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.
Recognizing your day and its message
64-0726M §18
...ed by the Gentiles, which God called from the Gentiles a people for his name---the feast of the Pentecost. And we have been going through that long feast of Pentecost. Now, actually from the fifty days would be exactly seven Sabbaths. And seven Sabbaths represented the seven church ages to be called in the time of the Pentecostal---feast of Pentecost, to call a people from the Gentiles for his name. Now, at the end of these seven Sabbaths which has been, there was to be the day of atonement, which was the seven tru...
Seals 5: The Third Seal
63-0320 §24
Then the Lamb turned back again and pulled another Seal off, and here went out a red horse rider. He had ... given a sword, and he was going to make war, and given great power and take peace from the earth and kill one another. That was kind of a ... still a mysterious thing, wasn't it, when He opened it up? And then goes on, and said in the day just before these seven thunders, all the mysteries here are revealed.
Is this the sign of the end sir?
62-1230E §107
...that's true, then God will back it up. And He has done it, and He will continue. But when that comes to pass, the Word is finished. Now, there's only one thing left. That's seven thunders that we don't know. And it would not have thundered in vain. God don't do something just to be playing. We play and act silly, but not God. Everything with God is yea and nay. He doesn't just fool. He doesn't kid. He means what He says, and He says nothing unless there is something meaning to it.
Is this the sign of the end sir?
62-1230E §21
Now, in the 10th chapter of the book of the Revelation of Jesus Christ, I wish to read the first few verses, the first seven verses---1 to 7. Listen close now, and pray for me. And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow was upon his head, and his face ... as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire: And he had in his hand a little book open: and he set his right foot on the sea, and his left foot on the earth, And he cried with a loud voice, as when a lion roar...
Seals 10: The Seventh Seal
63-0324E §130
Did you notice when the Jews asked Him that? You know when we compared the scripture here with Matthew 24 with the six seals, the seventh seal was left out, because, you see, Christ said only God Himself knowed---not even the angels. No wonder, it wasn't even written. You see, they hushed. Nothing taken place then. Angels don't know it. Nobody knows when He's coming. But there'll be a... There'll be seven voices of these thunders that will reveal the great revelation at that time. So, I believe, to us who ... if we...