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Revelation 10-1-4 (NIV) Then I saw another mighty angel coming down from heaven. He was robed in a cloud, with a rainbow above his head; his face was like the sun, and his legs were like fiery pillars. He was holding a little scroll, which lay open in his hand. He planted his right foot on the sea and his left foot on the land, and he gave a loud shout like the roar of a lion. When he shouted, the voices of the seven thunders spoke. And when the seven thunders spoke, I was about to write; but I heard a voice from heaven say, "Seal up what the seven thunders have said and do not write it down." Then the angel I had seen standing on the sea and on the land raised his right hand to heaven. And he swore by him who lives for ever and ever, who created the heavens and all that is in them, the earth and all that is in it, and the sea and all that is in it, and said, "There will be no more delay! But in the days when the seventh angel is about to sound his trumpet, the mystery of God will be accomplished, just as he announced to his servants the prophets."

thunder: n  1: the sound that follows a flash of lightning and is caused by sudden expansion of the air in the path of the electrical discharge  2: a loud utterance or threat  3: BANG, RUMBLE <the ~ of big guns> Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary

The seven thunders are the very significant crisis, loud, and obvious events that will clearly reveal to the Body of Christ that Christ's return is imminent.

First Thunder: The Antichrist facilitating a peace agreement that allows the Jews to rebuild the Jewish Temple on Mount Moriah in Jerusalem, in order for the Jews to re-establish daily sacrifice

Second Thunder:  The emergence of the Two Witnesses

Third Thunder:  The great head wound of the Antichrist

Fourth Thunder: The Antichrist setting himself up in the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem and calling himself god

Revelation 6:1-2 (NIV) I watched as the Lamb opened the first of the seven seals. Then I heard one of the four living creatures say in a voice like thunder, "Come!" I looked, and there before me was a white horse! Its rider held a bow, and he was given a crown, and he rode out as a conqueror bent on conquest.

Fifth Thunder: The destruction of Judeo-Christian Organized Religion (end time religious Babylon) and replacement with the image that the False Prophet sets up for worship, along with the requirement to accept the Mark of the Beast in order to buy or sell

Sixth Thunder:  The destruction of the United States of America (end time commercial Babylon)

Seventh Thunder:  Jesus Christ will return and destroy those gathered in the Valley of Megiddo at the Battle of Armageddon