaven, having defeated Satan, death and the grave in His death, burial and resurrection. Jesus Christ is the only one found worthy to open the book and it is given to Him as He took His seat of honor at the Right Hand of God the Father. From there, the first four seals were opened, unleashing a series of spirits who bring judgments and tribulation to the world throughout the entirety of the church age. The 5th seal is then opened which brings the spirit of persecution and martyrdom that Christians have experienced from the first century AD and continue to today.
The opening of the 6th Seal triggers the Rapture and the Day of The Lord, the time at which God will pour out His wrath on the unbelieving world. Revelation chapter 6 ends with the powerful people of the world fully understanding that the cataclysmic global earthquake and events of the 6th seal are of divine origin:
And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood; And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind. And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places. And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains; And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb: For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand? – Revelation 6:12-17.
This shaking of Heaven and Earth is the time that God rises to personally intervene and judge the centuries of sin and evil of unbelieving, unrepentant humanity. It is also a wake up call to Israel to return to the worship of the God of their fathers. Hence we see first the Rapture and then the sealing of the 144,000 Jewish witnesses, who will share the Gospel of the Kingdom with Jewish people and the world in the first part of the Day of The Lord/Great Tribulation. These are the events of Revelation Chapter 7 and serves as the backdrop for Revelation Chapter 8 and the opening of the 7th seal.
A Sign of Coming Judgment
“Be silent, O all flesh, before the Lord: for he is raised up out of his holy habitation.” – Zechariah 2:13.
The silence in Heaven is a sign of God’s impending devastating judgment. When a people or nation or even the world is so far gone into rebellion against God with no repentance, The Lord removes His Holy people and allows for a period of “silence”, right before His judgements are unleashed onto the world. How can this be so? Well The Bible instructs on how to interpret and understand Scripture:
Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts. For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little: – Isaiah 28:9-10.
The Bible is to be interpreted by using Scripture to interpret Scripture – that is, using parts of the Bible to understand similar parts. The Apostle Paul summed this method up stating:
Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. Which things also we speak, not in the words which man’s wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual. – 1 Corinthians 2:12-13.
So where can examples or types and shadows of this Heavenly silence be found in Scripture? The first example is in the Days of Noah.
The Silence Before The Flood
The Lord’s preacher of the Gospel went silent for seven days before the flood.
The Days of Noah were infamous for being a time of global, rampant rebellion against God. Humanity, plagued by their own sinful lust and the influx of Nephilim giant hybrids, had become so deep in sin that the Bible says, “..God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.” (Genesis 6:5). God then instructed Noah to prepare an ark because in the years to come, The Lord was going to destroy the entire world with a flood. Noah, was a “preacher of righteousness.” He was not just a believer in The Lord, he committed his life to preaching belief in God to those in his society. But once the ark was prepared, God brought the preaching of His faithful servant to a close:
the LORD said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation. Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female… For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth. And Noah did according unto all that the LORD commanded him. And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth. And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood… There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah. And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth. (Genesis 7).
So once the ark was complete, God instructed Noah to take all of his family and all of the animals and enter into the ark for seven days. The passage in Genesis goes back over this detail to emphasize its significance.
In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah’s wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark; They, and every beast after his kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind, and every fowl after his kind, every bird of every sort. And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh, wherein is the breath of life. And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him: and the LORD shut him in. (Genesis 7).
Not only was Noah commanded to enter the ark seven days in advance, on the same day he entered and got every person and creature on board, God shut the door Himself. The chance to hear the preaching of repentance before the worst judgment the world had seen was over. No longer would the preacher of righteousness, who knew the flood was coming, be able to warn anyone. Instead, the completed ark sat in silence for seven days, with no one going in or out.So the sinful, rebellious world were left in ignorance. The Lord Jesus Christ confirms this in Matthew 24:
But as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. – Matthew 24:37-39.
The devastating flood came which destroyed all people, nephilim and creatures from the Earth, except for those who were safely aboard the divinely-designed ship. The silence of God preceded utter judgment and destruction. This pattern is seen again in an even more powerful way in the book of Joshua.
The Battle of Jericho
Jericho seemed to be invincible until it experienced God’s wrath.
The Book of Joshua is an amazing book for the student of the Bible. It is full of types and shadows of the end times. In many ways, the book runs parallel to the book of Revelation (for more information on this please our article: Joshua’s Great Battle: A Preview of War With The Antichrist). After being freed from the Egyptians by God in the Exodus, the Battle of Jericho was the first battle the ancient Israelites waged to actually enter the Promised Land. It is a type and shadow of the Battle The Lord Jesus waged and will wage to lead His faithful believers to salvation (at the cross) and His Millennial Kingdom (at Armageddon), when the Earth will be taken from Satan and return to Christ (just as Joshua was removing the Canaanite usurpers out of the Promised Land and returning it to God’s people).
God gave Joshua very specific instructions for how the battle was to fought. Joshua then relayed them in full detail to the nation of Israel:
And the Lord said unto Joshua, See, I have given into thine hand Jericho, and the king thereof, and the mighty men of valour. And ye shall compass the city, all ye men of war, and go round about the city once. Thus shalt thou do six days.And seven priests shall bear before the ark seven trumpets of rams’ horns: and the seventh day ye shall compass the city seven times, and the priests shall blow with the trumpets.And it shall come to pass, that when they make a long blast with the ram’s horn, and when ye hear the sound of the trumpet, all the people shall shout with a great shout; and the wall of the city shall fall down flat, and the people shall ascend up every man straight before him.And Joshua had commanded the people, saying, Ye shall not shout, nor make any noise with your voice, neither shall any word proceed out of your mouth, until the day I bid you shout; then shall ye shout. So the ark of the LORD compassed the city, going about it once: and they came into the camp, and lodged in the camp.
And Joshua rose early in the morning, and the priests took up the ark of the LORD. And seven priests bearing seven trumpets of rams’ horns before the ark of the LORD went on continually, and blew with the trumpets: and the armed men went before them; but the rereward came after the ark of the LORD, the priests going on, and blowing with the trumpets. And the second day they compassed the city once, and returned into the camp: so they did six days. And it came to pass on the seventh day, that they rose early about the dawning of the day, and compassed the city after the same manner seven times: only on that day they compassed the city seven times. – Joshua 6:2-15.
Notice that God instructs His people to circle the city of Jericho, without raising a weapon, for seven days. And Joshua is emphatic that the people remain silent. No one is to speak or utter a sound for the seven days. And then on the seventh day, after the city was circled seven times, the nation would shout, and the walls of Jericho crumbled to dust and the Israelites slaughtered their enemies in the city and burnt it to the ground.
And it came to pass at the seventh time, when the priests blew with the trumpets, Joshua said unto the people, Shout; for the Lord hath given you the city….So the people shouted when the priests blew with the trumpets: and it came to pass, when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, and the people shouted with a great shout, that the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they took the city. And they utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and woman, young and old, and ox, and sheep, and ass, with the edge of the sword. – Joshua 6:16-21.
The most impenetrable city in the world was defeated by supernatural judgment of God. And this followed seven days of silence. So again, the Biblical pattern is clear: there is a period of silence before Judgement of The Lord comes.
King David’s Plea
King David seemed to have a good understanding of this concept as shown in Psalm 28:
Unto thee will I cry, O LORD my rock; be not silent to me: lest, if thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit. Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee, when I lift up my hands toward thy holy oracle. Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, which speak peace to their neighbours, but mischief is in their hearts. Give them according to their deeds, and according to the wickedness of their endeavours: give them after the work of their hands; render to them their desert. Because they regard not the works of the LORD, nor the operation of his hands, he shall destroy them, and not build them up.- Psalm 28:1-5.
David’s plea to the Lord highlights what can lead to The Lord being silent with a person. It is those who are headed for damnation (“who go down to the pit”). The unrepentant sinners who have no fear or understanding of God. David makes his case by reminding God of his prayer and worship of The Lord. He is proclaiming his belief in God as the sovereign ruler of his life. But those who are wicked, workers of sin, deceitful (“they speak peace to their neighbors, but mischief is in their hearts”), and do not acknowledge God (“they regard not the works of the LORD, nor the operation of his hands..”), they do not receive a Word from The Lord. And their ultimate end is destruction. So again, it’s clear that the silence of God precedes devastating judgment.
Psalm 50 provides a stern warning:
But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or that thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth? Seeing thou hatest instruction, and casteth my words behind thee. When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him, and hast been partaker with adulterers. Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit. Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own mother’s son. These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes. Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver. – Psalm 50:16-22.
So again we see the pattern: rebellion against God, that rebellion reaching an extreme limit, silence from God, then judgment. Here God Himself, speaking through the Psalmist warns the sinner in deep rebellion that if they continue to forget God, they will be torn in pieces with no chance of deliverance.
The Wrath of God In Revelation
With these prophetic types and precepts the understanding of the silence in heaven becomes clearer:
And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour. And I saw the seven angels which stood before God; and to them were given seven trumpets. – Revelation 8:1-2.
In this future event that takes place during the end times the seven trumpets given to the angels who stand before The Lord each bring forth devastating judgments to the people on Earth. The trumpets, along with the vial judgments that follow, are the true outpouring of God’s wrath. The Earth itself will be damaged and poisoned, millions upon millions suffer and perish. The trumpets will be discussed in much more detailed in later installments of this series, but the point to understand is that just as it was in the days of Noah, and as it was at the battle of Jericho, the silence of God comes before He is preparing to unleash His wrath.
Is The Silence In Heaven Really For A Half Hour?
It is this author’s contention that the silence in Heaven is not actually for 30 minutes. Hence the Scripture saying “about the space of half an hour.” The Apostle John makes the point that he is not marking an exact duration of time. Could the sequence of events be the 6th Seal with its Rapture, global earthquake and stellar signs, the opening of the 7th seal and then seven days of silence before The Lord’s wrath begins with the blowing of the trumpets and their unprecedented judgments on Earth? While this author will not be dogmatic and say it’s definitely so, the consistency is there. At the flood in Genesis, the silence of God was for seven days. At Jericho, there were seven days of silence until the city was circles seven times. In Revelation, the seventh seal is open, which leads to the silence and then seven angels are given seven trumpets to unleash God’s wrath. The types and shadows of Scripture certainly give some credence to the idea.
Pray For God To Not Be Silent
If God seems silent in your life, cry out to Him in prayer.
There are many mysterious verses in Scripture but the beauty of the Bible is that with God’s Holy Spirit and enough study, they can be understood. And while the Silence in Heaven is a future event, Scripture is quite clear that when we are in rebellion God can be silent with us. And that is a scary proposition. Make sure you are hearing from The Lord every day by studying His Word and praying consistently with repentance.
Be silent, O all flesh, before the LORD: for he is raised up out of his holy habitation.
In our next article we reveal “another angel” in Revelation Chapter 8 who stands at the Altar of God’s Holy Temple in Heaven.
Revelation 8: Jesus Christ Initiates The Wrath of God
I keep getting pushed off, true believers will go Thur the great trib, read, study revelation, why would God give instructions to His people if we are to escape in the sky? I have to leave for now my tablet is too loud!
Bless you, B&E! Thank you so much for this eaching. I was unaware until now that God’s silence in Revelations was so significant.
And if you have an article about the story of the ark from Genesis, can you list a link for it? Non-believers like to contend with over the story & I never manage to win those debates. They say a boat large enough to contain the prescribed numbers of all the animals on the planet would have been too large for Noah’s family to build by themselves. That the waste the animals would produced over 150 days would have contaminated everything & made both the humans & animals sick. Other than saying it was one of God’s miracles, I have never been able to provide an explanation to show that the story of the ark was no just a fable.
Noah was the overseer of the Ark project and must have employed labourers, just as Trump tower was not built personally by Trump or the pyramids by the Pharaohs. Why would the Bible have to include something so obvious? It’s common sense isn’t it, considering the Ark was the size of the Queen Mary! As far as waste is concerned, passenger cruise ships today dispose waste into the sea. Do you not think the ark would have been designed to account for this via gulleys etc?
Perhaps the reason God gave us the details of the Tribulation, even if we don’t have to go through it, is for those that will go through it. Surely, there are those who will have heard of the Tribulation, read about it, but ultimately disregarded it and never accepted Jesus. Once they realize they are actually in it, they will believe in the entire Bible and turn to God. The Bible tells us that there will be people saved during the Tribulation.
In Matthew 24, Jesus is talking to the disciples (Believers). Jesus is giving instructions to the saved.
I agree with you that the Bible teaches this 100%. I posted the following in another spot:
Nowhere does the Bible speak of a “tribulation” period. Rather, the Bible speaks of the beginning of sorrows, Great Tribulation, and the outpouring of the wrath of God. If you compare Matthew 24 with the seals of Revelation 6, they parallel each other exactly. What happens in the seals of Revelation is the wrath of man against man, this wrath ORIGINATING WITH MAN. Christians are not immune to this–Look at the martyrs throughout the centuries. No different except more devastating but still originating with man.
With the 6th seal in Revelation 6: 12-17, something very different happens. As in Matthew 24 when the disciples asked, What will be the sign of Your coming?” Jesus told them in Matthew 24: 29-31 the exact same words mentioned in Revelation 6:12-14. Revelation 6: 15-17 speaks of the kings of the earth and every person will hide in caves and plead, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of him who sits on the throne and from the WRATH OF THE LAMB! For the great day of their wrath has come, and who can stand?” This scenario directly precedes the revealing of the Lord from Heaven for all the world to see. Two things will happen simultaneously–the rapture of the church and the opening of the 7th seal described in Revelation 8. The 7th seal contains the trumpet and bowl judgments which are the wrath of God poured out on an unrepentant world. Paul in 1 Thessalonians 5:9 says, “For God did not appoint us to suffer wrath but to receive salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ.” This is the blessed hope, that the church will be raptured and then the pouring out of God’s Wrath in the Trumpets and Bowls commences.
My Sisters and Brothers in the Lord, prepare and do not be surprised when the afflictions of the seals of Revelation and the reign of anti-Christ commence. We who belong to Jesus will see these things come to pass. Jesus promised that in this world His followers WILL FACE PERSECUTION, even the persecution of the anti-Christ. These things ARE NOT THE WRATH OF GOD. THEY ORIGINATE FROM THE HAND OF MAN. The Great Tribulation under the anti-Christ will be so devastating, that if it were not cut short, no flesh would survive. Matthew 24: 15-22.
Just as God spared righteous Noah and his family when God rained judgment on the earth by flood, so His children will be spared the outpouring of God’s Wrath in the Trumpet and Bowl judgments. The church will be raptured the same day these judgments begin, for it is these JUDGMENTS THAT ORIGINATE WITH GOD. Man has no part in instigating these. God has promised His children escape from these, but not escape from the wrath of man pitted against man.
The 6th seal happens to announce Jesus’ return to reign over the earth for a thousand years. Every structure will be shaken. Not even the mountains will be recognizable.
You need wisdom from the LORD as some scriptures talk about Jesus “coming in the clouds” (the Rapture of the church) and the “thousand year reign” (Jesus is riding a white horse, followed by the angels and saints) First, Jesus announces to the whole world who He is, and the whole world hears Him, then He tosses the antichrist and his followers into the pit, then we spend a thousand years with glory and without the direct presence of evil – GOD’s last call for your informed eternal choice – if you happen to live that long. The LORD promises that His children can endure and make it until the end.
Be blessed on purpose! Jesus is LORD!!! Amen
Rebecca is confused about the 6th seal. Christ is collecting his Church with the dead in Christ arising first, then the 144,000 Jewish saints, then those believers still living are caught up to Christ where the takes his Church to be in Heaven. This is not the 2nd Coming. That will occur when Christ actually comes down to earth in Jerusalem to fight the armies on earth. When victorious, the Great Tribulation ends, and His reign on earth for 1000 years begins.
Also, since this article was written a couple years ago, we know when Christ will be coming for His Bride, the Church. A one time only in the history of mankind celestial sign in the Heaven’s will occur on September 23rd, 2017. This prophecy fulfills Revelation 12:1,2 where the virgin women gives birth and begins her birth pangs. This is the constellation Virgo, where the planet Jupiter drops from the womb and is now between the legs of Virgo, with the moon at her feet and the sun in front and covering her head with a garland of 12 stars above her head. This sign occurs immediately after the Holy day of Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year or Feast of the Trumpets when Christ will appear on the 100th blast of the ram’s horn or shofar. This is when He receives His Bride Church, by sundown of September 22nd, 2017 Jerusalem time and also the Sabbath. This is when the Rapture occurs. The celestial sign is warning of immediate terror fulfilling the Sixth Seal. The silence in Heaven then last 7 days, then the 7th seal is opened on Yom Kippur, or Day of Atonement, then follows the 7 Trumpet and 7 Vial or Bowl Judgements.
You are so right Rebecca. Tom you are confused; Matt. 24:26 says no man knows when Christ is returning not even the angels. Why would God allow Paul and the other 11 die as martyrs and let the Church sail on out to glory? I believe the reason it says to those who endure to the end shall receive life is because they are going to go through. Yes, there are those who will be saved during the Tribulation period, but the Tribulation period rapture theory did not exist until the 19th century by John Nelson Darby when trying to correct theology against premillenialism and zealously adding the “rapture” theory. C. I. Scofield added the theory in the footnotes of his version of the Scriptures, and it became a debated topic since. It is based majorly on 1Thess. 4:17, it is not backed up by solid Scriptural references, and it is at best a comforting wish that one can escape the woes of this age. God is righteous and Christ paid beyond comprehension to purchase salvation for His bride. He is coming back for a bride that His father will approve of. I do not see that kind of bride in the world Church yet. History shows, a good conflict brings God’s people in proper focus; the Tribulation is just what this world needs no matter how bad the Church wants to escape it.
Your argument here is very weak. Even if true believers are removed, don’t you think people will be searching for truth after the rapture? In fact, many churches, particularly in America, will still be full.
I have looked into this Book of Revelation since before I was saved. My understanding is firm in that the wrath of God is ” the bowls of wrath”, pored out after the saints are taken up just after the Resurrection of the dead. Paul tells us who will be raptured; “those who are alive and remain”, I know that remainders are at the end, never the beginning or the middle.
The question of who is doing the speaking when saying “hide us from the wrath of the Lamb” is most important to understand. These are not angels or God speaking, they are fearful people, probably unsaved. Just because they say it is wrath does not make it wrath, it is not wrath.Wrath is at the end after we are gone one way or the other. Matt. 24:13 says- But the one who endures to the end will be saved.
Fearful people want to believe the “pre-trib rapture”. Truth seekers will go where the truth leads them.
the Lord addresses this in
Amos 9:10 (ESV) All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, who say, ‘Disaster shall not overtake or meet us.’
Many are dying for and because of their faith in Jesus/ Yeshua every day. Yet the “keep me safe on my couch watching TBN crowd; the Jesus would never let anything bad happen to me bunch has a self serving version of Christianity. Jesus died for them but they don’t want to consider dying for Him.
Actually martyrs will have a better eternity, and much better still if they keep KJV-Rev 22:14. (for the truth seekers only)
Essar,
Seal 6 is the great tribulation, by its narrative description of the events, sun darkens, the moon turn in to blood, kings and mighty men hiding from the Wrath of the Lamb, sounds like it is the armageddon war, at the second coming of Jesus Christ. Then the narrative in Ch. 7 about the 144,000 and the great multitude immediately followed.
Seal 7 is the Millennium, the half hour silence in Heaven, the thousand year of peace on earth, because satan is bound in the abyss to keep from making any trouble in Heaven and on Earth during the Millennium.
Trumpets happens at the end of the Millennium. It will be at the end of the age, where time will be no longer, that the Mystery of God, which is Christ, which is the content of the Scroll after all the seals are removed, it shall be completed; when Christ will finally destroys death, sin, satan, and all God’s enemies; and all kingdoms, power, and authorities will be handed over to God, so that God will be all in all.
Trumpet 7 is the White Throne Judgement, where the following will happen:
1. The time of the Dead to be judged
2. The saints and prophets to be rewarded with crowns after they had faithfully done their royal
priestly duties during the Millennium
3. The Ark of the Covenant to be finally revealed and God and the Lamb will tabernacle with the
Kings and the Nations at the New Heaven and New Earth
The Gog and Magog at the end of the Millennium is satan and the 200 million man army, the deceived from among the nations, whose NUMBER is as many as the sand in the seashore. John heard their NUMBER.
I agree clt. No where in the bible is this pre rapture spoke of. In fact the opposite is wrote. There is a highway for the remnant to be pulled to safety, also it states our manna and water are sure. The more I read on this site the more errors I find. Please people do not take others word for truth. Look and research for yourself. If you seek for him with your whole heart you will find him. When the end of days is here you can not use the excuse ” I didn’t know” it will be too late as you had plenty of time to know. The bible is so amazing, check it out. Caution many versions are corrupt, Kjv and GENEVA (without the commentary) are the most sure versions.
Luke 21 verse 36 J esus says thus about th end . Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man
The silence in heaven lasts for 15 days. This period of time is when Yahweh will be totally unavailable, thus no pleads will be heard for mercy or further delay.
“With the Lord a day is like a thousand years”
2Pe 3:8 NIV: But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day.
one day with the Lord = one thousand years = 365,250 days
one hour with the Lord = 15,218.75 days [365,250 days divided by 24]
half an hour with the Lord = 7,609.375 days
Rev 8:1 NIV: When he opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for about half an hour.
From [World War I ended] November 11, 1918
To [World War II begun] September 3, 1939
That’s 7,601 days difference [which about half an hour with the Lord]
Hi Khrys,
Thanks for your comments. However, I would remind that the Bible uses the Hebrew calendar, which has 360 days in the year, not 365.25.
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Hi, Beginning and End. I am soooooo enjoying reading your articles. Thank you so much for your hard work and research.I am so excited to be finally understanding this. I am not sure I am tracking with you, though, and hope you might help me understand a couple things.
After the sixth seal is opened there is the great earthquake. Do you consider this to be God’s judgement and wrath rather than mans? After all, we do not control earthquakes…. Right?
So…..if the believers are raptured prior to the earthquake, and then the 144,000 are sealed, and then there is the silence in heaven….am I understanding the sequence correctly? If so, then are we already in heaven while the silence is taking place? I think I am getting mixed up because I don’t see the scripture saying we are raptured before the earthquake…..are you assuming this is where the rapture occurs because the earthquake is God’s wrath and we are not destined for His wrath? Or are you comparing scripture to scripture here to obtain that interpretation? You refer to the earthquake as the ‘trigger’.
I would appreciate your taking a moment to help me understand this fascinating study of Revelation!. I am sooooo excited for Christ’s return!!!
Praise Him! And God bless you!
Hi Georgeanne,
Thanks so much for your comments and the kind words. I praise God the site has been a blessing to you. I would like to get your questions and try to address them:
Yes, the opening of the 6th Seal is the beginning of the Day of The Lord – which is God’s end time wrath in the form of supernatural judgments against the unbelieving world.
Yes.
Yes. The Multitude of Revelation Chapter 7 is the Raptured church in Heaven.
There’s a little more to it than that. When studying Old Testament Scripture on the Day of The Lord, it becomes apparent that everything in terms of the end time judgment of God leading up to the Second Coming begins at the 6th Seal. Scripture specifically says in 1 Thessalonians 5 that believers will NOT suffer through the Day of The Lord. Additionally, the Bible provides numerous types and shadows of believers escaping and not experiencing God’s supernatural judgments. The end times wrath of God is all about punishing unbelievers and reconciling the believing remnant of Israel. So at the 6th Seal we see these judgments commence and right after that seal is opened, the multitude of Revelation 7 suddenly appear. This is the Raptured church. No other Rapture model can ever point to the actual raptured church in Heaven except one that place it at the 6th Seal.
To get a much, much more detailed explanation of this, please see the Beginning and End Rapture series. Ir’s in 3 parts and links are below.
Part 1
https://beginningandend.com/day-lord-event-starts-world/
Part 2
https://beginningandend.com/believers-escape-gods-wrath-biblical-foreshadows-rapture/
Part 3
https://beginningandend.com/the-red-moon-rapture-the-biblical-timing-of-the-rapture/
If you have any other questions, please feel free to ask. I am more than happy to answer. God bless you abundantly. -B&E
Georgeanne. Referring to Revelation 6. There is no mention of the rapture in this chapter, only Christ’s appearance in the sky, when everyone flees underground after the global earthquake etc. THEN in chapter 7, John sees the SUDDEN APPEARANCE from all tribes and nations. He doesn’t know who they are. They angel asks him who they are, and he doesn’t know. I believe he witnessed the rapture at this point. If you remember in Chapter 1 he describes what he sees in heaven, and there are no saints or people only angels, elders, the throne and the Lamb. This makes you wonder, where the dead saints are now? They are in the paradise section of Hades which Jesus will bring with him at His return.
Ok….thank you and God bless…jeez, I am confused about something else. Thank you for the links. I have read them prior to today…I had gone back to the 7th seal for about the 3rd or 4th time as I am talking with other believers about this and wanted to make sure I understood it. God is moving me into a ministry opportunity within our church with the women there.
I said: “I think I am getting mixed up because I don’t see the scripture saying we are raptured before the earthquake…..are you assuming this is where the rapture occurs because the earthquake is God’s wrath and we are not destined for His wrath?”
You said: There’s a little more to it than that. When studying Old Testament Scripture on the Day of The Lord, it becomes apparent that everything in terms of the end time judgment of God leading up to the Second Coming begins at the 6th Seal. Scripture specifically says in 1 Thessalonians 5 that believers will suffer through the Day of The Lord.
So if we are raptured prior to the the earthquake because this triggers the Day of the Lord…and then you say 1 Thess 5 states believers “will suffer through the Day of the Lord” ….. I don’t get it. How can we be raptured prior to the earthquake but still suffer through the Day of the Lord?
I’m not a new believer but I was always taught a pre-trib rapture so I am now trying to re-learn some scripture. I am also so completely burdened by the Lord that our time is short and I, along with other believers, must share this glorious Revelation with others. The types and shadows are incredibly fascinating and I never heard prior to your site here that we are to use “scripture to interpret scripture”.
I grew up in the Catholic church, and no offense intended here to them….my dear father, may he rest in peace, taught me that only priests, etc., were able to interpret scripture. The bible, while I was growing up, was a huge book that my folks had on their coffee table. The only use it got was when we kids would look at the pictures! My husband and I became believers (praise God!) some time after our 3rd babe was born. And like I said….we were attending a church where a pre-trib rapture was taught. I am now trying to unravel some of that teaching and rightly divide the Word….which is new to me also…
Does that make sense? Our kiddos are now grown and out of our home and I finally have the time to study more intently and I am so excited about what I am learning I feel like I could jump out of my skin.
And actually, right now, I am typing this through some tears; I feel closer to the Lord than ever before in my walk with Him and yet sad at the same time because the believers around me seem to be asleep as to what is happening around them. It pains me deeply to see our country fall apart because we have abandoned our first love. And I am gravely concerned because 4 of our 6 kids are not walking with the Lord…..breaks my heart.
Thanks for listening….and back to the subject at hand, I am all ears………
Bless you…….
Hi Georgeanne,
As Jason pointed out I meant to say, the church will NOT experience the Day of The Lord. So yes, we are raptured before the global earthquake of the 6th seal. Sorry for the confusion!
Now to address some of your other points:
Well I give The Lord praise that this method of Biblical interpretation has been a blessing to you. I truly believe that types and shadows are for a lack of a better term, the main “style” of writing The Lord God Almighty uses in Scripture to give us revelation. We can get a much richer and deeper appreciation for many of the Biblical accounts when we see them through this perspective.
I completely understand. It’s all a part of spiritual maturity. As we grow in our knowledge of the Word and our Lord Jesus Christ, we will soon have to “unlearn” some of the unbiblical or shaky teachings we may have received over the years. This is a good thing. It’s a sign that our spirit of discernment is growing. So that’s great news to hear.
This is the beauty of spending time in The Word. Once I committed to studying the Scriptures daily and learning more and more of God’s revelation as written in His Bible, I was overwhelmed. I too have been brought to tears at the remarkable depth and wonder of our Holy Bible. I hope and pray that you continue to build yourself up and that God increases your faith.
At the same time, it will become painfully obvious how far gone into sinful rebellion and wickedness the world has fallen. We as believers should be like Lot who was “vexed” by the lifestyle of those around him in Sodom. All we can do is continue to share the Gospel with the lost and live a life where we show Christ in us. Your unsaved kids can come to The Lord. Never doubt it. We were all once rebels against God and He was able to reach us. So your kids are not a lost cause even if it seems that way some time. Just remember that the power is in The Word. So keep sharing it with them when you can.
God bless you abundantly. -B&E
sorry…meant to say I had gone back to the 6th Seal several times….
Georgeanne
Unless I am mistaken, I believe he meant to say that the church will NOT go through the day of the Lord
Exactly. Parson my typo. -B&E
A friend of mine (A Pastor’s daughter, now married to a Preacher) said that their would be no women in Heaven. I said “Where does it say that?” She said in the Book of Revelation, she said it t says “There will be silence in Heaven for half an hour.” I laughed hard! (Laughter is a good Medicine – Just a joke folks! Not for real!)
Are you going to write any new articles?? I have read EVERYTHING on this site and can’t wait to gobble up more???? Please do!!! Love it! I have learned so much. Bless you….
Hi Georgeanne,
Thanks for your comments. Praise God that this site has been a blessing to you. Rest assured we are writing and working for our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. There will be new articles up tonight or early tomorrow morning EST. God bless you abundantly. -B&E
Hi lets try this again lol gotto Love them Capcha codes ( But in reality when that happens i think it’s just the Lord working tooo )
Was just reading this page cuz i too am learning and have read rev many times and just don’t understand how the timeline of it goes
i take it as the seals have yet to be open cause only one who could open them is Jesus but many believe we living the seals now so does that mean we in the tribulation already and if so when did they sign the 7 year peace covenant
and i always thought when Jesus opens the seals that is when the 4 horsemen will start to ride
ty appreciate the help
Hi JC,
Seals 1 to 4 begins at Pentecost and continuous on up to the start of Seal 6, which is the great tribulation. the Bowl Judgement and Armageddon happening after it. Seal 5 begun from death of Stephen up to the last Saint to be martyred in the Great Tribulation.
Then Seal 7 begins at the start of the millennium. The silence in Heaven is the millennium, a thousand year of peace. At the end of the millennium, Satan will be released from the Abyss (Rev. 20) to deceive the nations again, and that is when the Seven Trumpet Judgement will commence. Trumpets 1 to 4 is the destruction of a third of trees, grass, sea, waters, and a third of the celestial objects are struck. Trumpet 5 is when Satan was released from the Abyss and Locust-Like Creatures torturing those who does not have the seal of God on their foreheads (entirely different from those with the mark of the beast on their foreheads which were described in the bowl judgement happening at the end of the great tribulation). Trumpet 6 is Gog and Magog to kill a third of mankind, led by Satan.
The Angel and the Little Scroll, which is entirely different from the Scroll and the Lamb of Rev. 5, is about prophesying again by the Two Witness at the end of the millennium. Probably John could be one of them. His Spirit indwelt on one of the anointed prophet of that time. ( Like John the Baptist having the Spirit of Elijah)
The Two Witness, I believe are the ones who will cause all the plagues of the Trumpets Judgement. (Like during the time of Moses, this time instead of frogs, it will be locust this time, and the rest are almost the same plagues that happened during Moses’ time)
Trumpet 7 is the Great White Throne Judgement, the second resurrection, where the dead will be judged(sheep and goat, based on Works and Book of Life), and the saints and prophets judged for their rewards (based on books that were opened). Judgement Seat of Christ and The Great White Throne is the same. Throne and Seat is the same in meaning.
What makes Seven Bowls different from the Seven Trumpet that made it appear happening in two different timelines? Here are my keypoints.
Great Tribulation Millennium
Bowls : Mark of the Beast Trumpets: Those who does not have the Seal of
God (No mention of mark of the beast)
Bowls : Beast and False Prophet Trumpets: Angel of the Abyss/Beast that come UP
that come out from the Sea/Earth from the Abyss (Rev. 20)
Dragon hurled DOWN from Heaven Apollyon, Abaddon
Rev. 12 & 13
Bowls : No mention of Abyss Trumpets: Abyss mentioned Thrice.
Bowls : Gog and Magog in Armageddon Ez. 39 Trumpets: Gog and Magog Ez.38, Unwalled City,
Seven Years of Burning Weapons and People living in Safety, Recovered from
Seven Months of Burying carried over War, God’s Holy Name made known to
through the Millennium, God’s Holy Name the Nations
made known to Israel No Mention of Corpse given to Birds
Corpse given to the Birds
Bowls : After Armageddon, Saints came to life, the Trumpets: White Throne Judgement, Rev. 20:11
rest of the dead did not come to life Rev. 20:5 Time to judge the Dead, Rev. 11:18
so they were not judged yet. First Resurrection Second Resurrection
Bowls : Tremendous earthquake, cursed God Trumpets: Severe Earthquake, gave Glory to God
I hope this one helps, though this is one new and radical view of eschatology, and I have not encountered of anything like this through my research in so many prophecy websites.
YBIC
Eaglet – A Post-Tribber
Sorry for the scrambled texts, here is the organized one:
Point 1
Bowls : Mark of the Beast
Trumpets: Those who does not have the Seal of
God (No mention of mark of the beast)
Point 2
Bowls : Beast and False Prophet that come out from the Sea/Earth
Dragon hurled DOWN from Heaven Rev. 12 & 13
Trumpets: Angel of the Abyss/Beast that come UP
from the Abyss (Rev. 20)
Apollyon, Abaddon
Point 3
Bowls : No mention of Abyss
Trumpets: Abyss mentioned Thrice.
Point 4
Bowls : Gog and Magog in Armageddon Ez. 39
Seven Years of Burning Weapons
Seven Months of Burying carried over
through the Millennium, God’s Holy Name
made known to Israel
Corpse given to the Birds
Trumpets: Gog and Magog Ez.38, Unwalled City,
People living in Safety, Recovered from War,
God’s Holy Name made known to the Nations
Corpse given to the Birds
Point 5
Bowls : After Armageddon, Saints came to life, the
rest of the dead did not come to life Rev. 20:5
so they were not judged yet. First Resurrection
Trumpets: White Throne Judgement, Rev. 20:11
Time to judge the Dead, Rev. 11:18
Second Resurrection
Point 6
Bowls : Tremendous earthquake, They cursed God, rev16:18
Trumpets: Severe Earthquake, Survivors gave Glory to God, Rev. 11:13
YBIC
Eaglet
Hi Eaglet,
With all due respect, I am very confused by your end times timeline. How is the 7th seal the millennium? Where is that ever said in Scripture?? -B&E
The Old Testament Prophets talked about it, although it was not termed as millennium, instead it was termed as the Day of the Lord. The Day of Christ is His Second Advent and Meeting in the Clouds with the Resurrected Dead in Christ and Rapture Alive in Christ.
The Scripture says, A day is like a thousand year to the Lord.
“In the Last Days” could mean at the End of the Age, as Martha answered to Jesus Christ about Lazarus Resurrection.
The End of the Age is prior to Eternity.
This is my Theory:
1. We know that if the Earth revolved on the sun in one full circle, 365 days has passed.
2. The Universe is continuously expanding in all direction from its origin or center.
3. If Heaven is at the center of the Universe and the Milky Way, which our solar system belonged, also revolved around Heaven. Imagine how many years will it take the Milky Way to go full circle around it.
4. Silence in Heaven for Half an Hour could be a thousand year or more. Half an Hour could be taken as an emphasis that thousands of years on earth is just a fraction of an hour or a day in Heaven.
5. in Rev 22, it said that God and the Lamb will be the Temple in the City. No Need for the Sun and Moon. So there would be no more Ages because there is no sun to count for years and moon for months. God and the Lamb, the Alpha and the Omega, The Beginning and End, is at the Center.
About the Timelines, I know its confusing on your part because you already have a mindset on one of the prevailing eschatological views that you hold on to.
If you have patience to go back to your drawing board again, let me give you some guidelines:
1. Comparative and Parallel analysis of the Book of Ezekiel, Book of Daniel, Jesus’ Olivet Discourse, and Book of Revelation
2. Take note of these Keywords in its settings:
a. Mark of the Beast, Beast, False Prophet, mentioned in the 7 Bowls Judgement
b. Angel of the Abyss, The Abyss, Time for the Dead to be Judged, mentioned in the Trumpet
Judgement Rev. 9, 10, 11, Rev. 20
c. Souls under the Altar, because they are still on earth Rev. 5, compared to Saints on the
Golden Altar before the Throne, because they are already in the Millennium Rev. 8
d. Gog and Magog in Armageddon Ezekiel 39, Gog and Magog at the end of Millennium
Ezekiel 39
e. The Scroll and the Lamb, The Angel and the Little Scroll
f. The Two Witnesses in the 7 Trumpet Judgement at the end of the Millennium.
g. Bowls and Trumpet Judgement is not the same, parallel, or chronological events. They
are a thousand years apart. Some of the events are dual fulfillment as some of the
prophecies of the past in scriptures
h. The Two Witnesses at the end of the millennium.
3. Use the NIV Bible, because the Headings of the Chapters in Revelation will give you some
guide on how to segmentize the chapters for the timeline I am presenting. Here is how I
segment it:
a. Segment 1, Chapter 1 to 3, Seven Churches from past to future admonished by Jesus
b. Segment 2, Chapter 4 to 5, the state in Heaven prior to the Unsealing of the Scroll by
Jesus
c. Segment 3, Chapter 6 to 11, from Ascension/Pentecost to End of Millennium
d. Segment 4, Chapter 12 to 19, from Birth of Jesus to Second Advent, Presenting the Casts,
and describing the events.
e. Segment 5, Chapter 20, the Millennium, Trumpets, Little Scroll, 2 Witnesses
f. Segment 6, Chapter 21 & 22, New Heavens and New earth, New Jerusalem, Eternity.
Where does Rapture and Trinity were said in scriptures?
Matt 24 is written to the Jews the church had not been established.
Pray your flight not be on the Sabbath why because the law does not allow travel on the Sabbath the Church is not under the law.
If Christ allowed the Church the bride of Christ to enter the tribulation he would be putting himself as well as the Father into tribulation since he makes it scripture clear that we are one.
Dearest Eaglet…..I, too, am confused by your comments.. Could you elaborate, please rather than just provide short quips? As well, I would suggest researching the Word of God, the Truth…the holy bible, rather than multiple “prophecy websites”.
Blessings
georgeanne,
I search the scripture by myself with the guidance of the Holy Spirit. I don’t want my views be guided by someone else’s views. I searched the Internet if someone else has this kind of view on the timeline, I have found none. So I guessed I will have a hard time convincing you because you have gone and settled to the most popular view on the timeline. But I will give it a try, I will explain to you why the trumpet judgement happens at the end of the millennium:
In the Trumpet judgement, the word Abyss is mentioned there twice, Rev. 9:1, Rev. 11:7. If you will look at Rev. 20, the word Abyss was also mentioned there.
In Rev. 9, the locusts were told to harm only those who does not have the seal of God (Rev. 7, Rev. 14) on their foreheads. Why can’t it be said “those who have the mark of the beast”? Simply because the trumpet judgement happens at the end of the millennium, those who have the mark of the beast had perished already at the second coming of Christ, and those who have the seal of God had continued and lived on up to the end of the millennium.
In Rev. 11:18, on the seventh trumpet, it said, the nations were angry; and your wrath has come. the time has come for JUDGING THE DEAD, and for rewarding your servants the prophets and your saints and those who reverence your name…When in Revelation does it say that the dead will be judge? It’s in Rev. 20, the great white throne judgement, at the end of the millennium. It is also said on the first part of Rev. 20 that the REST OF DEAD DID NOT COME TO LIFE until the THOUSAND YEARS were ended.
Judgement Seat of Christ and White Throne Judgement is the same.
There were no mention in Rev. 20 that the saints will be rewarded with crowns, they were only given authority to judge. The saints will reign with Christ at the millennium as royal priests (Rev. 8:3-4) for the remnants, both Israel and the gentiles, and Jesus as their King. They will only become kings over the nations in the New Heaven and New Earth after they received their crowns at the white throne judgement.
There is so much more, like the truth about second chance salvation at the second resurrection. Just tell me who are the wedding guests at the Wedding of the Lamb and the Bride, and who are the nations that the kings of the earth (the saints) will rule over to (Rev. 21:24), if you tell me they are the christian, who are the Bride of the Lamb, who are the ones who will only be saved, who are to be the royal priests and kings over the nations(nation of angels?), then help me out because I’m confused.
What better way to see the big picture is to know the end of the story.
I will add one more key point. I concluded that the half hour of silence is the thousand years or the millennium because of 1 John 2:18. It talks about the last hour and about the coming of the final antichrist. John also mentioned that even in his time there were already many antichrists. So if we will take into consideration that the final antichrist will appear in our time, then the time difference will be around 2,000 years. This means that the last hour is 2,000 years in duration, so obviously, half an hour is a thousand years, and silence means peace in Heaven and on earth (Satan was bound in the abyss for a thousand years). This makes it more a credible assumption because the last hour and the half hour were both mentioned by John in his books 1 John 2:18 and Revelation 8:1.
Hi Eaglet- I have been through at least 4 dispensation centered studies in my 51 years and always found them impressive, but they left me with questions. I would get an answer with Bible references and application, but did not realize how confusing it was to present, until I began using the charts and notes to conduct a study of my own 10 years ago. The Spirit,also, impressed upon me to do a personal look into the scriptures and it opened up so many possibilities. I have not studied Revelation exclusively, but after 9 years, I still have pieces that continue to come together and give me peace about the text.
Some of my understanding mirrors your study as well. I was led to split the seals trumpets and bowls into separate events and use them as the seals being authorities given to Jesus that are present and new every day, the bowls as the future 2nd advent of Jesus and trumpets as the ministry of Jesus on the earth as a man, rather than the current division of introduction. churches and the end of the world.
I, also, take a predominately spiritual interpretation rather literal. Enjoyed your understanding of Revelation and use of scripture. Would love to compare notes 🙂
Hi B&E,
I am re-reading this article after a recent discussion with a friend and had one more example of silence-precedes-judgment in Scripture. It is the example of King Saul in 1 Samuel 28:
“Now Samuel had died, and all Israel had mourned for him and buried him in Ramah, his own city. And Saul had put the mediums and the necromancers out of the land. The Philistines assembled and came and encamped at Shunem. And Saul gathered all Israel, and they encamped at Gilboa. When Saul saw the army of the Philistines, he was afraid, and his heart trembled greatly. *******And when Saul inquired of the Lord, the Lord did not answer him, either by dreams, or by Urim, or by prophets*******. Then Saul said to his servants, “Seek out for me a woman who is a medium, that I may go to her and inquire of her.”
Saul would later receive judgment from the “ghost” of Samuel through the witch’s conjuring and die the next day.
I know this is late, but I thought if you did do another edition of this article it would be a great help.
Keep up the good work for the kingdom and God bless you friend!
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Revelation 13:16 – And he causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: 17.And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. 18.Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number [is] Six hundred threescore [and] six.
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I am still uncertain if the “wrath” you speak of is not the eternal wrath of damnation, since the verse involves the subject of salvation, however, I find the 6th seal rapture very intriguing. How do we account for the sound of the last trumpet being when the dead in Christ arise and then us alive? There is no trumpet sound at the 6th seal? The last trumpet mentioned in the Bible is the 7th Trumpet.
Beginning and End,
It is SO refreshing to see someone else who knows the truth of the timing of these events in Revelation. I have long recognized that the rapture must be the first event of the 6th seal, or perhaps happen an instant before the great earthquake. I believe this 6th seal earthquake is Paul’s “sudden destruction.”
Years before today, God sent me to find the “exact midpoint” of the 70th week “clearly marked.” After telling me how to find it, He then said, “in fact, you could find the entire 70th week “clearly marked.” I am now convinced that the 70th week is clearly marked by 7’s: the 7th seal begins the week, the 7th trumpet marks the midpoint and the 7th vial ends it.
Again, GOOD JOB!
You know, alot of people will go into the book of Revelation trying to decipher by interpretation of the symbols and things contained in Revelation.
But little do they know, that God has already done to what they are trying to do.
God has made it easy to understand the symbols and the things contained in the book of Revelation, by giving the interpretation of Revelation Himself.
But as it is, man will think he can do a much better in deciphering and in the giving the interpretation of the book of Revelation than God.
You know,the book of Revelation came by God,Therefore would it not be logical that sense God put within Revelation the symbols and the things that are contained within Revelation, to know what they mean and stand for?
Therefore,Revelation 8:1 the silence in heaven about the space of half an hour.
God has put the interpretation thereof,
and what it means within the book of Revelation.
As God has done with all things contained within the book of Revelation,God is in the giving the interpretation thereof Himself.
But as it is man will go to all the other books of the bible to try and decipher and give the interpretation of the book of Revelation, but little do they know, to what they are trying to do, God has already done so throughout the book of Revelation.
For every symbol and all the things that are contained within Revelation, God has given the interpretation of the symbols and the things contained within Revelation Himself within Revelation.
By this man
As to how does people get that Christ Jesus is coming at the 6th trumpet?
The silence in heaven serves I very specific purpose, and it does.
You know God has given within the book of Revelation exactly why there is silence in heaven for half an hour.
But people will go other books of the bible trying to decipher to give the interpretation of what it means by silence in heaven.
But little do they know that within the book of Revelation God has already given why there’s silence in heaven.
My question is, as to where do you get that the earth itself will be damage and poison,millions upon millions will suffer and perish.
As to how do you come by all of this.where in Revelation does it say that the earth will be damage and poison and millions upon millions will suffer and perish?
As to where is that written at?
hi, I think the truth is one, after the church had been silent up on earth and will not have any connection between heaven and earth! Thanks for posting hugs
The book of Revelation was given unto John by Christ Jesus.
Therefore sense God had given all things in the book of Revelation.
Would it not be logical that sense God given the book of Revelation, that God would also know why and what caused the silence in heaven?
Therefore within the book of Revelation God has also given the interpretation of why and what caused the silence in heaven within Revelation.
The word silence in Revelation 8:1, according to the Greek translation means = hiss,hist or hush, (silence, a hush, muteness,involuntary stillness.
The question is, what happened that caused silence,involuntary stillness a hush in heaven?
You know the answer to this is found within the book of Revelation.
Would it not be logical that sense God gave the book of Revelation unto John and God given in Chapter 8 Verse 1, that were silence in heaven, God also has given unto John the interpretation of why and what caused the silence in heaven within the book of Revelation.
I believed in pretribulation before. I had dreams/visions for more than 30 years now. One, more than 20 years ago, was about a super-volcano that erupted somewhere in the Pacific Ocean (could be one of many). The earthquake and super tsunami were so great that a great part of eastern Australia was devastated and New Zealand almost submerged. The sun was darkened by the the super-volcano and the molten lava that spewed out came down like falling stars. The full moon appeared blood red. Years later, I read this in the sixth seal of Revelation 6. Another vision I saw, just a couple of years ago, was a great multitude, all in white, standing at the huge heavenly temple. I was told in my vision, when I asked where we are, that we have just been redeemed (or raptured). When I started reading the book of Revelation, I enquired of the Holy Spirit for understanding and He would explained some (not everything), directing me to the visions I had. The sixth seal occurred on a full moon. There will come a new moon and it will be the Feast of Trumpets, the day nor hour we will know as the Feast of Trumpets is the only 7 appointed Feasts that falls on a new moon (Leviticus 23). There will be silence in the heavens for about half an hour. It came on me that it will be a silence of 7 days (a day in a year which is 360 days in the Hebrew calendar and about half an hour is 7 days – that was what I was told). Then, at the end of the 7 days, God starts to pour out His wrath, beginning on the Day of Atonement. That is all I know for now.
Why is there silence in heaven, first we need to back up to the opening of the 6th seal then we’ll discover why there is silence in heaven.
In the opening of the 6th seal and the sounding of the 6th trumpet, Satan is finally cast out of heaven to the earth.
Unto which brings silence in heaven, there is peace in heaven, but it will be hell on earth. For Satan the Devil as come down to the earth.
The reason why people will claim that Revelation 8:1 to be one of the most hard to decipher, is because people are taught and believe that Satan and his has already been cast out of heaven, unto which is not according to the book of Revelation.
Satan and his angels are not cast out of heaven until the 6th seal and the sounding of the 6th trumpet.
Dean,
The Great Tribulation happened on the Sixth Seal:
Rev. 6:14 – Sixth Seal
14 And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places.
Rev. 16:20 – Sixth Bowls Judgement
20 And every island fled away, and the mountains were not found.
The Trumpet Judgement happened at the end of the Millennium:
Rev. 9:1-3, 11 – Fifth Trumpet Judgement
1 And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth: and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit.
2 And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit.
3 And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power.11 And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon.
11 And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon.
Rev. 11:7 – Sixth Trumpet, Second Woe
7 And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them.
Rev. 20:1-2 – Before the Start of the Millennium
1 And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand.
2 And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years,
Rev. 20:7-8 – At the end of the Millennium
7 And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison,
8 And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog, and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the NUMBER of whom is as the SAND OF THE SEA.
Rev. 9:16 – Sixth Trumpet Judgement
16 And the NUMBER of the army of the horsemen were TWO HUDRED THOUSAND THOUSAND: and I heard the NUMBER of them.
I believe one hour is 15 days. I believe about 7 days is half hour. The reason heaven is silent is because there is nobody there as they are in route to redeem the saints on earth.
The bible is clear that the earth is stable, it doesn’t move. Believing the earth travels around the sun is not biblical. It is 33rd degree Mason’s sun worship.
Whitenight777, if I may ask, have you any scriptures to support what your saying?
Please provide the scripture reference for how you determined an hour is 15 days or a half hour is 7 days….thank you
Hi, all are written in here – http://theiglesianicristo.blogspot.com/2014/06/revelation-72-3-angel-ascending-from.html.
Using the principle of one day equaling one year, as an established rule of Godly judgment in Numbers Ezekiel and Daniel, plus a little bit of basic mathematics, the Spirit revealed an interesting correlation to me. If you mathematically break down a year[360 days] equaling a day, you will come up with 30 minutes, [fraction of the day] equaling 7.5 days[fraction of the year].
After doing that, we go to the last days of Jesus on the earth. From Passover to Pentecost is 50 days. The Holy Spirit came on the day of Pentecost. Next we do some subtraction: Jesus rose on the third day so 50 minus three leaves 47 days until Pentecost. Jesus walked with the believers for 40 days after the resurrection, before His ascension, so 47 minus 40 leaves 7 days. The disciples were in the upper room for 7 days and the Holy Spirit came down. For 7 days there was silence in heaven. The Father , Son and Spirit were all in heaven for 7 days or ‘about ‘ 30 minutes. Could Revelation 8:1 be referring to the coming of the Holy Spirit and the time in the upper room?
If I may give a reply,Revelation may haved been written in Greek, but the writer John was Hebrew, of Israel, John used words that the Greeks would understand, but John being of Israel has was Paul of Israel.
Let’s for say that you were going to write someone in their language, you would use words that they would understand,but seeing that you are not of their language,you do know what words you would haved used in your own language, but you had to chose the right words to express the message you were going to say as good as you could in there language.
Why is there silence in heaven, Revelation 8:2, alot of people do not know this nor do they understand that God has already given in the book of Revelation as to why there is silence in heaven and what caused there to be silence in heaven.
Good comments; however Greek was the established world language as set forth by Alexander after his conquests, which led to Rome’s conquest that established vast roadway networks, which was the Lord in His sovereignty providing a universal outlet for the spreed of the Gospel. So it would not have been uncommon for John or Paul or any of the disciples to have written text in the universal/popular language of the day, especially since their converts included Gentiles 🙂
As for the silence in heaven…I have read your prior comments and respectfully disagree that the interpretation for Revelation is only found in the Book of Revelation. The Bible is a network of understanding unto itself and should be used as a whole.
Proverbs 27:17 🙂
Everyone seems obsessed with the fact that the RFID chip will be the Mark of the Beast. I have some thoughts on this. But first we need to understand what the original Greek word for ‘mark’ is. It is ‘charagma’. This word means a marking or scarification or etching onto the skin as used in Roman times, like we use a tattoo today. It is a badge of loyalty. Perhaps in an apocalyptic world in which technology may have failed, this branding may be the only means to be able to get food, water or shelter. We cannot assume that the Day of Wrath or Great Tribulation will be a world of technology as we know it today. Just a thought on that.
However, if the Mark is going to be the RFID chip, once it is operating at it’s optimum capacity, it will have the capability of embedding itself into our neurons and ultimately into the brain. This can then be controlled by a centralised computer to manipulate the mind to behave like zombies incapable of thinking independently but only programmed to believe or behave. People will go to hell because they will be incapable of free will in order to choose Jesus as Savior and not because God wants to send them to hell.
Just for clarification, there has to be free will otherwise there is no justice. Therefore someone’s free will can not be taken away by a chip unless they are given the educated free will to choose the chip over Jesus and know its repercussions and then make the free will choice to take the chip.
People have had free will to chose whether they want to follow God since the time of creation. When Christ has already appeared in the sky Rev. 6, all the world will know what has happened. Since the chip is taken voluntarily, and implies worship of the Antichrist, they must be condemned.They have willingly and with knowledge, rejected God to follow Antichrist. The few who reject the mark will be saved, but will have to die for their stand. As this is at the time of ‘the day of the Lord’, there is no mercy or grace left at this point for the Christ rejectors.
There has never been any silence in heaven mentioned before, as in Rev. 8:1. It is recorded after Christ appears in the sky (Rev. 6:16)) and the saints are taken to heaven (Rev. 7:9). Like ‘the calm before the storm’, the inhabitants of earth are stunned at these cosmic events having a great sense of doom and foreboding, as to what is going to happen next! The earth cannot go about its normal business anymore as the cosmic upheaval of Christ’s return, has probably put out all the satellites. With no communications, no TV, no internet or computers, in addition to the awful fear and darkness, the sadness and silence on earth is reflected in heaven. The Day of the Lord now begins the final seven year countdown, the Time of Jacob’s Trouble.
I think the half an hour may be significant because it is dividing a period of time in half; could this be indicative of a mid-tribulation rapture ?
There is confusion between the word ‘tribulation’, the outpouring of God’s wrath, the Day of the Lord and Jacob’s trouble. The ‘tribulation’ began after the crucifixion. Matthew 24 and Revelation 6 spell it all out in sequential order beginning with the four horsemen (Rev. 6) who start everything rolling. Then comes the destruction of the temple, persecution of Christians, plagues, wars, earthquakes etc. for over two thousand years. This tribulation will get worse until God destroys his enemies at the Gog Magog war (Ezekiel 36,37,38,39) by supernatural intervention and with ‘the sign of the son of man’ in the sky. Rev 6. The whole world will witness it and hide in caves. Then in Revelation 7:9 the great host in heaven appears – the church. This is followed by the final seven years of Jacob’s trouble or the Day of the Lord, God’s Wrath. This final seven years is NOT the tribulation but rather the time of ‘Jacob’s trouble’ which comes after a treaty has been signed because after the Gog Magog war, radical Islam will be defeated. I used to believe in a ‘pre-trib’ rapture until I realised the word was used incorrectly. With this, I believe correct understanding, everything falls into place. Try it and see. An Amplified Bible is useful for cross referencing on this.
You absolutely just predicted when the rapture will occur, when Jesus had specifically told us that no one knows the hour, not even the angels in heaven, except God himself
No I didn’t give any time. Jesus told us to look for signs, and he said that his own people didn’t recognise the signs of their visitation. The signs of the Lord’s return, do not have a date attached to them. Scripture tells us the Day of the Lord will be sudden and unpredictable and come upon those who are not ready, but all the signs will be there. The Day of the Lord is Jesus in the sky. See Rev 6 for the description. There is no date attached to it and will be sudden. The tribulation is the whole of Matthew 24 and Rev. 6 continues the story. In Rev. 7, John sees the saints in heaven. So you will see that Matthew 24, Rev. 6 and Rev 7 all have to happen first. This vid might help: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mymeqmW94vI&t=91s
I have a question, please. During the tribulation, will any non-believers be converted? Can one be saved during the tribulation?
Hi Hannah,
Thanks for your questions. There will be non-believers saved during the final years before the Second Coming of The Lord. For one, the Gospel will be preached in the end times:
By the 144,000:
By the 2 witnesses:
By Angels:
The Gospel is going to be preached and God’s Word will not return void. The only difference will be that during the reign of the Antichrist the decision to believe the Gospel will lead to certain death as all believers on the Earth will be persecuted and executed for refusal to take the Mark of the Beast.
Many say that this passage is describing the Rapture of the Church but the text does not support this notion in any way whatsoever. Verse 4 very explicitly says that these believers were: “beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads.” These are the believers who come to saving faith in the atoning work of Jesus Christ during the Great Tribulation. I hope that helps. If you have any other questions please feel free to ask. God bless you abundantly. -B&E
Thank you very much. You have taken the time to provide a detailed answer. I do understand, except – will you clarify, please, who are the two witnesses? Are they symbolic of a group of people or a movement? Or are they literally two persons? Thanks very much
Hi Hannah,
You’re very welcome. The 2 witnesses are indeed 2 actual people:
From a literal reading of the text, the 2 witnesses are two actual, literal people who will witness the Gospel for 1,260 days during the Great Tribulation. I hope that helps. God bless. -B&E
Thank you very much. Sometimes I feel my knowledge is so limited that to every reply I get, I seem to have a follow-up question. Can you suggest a reliable Bible commentary or study guide, please? Thanks a lot.
I don’t use commentaries, because the Bible speaks for itself, and by using the ‘law of first mention’, you can usually follow a theme through to the end. With regard to the two witnesses, as I said in my last reply, John describes what was written in Zechariah and in particular chapter 4 verse 14 as being the High Priest and the Prince of Judah. The setting is the Day of the Lord. We are both in the dark as who these two people will be, but be sure they will come in the spirit of the original two, as John the Baptist came in the spirit of Elijah. I have always found the Amplified Bible extremely useful as my main source of revelation, but of course the Holy Spirit illuminates the understanding.
Hello Hannah. I would like to answer your question, but first it’s important to understand what ‘age’ we are we living in, as there has been much confusion teaching on this. The scriptures are clear we are living currently in the Messianic age described in Is:49:6 to get the Gospel to the gentiles. This age is also called the ‘church age’ or ‘the age of the gentiles’. However, what is not taught, is that we are also in the ‘tribulation age’ which will end with the final seven years, called the ‘time of Jacob’s trouble’ or ‘the day of the Lord’. This is very clear in Matthew 24 when Jesus explained everything we would expect to see up until His second coming. When Jesus gave the Book of Revelation to John, He told him all the events He described in Matthew 24 would begin shortly, not thousands of years later. (Rev. 1:1) after the destruction of the temple in AD 70. Revelation 6 continues telling the story until the end. Christians will see the antichrist (2:Thess. 2) and everything else Jesus described in Matthew 24 and Revelation. In Rev. 7, John sees the saints in heaven. Can people get saved at the final hour? Read the parable of the labourers in the vineyard to answer that question. In the final hour of the day they get the same reward (of salvation) as those who have laboured all day (Christians all their lives). People may only have an hour or minute at the end, but: “All who call upon on the name of the Lord shall be saved.” This is the promise. This may also help: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mymeqmW94vI&t=91s
Thank you very much. You certainly made it very simple to understand. I had read of the parable of the labourers in the vineyard before, but was not sure of whether it applied to before the tribulation or during. Thanks a lot.
Re: The two witnesses. John describes what was written in Zechariah and in particular chapter 4 verse 14 as being the High Priest and the Prince of Judah. The setting is the Day of the Lord.
You’re welcome.
Hello – will you please explain the phrase “the law of first mention” in Bible study?
Thanks very much.
Hello. I would refer you to these pages, which sets out the principle of this. Simply put, the Bible interprets itself. The theme follows through. For an example if you use something like the Amplified Bible (or any reference Bible), you will be given a verse where the theme is mentioned elsewhere. For example Rev.6:2 gives you a reference found in Psalms 45:4 speaking of the Messiah. Also the law of first mention can take you back to the first incident the subject was mentioned. Using this method just opens up the whole meaning of scripture. Regards. https://www.google.co.uk/search?newwindow=1&source=hp&ei=G8MnWuD5COzOgAanr56YAQ&q=the+law+of+first+mention&oq=the+law+of+first+mention&gs_l=psy-ab.3..0l2j0i22i30k1l4.3233.10563.0.11303.30.23.2.4.5.0.186.2286.3j17.21.0….0…1c.1.64.psy-ab..3.27.2525.6..35i39k1j0i131k1j0i13k1.128.N2t9jrTwHUI
There is a book I have written which you might like and very easy to follow. You can also get it on Kindle. https://play.google.com/store/books/details/Virginia_Nolan_The_God_Ultimatum?id=RcVBDwAAQBAJ
The silence in heaven was very well explained in his article we must always be in adoration to our wonderful and powerful God who is in heaven and ask him to forgive us our sins because we are all human and we are not perfect the only one that was perfect and did not sin was Jesus Christ who died on a cross to free us from our sins
We must pray for God to forgive our sins because Jesus and the way is the truth and the life and no one goes to the father but for him, execelente his article that God blesses his work
I believe God is to judge this world! Wake up people!
Indeed He is going to judge it soon.
Strange thing happened to me in 1994. I was with my child in hospital when I thought I had a kind of panic attack in the form of ‘hearing’ an otherworldly silence. I went outside to walk it off, however once outside I realised the dead silence and stillness had followed me. Not a bird, not a breeze. Couldn’t hear any of the rumble or background city noise that’s there all the time. It was impossibly quiet in the middle of a busy city. I asked a person sitting nearby if they noticed how quiet it was, it was as if time had stopped. She listened, then startled she agreed. It lasted about half an hour then it ended as suddenly as it began and I went back inside. A week later I heard someone quoting Revelation 8:1 which I’d never read before and I said ‘I think I heard that half hour silence last week’
Concerning the silence in heaven. Do you remember when Jesus likened the days prior to his return as a woman in labour? (Matthew 24). Prior to a baby’s birth, the major contractions finish. (We are currently awaiting a middle east peace treaty for 7-years). This relative calm in labour, is called the ‘transition’ period and last around 10-20 minutes. The silence in heaven is like the calm just prior to Christ appearing in the sky. (The Sign of the Son of Man). When they say all is peace and safety then sudden destruction comes upon them. Paul’s analogy with labour pains. 1 Thessalonians 5:3. We haven’t yet entered the final 7-years Great Trib., or Jacob’s Trouble – reserved for the Jews. Christ’s appearance is when silence occurs in heaven and on earth half way through this Covenant with the Antichrist when he desecrates the temple. There is a global earthquake, including 7,0000 dead in Jerusalem. The earth axis shifts, darkness, astral phenomena etc. People flee underground. The rapture happens, Rev 7. Jews recognise their true Messiah. 144,000 are sealed.