The Seventh Seal

When [the Lamb] 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 they were given seven trumpets.

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Then another angel, who had a golden censer, came and stood at the altar. He was given much incense to offer, along with the prayers of all the saints, on the golden altar before the throne. 4 And the smoke of the incense, together with the prayers of the saints, rose up before God from [the] hand of the angel.

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Then the angel took the censer, filled it with fire from the altar, and hurled [it] to the earth; and there were peals of thunder, rumblings,[fn] flashes of lightning, and an earthquake.

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