Hello Louis,
Future signs
"Nation will rise up against nation, and kingdom against kingdom.
11There will be both great earthquakes, and famines and pestilences in different places. There will also be fearful sights and great signs from heaven. - Luke 21:10-11
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But before all these things (before the above takes place in the future), they will lay their hands upon you, and will persecute
you, delivering
you to the synagogues and prisons, bringing
you before kings and governors on account of My name.
The above was fulfilled in part by the apostles and Paul. There's not conflict here. Jesus was just giving them the order of events in their generation and what will follow in the future.
The information above is also mentioned in the Olivet discourse in Matt.24. Regarding this, there is no problem. For before those signs take place in the future, the Pharisees, kings and governors did exactly what was predicted above.
The reference to "the seas and waves roaring" I believe is referring to the 2nd trumpet, where John sees something like a huge mountain on fire hitting one of the oceans. The results being that a third of the creatures in the sea die and a third of the ships are destroyed. This will be caused by the giant Tsunami's that will be produced from what I believe will be an asteroid.
But most in importantly, we cannot currently be experiencing any of the seals, trumpets or bowl judgments and that because the antichrist has not yet been revealed who is represented by the 1st seal rider on the white horse. Since the seals, trumpets and bowls take place in chronological order, then none of the other seals, trumpets and bowls are not and could have taken place.
These plagues of wrath are not going to be passive events that appear in the world today with everything returning back to normal, but will have the attention of the entire world, which is what they are meant to do. By the time that the 7th bowl has been poured out, the majority of the population of the earth will have been decimated and all human government will have been dismantled. This is supported by the fact that Jesus said, "that if those days had not been shortened, no one on the earth would be left alive. This is why I continue to claim that people are not understanding the severity and magnitude of God's coming wrath. It will be like nothing has ever seen and it won't be able to be ignored.
Yes, but the Abyss as the being the sea is not what is being referred to here. Consider the following:
"And the fifth angel sounded
his trumpet, and I saw a star having fallen out of heaven
to the earth, and the key of the pit of the abyss was given to him. And he opened the pit of the abyss, and
smoke went up out of the pit, like
the smoke of a great furnace, and the sun and the air were darkened by the smoke of the pit."
In the scripture above, the star/angel has the key to the Abyss and smoke comes up out of it like a great furnace. This would be indicative of the shaft of the Abyss being located on the land. Normally you wouldn't have smoke coming up out of the Abyss from under water.