In allusion to all this, _when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour. And an Angel stood at the Altar having a golden Censer, and there was given unto him much incense, that he should offer it with the prayers of all Saints, upon the golden Altar which was before the throne. And the smoke of the incense with the prayers of the Saints ascended up before God out of the Angel's hand. And the Angel took the Censer, and filled it with fire of the Altar, and cast it to the earth_, suppose without the camp, for sacrificing the goat which fell to God's lot. For the High-Priest being _Christ_ himself, the bullock is omitted. At this sacrifice _there were voices and thundrings_, of the musick of the Temple, _and lightnings_ of the sacred fire, _and an earthquake_: and synchronal to these things was the sealing of _the 144000 out of all the twelve tribes of the children of _Israel_ with the seal of God in their foreheads_, while the rest of the twelve tribes received the mark of the Beast, and the Woman fled from the Temple into the wilderness to her place upon this Beast. For this sealing and marking was represented by casting lots upon the two goats, sacrificing God's lot on mount _Sion_, and sending the scape-goat into the wilderness loaden with the sins of the people. Upon the fifteenth day of the month, and the six following days, there were very great sacrifices. And in allusion to the sounding of trumpets, and singing with thundring voices, and pouring out drink-offerings at those sacrifices, _seven trumpets are sounded_, and _seven thunders utter their voices_, and _seven vials of wrath are poured out_. Wherefore the sounding of the _seven trumpets_, the voices of the _seven thunders_, and the pouring out of the _seven vials of wrath_, are synchronal, and relate to one and the same division of the time of the seventh seal following the silence, into seven successive parts. The seven days of this feast were called the feast of Tabernacles; and during these seven days the children of _Israel_ dwelt in booths, and rejoiced with palm-branches in their hands. To this alludes _the multitude with palms in their hands_, which appeared after the sealing of the 144000, and _came out of the great tribulation_ with triumph at the battle of the great day, to which the seventh trumpet sounds. The visions therefore of the 144000, and of the palm-bearing multitude, extend to the sounding of the seventh trumpet, and therefore are synchronal to the times of the seventh seal.