What a silence
Suddenly, when the Lamb opened the 7th seal, there was silence in heaven for about the space of half an hour. All millions of angels, all four beasts, all four and twenty elders, and whosoever were in heaven remained silent. No motion. It was so serious that the four beasts around the throne who worshipped God saying Holy, Holy, Holy, day and night immediately stopped. No activity in heaven. Satan who once abode in heaven and never saw such a thing was confused, and all his attention was focused on seeing what would happen in heaven. But Satan did not know that God was on the throne and on earth at the same time ready to get his bride, suddenly. Remember John 3:13, it would clear up some dust for your understanding.
On earth there was a strange thing happening; (John 11:25-26). There was silence in heaven, but on earth saints were coming out of the graves and those saints who were alive and remain were entering a different dimension, ordained from the foundation of the world: “I am the Resurrection and the Life,” I am here to take my jewels home. Heaven was silent and waiting. It would be sudden, in a twinkling of an eye, in a moment. “But of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father,” (Mark 13:32).
Rev. 8:1, “And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour.” Psalm 50:1-6; “The mighty God, even the Lord, hath spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof. Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined. Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him. He shall call to the heaven from above, and to the earth, that he may judge his people. Gather my saints together unto me; those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice, (also Matt 20:28); And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for God is judge himself. Selah.” Study Heb. 10:1-18, and Rev 5:6, “Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first that he may establish the second. By the which will, we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.”
Matt. 25:10, “And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came; and they that were ready went in with him to the marriage: and the door was shut.” Also in Rev.12:4-5, “And the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered (Satan was watching to devour the child by the sun clothed woman, but the silence in heaven threw him and his host into a state of confusion. He must have been hovering in the air, he must have been torn between heaven and earth; trying to see what was the cause of the silence in heaven which he could not go to, and the woman in travail to be delivered), for to devour her child as soon as it was born. (Study Rom. 8:19-30). And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto God, and to his throne.” Read Matt. 2:1-21, you will see how Satan through Herod tried to kill the man-child, Jesus Christ through deception, claiming a desire to worship him. But by revelation the child-God was taken out of harm’s way.
When Satan, the dragon, failed to kill the child Jesus, he went and killed his brethren, children 2 years and under in Bethlehem and in all the coasts thereof. There was cry in Rama as prophesied by Jeremiah (Matt. 2:16-18). That was a test run. Now in Rev. 12:5, the woman brought forth a man child and her child was caught up unto God, and to his throne. Then activity resumed again in heaven. John 14:3 came to pass at this time. No one knows the day nor the hour; not the angels or any one in heaven, not even the Son, but the Father only. Jesus said, I and the Father are one, (John 14:11). The door on earth is shut (Matt. 25:10) and the door in heaven is opened (Rev. 4:1); that looks like the Translation, but many are shut out, tribulation.
The man child (the elected ones) is caught up to heaven (Rev. 12:5), through the open door. Then you have the total fulfillment of 1st Corinth. 15:50-58, “Behold, I show you a mystery; we shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye.” Also we read in 1st Thess. 4:13-18, “For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him, —– For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first (All in secrecy and fast. During the silence there will be a shout, voice and trump, that Satan will know nothing about it. Those left behind will hear and know nothing. In the silence, the dead in the grave will hear the voice and rise up and we who are alive and remain will hear it. But two will be in bed, one will hear and be changed but the other will hear nothing and is left behind. What is your take on this, will you hear it and be caught up or will you not hear it and be left behind)? Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.”
The dragon tried to kill the child-God through Herod in Matt. 2: 16-18. He will attempt to destroy the man child (Rev. 12:12-17). He will be furious with the sun-clothed woman. While satan was confused and distracted, the man child was suddenly caught unto God and to his throne and he was cast down to the earth. “Therefore rejoice, ye heaven (The silence is over. The elected seed is home), and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhibiters of the earth and of the sea, for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.”
“And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, (tribulation saints who were left behind when the door was shut) which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ,” (verse 17). Where will you be when it sounds so loud as to wake up the dead, there was silence in heaven; but then it says therefore rejoice O heaven, and ye that dwell in them but woe to the inhibiters of the earth. Where will you be? Be sure to make your calling and election sure. Repent and be converted.
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