I tend towards a Post-Tribulation Rapture view that sees the seals, trumpets, and bowls of Revelation as successive, and yet with overlap at the end of each group, the "successive-final view" as seen in the picture below.
This means the three groups of events are mostly successive, that is, sequential in that each group transpires before the next according to the order given, except for the final event of each group, each of which parallel one-another. For the seals, both number 6 and 7 line up with the final event--number 7--of the trumpets and bowls. In this view, the great tribulation continues to the end of the 70th Week that concludes with the 6th and 7th seal, the 7th trumpet and bowl, followed by the Coming (parousia) of Christ and the Day of the Lord. The Day of the Lord is the direct wrath of Christ at his coming upon the nations beginning with the battle of Armageddon...
15 “Behold, I am coming as a thief. Blessed is he who watches, and keeps his garments, lest he walk naked and they see his shame.”
16 And they gathered them together to the place called in Hebrew, Armageddon. Revelation 16:12-16
This is a brief post, but I've written more elsewhere on why I'm Post-Trib and how I understand the "Day of the Lord." This is just a statement of how I understand the progression of the seals, trumpets, and bowls in relationship to one-another.
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