And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in
heaven about the space of half an hour.
Revelation 8:1
*The prelude to the sounding of the trumpets in several parts.
The opening of the last seal. This was to introduce a new set of prophetical iconisms and events; there is a continued chain of providence, one part linked to another (where one ends another begins), and, though they may differ in nature and in time, they all make up one wise, well-connected, uniform design in the hand of God.
The opening of the last seal. This was to introduce a new set of prophetical iconisms and events; there is a continued chain of providence, one part linked to another (where one ends another begins), and, though they may differ in nature and in time, they all make up one wise, well-connected, uniform design in the hand of God.
The description of the seventh seal is the shortest and mentions a period of silence in Heaven for about half an hour.
A half hour in symbolic prophetic time is approximately seven and a half days. Some interpreters round off the ‘about’ to seven days and affirm that the second coming of Jesus will take seven days. The silence will presumably ensue because heaven will be empty
(see Habakkuk 2:20; Zephaniah 1:7; Zechariah 2:13).
Drawn/taken from the book Daniel & Revelation by Uriah Smith---Study Guide by Stephen Bohr---Sermon by Walter Veith---Commentaries from Matthew Henry/Adam Clark---Revelation Made Clear
A half hour in symbolic prophetic time is approximately seven and a half days. Some interpreters round off the ‘about’ to seven days and affirm that the second coming of Jesus will take seven days. The silence will presumably ensue because heaven will be empty
The silence in heaven must bear some relationship to the question in the last part of the sixth seal.
The second part of the sixth seal is the avenging portion of the fifth seal. Now God will turn the tables on those who oppressed, persecuted and killed His people. As Jesus descends from heaven the living saints along with those who died in the faith of the third angel’s message ask the question, ‘who shall be able to stand?’ Following the question there is a period of awful silence in heaven.
The question at the end of the sixth seal is followed by silence in heaven in the seventh.
