Revelation 8:1 When the Lamb opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for about half an hour. 2 Then I saw the seven angels who stand before God, and seven trumpets were given to them. 3 And another angel came and stood at the altar with a golden censer, and he was given much incense to offer with the prayers of all the saints on the golden altar before the throne, 4 and the smoke of the incense, with the prayers of the saints, rose before God from the hand of the angel. 5 Then the angel took the censer and filled it with fire from the altar and threw it on the earth, and there were peals of thunder, rumblings, flashes of lightning, and an earthquake.
As John continued to see the connection between things in heaven and on earth, there came this point when the last seal was opened. There was silence. Most of us have been in situations where intense silence has been almost unnerving. Unlike the slow, detailed descriptions of the seals, we now have a rapid and loud blowing of trumpet after trumpet - one disaster after another. After the fourth trumpet the angel warns earth to brace herself for the last three. This will be intense indeed.
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