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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What did the Laodicean Church Age (our age) Angel (- messenger) Say about this?
Ranked passages from the local William Branham sermon and Church Age Book database. Relevance is relative, not a statement of doctrinal certainty.
An Exposition Of The Seven Church Ages
CAB 1:E-3
The scribe (not author) of this book is St. John the divine. Historians agree that he lived the last part of his life in Ephesus, though at the time of the writing of this book he was on the Isle of Patmos. It is not the life story of John, but it is the Revelation of Jesus Christ in the future church ages. In verse three it is called a prophecy and that is actually what it is.
An Exposition Of The Seven Church Ages
CAB 7:E-66
The possibility of the removal of a name from the records of God deserves more than a casual study, for up until now most students have merely drawn a conclusion that God places the names of those born again within the Lamb's Book of Life at the time of their rebirth; and if for any reason that name must be removed, the space on the record will simply be a blank as it was before a name had been placed there. This is one hundred percent opposite to what the Word actually teaches.
An Exposition Of The Seven Church Ages
CAB 1:E-70
However, before we get too concerned about this, let us read both the King James version and the translation by Dr. Lamsa. To our gratification we find the words in both amazingly the same so that there is no difference actually in content or doctrine. We may even conclude that God has allowed these newly discovered manuscripts and recent publications of already known scripts to come before us to prove the authenticity of what we already had. And we find that though translators may fight each other, scripts do not.
An Exposition Of The Seven Church Ages
CAB 4:E-115
These directions came as a direct answer from Peter relative to what had actually happened at Pentecost. What came to pass was that God according to Joel was pouring out the promised Holy Spirit upon all flesh. He was not poured out before that time or given before that time. This was it. But THIS was to come from now on by repenting, being baptized in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and then God was duty bound to fill the ones who came. Peter, or any of the apostles never said, "Ye must be born again, and then...
An Exposition Of The Seven Church Ages
CAB 7:E-40
...o battle and thereby cause the death of multitudes; but Zwingli's party persecuted unto prison the godly Dr. Hubmeyer, and though it did not commit him to the stake, it was actually responsible in great measure for his eventual death by fire. And Calvin did no less, for he demanded the arrest of Servetus who had seen and taught the oneness of the Godhead. The State then tried this brother, and to Calvin's dismay he was burned at the stake.