Revelation 8:1
And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for about half an hour.
Revised King James New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
2And I saw the seven angels who stand before God; and to them were given seven trumpets.
Cross References
Revelation 5:1And I saw in the right hand of him who sat on the throne a scroll, with writing inside and on the back, sealed with seven seals.
Revelation 6:1Then I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard one of the four living creatures saying, as with a voice of thunder, Come.
Revelation 6:5And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, Come. And I beheld, and lo, a black horse; and he who sat upon it had a pair of scales in his hand.
Revelation 6:9And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they maintained:
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 →