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Seal 6 begins judgment - what the martyrs were crying for. The church has been between the 5th and 6th seals all this time. Paul's rapture will come a moment before the 6th seal. The earthquake at the 6th seal will be Paul's "sudden destruction." And Paul said that we will have no appointments with His wrath; "they" get the sudden destruction, while those in Christ get raptured. Paul hints strongly here that the sudden destruction is the start of God's wrath. That fits with what John wrote, "the day of His wrath has come."
Those in the 5th seal are not just any believers. They are the believers who were martyred by the Beast for not taking the mark and worshiping him. Many of them will be beheaded.
Yet, the beast's scope of power or reach is limited. He will not be able to kill ALL Christians everywhere. There is going to be a resistance cell of believers who are hiding out in secret places and or possibly tunnels that the beast does not know about. This last remaining group of believers who have managed to escape the beast's onslaught will be taken away or gathered up by angels before God will release His wrath upon the world.
Daniel's prophecy forces us to place the cessation of the temple sacrifices at the midpoint of the last week. This is confirmed by even Revelation with it telling us how many more days the Gentiles will trodden down the temple city for the exact numbers of days that equals 3 and a half years (i.e. 1,260 biblical days or 42 months). We know that many are going to die at the enforcement of the Mark. This lines up with DEATH (the 4th seal). 5th seal are the recently martyred saints. 6th seal is God's response. But the real action... the real judgment does not begin until the 1st trumpet. This is wrath. The unbelievers who say that His wrath has come are merely saying that the time has arrived where the Wrath will soon come upon them. The great day of His Wrath is a time period and not a 24 hour day. What we see in Revelation with Christ showing himself is the sign of the Son of Man in the Olivet discourse. His showing himself includes his coming... but it is for the rest of his body of believers first and it is not quite yet to destroy the wicked. That comes later at the 6th bowl judgment. All the seals have to correspond to something else.
Believers are not appointed unto wrath.
Jesus showing himself sitting on the throne is what triggers the unbelievers to say that His day of wrath has arrived. But the Olivet discourse says that they will see the glory of the Son and man and they will see Him coming. But the Olivet discourse does not say that he is coming to destroy them. It merely says He is coming. The Olivet discourse focuses on the disappearance of believers shortly after the time of the Middle of the tribulation or the reveal of the Abomination of Desolations (Which is the cessation of the Jewish temple sacrifices). The signs..... the sun going dark, the moon turning blood red is BEFORE the day of wrath according to Scripture. YET.... the 6th seal includes these signs AND Jesus being seen in Heaven. So the 6th seal cannot be the start of the wrath because:
(a) Believers are not appointed unto wrath.
(b) The signs of the 6th seal are BEFORE the day of wrath or the Day of the Lord.
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