". . . . The two most acceptable arrangements of seals, trumpets, and bowls may be schematized in the following manner:
"According to the above scheme the events ender the seals, trumpets and bowls will happen consequtively. The trumpets develop out of and constitute the seventh seal; the bowls develop out of and constitute the seventh trumpet."According to another view, held also in whole or in part by pretribulationists, we are to regard each seventh in the seals and trumpets as reaching to Christ's return and the bowls being poured out at the final crisis. Thus, there is a stepping back between seals and trumpets and between trumpets and bowls:
"The universally acknowledged Semitic style of Revelation favors the second view, according to which the seals, trumpets and bowls will find somewhat concurrent fulfilment. For the sweeping summary of a complex of events with later regressions to add more detail is a well-recognized feature of narrative style in Semitic literature. Chronologically, the apocalyptic visions dart back and forth with a swiftness that sometimes bewilders our Western minds. . . . The Semitic and apocalyptic character of Revelation forbids, then, our assuming that the seals, trumpets and bowls follow one another in smooth succession" (Robert Gundry, The Church and The Tribulation, p. 75-76).
