Half Hour of Silence

The 88th section of the Doctrine and Covenants is all about the second coming of Jesus Christ.

That section talks about earthquakes, tsunamis, all things being in commotion, men's hearts failing them.....all the things we have been taught concerning the condition of the world just before Jesus comes again.

In verse 95, there is a prophecy:
"And there shall be silence in heaven for the space of half an hour; and immediately after shall the curtain of heaven be unfolded, as a scroll is unfolded after it is rolled up, and the face of the Lord shall be unveiled."

(In case you didn't know, Bruce R. McConkie made a joke once at a CES conference in the 1990's. He said that verse proves that there are no women in heaven. But that was just a joke.)

That "half hour" could be a literal 30 minutes of our time.

But another way to interpret that, is if you think about one day in the Lord's time being like 1000 years of our time, then the half hour in the Lord's time would really be 20.5 years in our time (1000 years divided by 24 hours).

After I read "One Second After", the book about the ElectroMagnetic Pulse that could knock out all technology and media and communications, I was talking about it with my friend. She said, "Oh, an EMP is probably what will cause the 21 years of silence."

She was interpreting silence in the heavens to mean an absence of radio waves and satellite transmissions.

Yeesh!! I really really don't want 20.5 years of no cordless phones, no cell phones, no wireless, no TV or radio signals, no computers just prior to the Second Coming. I wonder if she is going to be proven correct.