When Heaven Stood Silent-Lent 7, 2022

Heaven is filled with praise of God. Scripture says, “Each of the four living creatures had six wings and was covered with eyes all around, even under its wings. Day and night they never stop saying: “‘Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty,’ who was, and is, and is to come.” (Revelation 4:8).

Praise never stops and no one minds the sound of praise because God is deserving of every bit and more. Like a Dolby Atmos surround sound of heaven or the beat of our hearts, it’s with us, around us, and its rhythm and melody fill heaven’s sounds all the time.

It’s always praise in the air. Constant. Joyous! Except once.

There is one occasion when Heaven Stood Silent.

The Lamb of God (Jesus) who alone is worthy to open the seals has already opened 6 of them releasing the four horsemen of the Apocalypse, comforting the souls under the altar, and cosmic signs portending the End Time to beat all end times is upon them.

Now, there is a final, seventh seal. It was a solemn moment in which the prayers of God’s people are offered as a sacrifice to God and the final Judgment comes. Grave, serious, ominous. There will be no do-overs. It’s the moment of dread that the unrepentant—in their unbelief—thought would never come. Some had done genuine evil to those of faith. Others just fools to be pitied, arrogantly believing they’d outsmarted God by diminishing His existence in their own minds. It was a moment of such solemnity that heaven stood silent.

Revelation 8:1 When he opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for about half an hour. 2 And I saw the seven angels who stand before God, and seven trumpets were given to them. 3 Another angel, who had a golden censer, came and stood at the altar. He was given much incense to offer, with the prayers of all God’s people, on the golden altar in front of the throne. 4 The smoke of the incense, together with the prayers of God’s people, went up before God from the angel’s hand. (Revelation 8:1-4)

Thought for today:

Where will you be when heaven stands silent?

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Lent 2013 looked at The Letter to the Romans: Paul’s Masterpiece to reclaim foundations of our Christian heritage and began February 13, 2013.
A very special and ever popular offering was Lent 2014’s Be Still and Know that I AM God which can be obtained through the archives beginning in March 2014.
Lent 2015 began on February 18, 2015 with a series entitled With Christ in the Upper Room: Final Preparations. We explored what is often called “The Upper Room Discourse” found in John chapters 13-17.
ReKindle, the Lent 2016 series, began on February 10, 2016 and encouraged us to rekindle our spiritual lives.
Light: There’s Nothing Like It was the 2017 Lent series and explored this metaphor often used to portray Christ. It is archived beginning March 1, 2017.
Lent 2018, we explored the questions of Pi and Chi (the Greek letter beginning the word Christos, which means Christ, Messiah, the Anointed One). We asked and answered the questions “Why?” from the movie Life of Pi as we discovered the uniqueness of Jesus Christ in a world of many faiths.
Lent 2019 gave us a deeper window into Easter “More to the Easter Story” since we miss so much when we rely only on a superficial understanding of the work of Christ. These devotionals are archived beginning March 6, 2019.
Our Lent 2020 devotional series offered prayer points surrounding “Be Thou My Vision” and were aimed at helping us to see God for who He is. The full set of devotionals are archived beginning February 26, 2020.
The theme for 2021 Lent Devotionals was how to live between two worlds while waiting for Christ’s return. Into the gap between the City of Man and its fixation upon sin and the City of God with its demand for holiness, two words minister peace: But God. Praise God for His intervention! They are archived beginning February 17, 2021.