REVELATION - 8 1-6

 Weekly Book of Revelation CU Studies Journal, Verses paraphrased due to ©‘s [ref] {thots}                     

1 - Now, when the Lamb opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for about half an hour. {A turning point, turning of a page?}

     2 And I saw the seven angels who stand before God, and they were given seven trumpets. {Same angels as the angels of the seven churches?} 3 Another angel came, and he stood at the altar. He was holding a golden censer. And then much incense was given to him. Incense, to offer with the prayers of all the saints [believers/followers] upon the gold altar that’s before the throne.

     4 And the smoke of the incense, mingled with the prayers of the saints rose up before God. {Still in the pause of 7:1,3. - Long to us - between the first seal 6 event and the next one (leaving 5 at ‘the end’/culmination? Is.24:20/Rev.10:4). Or.. after the interruption of 7:1,3 is interrupted? — The way the seals (ch 6) are described, veils what they are. And veils a lot of the vision. — This pause - 8:1 (above) I thought might be the space of time between the interruption of 7:1,3 and the Daniel 9:27 lauded by the world treaty/league/covenant, which will only last seven years after all. And will be broken in the middle against Israel. Dn.12:11-12 w/ Lk.19:41,44 and 1Cor.3:16 (and Rev.2:10 as the escalation of it?) But I forgot these next verses come after it, which seems to obviously BE that interruption of 7:1,3.}

     5 Then the angel took the censer. He filled it with fire from the altar. And he threw it on the earth!

     And there were *peals of thunder, rumblings, flashes of lightning, and an earthquake**! 6 And now the seven angels who had the seven trumpets prepared theirselves to blow their trumpets. [The 7th seal iS the seven trumpets.]

     {The description between * and ** being #2 of 7? #1 was the 1st seal 6 occurrence? (Rev.6:12-17; 4:10) And because the revelation vision is actually told three times, 13:13 is also the 1st seal 6 occurrence (but pinpointing an office, not yet a lawless individual who steps into an office they’re not supposed to? Chapter 6 - the seals - are the elements of the times, described as their full effects, very first to very last - and presented as a sort of swirl - especially seal 6. Their fuLL descriptions given at the BEGINNING of the vision, veils what they are, and also much of the vision.} {So pause 8:1 is part of pause 7:1,3?}

Next - 8:7-13

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