Time Span Of The Four Seals

I was re-reading your essay on Revelation, and I wonder…when the first four seals are to be opened, is there any indication that it will happen in rapid succession, or will there be a space of time to allow the realization of each event to sink in?

Q. I was re-reading your essay on Revelation, and I wonder…when the first four seals are to be opened, is there any indication that it will happen in rapid succession, or will there be a space of time to allow the realization of each event to sink in?

A. Rev. 6 gives no hint as to the span of time involved, but the Seal judgments and the Trumpet judgments require all of the first half of the 70th week of Daniel, while the bowl judgments unfold progressively during the second half, also called the Great Tribulation.

Therefore I would say that the fulfillment of each of the first four seals requires only a short span of time. The rider on the white horse will have come during a time of false peace which the rider on the red horse takes away as war begins. Famine and death, the black and pale horses, are the predictable effects of war and follow shortly thereafter.

If the two sets of judgments follow each other in a linear fashion during the 3 1/2 years, then each one can be allowed only about 3 months before the next one comes along.