Revelation 8:5 Revelation 8:5 And the angel took the censer, and filled it with fire of the altar, and cast it into the earth: and there were voices, and thunderings, and lightnings, and an earthquake. After Christ had offered his incense, with the prayers of the saints, he filled his censer with fire of the altar that is, the wrath and indignation of God, who is a consuming, fire. \ And cast it unto the earth that is poured down upon the inhabitants of the earth. \ And there were voices, and thunderings, and lighting, and an earthquake. Now the silence in heaven is interrupted: And there were voices; that is, different opinions among the Christians; and then followed thunderings and lighting, which signify the judgements of God against the Inhabitants of the Earth. \ These dispensations of God’ s fiery indignation, caused an earthquake; that is, great divisions, and renderings, and troubles between the eastern and western churches; and also in the whole empire, as all historians do testify.