I will go ahead and mention why this is possible, seeing the poster after me sees it is impossible... but I do not have a response for them, so will respond to the first post:
First of all, as I said, "I do not know". It could be. Or maybe not.
There are strong similarities. In the first one you see Satan (The Destroyer, King of the Spirits of the Abyss) being released from the Abyss.
Soon afterwards, Satan leads the nations against the City of God and are destroyed.
Likewise, in the second situation, Satan comes out of the abyss, and leads the nations against the City of God and are destroyed.
Some of the names and details are different, but the overall trend is the same. One can say this matters. It might. Or it might not. Satan is Satan.
People say "the President did this" or "the President did that", when the President really did not do anything, but because he or she is the President that can say this and people know what they mean.
They also say, "Satan did this" or "Satan did that", when, in fact, while it was Satan it was also likely a different demon entirely. But, of course, saying it is Satan does not change the meaning nor even truthfulness of what they are saying.
But, to understand *my* viewpoint, I think is near impossible for most readers (if not all here), merely because I take a strong "I do not know" stance.
The OP may have evidence I do not have. But as for seeing that what they are saying is a strong theory, a strong possibility, I can surely see that.
This is because I do not know who all of these metaphors represent. I am not going "I know, I know" and so setting artificially the boundaries of possibility.
I believe this is highly dangerous behavior.
And would strongly encourage people to retain an open and cautious mind, which is especially called for when considering Revelation.
Very often Christians have to painfully be corrected and realize that hard set beliefs that they have had are incorrect. They may think that by strongly believing one interpretation or another is faith. But, very often this is simply believing very strongly in something which is simply not true. And we will all know the truth soon on all such matters. So anything not grounded in truth will be demolished, and often very painfully so.
I believe the best approach to Revelation is like if you are a homicide cop. Consider various theories. Keep an open mind. But do not be biased. Rely on the evidence. And the evidence for the meaning for many things in Revelation is slim. Unless you have specific insight given to you from Heaven. Where "insight" means "evidence".
It does not matter how popular a theory is, nor what denomination supports it. We saw this with the Jews, and God does surely not hold favorites. If they could be in error with their mainstream teachings, so can Christians.
As for this theory (or hey, maybe it is more then theory and proven to the OP).... being bizarre: you are talking here about Revelation. There are many questions people really can not answer. As for ordering, there are also ordering issues in Revelation. Some things stated might be like a prologue.
What could be happening is specific details are given in the first instance. And in the second instance, less details are given, but different metaphors are used.
This would simply be repeating the very same thing happening twice, in two different ways. That no introduction or seeming transition is made does not matter. In retrospect, like with Daniel's prophecies, it should all be clear.
Considering the strong similarities between the two accounts, I do consider this a very strong theory. Further, there are deeply unanswered questions which this would explain in both accounts.
If you do not know what those questions are, you should. Because Revelation should be raising a lot of questions with any truly interested readers.
