A: Breaking open seven seals set off events in heaven and earth. "And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour." Silence in its primary sense indicates fulness of time. What were unseen until now shall be made to appear. The Spirit began his narrative with the phrase, 'in the beginning.' With the seventh seal it reached the fulness of time. In the secondary sense what The writer to the Hebrews uses to signify "Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son."(He.1:2) This half and hour belongs the timescale,- Time, times and a half (Dan.12:7) separating the beginning and the last days. This silence indicates the earthly ministry of the Son shall be on earth. It is in this sense St Paul refers to the birth of Jesus. "But when the fulness of the time was come"(Gal.4:4).
"God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets,/Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;" What shall proceed in heaven where seven angels step out with seven trumpets refers to the earthly ministry of Jesus Christ. (Re.12:14)
Q: "What does this silence in heaven signify?"
A: Breaking open seven seals set off events in heaven and earth. "And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour." Silence in its primary sense indicates fulness of time. What were unseen until now shall be made to appear. The Spirit began his narrative with the phrase, 'in the beginning.' With the seventh seal it reached the fulness of time. In the secondary sense what The writer to the Hebrews uses to signify "Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son."(He.1:2) This half and hour belongs the timescale,- Time, times and a half (Dan.12:7) separating the beginning and the last days. This silence indicates the earthly ministry of the Son shall be on earth. It is in this sense St Paul refers to the birth of Jesus. "But when the fulness of the time was come"(Gal.4:4).
"God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets,/Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;" What shall proceed in heaven where seven angels step out with seven trumpets refers to the earthly ministry of Jesus Christ. (Re.12:14)
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