Another point....a lot of bad things are happening all in the space of the “pre-7 years era”, then the 7 years minus whatever shortening of time God has allowed. Events happening right on top of each other... trumpet blows, vials poured, bowls poured...it’s not just 1 event then a period of time passes...it’s more like a set of dominoes set up and turned over setting up a lot of other dominoes to tumble all against each other until they are all down.Bip....bip...bip bip.bip bip bip bip bip bip... Christ steps upon the Mount of Olives and Games over!
Some events will seem to over lap in the rapidity of the sequence of events all occurring...like a coin spiraling faster and faster in one of those funnel set ups in a dept. store that they use to collect donations in. The Rapture will most like occur at somepoint in the midst of all that.
Whether at the end of the “pre7 years era”, during the 7 years or post...we don’t really know for certain...but Christ did speak of the season that it should occur and that we were to “lift up our heads for our salvation draws nigh”...that’s best we have been given!
I'm not sure what you think needs to happen during the "pre-7 years era" and what you think happens during the "7 years minus".