>>15827930You misunderstand it. Revelations is not told in a chronological order per se. Events that begin in Chapter 12 are already past in Chapter's 7 and 8. It's told in section of importance. The opening chapters describe John's letters to the church's, followed by a vision of the Wrath of God destroying the Earth - which is the last part of the End times but the most important. Chapters 12 through 18ish (I forget) deal with the tribulation which happens before the Wrath of God. 18 through the end are dealing with the final battle of Armageddon and the new Jerusalem.
There is no rapture and it certainly isn't quiet. It is the Lord descending on the clouds with trumpets AFTER THE TRIBULATION and after Satan has been slain and putting an end to the suffering of the righteous. The living and the dead in Christ are called up and only the damned are left upon the Earth to experience the Wrath of the Almighty.
