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zspeedyrabit said in post #1:
We are currently in the chapter 11 process of Revelation.
We aren't there yet, for Rev. chs. 6-10 haven't even started yet, and Rev. chs. 6-22 are chronological, insofar as the future tribulation of Rev. chs. 6-18 will begin with the events of the 2nd through 6th seals, occurring in the order shown in Rev. 6:3-14. After the events of the 6th seal, Rev. 7 will occur. Then the 7th seal will be unsealed and out of it will come the 7 trumpets of the trib (Rev. 8:1-6). Then the events of the 1st six trumpets in Rev. 8:7-9:21 will occur in the order shown there. Then Rev. 10 will occur. Then the literal 3.5 years of the worldwide reign of the Antichrist (the AC) will occur, which time period is shown from 4 different angles in Rev. chs. 11-14 (Rev. 11:2b-3, 12:6,14, 13:5,7, 14:9-13). Then the 7th trumpet will sound, announcing the legal end of the AC's reign (Rev. 11:15). Out of the heavenly temple opening of the 7th trumpet will come the 7 plagues of the 7 vials (or bowls) of the trib (Rev. 11:19, 15:5-16:1). Then the 7 vials of the trib (its final stage) will occur (Rev. 16). Then Jesus will return immediately after the trib (Mt. 24:29-31) and defeat the AC and reign on the earth with the physically resurrected church for 1,000 years (Rev. 19:7-20:6). Then the events of Rev. 20:7-22:5 will occur in the order shown there.
The future tribulation of Rev. chs. 6-18 will begin with a horrible war, which, with its aftermath of famines and epidemics, will end up killing a fourth of the world (Rev. 6:4-8). The "great sword" of this war (Rev. 6:4) could be Israel's nuclear weapons. After that, there will be a terrible series of natural disasters historically unprecedented in their magnitude, such as a gigantic volcanic eruption (Rev. 6:12-14), possibly of the Yellowstone Caldera, and then the collapse into the ocean of another volcano (Rev. 8:8-9), possibly one of the Canary Islands, the collapse of which could set up a huge tsunami which could destroy the Eastern seaboard of the U.S. If such a tsunami occurs, it could cause a string of awful, Fukushima-style nuclear-meltdown radiation disasters in the nuclear power plants and their nuclear-waste storage facilities along the Eastern seaboard of the U.S. Also, if the tsunami breaks open the germ-containment structures on Plum Island, just off the coast of Connecticut, especially-deadly viruses and bacteria could be washed inland and spread across the U.S. as they infect animals and people.
After the volcanic activity and possible tsunami, a comet will strike the earth (Rev. 8:10-11), possibly in the U.S./Canadian Great Lakes region. As the comet falls from the sky it will look like a great star, or like a burning lamp in the sky (Rev. 8:10). It will strike a region of the earth which contains a third of the world's fresh surface water (Rev. 8:10b), and it will contain some poisonous element which will poison that third of the world's fresh surface water so that many who drink from it will die (Rev. 8:11b). After that will come a one-two punch of what the world could initially try to interpret as being two different alien invasions, the first "aliens" being weird locust-like beings which will suddenly swarm up from the bottomless pit of the earth to torment mankind with excruciating stings for five months (Rev. 9:2-10). They will be led by a fallen angel named Abaddon (Rev. 9:11). The world could see the weird locust-like beings coming up from the ground as aliens who had been hibernating for thousands of years in a cavern deep underground. The locust-like beings won't kill anyone, but they will make those they sting want to die the pain will be so bad (Rev. 9:5-6).
After the locust-like beings have stung mankind for five months, an army of 200,000,000 weird horse-like beings will come upon the earth and kill a third of mankind (Rev. 9:16-19). This army will be led by four powerful fallen angels who will be released from being bound at the Euphrates river (Rev. 9:14-15). If the army of horse-like beings descends from the sky in spaceships, the world could at first see them as a different race of aliens, but the Antichrist could (falsely) say that they're the main army of YHWH. In fact, the army could be loyal to Lucifer/Satan instead. The four fallen angels could employ the army to make mankind completely desperate before its complete takeover by Lucifer (the dragon) and the Antichrist (the individual-man aspect of the beast) mid-tribulation (Rev. 12:9-13:18).
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