The End-Times Timeline

This flow traces how Shorey connects seals, tribulation, rapture, trumpets, bowls, and Christ’s return into one sequence.

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The Sealed Scroll

The Sealed Scroll The opening vision John sees the Scroll with Seven Seals in the hand of the one seated on the throne. The Lamb alone is worthy to take and open it, making the scroll the trigger for the visions that follow. A public announcement The heavenly praise surrounding the Lamb introduces the authority behind the judgments. Shorey treats this throne-room scene as the prologue to his prophetic chronology.

The Early Seals

The Early Seals Escalating earthly crises The first four seals bring the rider, war, scarcity, and death in Shorey’s outline. The fifth then shows the souls of martyrs asking when their blood will be avenged. A mounting ordeal He reads these episodes as conditions of persecution and disorder rather than the final wrath of God. Their accumulated pressure leads toward the cosmic signs of the sixth seal.

The Sixth Seal Threshold

The Sixth Seal Threshold Signs in heaven and earth A great earthquake and cosmic disturbances accompany the sixth seal. Shorey compares these signs with prophecies that place them after tribulation and before the gathering of the elect. A decisive boundary The people of the earth recognize the arrival of wrath, while Shorey sees the signs as a signal of approaching deliverance for believers. The sixth seal thus serves as the hinge between persecution and the next phase of his chronology.

The Gathering and the Trumpets

The Gathering and the Trumpets The saved multitude Shorey places the sealing of the 144,000 Sealed from Israel before the great multitude appears in heaven. He reads the multitude as the raptured saints, then links the seventh seal’s silence with their arrival. Wrath begins The Seven Trumpets follow the heavenly interlude in his reordered narrative. This sequence supports his distinction between the church’s deliverance and the judgments that fall afterward.

The Final Return

The Final Return The bowls conclude The Seven Bowls of God’s Wrath culminate in earthquake, hail, and the gathering of the nations for Armageddon. Shorey treats these events as the completion of divine judgment on the unrepentant. The warrior arrives Jesus Christ then appears on a white horse with the armies of heaven. His return defeats the Beast’s forces and leads into the millennial reign.

Before the first seal is opened

From the first through the fifth seal

At the transition from tribulation to the Day of the Lord

After the sixth seal and before the first trumpet

After the completion of the seven bowls