In the thumbnail sketch,
The birth pangs of the end of the age,
False Christs, false prophets
Earthquakes
Famines
Pestilence
Wars
These are conditions which grow worse and worse as we get closer to the end.
As the seals are opened and the horsemen released, these conditions become absolute as:
Governments fall as the beast begins to rule
Society turns violent
Economies crash
Disease and famine and wars and animals kill in 1/4 of the earth
In the 5th seal the the hardness is removed from Israel, the heaven dwelling martyrs await the rest of the Jews that will be killed as they were.
In the sixth seal comes sudden destruction, worldwide earthquate, same earthquake in Ezekiel 38 as Gog/Magog invade.
I see the seals being opened in much the same time as it takes to read the passage.
The four horsemen are released turning government, society, economy, and ecology all hostile to man.
The fifth seal turns the dispensation from the gathering of the gentile church (mostly gentile, some Jewish), to the salvation of Israel (those who survive, and some gentiles).
The sixth seal brings the sudden destruction prophesied in the Olivette Discourse, as the flood that came and took them away, and in 1 Thessalonians 5, that no one knows is coming. Except those who are watching.
The seventh seal begins the 70th week with silence.
7 angels are given 7 trumpets.
The first angel sounds hail and fire and blood rain upon the earth, destroying the Gog/Magog invaders.
The remaining angels sound, finally, the seventh trumpet, as Satan is cast to the earth.
Satan indwells the beast, sits in the temple. The two witnesses, prophesying during this first 3.5 years, are killed, left to lay in the street.
Jews who believe Jesus' prophecy flee to the wilderness, where Elijah prepares them to make themselves ready for their Bridegroom.
Everyone is required to worship the image, those who do are marked and released, those who don't are beheaded.
The greatest tribulation ever fills the final 3.5 years as the beast tries to destroy Israel, and anyone who professes faith in Jesus.
The bowls of wrath are poured out, judging the beast, the judgment of the harlot, the gathering of the kings of the earth to do battle with Jesus Christ.
Elijah, and the Israelites in the wilderness, the bride has made herself ready, blessed is He Who comes in the Name of the LORD!
Heaven opens, and Jesus rides from the heavenly realm to the terrestrial. He stands upon the Mount of Olives, which splits in two, creating a massive new valley. The Jews, being so instructed by the prophet, flee through this valley, the beast armies after them.
After the Jews clear the other end, as the valley is filled with beast troops, it shuts again, the winepress of God's wrath, blood flows out like a river.
Jesus sends out the angels who gather all the Jews back to the land. Then He gathers the nations, judges them, resurrects the OT faithful, and many come from the east and west to the wedding feast of the Lamb.
The kingdom age is begun!
Much love!
