It's not about who is right my friend, it is about this great tribulation just ahead of us all.
So I simply believe if we know what the target is...then flee from it as GOD instructs us.
Now the target is satans material world with it's cities of drugs and sin, and polluting factories, where money is god so the rich get richer and the poor suffer and die, or at best are enslaved all their lives just to survive. This is SATANS world that MUST be destroyed.
So...what is still GOD'S WORLD that is left over then ? ONLY the wilderness and desolate places... that will be blessed.
Not attractive to anyone you may think...BUT a tea party compared to the tribulation so great that if GOD did not cut it short NO flesh would be left alive. Can you deny it is cut short on account of the chosen ones ? No of course not, and why weren't these ones raptured IF there was such a thing as a pretrib rapture ?
I dont know why there is a pause at Rev 8 nor does it matter as the last 3 bowls are poured out anyway.
Are you saying this pause is a pretrib rapture ???? After all the tribulation that has already happened !!!