Where do you put Revelation 13 on the timeline? Notice that the seventh trumpet begins with a transfer of power and ends with the judgment of the dead. I think there are parallel timelines. (Rev 10:11)
Where do you put Revelation 13 on the timeline? Notice that the seventh trumpet begins with a transfer of power and ends with the judgment of the dead. I think there are parallel timelines. (Rev 10:11)
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Good question. Think of Isaiah, where the prophesies are out of order chronologically. The same with Revelation. Rev. 13, the rise of the two beasts, comes before the seventh trumpet. Rev. 12 is in progress right now, a second war in heaven where the dragon will lose and get kicked out of the second heaven, then confined to the Earth. We have had precursors to the first four seals (coronavirus, Ukraine, Gaza) but they are reflections of things to come. It’s notable that all colors of the first four seals are represented on the Palestinian flag (white, red, black and pale green).
The seals and trumpets seem to have a parallel structure, where the sixth seal and the first four trumpets are linked together (several natural disasters, earthquakes, super-volcano, solar event, comet/asteroid impact) w/ a human component (limited thermonuclear war).
It’s interesting that the fifth trumpet are locusts from the pit that are the size of horses (Nephilim)? This occurs after Rev. 12 has completed. Satan is now confined to the Earth. He knows that his time is short. The locusts are commanded not to attack those with the seal of God on their foreheads (all who have not accepted the Mark). This implies that the locusts will attack only those with the Mark of the Beast. Therefor, the rapture of the saints has not occurred yet.
The seventh trumpet is sounded after the two witnesses are resurrected from the dead and rise up the God. This is a clear indication of the rapture and explains the mystery of the seventh trumpet delayed in the Book of Revelation. The two witnesses are the first to be raptured, then all of the saints, both living and dead will follow them. The two witnesses may be Old Testament saints or two that come out of the Great Tribulation, anointed with the power of both Elijah and John the Baptist.
Among them that are born of women there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist: notwithstanding he that is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he. Matthew 11:11