I am convinced that the trumpets are in the first 3 1/2 years of teh 70th week and the bowls are after the antichrist rises from the dead and declares himself god.
I'm not sure what convinced you of this, but it is incorrect. First off, the trumpets are the wrath of God. We can prove Gods wrath lasts for one year. Secondly, The vials or bowls are also the wrath of God. The vials or bowls occur in the same timeframe as the trumpets, which we can prove. If you need proof, I can provide.
You say that the trumpets are the 1st 3.5 years of the 70th week. I proved in the previous post that the trumpet of wrath last for one year. This bowls happen in this same year. What you seem to be forgetting is the SEALS.
What John tells you in Revelation 6 about the 1st six seals is exactly what Jesus is telling you in Matthew 24.
These "beginning of sorrows" are the 1st four seals, the 4 horsemen of the Apocalypse.
Matthew 24
5 For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.
6 And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
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All these are the beginning of sorrows.
The Great Tribulation of Matthew 24 is the 5th seal.
Matthew 24
15 When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:)
16 Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains:
17 Let him which is on the housetop not come down to take any thing out of his house:
18 Neither let him which is in the field return back to take his clothes.
19 And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!
20 But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day:
21 For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.
Jesus coming in Matthew 24 is the 6th seal as marked by the signs of the sun, moon and stars. So Jesus returns BEFORE wrath begins. The great tribulation is OVER before wrath begins.
Matthew 24
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Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall
the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:
30 And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
31 And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
Revelation 6
12 And I beheld when he had
opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake;
and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood;
13 And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind.
14 And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places.
15 And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains;
16 And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb:
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For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?