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Summary of History from Lectures on Revelation by WJ Reid

  The opening of the first six seals shadowed forth the prominent events in the history of the world until the fifth century of the Christian era. When the seventh seal was opened, seven angels appeared and began to blow the seven trumpets which had been given to them.

The symbols which appeared under the first six trumpets shadowed forth the prominent events in the history of the world from the fifth century until the rise of the Turkish power, and the Reformation of the sixteenth century.

When the seventh trumpet was sounded, the history of the centuries between the Reformation and the end of the present order of things is summed up (in the later half of chapter 11.)

Then there follows a new series of visions, designed to shadow forth the history of the church, as the former series was designed to shadow forth the history of the world. In this new series, we have the church represented under the emblem of a beautiful woman, who was compelled to hide childless and alone in the wilderness; and the enemies of the church represented under the emblems of monsters of great power and frightful appearance.

After these representations, there were visions which were designed to comfort and cheer the apostle. After these cheering visions, which are introduced as an interlude in Rev 14, and which do not in the least hasten the grand consummation towards which the main incidents in this book are tending, we have the vision of the seven vials, upon whose consideration we enter in the present lecture.

 This vision is, I believe, a development of the seventh trumpet. As the seven trumpets were a development of the last seal, so the seven vials are a development of the last trumpet; that is, the vials represent in greater detail the events which are briefly described under the seventh trumpet in Rev 11. In other words, the vision of the vials takes up the history of the church about the time of the Reformation and carries it on to the end of the world.  

Here is a good summary of History from Revelation