And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour.Revelation 8:1 KJVNow, this is an ominous silence. After all the seals that had been opened before: the four horses of the apocalypse had thundered across the landscape, there’s been religious confusion, persecution everywhere, a rain of meteors—not a shower, mind you—like a rain they’ve been hitting the ground; and there’s been earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions, and signs in the heavens. And then there’s silence for a half an hour.Now, half an hour is not a very long time, or
