Chapter 7 interrupted the sequence of seven seals for an answer to the question with which the sixth seal ended: “the great day of their [God’s and the lamb’s] wrath has come, and who is able to stand?” The sequence resumes now with the seventh seal. 8:1: And when he [the lamb] opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for about half an hour. So the heavenly acclamations and prayer in chapters 4–7 cease for about half an hour, that is, for a very short