Sure, everyone's entitled to their own opinion but if you believe the Seals are in the Tribulation, you'll run into numerous problems.
For one, how are you gonna fit 7 Seals and 7 Trumpets into a 3.5 year period during the first half of the Tribulation?
In case you didn't know, the 7th Trumpet is at the midpoint of the Tribulation. You can see the proof where the 144,000 of Israel flees into the wilderness in Rev 12:6 for 1260 days and protected in Rev 12:14 for a time and times and half a time (3,5 years). This means they will be protected during the 2nd half of the Tribulation, which means the 7th Trumpet is at the midpoint.
Revelation 12:6 (NKJV)
Then the woman fled into the wilderness, where she has a place prepared by God, that they should feed her there one thousand two hundred and sixty days.
Revelation 12:14 (NKJV)
But the woman was given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness to her place, where she is nourished for a time and times and half a time, from the presence of the serpent.
You're not understanding what John 5:22 is saying. God has always been Judge since creation from Genesis and will continue as The Judge till The Great White Throne Judgement.
Look at both entire paragraphs pertaining to John 5:22. It's the same message as John 3:16. Verses 16-23 talks about honoring the Son because it is through Jesus that one can be saved and have everlasting life.
Verses 24-30 is about Jesus deciding who will be part of the rapture, who He will save during the tribulation and who will be with Him after the Tribulation when He divides the sheeps from the goats.
Jesus does not send out wraths, that God's authority. The 7 vials will be from God, not Jesus. The only judgement Jesus does is decide who get what and how much reward in Heaven (Bema Seat), who will escape the tribulation, and who will be able to reign with Him on earth.
Jesus is liken to the Jury who decides who is guilty to be punish or innocent as those saved when He returns.
Father God is the Judge and Executioner, He'll decide the measure of punishments and executed them upon those Jesus turn away for denying Him.
John 5:16-30
New King James Version (NKJV)
Honor the Father and the Son
16) For this reason the Jews persecuted Jesus, and sought to kill Him, because He had done these things on the Sabbath. 17) But Jesus answered them, “My Father has been working until now, and I have been working.”
18) Therefore the Jews sought all the more to kill Him, because He not only broke the Sabbath, but also said that God was His Father, making Himself equal with God. 19) Then Jesus answered and said to them, “Most assuredly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of Himself, but what He sees the Father do; for whatever He does, the Son also does in like manner. 20) For the Father loves the Son, and shows Him all things that He Himself does; and He will show Him greater works than these, that you may marvel. 21) For as the Father raises the dead and gives life to them, even so the Son gives life to whom He will. 22) For the Father judges no one, but has committed all judgment to the Son, 23) that all should honor the Son just as they honor the Father. He who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent Him.
Life and Judgment Are Through the Son
24) “Most assuredly, I say to you, he who hears My word and believes in Him who sent Me has everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment, but has passed from death into life. 25) Most assuredly, I say to you, the hour is coming, and now is, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God; and those who hear will live. 26) For as the Father has life in Himself, so He has granted the Son to have life in Himself, 27) and has given Him authority to execute judgment also, because He is the Son of Man. 28) Do not marvel at this; for the hour is coming in which all who are in the graves will hear His voice 29) and come forth—those who have done good, to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil, to the resurrection of condemnation. 30) I can of Myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge; and My judgment is righteous, because I do not seek My own will but the will of the Father who sent Me.
You didn't understand why I made that comment. It's because the question of this thread is "Where are we now in the book of Revelation?" I was making a comment based on the topic of this thread, and I was being more specific.
Everyone knows the tribulation begins at the confirmation of the covenant, but when and where in Revelation will that happen? At Rev 1:1, the 1st Seal, 4th Seal, 7th Seal, 3rd trumpet, 7th trumpet, 5th vial etc? I was being more specific concerning a time-frame when I said the Tribulation officially begins at the 1st Trumpet. Following what I'm saying?
So where in Revelation does the antichrist enters into the covenant with Israel?
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