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Originally Posted by Aquila
All things are a matter of interpretation. According to this Futurist position, you'll notice that the seals only affect a fourth of the earth. The Trumpets affect a third of the earth. The bowls affect the entire world. They are judgments of progressive scope and intensity. Which lends them to being sequential, and not overlapping, as many Futurists interpret them as being today.
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The book of Revelation is not written in chronological order from chapter 6 on to begin with. Chapters 1-3 have nothing to do with chronology.
But your comments raise another point, that being the diversity of thought with the post-trib camp. As the chart depicts, some believe the tribulation (which begins at the Abomination of Desolation, half-way through the seven final years and is not a seven year tribulation) is actually cut short significantly and that the wrath mentioned in
Matthew 24:29 actually takes several months to complete with the rapture happening before-hand. Personally, I do not see how that fits with Christ depicting the elect being gathered while these things are happening.