Here's a post I made some time back (on this Subject):
[quoting old post]
SEALS. Here's what I believe regarding them.
1) the phrase "the beginning of birth PANGS [plural]" (Matt24:4-8 [correlating with the SEALS of Rev6]) STARTS with an INITIAL "birth PANG [singular]" (1Th5:2-3 'birth PANG [singular]'), and this is what kicks off "the DOTL [time period]" (its ARRIVAL)
----------["the DOTL" includes: the 7-yr trib upon the earth, Christ's Second Coming to the earth, AND His 1000-yr reign on/over the earth--ALL earth-occurring happenings]
2) the "he, he, he" of Daniel 9:27(26b) is the "who, who, who" ['whose,' 'who,' 'whom'] of 2 Thessalonians 2:3-9 [his 'beginning,' his 'middle,' his 'end']
----------[BOTH passages are telling of events lasting "7 years / 1 Week"--its 'beginning,' its 'middle,' its 'end']
3) The "whose coming" (of the above-mentioned--'beginning' of the man of sin, 2Th2:9) is the "he" of Daniel 9:27a, who kicks off the "7-yr / 1 Week" thing
---------[this kicks off /STARTS "the DOTL" time period--the "in the night" way the DOTL ARRIVES, the "in his time" of the man of sin (being "revealed", 2Th2:6), Dan7:7]
4) Paul is correcting the Thessalonians' false notion that the DOTL "IS PRESENT" (this false notion is due to the negative circumstances they were presently experiencing [2Th1:4], and false informers telling them this was so [2Th2:2-3a,15]). He's correcting this by saying, "that day [the DOTL time period] will not be present if not shall have come THE Departure [noun] FIRST" (the noun-event he had already just referred to in verse 1 [our 'episynagōgēs [noun] UNTO HIM'], as well as in 1Th4:17 ['the meeting [noun] of the Lord IN THE AIR'], aka 'the hope of salvation [nouns]'[1Th5:8c]/our [SURE] Rapture)
----------["the DOTL" WILL then be "PRESENT" (with its "man of sin" in his time), once "THE DEPARTURE" (our rapture) takes place (*FIRST*)... but NOT "UNTIL" (2Th2:7b-8a)]
5) "anti-christ" can mean pseudo-christ or in-place-of-christ, and the rider of the white horse at the beginning of Revelation seems to fit this bill in several ways (recall, I said "the beginning of birth PANGS [plural]" match the SEALS of Rev6... and so this would be the INITIAL "birth PANG [singular]"--the ARRIVAL/START/BEGINNING of the DOTL and the presence ['whose coming'] of the man of sin)
----------[the words for "conquering" and "to conquer" (Rev6:2) are the same words later used in 11:7 and 13:7, referring to when he LATER "shall overcome them, and kill them [the 2 Witnesses]" and "to make war with the saints, and to overcome them" (see Daniel 7:21 "made war with the saints, and prevailed against them")]
6) by this point in the Revelation (meaning, the SEALS in Rev6), we've already seen the "24 elders upon 24 thrones" (Rev4:4,10;5:8-10)... and where did they get their "stephanous/crowns"? I believe these represent "the Church which is His body" (of whom "the Rapture" solely pertains--not to saints of all other time periods [not OT saints, not trib saints, not MK saints])--The Church is told in 1Cor6:2-3, "the world shall be judged by you," and "that we shall judge angels" (hence the "thrones"... up there [and before the FIRST SEAL is opened]).
----------[see Paul's "stephanos/crown" in 2Tim4:8 ("which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day"--the Day of Christ UP THERE WITH HIM [whereas the "DOTL" is earthly-occurring; the "DofCHR," by contrast, is UP THERE WITH HIM [note: 2Th2:2 should read "DOTL"--the earth-occurring time period, not the UP THERE thing which is the "DofCHR"]--while they run concurrently, they are different locations, different groups, different purposes)]
7) "When?" Well, without disclosing my entire opinion on the chronology of The Revelation , I can say that I do detect an outline of 7-years-duration [or 2520 days] from what we see at the opening of the FIRST SEAL (Rev5/6:1-2) to His 2nd Coming to the earth (Rev19; "kings go out to battle" and "kings [were] crowned" at a certain time, per Scripture elsewhere, for example)
CONCLUSION: the INITIAL "birth PANG [singular]" = "the revealing of the man of sin" = the FIRST SEAL = the START of the DOTL (the 7-yr / 1 Week "DARK" portion OF that very long "time period")... many more "birth PANGS [plural]" FOLLOW that point in time (Matt24:4-8/Mk13:5-8[/Lk21:8-11]<---these BEGINNING of BPs are just "the beginning..." ; ) ).
So that's how I see the SEALS (ALL "future" to us... and future to our "Departure"/Rapture [which is for a specific purpose] ).
Adding this: Rev1:1 says, "to shew unto His servants things which must come to pass IN QUICKNESS [noun]"... (so I do not believe the "Historicist view" of The Revelation is correct; the idea that the Seals started in the first century and/or that it is describing events unfolding over some 2000 years. No.)
The OT saints, and the Trib saints who die in the trib, are "resurrected" at the END of the trib (Dan12:13; Rev20:4b), but "the Church which is His body" is resurrected/raptured just before the DOTL time period commences (and we are UP THERE "WITH" Him [for the "MARRIAGE" itself] while those 7 years / 70th-Wk unfolds upon the earth, returning "WITH" Him at His 2nd Coming to the earth, FOR the wedding FEAST/SUPPER aka the earthly MK (which the OT saints, resurrected [at END of trib], won't enjoy "without us" [their promised and prophesied earthly Millennial Kingdom])]
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