Half An Hour

[Waggles]

Yes in Bible prophecy a day can represent a year and it can also equal 1,000 years. 

Thus references to 1,260 days equates to 1,260 years. 

I guess the answers lie in knowing your history and seeing what applies. 

But in this case it is the 21 years between the two world wars. 

When WWI ended as unfinished business and really just recontinued on with WWII - 

but with a difference. 

Remember Hiroshima and Nagasaki and here is the frightening terrifying difference for our times, 

and the prophecies in these two chapters. 

[Keras]

The Seventh Seal will occur after the Sixth Seal; which obviously hasn't happened yet.

The 'about 20 years' of this time gap, fits very well for the time required to fulfil all the prophesied things between the Sixth Seal and the Return of Jesus. 

[brakelite]

Waggles. The 6th seal is laid out in context of the time immediately prior to the second coming. This is at the end of chapter 6 of revelation, with the cry "who can stand in the day of the Lord's wrath? ....and hide us from the face of the Lamb"....

Revelation 7 deals with those delivered out of the final tribulation...whether pre-trib or post-trib as far as our conversation goes, is irrelevant. 

Revelation 8:1 is the second coming. It can't be anything else because what follows is not in chronological order following verse 1. Verse 1 stands on its own. A 21 year period between the two world wars is unlikely as that time of history surely must still be under the time of the 6th seal....and I cannot see how it can be connected to a silence in heaven.

Edited December 24, 2017 by brakelite

[Waggles]

6 hours ago, brakelite said:

and I cannot see how it can be connected to a silence in heaven.

Because the language is poetic and symbolic in its construct.

The silence in Heaven for about half an hour is not a literal 30 minutes but rather a period of time here on earth 

which corresponds to our 21 years in time. The keys to understanding Revelation symbology is in the scriptures 

where we are given the clues in reference to other Bible prophecy verses. 

In prophecy a day can equate to a year or at times we are told that to the Lord a day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years is as a day. 

Thus 1,000 divided by 48 half hour periods = 20.83333333333333 years or 21 years if we round up to about half an hour. 

The hiatus between the two world wars is extremely significant as it is the end of a period of Biblical history 1917, and then from 

1918 we enter the new era of the Last Days for Christianity, the Jews and the world. 

Verses 3 - 4 refer to the latter rain Holy Spirit Pentecostal revival that was also occurring at this time. The prayers of the new converts who were 

rediscovering the full gospel of salvation and praying in tongues come up into Heaven as an incense before God.

Verse 5 onwards refers to war and in particular to nuclear bombs and radiation. 

the 6th August 1945 is another history divider - the beginning of the end commenced on that date. 

And this fits in with much Bible prophecy verses describing the horrible fate and destruction of the armies that come against Jerusalem. 

11 - the name of the star is Wormwood. 

star = nuclear fission = the power of a star unleashed here on Earth

Wormwood in the Russian is Chernobyl - a radiation accident of momentous and terrible consequences. 

The rest of chapter 8 is about nuclear war and chapter nine I believe goes on to describe poetically the world wide war 

that will commence and end in Armageddon. 

6: In those days men will seek death and will not find it; they will desire to die, and death will flee from them. (NJKV) 

Chemical and biological warfare along with nuclear radiation? 

[Daniel 11:36]

All Bible prophecy is now holding for the coming tribulation period of the Lord's wrath and judgment [Revelation 6:12-17]

This will begin in Revelation 8

There has been no prophecy after the Lord's death on the cross except for the 70th week decreed for Israel still pending

[Waggles]

Well we shall see. 

[Daniel 11:36]

We shall see

[Marilyn C]

8 hours ago, Daniel 11:36 said:

All Bible prophecy is now holding for the coming tribulation period of the Lord's wrath and judgment [Revelation 6:12-17]

This will begin in Revelation 8

There has been no prophecy after the Lord's death on the cross except for the 70th week decreed for Israel still pending

Bro, there are heaps of prophecies leading up to the trib. Be good for its own thread though.

Marilyn.

[Psalms37:4]

Marilyn is correct. There's a lot of prophecies that will be fulfill in the months leading up to the rapture and tribulation with some really huge signs the world will not miss. 

The biggest most notable prophecy will be the construction of the third temple. The tribulation will begin shortly after the completion of the temple's foundation as given in the book of Haggai. This will also be the last major sign. After that, the rapture is imminent. 

God's very good on giving signs the world can't miss.  

Haggai 2:18-22 New King James Version (NKJV)

¹⁸ ‘Consider now from this day forward, from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, from the day that the foundation of the Lord’s temple was laid—consider it: ¹⁹ Is the seed still in the barn? As yet the vine, the fig tree, the pomegranate, and the olive tree have not yielded fruit. But from this day I will bless you.’”

²⁰ And again the word of the Lord came to Haggai on the twenty-fourth day of the month, saying, ²¹ “Speak to Zerubbabel, governor of Judah, saying:

‘I will shake heaven and earth.
²² I will overthrow the throne of kingdoms;
I will destroy the strength of the Gentile kingdoms.
I will overthrow the chariots
And those who ride in them;
The horses and their riders shall come down,
Every one by the sword of his brother.

[Waggles]

Haggai 2:18 was fulfilled when the Mayor of Jerusalem came out and surrendered Jerusalem to two British soldiers on 

Sunday 09th December 1917 - you will find that this date in our Gregorian calendar corresponds to the Jewish date 

given in Haggai. 

Jerusalem shall be down trodden until the times of the gentiles be fulfilled.