007:009 After this I looked, and a vast host appeared which it was impossible for anyone to count, gathered out of every nation and from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in long white robes, and carrying palm-branches in their hands. 007:010 In loud voices they were exclaiming, "It is to our God who is seated on the throne, and to the Lamb, that we owe our salvation!" 007:011 All the angels were standing in a circle round the throne and round the Elders and the four living creatures, and they fell on their faces in front of the throne and worshipped God. 007:012 "Even so!" they cried: "The blessing and the glory and the wisdom and the thanks and the honor and the power and the might are to be ascribed to our God, until the Ages of the Ages! Even so!" 007:013 Then, addressing me, one of the Elders said, "Who are these people clothed in the long white robes? And where have they come from?" 007:014 "My lord, you know," I replied. "They are those," he said, "who have just passed through the great distress, and have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. 007:015 For this reason they stand before the very throne of God, and render Him service, day after day and night after night, in His sanctuary, and He who is sitting upon the throne will shelter them in His tent. 007:016 They will never again be hungry or thirsty, and never again will the sun or any scorching heat trouble them. 007:017 For the Lamb who is in front of the throne will be their Shepherd, and will guide them to watersprings of Life, and God will wipe every tear from their eyes." 008:001 When the Lamb broke the seventh seal, there was silence in Heaven for about half an hour. 008:002 Then I saw the seven angels who are in the presence of God, and seven trumpets were given to them. 008:003 And another angel came and stood close to the altar, carrying a censer of gold; and abundance of incense was given to him that he might place it with the prayers of all God's people upon the golden altar which was in front of the throne. 008:004 And the smoke of the incense rose into the presence of God from the angel's hand, and mingled with the prayers of His people. 008:005 So the angel took the censer and filled it with fire from the altar and flung it to the earth; and there followed peals of thunder, and voices, and flashes of lightning, and an earthquake. 008:006 Then the seven angels who had the seven trumpets made preparations for blowing them.