It is hard to comprehend, but again the time is fixed to the years 1983/1984. This is being done, because someone had the idea of calculating the half-hour of silence to be a little over 20 years, setting the beginning of it with the opening of the seals in March 1963. Never has any prophet or apostle endeavoured to risk such a calculation. In fact, it is totally unscriptural and a serious error. Who has given anyone the authority to take the seventh seal mentioned in Rev. 8:1 to do a thing like this? May I ask here that those who refer to Brother Branham should at least show one place where he did it? The play with words about nobody knowing the “day or the hour” arises from head-knowledge, lack of revelation and lack of sufficient respect for God’s Word in a person who makes such statements. The same Bible that says that nobody knows “the day or the hour” also says, “It is not for you to know the times or the seasons…“ (Acts 1:7; 1Thes. 5:1). Moreover anyone who would read Rev. 8:1 slowly would find out that the silence is in heaven and not on earth. If you think that that time is now, why in the Name of the Lord do you speak and don’t keep silent? How can you believe that this applies to the time in which we are living, when it concerns heaven only? If one checks those claims with the Word, it shows that the supposed wisdom of men is utter foolishness in the eyes of God.

Furthermore, those who are acquainted with the seals will know that only the first four pertain to the church ages, the fifth refers to the Jews, and the sixth already deals with the great tribulation which comes after the taking away of the Bride. The seventh is placed at the very end. “It’s the end of the church age. It’s the end of the seventh seal. It’s the end of the trumpets. It’s the end of the vials, and even ends the ushering in of the Millennium — that’s on the seventh seals seal.” (Seven Seals Book, page 556). In pp. 411-420 24 the first six seals of Revelation 6 were placed right into Matthew. You also find the statement that the seventh seal must be scriptural, but remains a total secret. Jesus never spoke about it, and John never wrote anything, and all heaven was silent. God alone will take care of it! Amen.

It is hard to comprehend, but again the time is fixed to the years 1983/1984. This is being done, because someone had the idea of calculating the half-hour of silence to be a little over 20 years, setting the beginning of it with the opening of the seals in March 1963. Never has any prophet or apostle endeavoured to risk such a calculation. In fact, it is totally unscriptural and a serious error. Who has given anyone the authority to take the seventh seal mentioned in Rev. 8:1 to do a thing like this? May I ask here that those who refer to Brother Branham should at least show one place where he did it? The play with words about nobody knowing the “day or the hour” arises from head-knowledge, lack of revelation and lack of sufficient respect for God’s Word in a person who makes such statements. The same Bible that says that nobody knows “the day or the hour” also says, “It is not for you to know the times or the seasons…“ (Acts 1:7; 1Thes. 5:1). Moreover anyone who would read Rev. 8:1 slowly would find out that the silence is in heaven and not on earth. If you think that that time is now, why in the Name of the Lord do you speak and don’t keep silent? How can you believe that this applies to the time in which we are living, when it concerns heaven only? If one checks those claims with the Word, it shows that the supposed wisdom of men is utter foolishness in the eyes of God. 

Furthermore, those who are acquainted with the seals will know that only the first four pertain to the church ages, the fifth refers to the Jews, and the sixth already deals with the great tribulation which comes after the taking away of the Bride. The seventh is placed at the very end. “It’s the end of the church age. It’s the end of the seventh seal. It’s the end of the trumpets. It’s the end of the vials, and even ends the ushering in of the Millennium — that’s on the seventh seals seal.” (Seven Seals Book, page 556). In pp. 411-420 24 the first six seals of Revelation 6 were placed right into Matthew. You also find the statement that the seventh seal must be scriptural, but remains a total secret. Jesus never spoke about it, and John never wrote anything, and all heaven was silent. God alone will take care of it! Amen.