“ Now when the Lamb opened the seventh seal , there was silence in heaven for about half an hour .”
Yom Kippur ( Day of Atonement , Yom HaDin , the Day of Judgment )
The first words of the Yom Kippur morning liturgy are , “ The King sits on ( His ) throne high and lifted up .” And so it will be on Judgment Day . This prayer is joined with “ Avinu Malkeinu ” ( our Father our King ) and is as a series of one-line prayers of contrition , petition , and repentance . Each one begins with those two words , “ Avinu Malkeinu .” In total , there are 44 short prayers that are prayed in various ways in different traditions around the world .
During this time , Jews pray that their names would be written in the Book of Life for another year , year by year . As followers of Yeshua , saved by grace , we know that our names have been written into the Book of Life for all eternity , for as noted in Revelation 3:5 : “ The one who overcomes will be dressed in white clothes ; I will never blot his name out of the Book of Life and will confess his name before My Father and His angels .”
In Revelation 20 verses 11 and 15 , we are reminded that judgment day is coming with different results for the righteous and unrighteous : “ Then I saw a great white throne , and the One seated on it .
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