The seven seals of Revelation chapters five and six give us the specialized knowledge and wisdom we must have sealed into our foreheads (i.e., our minds) in order to successfully navigate our way through the time of Satan’s great deception, when he comes to this earth in his role as the spurious messiah — the false Christ — and begins to rule over the world from Jerusalem. But few Christians truly understand the knowledge hidden within the seven seals. The following in-depth Bible study constitutes a fresh look at that knowledge, seal-by-seal, including some new insights into the seventh and final seal, which might surprise you…
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Steve,
I am thrilled to see that you finally see that the silence in heaven is NOT mid tribulation as being taught.
I posed this view awhile back which you denounced.
One truth leads to others which you have plenty to share.
Ron
Hi Ron,
Good to hear from you.
You state, regarding the one-half hour silence in heaven, that you’re happy I’m now teaching it as being “NOT mid-tribulation.” I’m happy about that too, for reasons I’ll explain in just a moment.
But you also state that you had posted this view awhile back, somewhere, and that I “denounced” it.
I don’t remember denouncing any of your views. I might disagree with people, from time to time. Maybe even strongly. And I might be wrong from time to time. No one’s perfect, but Jesus.
But if I “denounced” you, or something you said, I think I’d remember it. “Denounced” is a pretty strong term. I think I’ve only “denounced” the teachings of two other bona-fide Christians in all of my life, one for teaching that Pastor M. was the antichrist, and the other for putting words that didn’t exist into Pastor’s mouth, and then doubling-down on it even when Pastor himself refuted the gentleman’s claims on national TV.
You did write me back in July 2018, asking about a fad teaching going around that the deadly wound takes place at pouring out of the fifth vial. I agreed with you that this fad teaching was incorrect. But that’s the only communication I can find between you and me.
As for my take on the half-hour of silence in heaven, in the new study on the Seven Seals of Revelation, I’ll have to admit that previously I did not hold my current view. I previously agreed with the standard S.C. teaching that the half-hour of silence in heaven is an event which takes place when Satan is cast out of heaven halfway through the hour of temptation.
But while writing this new study, which is actually a revision of an older study I had written many, many years ago, I took great pains to double-check the facts, in the Bible, and in the process of double-checking my understanding of each seal, I found that the popular teaching that the half-hour of silence takes place halfway through the hour of temptation, is incorrect, Biblically.
In fact, as I worked on revising that study over the course of this past year, I continually had a nagging impression that something was wrong, leading me to do more in-depth Bible research. Indeed, several times I went to post the revised study, and several times Father resisted my attempts to post it, as if something was incorrect. And there was. So I thank Father for resisting my efforts to post the study prematurely, before it was complete and correct.
I now find it glaringly obvious that the half-hour of silence in heaven cannot possibly take place halfway through the hour of temptation, or even the first half-hour of the hour of temptation, because during the seals Satan has not yet even been cast out of heaven.
After all, the seven trumpets have yet to sound at the seventh seal. And Satan isn’t cast out of heaven until the fifth of sixth trumpet, depending upon one’s take on it. It’s very clear in those verses (Rev. 8:1-5) that the trumpets have yet to blow at the seventh seal. So the events described in the seventh seal could not possibly take place anytime at all during Satan’s hour of temptation, which is when he’s here on this earth.
At any rate, I’m glad to hear someone else sees that fact, as well. And if you previously posted about this topic somewhere else, then I suppose you should pat yourself on the back for planting a seed that later germinated.
I’ve been studying God’s Word, and teaching, for 30 years now. But I’ve never put myself up to be some big shot preacher/teacher. I’m just one of God’s slow kids, but who loves His Word, and loves to share what I learn in it, as I study. And He blesses me for my efforts in studying and teaching it, and I’m grateful, because part of those blessings include correction, via the Holy Spirit, when I’m mistaken.
No human teacher is perfect. We’re all fallible. Which is why Pastor M. always stated “Don’t believe this man, or any man. Check it out for yourself in God’s Word.” Too many SC students hear him say that over and over, thousands of times, in hundreds of studies, yet never check him out as he directs.
So if you previously saw that the half-hour of silence in heaven has nothing to do with Satan being cast out of heaven to this earth, or his hour of temptation, but instead, happens beforehand, then kudos to you. And kudos for sharing your view with others. It’s sometimes not easy to go against the grain, so to speak, especially when it conflicts with what some of the better teachers are saying.
St. Paul gently corrected St. Peter when he was wrong (Galations 2:11). So correction is always appreciated, when it’s properly given, with due humility, and minus the arrogance that always denotes the Holy Spirit is not involved.
As the Scripture states, “Iron sharpens iron,” meaning, essentially, a good, Bible-based debate on a subject can sharpen the minds of ALL Bible students participating in the debate, because it makes you return to the Scriptures and think things through, rather than simply regurgitate what some “respected elder” said without checking it out first. We’re all guilty of doing that, from time-to-time. But as we mature in His Word, we should be less and less guilty of it.
Regards in Christ,
Steve
Steve,
Thank you for your kind words.
Denounce probably wasn’t a good choice of words. I should have used disagreed. I apologize for my bad choice. I truly enjoy your studies. You have been at this a lot longer than I have.
The sad part of today is many will not listen to other views. To me this is how we learn and move forward. We are all a part of the body, and need each other by design, for strength and endurance. The word is so deep that one little truth can be overlooked and missed which is a building block to other truths.
I believe that part of the end time famine, as well as being falsehood, is believers shut down due to ridicule and slander from other believers due to seeing things a little differently. They get ostracized.
As you have said, we need to check out everything and everyone, no one has it all figured out. If we don’t, we become sheep and just follow.
In Christ,
Ron