16. After the sealing work brought to view in Revelation 7, which takes place under the sixth seal,
how is the seventh seal introduced?
Answer
"And when He had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour."
Rev. 8: 1.
NOTE-The sixth seal introduced the events connected with the second coming of Christ. The
seventh seal most naturally, therefore, would refer to that event, or to some accompanying result of it.
When Christ comes, all the holy angels will accompany Him (Matt. 25: 31); and it follows that silence will
necessarily, therefore, reign in heaven during their absence. A half hour of prophetic time would be about
seven (lays. The seven seals, therefore, bring us down to the second coming of Christ.
By what should we test, or prove, all doctrine?
Was it possible for Christ to be holden of death?
Because evil is not punished immediately, what presumptuous course do many pursue?
Of what does God say the keeping or hallowing of the Sabbath is a sign?
What becomes of man's thoughts at death?
What is to be their fate?
What promise was made to Abraham concerning the land?
Questions & Answers are from the book Bible Readings for the Home Circle