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 §120
And then if this is a continuation for the sounding of these last trumpets, or these last seven thunders that's coming forth---the mysteries, the last seals---it will have to compete ... or, compare with the rest of the Scripture. And if them first ones in there opened with a blast of thunder, the second ones will, too, that's on the backside. Watch what happens. If the vision was scripture, then it must be interpreted by the Scripture, or a continuation of the same Scripture.
An Exposition Of The Seven Church Ages
CAB 1:E-19
The word, Asia, is actually Asia Minor. It is a small parcel of land about the size of Indiana. The seven churches there were especially picked from all other churches for their characteristics, which same characteristics would be found in the successive ages centuries later.
Seals 3: The First Seal
63-0318 §90
...he thing's opened.] ...and he set his right foot upon the sea, and his left foot on the earth, And he cried with a loud voice, as when a lion roareth: and when he... cried, seven thunders uttered their voices. ^^ [My, the complete.]^^ And when the seven thunders had uttered their voices, I was about to write^^: [write what? What they said]^^ and I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Seal up those things which the seven thunders uttered, and write them not. ^^ [Don't write them, see.]^^ And the angel which I s...
Revelation, Chapter 4b Twenty-Four Elders
61-0101 §98
Now, John... Where's John standing? At the courts. Let's just read just a little farther here so you get the picture: And out of the throne proceeded lightnings... ^^thunders^^... voices: and there were seven lamps of fire (Wait till we get to that!) burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God. Reflecting the Light of God into the church, right straight from the throne of God---not through a seminary, not through some bishop; but from the throne of God by a revelation of the power of his resurrect...
The Feast of the Trumpets
64-0719M §53
...up the little book. And there was ... He put one foot on land and one on the sea and swore by Him that lives for ever and ever, that time shall be no more. And when He did, seven thunders uttered their voices. And when the seven thunders uttered their voices, John said he was about to write; and He said, "Don't write it." See? And he sealed it.