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Originally Posted by Aquila
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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Revelation 8 clearly shows Trumpets follow the Seals:
"And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour. And I saw the seven angels which stood before God; and to them were given seven trumpets."
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