Dianne Talsma (4 March 2005)
"re the "silence in heaven" at Seal 7"
http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/mar2005/diannet34-2.htmShalom All:
I know some of you have posted items of that "silence" at Seal 7 already.Could you please repost those thoughts again? I'm espcially interested in any that might indicate a little more than a "week" of time - 7 days - in Heaven.
Thanks in advance!
Dianne
A timeline of the Revelation Seals:
http://home.centurytel.net/grafted-promise/endtimeline.htmlMy Reply
I think the "silence in heaven" and the silence upon "all the earth" takes place when Christ is seated as judge at the Judgment Seat of Christ in Heaven. Even now, on earth, we stand and keep silent while judges are being seated in court. The silence sh! ows our respect. Rom. 14.10 says, "WE SHALL ALL STAND BEFORE THE JUDGMENT SEAT OF CHRIST."
It is after Christ breaks the seventh seal, just prior to the outpouring of the seven trumpet judgments upon the unbelievers left on Earth after the Pre-Wrath Rapture of the Tribulation saints.
There will be silence both in Heaven and on Earth. Rev. 8:1,2 says, "when he (Christ, the Lamb of God) had opened the seventh seal, there was SILENCE IN HEAVEN about the space of half an hour. And I saw the seven angels which stood before God; and to them were given seven trumpets." Hab. 2:20 says, "But the LORD is in his holy temple: let all the EARTH KEEP SILENCE before him."
Psa. 50:4-6 says, "HE (our God, Christ) SHALL CALL TO THE HEAVENS FROM ABOVE, AND TO THE EARTH, THAT HE MAY JUDGE HIS PEOPLE. Gather my saints together unto me (both those in Heaven and those on Earth, Mark 13:27); those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice. And the heavens shall declare hi! s righteousness: for GOD (YHWH of hosts, Christ, Isa. 44:6) IS JUDGE H IMSELF. Selah (pause and think of that)." John 5:22 says, "THE FATHER JUDGETH NO MAN, BUT HATH COMMITTED ALL JUDGMENT UNTO THE SON."
Isa. 40:1-4 says, "Keep silence before me, O islands; and let the people renew their strength: let them come near; then let them speak: let us come near together to JUDGMENT....Who hath wrought and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? I the LORD (YHWH), the first (YHWH king of Israel), and with the last (YHWH of hosts); I am he" (Christ, both the first (YHWH king of Israel and the last, YHWH of hosts, Isa. 44:6).
The silence is on the Day of the Lord. Amos 5:13-24 says, "Therefore the prudent shall KEEP SILENCE in that time; for it is an evil time. Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live: and so the LORD, the God of hosts (YHWH of hosts, the Redeemer, Christ, Isa. 44:6), shall be with you, as ye have spoken. Hate the evil, and love the good, and ESTABLISH JUDGMENT IN THE GATE: it may be that THE LORD GOD OF HOSTS! will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph.... Woe unto you that desire THE DAY OF THE LORD! to what end is it for you? the day of the LORD is darkness, and not light."
The saints, both those previously caught up to Heaven in the Pre-Trib Rapture and those caught up in the Pre-Wrath Rapture before noon (Zeph. 2:3-5) on the Day of the Lord, are called "To THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY AND CHURCH OF THE FIRSTBORN, WHICH ARE WRITTEN IN HEAVEN, AND TO GOD THE JUDGE OF ALL, and to the spirits of just men MADE PERFECT" (Heb. 12:23).
All saints are made perfect at the same time. Heb. 11:40 says, "God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be MADE PERFECT."
At this time of the "last trump," all saints will be changed, actually become immortal (I Cor. 15:51,52).
Agape,
Marilyn Agee
mjagee1@earthlink.net
PS: I still can't access my main web site. Use http:/home.earthlink.net/~mjagee.
My password wouldn't work. So, after System Recovery, Recover only, and getting all Microsoft's 21 updates again, neither my CoffeeCup HTML editor nor my CC Direct FTP client program will open. I'm worse off than before. My printer won't reinstall. At first, I couldn't even get on the Internet, but Earthlink gave me a work-around for that, and their new disk just arrived in the mail. Hope it fixes another problem. It says i'm connected when I'm disconnected, and disconnected when I'm connected.
I get a Dialog boxes similar to this one saying, "Application Error Exception EoleSysError in module DIRECT FTP... at 000B9E28. " I have my work cut out for me. Please Lord, guide me. In Jesus' name, Amen.
Marilyn