Timtofly
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If Satan gets 42 months, the 7th Trumpet starts sounding for 3.5 days, keeps sounding for 42 months, and then sounds 3.5 more days while the 2 witnesses lay dead in Jerusalem. The 7 vials are poured out during those last 3 days. The battle of Armageddon is the last hour of the 7th Trumpet.Why would that be impossible? The wrath of God is over at the 7th trumpet.
So the vials are incorporated into the 7th Trumpet. Only because the 7th Trumpet is interrupted by Satan's 42 months.
It should be obvious that if Satan does not get 42 months, the 7 vials will never even be used, as they are for Satan's empire at the end of the 42 months.
If the 7th Trumpet sounds from Sunday to Sunday without interruption, then at the end the winepress mentioned in Revelation 14 brings a close to Adam's flesh and blood, exactly what Armageddon would have done 42 months later.
The 7th Trumpet stops, the Millennium starts either way. Why can no one see the 6 Trumpets and 7 Thunders are the final harvest? Jesus removes the church at the Second Coming. Jesus continues to divide Israel between the sheep and the goats for the firstfruits of the Millennium. There are still wheat and tares among the Nations to be harvested for the Millennium. Since this is the time of the final harvest, Satan only gets 42 months if a few souls are left to harvest, ie those beheaded who do not receive the mark. The mark only starts being applied after the 7th Trumpet starts, because during the 7th Trumpet, to be saved, one must not receive the mark and cut off their head so the mark will not be placed. A dead person will not be marked once their head is separated from the body.
Most people deny the 7th Trumpet is prolonged. They think it is a simple blast and "poof" everything finished. The 7th Trumpet brings the final harvest to a close. It is and happens after 6 other Trumpets and 7 Thunders. It is not the Second Coming. The harvest of the Trumpets and Thunders already had Jesus and the angels on the earth for the final harvest. Matthew 13 clearly spells out that Jesus is on the earth both sowing and reaping.
"He answered and said unto them, He that soweth the good seed is the Son of man; The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one; The enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels. As therefore the tares are gathered and burned in the fire; so shall it be in the end of this world. The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity; And shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth. Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Who hath ears to hear, let him hear."
This is Jesus explaining a parable, not the actual parable. Jesus is literally on earth sowing and reaping. The church is not. The angels are on earth. The church is not. The church is not mentioned at all in this explanation, because Jesus and the angels are on the earth during the 6 Trumpets and 7 Thunders, not the church. The 144k are on the earth, not the church. The church met Jesus in the air, was glorified, and remain in Paradise, because they are not part of this harvest according to Jesus in Matthew 13.
This kingdom is not the kingdom of the first century. The angels were not present, the 12 disciples were. The 144k were not present, the 12 disciples were. This kingdom is not the current church for the last 1992 years. Jesus and the angels have not been present, the church has been present.
One can define this as the end of the world or age, but it is definitely after the end of the church, because the church is not present, Jesus and the angels are. Since Jesus is on earth, the Second Coming happened. This harvest is not over in an instant. So any interpretation that claims just simple blasts from instant moments of time, and try to put this all at the 7th Trumpet ignore Jesus' explanation in Matthew 13.