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.
Seals 6: The Fourth Seal
63-0321 §16
That's the way with the church ages and seals and all the rest of it. And when anybody thinks that he has those seven thunders, if it don't compare with the rest of the Word, there's something wrong. It's got to come "thus saith the Lord," for this is the Book. This is the revelation of Jesus Christ in its entirety. Now, I believe then that the Lamb came forth. They didn't know. John was weeping. He couldn't find nobody in heaven, in earth, because all was the other side of the chasm, see. Sin.
Seals 10: The Seventh Seal
63-0324E §107
...hat I seen and what has been told to me. And you do whatever you want to. I don't know who's going to ... what is going to take place. I do not know. I just know that those seven thunders holds that mystery, that heavens was quiet. (Everybody understand?) It may be time. It may be the hour now, that this great person that we're expecting to rise on the scene may rise on the scene. Maybe this ministry that I have tried to take people back to the Word has laid a foundation. And if it has, I'll be leaving you for good...
The god of this evil age
65-0801M §9
Now in doing this, I have come here for the purpose of teaching the last vials, last seven vials, and the last seven trumpets, and the last seven thunders of the book of Revelation, tying them together in this hour that we're now living to follow the opening of the seven seals, the seven church ages. So we couldn't get room to do it; so I hope that soon as I can, we can get a place sufficient for that either here or Louisville, New Albany, or either put up a tent, so we can just stay as long as the Lord leads us to...
Seals 6: The Fourth Seal
63-0321 §72
...rd to kill. We find out that he gets killed with the sword, too, the sword of the Word. God's Word---sharp, two-edged sword---slays him, puts him right down. Wait till them seven thunders utter their voices to that group who really can take the Word of God and hand it there! It'll slice and cut. They can close the heavens. They can shut this, or do that---whatever they want to. He'll be slayed by the word that proceeds through his mouth. It's sharper than a two-edged sword. They could call for a hundred billion ton...
The seven compound names of Jehovah
55-0120 §53
..., "Now, you're not lost. You know where you're at. Why, stand still. You know where you're at." But all the hunting and woods ability I had was gone. I'm telling you, I was actually, completely lost. But I tried to make myself pluck up to it, 'cause I didn't want to get frantic, you know, 'cause I knew my wife and baby would die that night in the woods if I didn't get to them. That's all. And I was miles away from them and it was getting dark, that storm blowing.