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Rev 6:15 Then the kings of the earth, the princes, the generals, the rich, the mighty, and everyone else, both slave and free, hid in caves and among the rocks of the mountains. 16 They called to the mountains and the rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of him who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb! 17 For the great day of their wrath has come, and who can withstand it?”
I am honestly completely baffled as to how you would wonder whether this is describing the wrath of God or not. Isn't it obvious?
It is obvious to me. But we must understand John's use of Aorist verbs almost exclusively. When it says "has come," the Greek word behind that has NO TIMING or TENSE at all. It cannot be translated accurately because all English verbs have tense.
I am almost finished writing a book in critique of Rosenthal's "The Prewrath Rapture of the Church." Both He and Van Kampen are adamant that this verse 17 is only the WARNING for the start of Wrath, but that wrath really does not begin until the 7th seal and first trumpet. Their reasoning is hard to argue with: Joel tells us the Day cannot start until AFTER the signs in the sun and moon.
My answer to that is that TIME PASSES in these verses of the 6th seal. There is time for the sun to appear dark, and the moon to appear red, and then time for them to declare the DAY has come. I have long thought that the great earthquake will be the start of God's wrath. But does the earthquake come before the cosmic signs? It seems that it does. Perhaps you have an answer here.
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