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Originally Posted by Originalist
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. |
Interesting point to ponder.
How can they not have anything to do with chronology? The seals open the book... once the book is opened, the angels with the 7 trumpets sound, and once the final angel has sounded his trumpet, the angels with the 7 bowls step forward.
I've always wondered why so many scholars assume that these events overlap. For example, how can an event in the seals (that only affects a fourth of the earth), be taking place as part of a trumpet judgment (that only affects a third of the earth), as part of a bowl judgment (that affects the entire world)?
I think the progression in the text is obvious... the judgments increase in both scope and intensity with each phase of judgment. The seals are a breaking forth of the judgments that are contained in the book, and they affect only a quarter of the world. Trumpets, are meant to warn the world that judgment is coming, and these only affect a third of the world. The bowl judgments... they are global and are poured out in full strength, without mixture.
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