What Are the Seven Thunders Actually?
1) Direct answer
The seven thunders are the voice of God—seven specific revelations tied to the opening of the Seven Seals, kept back from John and reserved to be made known at the end time to finish the mystery of God and give the Bride rapturing faith. They are not new Scripture and not public creed; they are the revealed Word to the elect.
2) Scriptural explanation
- Revelation 10:1-7: A mighty Angel comes down; He cries, and “seven thunders uttered their voices.” John is told, “Seal up those things…and write them not.” Then it says, “In the days of the voice of the seventh angel…the mystery of God should be finished.” So the thunders are part of that finishing work at a specific time on earth.
- John 12:28-29: The Father speaks from heaven; some heard it as thunder. You see, God’s voice to some is only thunder, but to the believer it is understood speech.
- Psalm 29:3; Job 37:5: “The God of glory thundereth… God thundereth marvellously.” Thunder in Scripture often marks God’s own voice.
- Revelation 5–6: The Lamb opens the Seals; when the first seal breaks, a living creature speaks “as it were the noise of thunder.” Notice the tie between the Seals and thunder.
- Daniel 12:4,9: “Seal the book, even to the time of the end.” God hides a portion until the season appointed.
- Revelation 22:18-19: We must not add to the written prophecy. So the thunders are not extra verses; they are God unveiling what is already in the Word.
3) Simple clarifying logic
- If John was forbidden to write the thunders, they are not to be read as added text; they must be revealed by the Spirit in their season.
- Revelation 10 says the mystery of God finishes “in the days of the voice of the seventh angel.” That means the thunders are not unknowable; they are meant to be made known at that time to complete God’s mystery.
- They do not create a new Bible or a new gospel. God does not contradict His own warning. The thunders open what the Seals contain and place the Bride by true revelation.
- The world hears only a noise; the elect hears the Voice. That’s the mystery—God hiding and revealing at the same time.
Short reinforcement
Now notice: the seven thunders are God’s own voice unveiling seven hidden things under the Seventh Seal, not for argument but to perfect a people, finish the mystery, and prepare the Bride for the catching away. It’s not three different messages, not carnal thunder, and not speculation—it is the one God speaking, making the written Word live.
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Ranked passages from the local William Branham sermon and Church Age Book database. Relevance is relative, not a statement of doctrinal certainty.
Is this the sign of the end sir?
62-1230E §115
Now look. When it is time for the seven voices (and it's time for the seven voices when the book's completed) of Revelation 10 to be revealed... Now notice, listen. (Now I won't keep you too much longer, I know I'm wearing you out here. It's twenty minutes till ten. Listen close, now. I know ... standing up and you all changing positions and things. I'll be glad when the church gets fixed so we won't have to be cramped up. We can take all day to preach it.) Now, notice. Now note. The seven voices was thunders---bla...
Seals 2: Breach between the Church Ages and the Seals
63-0317E §25
Notice, seven seals on the book has (these seven seals) has the book sealed. The book is absolutely sealed. Do you see it? The book is absolutely a sealed book until the seven seals is broken. It is sealed up with seven seals. Now, that's different from the seven thunders. This is seven seals on the book, and the book will not... the seals will not be released until the message of the seventh angel, see? So, we are presuming. But the genuine revelation of God will be made perfect in that sounding---vindicated truth...
Is this the sign of the end sir?
62-1230E §128
And those blasting the other morning, that shook me, plumb till I raised up in the air as high as this building; and that constellation of angels, seven angels, in the form of a pyramid. Is that them thunders that's coming forth? Could it be? This is all interpreted. According to his dream, it was all finished. According to God's Word, the seventh messenger will finish ... the seventh message will be finished. And then the seven thunders. And he saw the capstone rolled over, which many people don't even know there...
Seals 10: The Seventh Seal
63-0324E §131
Now, there was some reason that God let this seven voices be thundered, because it must come, see, for the... We find that Christ, the Lamb, took the book in His hand, and He opened that seventh seal. But you see, it's a hidden mystery. No one knows it. But it ... right along with what He said: no one would know His coming. They also would not know about this seven-thunder mystery. So you see, it's connected together. That much we have an understanding of it today, because the rest of it is all unfolded, but this i...
Revelation, Chapter 4c Throne of mercy and judgement
61-0108 §55
Now, the voice of the throne. Notice in this throne, "before the throne was the seven stars," the voice of the stars. "Voices," you see. There was more in the Revelation 4 here, or 5. We find out, "And out of the throne proceeded lightning, thunders, and voices." Not one voice; "voices," plural. What was it? God speaking to the church, reflecting Himself through the seven Spirits. When the true anointed of God speaks, it's the voice of God! To reject it is to remove the candlestick, see. "Voices," the voice of the...