The Seven Seals (Rev. 6:1-17; 8:1) (Part 8)

7. SEVENTH SEAL > silence, awe

^“When the Lamb broke the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for about half an hour.” (Rev. 8:1)

Silence is a word that is not typical in heaven. 

• Rev. 4:5 > “Out from the throne come flashes of lightning and sounds and peals of thunder.”
• Rev. 4:8 > Regarding the four living creatures: “ . . . day and night they do not cease to say, “HOLY, HOLY, HOLY is THE LORD GOD, THE ALMIGHTY, WHO WAS AND WHO IS AND WHO IS TO COME.”
• Rev. 5:2 > “And I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice . . .”
• Rev. 5:9 > The four living creatures and the twenty-four elders “sang a new song.”
• Rev. 5:11-14 > “Then I looked, and I heard the voice of many angels around the throne and the living creatures and the elders; and the number of them was myriads of myriads, and thousands of thousands, saying with a loud voice, 'Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power and riches and wisdom and might and honor and glory and blessing.' And every created thing which is in heaven and on the earth and under the earth and on the sea, and all things in them, I heard saying, 'To Him who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb, be blessing and honor and glory and dominion forever and ever.' And the four living creatures kept saying, 'Amen.' And the elders fell down and worshiped.”

Doesn't that sound like noise to you?

  

Why does heaven become silent?  There is still more wrath to be poured out and it will only intensify!  "Be silent before the Lord GOD! For the day of the LORD is near . . ." (Zeph. 1:7).  

If you are a believer in Jesus Christ, aren't you glad for 1 Thess. 5:9?