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Rev. 8:1 “And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour.”

As noted previously, the Seven Seals are a Prophetic Outline that cover the age of the Gentiles. The seventh seal itself reveals more more details about the summary that was revealed to us under the Sixth Seal. Since many other passages in the New Testament cover the same information, we must incorporate all such passages into a synthesis to achieve an understanding of the time when Jesus will return to earth. Failure to do this has resulted in all sorts of eschatological nonsense, much of which has become very popular but, none the less is still untrue, as we shall see if you will stay with me on this thread.

Today there are many who have developed end time theories without such a synthesis who say that we must separate what they call rapture verses from the second coming verses in the New Testament. Of course, they then have to be the ones who tell us which verses we should apply to the rapture and which ones we should apply to the Second Coming, And, since the word rapture never appears anywhere in Scripture, they are completely free to decide for themselves which verses, or even which parts of verses, should be applied to which event. Many of these modern eschatologists also say that the 24th chapter of Matthew applies only to Jews. They say that there are no signs which must precede the rapture (the in gathering) of the church because the church is a parenthesis in God’s Plan for the redemption of the world that had to be set in place when the Jews rejected Jesus as their Messiah. Because such misconceptions are very popular today, this section must deal not only with with pointing out what the Bible says about the Day of the Lord but also many of the errors brought into church teaching because of incomplete scriptural synthesis.

Half Hour Of Silence

Silence in Heaven means: There is no longer any of the commotion of the warfare in heaven that has been going on since the fall of Satan. And the Temple in Heaven is closed, the angels are not singing, the saints under the altar are quiet, God is not speaking, and no word from God is heard on earth.  This is not a unique condition but similar things occurred at the end of the time of the Judges in Israel and the beginning of the time of the Prophets. (See 1 Samuel 3:1) And such a condition is likewise noted between the last of the Prophets and the appearance of John the Baptist. It would there fore, seem to be that when there is silence in Heaven for some period of time, one period in God’s program for mankind is coming to an end, and another is beginning.