"After" is not a problem. The messiah arrived in Jerusalem on Palm Sunday hailed as the messiah and cutoff 4 days later.
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Again, here's the picture given to us by Jesus in His Revelation:
"..and there was given to it to make war with the saints, and to overcome them, and there was given to it authority over every tribe, and tongue, and nation." Rev 13:7.
Christ's Revelation was meant for all saints,
but especially for those who will be living during the final 3 1/2 years of the Age.
The first thing we need to bear in mind is that when God's people suffered oppression and
tribulation in Egypt, they remained in Egypt even while the
plagues were coming upon Egypt - some of which were brought about through
God's two witnesses in Egypt (Moses and Aaron):
GOD'S TWO WITNESSES IN EGYPT: TURNING THE WATERS TO BLOOD.
Exo 7:19-20 "And the LORD spoke to Moses, Say to Aaron, Take your rod, and stretch out your hand upon the waters of Egypt, upon their streams, upon their canals, and upon their pools, and upon every reservoir of their waters,
that they may become blood.
And blood shall be throughout all the land of Egypt, both in wooden and in stone vessels."
"And Moses and Aaron did so, as the LORD commanded. And he lifted up the rod and struck the waters that were in the river, in the sight of Pharaoh and in the sight of his servants.
And all the waters in the river were turned to blood."
THE TWO WITNESSES OF THE REVELATION: TURNING THE WATERS TO BLOOD.
Rev 11:6 “These have authority to shut up the heaven, that it may not rain in the days of their prophecy.
And they have authority over waters to turn them to blood, and to strike the earth
with every plague, as often as they desire.”
Rev 16:4 "And the third angel poured out his vial on the rivers and fountains of waters,
and they became blood."
The second thing we need to bear in mind is that there is a difference between the
tribulation suffered by God's people at the hand of Pharaoh, and the
plagues that were coming upon Egypt.
Likewise, the New Testament makes a clear distinction between
tribulation on one hand, and
"the seven last plagues" (also called the
vials of wrath) of the Revelation, on the other hand:
The third thing we should bear in mind is that the beast
has already made its appearance by the time the
first plague or "vial of wrath" is poured out:
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"And the first went, and poured out his vial upon the earth;
and there fell a noisome and grievous sore upon the men which had the mark of the beast, and upon them which worshiped his image." Rev 16:2
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* The
5th trumpet talks about
the bottomless pit being opened, and we know that the beast rises from the bottomless pit (Rev 17:8)
and receives its power, throne and great authority from the dragon (Rev 13:2).
* The 6th trumpet talks about
a massive army being released to kill 1/3 of the world's population.
* The 6th vial talks about the beast
gathering his armies for the battle of Armageddon.
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"And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand: and I heard the number of them." Rev 9:16 (6th trumpet).
"And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon." Rev 16:16 (6th vial).
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* The 7th trumpet talks about the result of the victory of Christ and His armies over the beast and his armies.
* The 7th vial talks about the result of the victory of Christ and His armies over the beast and his armies.
Summarizing the wood in the forest
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5th seal: The souls of the martyrs cry out from the altar and they are told to wait a little while till the full number of their brothers who are to be killed as they were, is complete.
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5th trumpet: The bottomless pit (from which the bast ascends) is opened.
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5th vial is poured out
"upon the seat of the beast; and his kingdom was full of darkness; and they gnawed their tongues for pain, and blasphemed the God of heaven
because of their pains and their sores, and repented not of their deeds."
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6th seal: there was a great earthquake. And the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became like blood. And the stars of heaven fell to the earth, even as a fig tree casts her untimely figs when she is shaken by a mighty wind.
We are told that all men are trying to hide from the wrath of the Lamb at this time. This suggests that The Lord Jesus Christ has now appeared in the clouds:
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"Behold, He comes with the clouds, and every eye will see Him, and those who pierced Him will see Him, and all the kindreds of the earth will wail because of Him. Even so, Amen." (Rev 1:7)
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It also re-affirms what Jesus said during His Olivet Discourse:
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Mat 24:29-31 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.
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."
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The above most certainly would cause all men to try to hide from the wrath of the Lamb.
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"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." (Mat 24:31).
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So that's
the 6th seal - it's telling us about
what follows the final tribulation period, which is a tribulation to be faced by the saints at the hand of the beast.
In the midst of the Revelation concerning the 6th vial, we read Jesus interjecting:
"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).
Immediately afterward (still in the 6th vial) we are told about the beast gathering his armies together to the place called in Hebrew "Armageddon":
* The
6th trumpet talks about a massive army being released to kill 1/3 of the world's population.
* The
6th vial talks about
the beast gathering his armies for the battle of Armageddon, with Jesus interjecting to say He is coming as a thief.
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The 6th seal talks about people trying to hide from the wrath of the Lamb.
* The 7th
trumpet talks about
the result of the victory of Christ and His armies over the beast and his armies.
* The 7th
vial talks about
the result of the victory of Christ and His armies over the beast and his armies.
* The 7th
seal seems to be telling us that the events of the trumpets will only take place
after the 7th seal is opened - and yet the 7th seal, 7th trumpet and 7th bowl
all mention "noises, thunderings, lightnings, and an earthquake".
It's not that difficult to understand, when we understand that
tribulation refers to the experience of saints at the hand of "beasts", and
seven last plagues or
bowls of wrath refers to what comes upon the kingdom of the beast, just like the plagues came upon the kingdom of Pharaoh.