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.
Is this the sign of the end sir?
62-1230E §126
...shall be no more. He announces that time is over. What happens? What happens? Could that be so, now, brethren? Seriously think! If it is, then the pyramid is capped by the seven thunders. You remember the pyramid message? It's the capstone. What did it do? The Holy Spirit capped off the individual and sealed it when we added to our faith righteousness, and godliness, and faith, and so forth; and kept adding to it till we got seven things. And the seventh one was love, which is God. That's how He makes the individu...
Seals 10: The Seventh Seal
63-0324E §129
...the millennium. The millennium's coming up. And see, everything that's got any filth in it is to be purged during the sixth seal. Now, do you notice on the opening of this seventh seal, it's also in a threefold mystery. This one I have ... will speak and have spoke, that it is the mystery of the seven thunders. The seven thunders in heaven will unfold this mystery. It'll be right at the coming of Christ, because Christ said no one knew when He would return.
Seals 10: The Seventh Seal
63-0324E §106
...this great secret is that lays beneath this seal, I do not know. I don't know it. I couldn't make it out. I couldn't tell it, just what it said. But I know that it was them seven thunders uttering themselves right close together, just banging seven different times, and it unfolded into something else that I seen. Then when I seen that, I looked for the interpretation that flew across there, and I couldn't make it out. That's exactly right. See. The hour isn't quite yet for it, but it's moving into that cycle, see....
Is this the sign of the end sir?
62-1230E §121
Notice, Revelation 10:3-4. Seven thunders ... seven thunders! And then notice ... 3 and 4. And then what? An oath from that mighty angel that time was finished. When these thunders, you see, brought forth their voices, then the angel... Just think of it. An angel clothed in a cloud, and a rainbow covered over his head (Why, you know who that is.), put one foot on the land and on the sea, and lifted up his hand and swore that when them seven thunders uttered their voices that time would be no more. And if the minist...
Seals 6: The Fourth Seal
63-0321 §18
...d say. That's right. He might stumble and stagger---no doubt hit somewhere here or there, and after awhile... But we find out then that in the book of the Revelation at the seventh angel's message, the mysteries---all the mysteries of it---should already be revealed by that time (that's Revelation 10:1-7) ... that it should be revealed according to that time, at that time when He did. Then the seven thunders utter their strange voices, and John was going to write... John knew what it was, but he didn't write it bec...