FIRST WOE
5th trumpet. Bottomless pit is opened (Rev.9:1-12).
- locusts -
SECOND WOE
The second "woe" is linked by the text to both:
(A) The 6th trumpet (Rev.9:12-13); and
(B) The period during which the two witnesses are prophesying (Rev.11:3-14) - 1,260 DAYS.
THIRD WOE
7th trumpet
5th trumpet: First woe. The abyss is opened (Rev.9:1-2). The beast ascends from the abyss (Rev.17:8). He will make war against the saints and overcome them (Rev.13:7).
6th TRUMPET: 2nd woe (Rev.9:13-21). Armies are being gathered for battle. The two witnesses are prophesying
-- 1,260 DAYS --
-- 42 MONTHS --
6th bowl of wrath (Rev.16:12-16). Armies are being gathered for battle.
"Behold, I am coming as a thief. Blessed is the one who watches and keeps his garments, lest he walk naked and they see his shame." (Revelation.16:15).
6th seal The kings of the earth are trying to hide from the wrath of the Lamb.
The saints are the faithful kings of the earth who are ruled over by Christ (Rev.1:5). Those who are unfaithful "Christians" are the kings of the earth ruled over by the harlot, Babylon the Great (Rev.17:18), who commit fornication with her (Rev.18:3), and weep and wail over her destruction (Rev.18:9).
(These unfaithful kings of the earth are hardly the same as the ten kings who "will hate the harlot, render her desolate and naked, eat her flesh and burn her with fire", Rev.17:16).
The unfaithful are also the kings of the earth who will be trying to hide from the wrath of the Lamb as in the 6th seal. The resurrection and the rapture has just taken place at this point, and they have been left behind. Babylon the Great has also just been destroyed, so they will know. The sun and the moon being darkened and the stars falling from the heavens are metaphors. (the same metaphors that are used in Revelation 12:1 for all Israel).
6th seal, 6th trumpet, 6th bowl of wrath. 666.
7th seal, 7th trumpet, 7th bowl of wrath. 777.
Noah's and Lot's days are merely two examples - types or foreshadows - of what happens to all those left behind when the wrath of God comes. No chance for those left behind outside the ark. No chance for those left behind who did not flee with Lot. PS: The ark is a type of Jesus. If someone is not in the ark when the flood comes, well, then ..
7th seal, 7th trumpet, 7th bowl of wrath. 777:
"Voices, thunderings, Lightnings, and an earthquake" are always a metaphor for when God speaks from heaven: We see the same metaphor in Exodus 20:18, we see it used in poetic form by David in 2 Samuel 22:14-15, we see it proceeding from the throne of God in Revelation 4:5. And we see the same metaphor used in the seventh seal, the seventh trumpet, and the seventh plague or bowl of wrath:
7th seal (Revelation 8:5-6).
And the angel took the censer and filled it with fire from the altar, and cast it into the earth.
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And voices and thunderings and lightnings and an earthquake occurred.
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And the seven angels which had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound.
The events described in the seven trumpets and seven last plagues do not follow the loosening of the seventh seal. It's not a chronology but an unveiling. The 7th seal had to be loosed before anyone could look at the corresponding things written in the scroll:
7th trumpet (Revelation 11:19)
And the temple of God was opened in Heaven, and there was seen in His temple the ark of His covenant,
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and occurred lightnings and voices, and thunders and an earthquake, and a great hail.
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7th bowl of wrath (Revelation 16:17-18)
And the seventh angel poured out his vial into the air. And a great voice came out of the temple of Heaven, from the throne, saying, It is done!
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And voices and thunders and lightnings occurred. And there was a great earthquake, such as has not been since men were on the earth, so mighty and so great an earthquake.
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The type of this is the walls of Jericho falling the seventh time the people marched around the city on the seventh day, when the seventh trumpet sounded (Joshua 6:1-20).
So now that the seals have all been loosened, the scroll unrolls:
Revelation 8:6
"And the seven angels which had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound." (the scroll could only unroll once all the seals had been loosened).
The seals, trumpets and bowls of the Revelation (unveiling) are not a series of chronological events. It is an unveiling.
There is no resurrection and rapture before Christ appears. And in Revelation 16:15 He tells us when He will appear. That is why it's there. Jesus is telling us when He will appear. It's the first time He speaks directly to His churches after the messages to each of the seven churches. It's exactly the same as this:
29 And immediately after the tribulation of those days, the sun shall be darkened and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from the heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken.
30 And then the sign of the Son of man shall appear in the heavens. And then all the tribes of the earth shall mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of the heaven with power and great glory.
31 And He shall send His angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather His elect from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to the other. Matthew 24.