Half An Hour

[Waggles]

1  And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour.

Revelation 8:

Chapter 8 begins a new section of prophecy in Revelation. Here we are introduced to Wormwood, and 

descriptions of forthcoming woes upon woes. 

Rev 8:11  And the name of the star is called Wormwood: and the third part of the waters became wormwood;

and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.

So my question is how long in our earth years is half an hour in Heaven?

And thus what does this hiatus correspond to in our history of events on Earth? 

[missmuffet]

59 minutes ago, Waggles said:

1  And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour.

Revelation 8:

Chapter 8 begins a new section of prophecy in Revelation. Here we are introduced to Wormwood, and 

descriptions of forthcoming woes upon woes. 

Rev 8:11  And the name of the star is called Wormwood: and the third part of the waters became wormwood;

and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.

So my question is how long in our earth years is half an hour in Heaven?

And thus what does this hiatus correspond to in our history of events on Earth? 

There is no literal time in heaven only on earth. Only we are confined to time. Although thirty minutes is not considered a long time, in this case it indicates that something tremendous is about to take place. It may be compared to the silence before a foreman of a jury reports a verdict; for a moment there is perfect silence and everyone awaits that which is to follow.

[angels4u]

Some pastors think there are no women in heaven because there was a silence for 1/2 hour

 

(Joke)

[Marilyn C]

57 minutes ago, angels4u said:

Some pastors think there are no women in heaven because there was a silence for 1/2 hour

 

(Joke)

Hi angels,

And some say the time is for all the eschatologists to get their charts up to date.

Marilyn.

[Keras]

The Seventh Seal

Revelation 8:1 When the Lamb broke the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for about a half hour.

We are clearly told that the ‘about a half hour’, is in heaven. Time in heaven is not and cannot be the same as earthly time, heaven doesn’t rotate or orbit the sun. God is eternal, His ways are not our ways. Anyway, the Bible informs us twice that one day in heaven is like [as] 1000 years on earth. Psalm 90:4 and 2 Peter 3:8  Genesis speaks of ‘6 days’ of creation, it seems more logical that they were actually 1000 year periods, or allegorically pointing to God’s 7000 year Plan for the earth.  

 

The calculation of 1000 divided by 48 gives us a heavenly half-hour of exactly 20.8 earth years. But that is only the center of a range of years possible because it is "about" a half-hour.

 Calculating the range of years is based upon statistical rules:  Since the text tells us a half-hour, we examine the next divisible time period which is a quarter-hour. We simply find the distance between 30 minutes and 15 minutes (above and below) and find the half-way points. This gives us +/-5 centered on 20 years. Therefore the range is from 15 years to 25 years. If the actual year is outside of this range, then the Revelation account would have read "about a quarter of an hour” or “about three-quarters of an hour." But, Revelation says "about a half-hour." Thus we know it can't be outside the range of 15 to 25 years (including anything in between) otherwise "about an half-hour" would be wrong .

 

Therefore if, as seems likely, if the Sixth Seal – the great and terrible Day of the Lord, happens very soon, it will be 15/20 years until Jesus Returns.  So that will be the period of ‘silence in heaven’ but of tumult and huge changes on earth!

A lot must happen during that time – the regeneration of the Land, many prophesies about that – the Lord will send rain. Then the gathering, and settling of His people, again many prophecies – houses rebuilt, land productive...  The selection of the 144,000,  The Gog Magog attack and 7 years clean up. The treaty with the Anti-Christ, the AoD in the new Temple and 3½ years of the Great Tribulation. Then the glorious Return. 

It all fits and I see the Hand of God in it.                   

                                                                  

[Waggles]

OK I will give you lot a clue so that you can narrow down the relevancy of this prophecy 

concerning our times - 

half an hour in Bible prophecy timeline is 20.83333333333333333333 years 

the hiatus between WWI (1918) and WWII (1939) is 21 years. 

 

Like I said chapter 8 begins a new sequence of topic from the preceding chapters. 

Lightning's and flashes and Wormood which poisons the land and the waters, 

and people die from this. 

What could it be? 

[ghtan]

4 hours ago, Waggles said:

1  And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour.

Revelation 8:

Chapter 8 begins a new section of prophecy in Revelation. Here we are introduced to Wormwood, and 

descriptions of forthcoming woes upon woes. 

Rev 8:11  And the name of the star is called Wormwood: and the third part of the waters became wormwood;

and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.

So my question is how long in our earth years is half an hour in Heaven?

And thus what does this hiatus correspond to in our history of events on Earth? 

I think the silence denotes the time immediately after the Rapture. All those pesky christians are gone and the world thinks it can enjoy peace and safety for a change (1 Thess. 5:3). But then destruction will come suddenly in the form of the trumpet plagues.

Btw, the half hour is a good indication that God lives in time.

[missmuffet]

1 minute ago, ghtan said:

I think the silence denotes the time immediately after the Rapture. All those pesky christians are gone and the world thinks it can enjoy peace and safety for a change (1 Thess. 5:3). But then destruction will come suddenly in the form of the trumpet plagues.

Btw, the half hour is a good indication that God lives in time.

No, God is outside of time.

[Waggles]

6 minutes ago, ghtan said:

5 minutes ago, missmuffet said:

I think the silence denotes the time immediately after the Rapture. All those pesky christians are gone and the world thinks it can enjoy peace and safety for a change (1 Thess. 5:3). But then destruction will come suddenly in the form of the trumpet plagues.

Btw, the half hour is a good indication that God lives in time.

Nice try but wrong. 

The half hour is time from the perspective of John who is writing down what is being revealed to him. 

The half hour does relate to 21 years on earth - and in this prophecy it is the interval between the First and 

Second World Wars. 

What else can anyone glean from chapters 8 and chapter 9 ? 

 

[brakelite]

Prophetic time is one day for a year. Half an hour works out at just over 7 days. The silence is in heaven. The only reason why heaven could be silent is that no-one home...they, being Jesus and all the host have left and being in the time of the 7th trumpet, then the reason they have left is to come here to take us home. 

Now they could come in the time it takes to take a breath, which very well may be the case, but 7 days? My guess is the trip home will be a slow scenic tour. Looking forward to that.