Revelation 8:1
And when he opened the seventh seal, silence occurred in heaven, like half an hour.
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In Context
2And I saw the seven agents who stand before God, and seven trumpets were given to them.
Cross References
Psalms 37:7Rest in LORD, and wait patiently for him. Fret not thyself because of him who prospers in his way, because of the man who brings wicked devices to pass.
Habakkuk 2:20But LORD is in his holy temple. Let all the earth keep silence before him.
Revelation 5:1And I saw at the right hand of him who sits on the throne a book, written inside and outside, sealed with seven seals.
Revelation 6:1And I saw that the Lamb opened one of the seven seals. And I heard one of the four beings saying like the sound of thunder, Come and see.
Revelation 6:5And when he opened the third seal, I heard the third being saying, Come and see. And behold, a black horse, and he who sits on it having a balance in his hand.
Revelation 6:9And when he opened the fifth seal, I saw underneath the altar the souls of those who had been killed because of the word of God, and because of the testimony of the Lamb that they held.
Matthew Henry on Revelation 8:1
We have already seen what occurred upon opening six of the seals; we now come to the opening of the seventh, which introduced the sounding of the seven trumpets; and a direful scene now opens. Most expositors agree that the seven seals represent the interval between the apostle's time and the reign of Constantine, but that the seven trumpets are designed to represent the rise of antichrist, some time after the empire became Christian. In this chapter we have, I. The preface, or prelude, to the sounding of the… Read the whole commentary →