The Seventh Seal - Silence in Heaven

When the Lamb breaks the seventh seal there was silence in heaven for about half an hour (Revelation 8:1), like the quiet while in the eye of a hurricane. Then suddenly a new wave of judgments will begin to be poured out on the earth, the seven trumpet judgments (Revelation 8:1f). Chapter 7 is parenthetic, it does not carry the chronological sequence forward, but adds some important details regarding the saved of the Tribulation, many of whom are martyred.