My current thoughts on the Little Scroll to the 2 Beasts...

Revelations can be confusing. Is it in order or does it run concurrently? When the Little Scroll is fed to John (of Patmos we believe), he soon has to prophesy 'again'. (This occurs from 6-7th trumpets)

Shortly, he measures the temple and finds it is a smaller one perhaps due to the Al Aqsa mosque taking up some space.

Then for 3 1/2 prophetic years, supernatural prophets hold sway in Jerusalem.

Then for 3 1/2 prophetic years, a woman is cared for in the wilderness having her child taken up to God.

Then war occurs in Heaven and the dragon who thought of eating the woman's child is cast down to earth, forms a Satanic government against Christian believers.

What a passage! Is it a retelling? How do we understand it?

ONE TRUMPET CANNOT SOUND CONCURRENTLY WITH ANOTHER

Okay, we have this 'law' (I made it up myself). So the prophets (witnesses) must die before the 7th trumpet. Then the 'woman' occurs and the beasts who hate her (us). 

Notice that the prophetic witnesses testify for half of 7 years and the woman is cared for, for the remaining half. Isn't the Tribulation a 7-year period?

This is interesting. John, all this while, had been doling out prophecy before the 70th week started.

Focusing now on the bowls / punishments, and the seals / promises, we are tempted to overlay the trumpets with them, but this should be examined first.

So imagine:

1(S/T/B) conqueror / grass burnt / sores on the 666 marked

2(S/T/B) warmonger / sea to blood / sea-life dies

3(S/T/B) economist / waters to bitter / waters to blood

4(S/T/B) death / sun and moon darkened / sun burns men

5(S/T/B) end to inequity / locust plague on sinners / beast kingdom morose

6(S/T/B) Elect gathered, faithful stand in heaven / 4 angels slay 1/3 men / war comes to Jerusalem

7(S/T/B) saints pray for earth / kingdom come(s) / huge earthquake, Babylon dethroned

I have to call out 1B as an odd thing: as the mark of the Beast cannot occur before 7T. 4STB seems to be more correct. 7STB is also logical. 5B cannot occur tho, before 7T.

But if you imagine each '/' as indicating a certain span of time, it all falls together more logically. But we digress. The 70th week: is it between 6-7th Trumpet?

Finger to the wind, I say it is. And so the bowls must come in quick succession (within a year or even an hour). ''The end cometh as a flood".

What then of the seals? Have they been popping since the Apostolic era? Have any of the Trumpet signs been seen since 70AD? Not yet. So I propose that the seals are broken in quick succession leading up to the Two Witnesses. We have a wurst pinched at both ends. The body of the sausage, being the 70th week of Daniel.

So we must watch for all the seals to happen within even short months, then the bowls the same. Maybe this is the explanation many seek -how do we know when? Well, when is when it starts going crazy fast. Thanks for reading this far and may you be blessed to seek further than I have done.