As usual, you are very difficult to follow. So, just tell me this. Do you believe Revelation 16:12-16 and Revelation 19:19 are referring to the same battle? If so, why are you trying to criticize me about chronology when you are doing the same thing I am with those verses? I just happen to believe that Revelation 20:7-9 is also about the same battle and you choose to believe that what is described in Revelation 20 follows what is described in Revelation 19 chronologically instead. Yet, we know that not all of the book of Revelation is in chronological order.
Obviously you don't like it when another human has a different chronological order than you do?
That is why it is wrong to make the claim that Revelation is not in chronological order. That literally means it can be in any order each person chooses, whether others like it or not.
So if you change the chronological order and say there are parallel camera views then others are not going to like that nor accept that, and you won't like nor accept their chronological opinion either.
Which means you also don't like the order John wrote, because you make the claim it is not in chronological order. Even though the literary style is chronological. "After this" is a common theme.
Revelation 11 is in 2 parts. Like chapter 7 the chapter has an explanation of the previous mentioned event. Chapter 7 is talking about something in regards to the 6th Seal. There is a group of redeemed on the earth, the 144k, and a group in heaven. That is a phenomenon that is true at the same time after the 6th Seal is opened. Then we see the 7th Seal opened. You would call that a parenthetical observation in regards to the 6th Seal.
The 10th chapter was supposed to cover the 7 Thunders, but God interrupted the process of writing and John was told not to write what he saw. That should be obvious that the 6th Trumpet was over and no other explanation in the book would cover the 6th Trumpet, because John had moved on to the 7 Thunders, and the 6th Trumpet and any events were over before the 1st Thunder sounded.
So now we have a parenthetical at the start of the 11th chapter. Because no event happened other than the 7th Thunder, and we are not told any details, so should not presume the 2 witness are part of the 7th Thunder, even though that is plausible.
But we also see that instead of seeing something happen in chapter 10, John is told some prophetic information about the 7th Trumpet. So it is plausible to say the 2 witness are also prophetic actions involving the 7th Trumpet. We also can see that the 7th Trumpet includes more time than just sounding and then stopping. There are days surrounding the sounding of the 7th Trumpet, or the 7th Trumpet itself could sound for days on end non stop. Meaning that once it starts many things will happen before it can stop sounding as noted there is a definite end of time or the experience offered when the 7th Trumpet stops sounding. So the parenthetical of the 2 witnesses also describes events in the days of the 7th Trumpet. So that is not out of chronological order, it is just two views of the events of the 7th Trumpet. It is my opinion since not stated that the 7th Trumpet starts in chapter 11 just after a parenthetical describing God's involvement during the 7th Trumpet, and the 7th Trumpet does not stop until after Armageddon, and chapters 12, 13, 17, 18, and 19 show Satan's involvement in the 7th Trumpet.
To get us back into the chronological narrative, John does remind us that 2 woes have past, but that does not mean the two witnesses already happened. It means we are now ready to actually have the 7th Trumpet sound.
The last 6 vial events happen in the last 3.5 days of the 7th Trumpet, since the parenthetical of the witnesses have them lying in a state of death for those last 3.5 days between the 42 months given to Satan and the battle itself. The two witnesses are killed after the 42 months are over, mentioned in chapter 13. Obviously the 2 witnesses and Satan's activity happen side by side, but John deals with one in chapter 11, and the other in chapter 13.
So when the 7th Trumpet sounds in chapter 11 the next chronological event is the binding of Satan, and the resurrection of those beheaded in the prior 42 months before the 2 witnesses are killed. Armageddon is still in the sounding of the 7th Trumpet. The last hour of 7th Trumpet is the one hour the ten kings join Satan to fight the Lamb. If they win, obviously Satan promised them a thousand years of their own kingdom. They have no kingdoms until they can defeat God.
Chapter 12 is the historical introduction of Satan. John sees no event, just symbolism of the statue of Daniel 2 as a red dragon instead of an image of mixed metals. Now we see that Satan was also an influence and connected with the first 6 kingdoms that lead us to the 7th Trumpet and Jesus as the declared 7th King of the 7th World Empire. Satan is cast out of heaven during the 7th Trumpet. The times given in that chapter do not necessarily have to be future nor even related to the chronological order of the rest of the book. The chapter is an historical background. Now when Satan is cast out, that is the third woe, and does relate to the events in the 7th Trumpets time frame. Remember, I think the Trumpet is nonstop until God is finished.
I also think the 7th Trumpet and the rest of the descriptions about Satan's empire interpret Daniel 9:27 for us. We do not have to come up with any explanation for Daniel 9:27 other than what John writes in Revelation 13. The confirmation of the Atonement Covenant between God and adamkind takes place in the midst of the days of the 7th Trumpet. The 7th Trumpet both declares the Kingdom of Jesus, the Prince to come, but also the completion of the punishment of sin and death itself.
The Millennium will have no need of the Atonement even more so than the animal sacrifices of the Law. Because Adam's disobedience will have been reversed, and the punishment withdrawn. But before the Day of the Lord can start, Satan is allowed to demonstrate what his kingdom would like like without the Atonement Covenant. That is what the Abomination of Desolation is talking about. The Law was removed at the Cross. So the daily sacrifices stopped in the AoD would be that even the Cross and redemption are taken away, not just the OT Covenant. The NT will be taken away as that would be the only daily covering at that point in time.
The only reason time is extended though, is not for Satan. God is showing us that even though Satan has 100% control, that even then humans would be willing to chop off their head as testimony to Jesus Christ, even though there is no salvation by faith available. If one really believes that the daily sacrifice stops then that means the Second Birth stops and is no longer available. We are not talking about reinstating the OT. We are talking about Jesus announce King of the world,xand then 3.5 days later, in the midst of the week of the 7th Trumpet, God extends the deadline and Satan is given 42 months of Abomination of Desolation. The only witness will be two humans who can not be killed, and the only redemption offered is to cut off one's head, ending one's selfish existence on earth in faith they will be resurrected at some point in time. Those on earth may not even know at that point it will be 42 months long. If the church is gone, the Holy Spirit is gone, then why not the Word of God as well? They will be so deceived by Satan at that point, they may not even accept the Bible, even if they could read from the Bible.
That is why there is no post trib rapture nor Second Coming at the battle of Armageddon. Jesus was already on the earth and declared King at the 7th Trumpet. Now that may go into way more detail than what Paul declares as the Second Coming, but John saw more than any other person ever did.
