Fair enough.
Does a half hour mean literally a half hour in Reve 8:1?
Interesting.
So would that also mean 1 hour would equal 40yrs as in these verses?
Is there scripture that says that it cannot be that ?
We are living in a time where people prefer to believe that whatever they find preferable is TRUTH without any need to verify the validity of it , where people will say that TRUTH is subjective , that there is no absolute truth where the Truth is True for all, but rather each person can have their own version of truth as they see fit to be truth , saying their truth is not the same as your truth and they can have truth , you can have truth and everyone can hold whatever they believe to be truth considered to be truth - that way everyone can have truth as long as they believe it is true - but this very notion invalidates Truth in it's very definition .. People fall away from sound doctrine regardless of the topic in favor of believing what they prefer to be true , doctrine not having to be required to be biblical doctrine ,
In short it is that; people prefer to believe what they prefer to be true without the use of validating with provable truths to support what IS true -
where people look for words to express what they prefer to be true , to be considered truth without having a universal truth that all must agree to to be true -
Example is where Peter says
8 But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day.
Peter says plainly that one day is as a thousand years and a thousand years is as a day- Peter is making a contextual statement but amil believers hate any reference to a specific 1000 year time period simply because to accept it as written will overwhelmingly defeat the whole idea of amil which is precisely why they are so diametrically opposed to it .
If Peter was referring to simply a 'long time' then why write it in a manner that could easily be misunderstood ?
Simple plain sense would be just write it as a long time -
When people want to say it is just a long time , and then say the John simply meant a long time when He said satan will be imprisoned for 1000 years - There is no correlation at all whatsoever that suggests that John just meant a long time as John was seeing what JESUS was showing him and Jesus told John to write down what John was seeing and hearing - so it was not just some off the cuff language to be 'interpreted' according to ones own preference
Consider when you write a letter to people , and you say you are going on vacation for one week and then they tell people you would be gone for seven years; if you had not told them to interpret your letter to mean 7 years ?
In regards to the half and hour of silence in heaven , it could well mean that John seen it has 30 minutes in human time , or it could mean something else , but either way it would not be a wise thing to impart a personal interpretation just because it fits a preference to how a person desires to have other scriptures mean
