I don't mind hearing that, but I also don't mind knowing that is a false idea, and is very easy to disprove.
The events from Revelation 9:12 through Revelation 11:13, all occur within the 6th Trumpet and 2nd Woe period. (the Rev.10 chapter is parenthetical, a break with giving a detail showing it's all over by the 7th Trumpet).
Jesus comes on the 7th Trumpet - 3rd Woe, per Rev.11:13 forward.
What this does... is reveal beyond all doubt, the "two witnesses" appear and prophesy in Jerusalem in the LAST GENERATION on earth that will 'see' Jesus' future 2nd coming.
Many have not figured it out that Rev. 1 says that the Revelation came from God the Father, to Jesus, then His angel, who gave it to John in a series of visions, that didn't all come to him in one sitting. Who then had to hand write it all down, and then give it to the Seven churches.
So then, let's Look at Isa. 55:8-9, and get it clear in our limited human minds of "linear thinking", that God's thoughts are not like our thoughts, nor are His ways like our ways.
With God living in
His Eternity, there is no such thing as TIME, except for what He makes of it, with our 24 hours of Day and Night etc. Therefore, He always thinks in the Past, Present and Future all at the SAME time, and as a result does speak accordingly.
Are all things in Revelation chronological? With our linear thinking, WE WANT it to be so,......but it's NOT!!
So then, not all of Revelation is Future.
In fact, much of it is now in the Past. Some of it is Present, always moving towards the future. But now we realize that the future is 2,024 years far less, than when it began with Jesus, thus having limited time left.
So, even in that, of what could be left for time, in God's Age of Grace, God says that
"those days shall be shortened".
Why??
BECAUSE, man now has the power to destroy every living thing on the Earth.
Mat. 24
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22] And except those days should
be shortened, there should no flesh [animals included] be saved [spared]: but for the elect's sake [born again Christians] those days SHALL be shortened.
Heb. 10
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23] Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;)
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24] And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works:
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25] Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more,
as ye see the day approaching.