Great tribulation/persecution such as the world has ever seen and The pouring out of the vials/ Gods wrath, are two completely different things! False teachers have taught a lie. Even Kirk Cameron has admitted that the left behind series is incorrect and based on a theory that is no older than 250 years. The KJV has been in existence longer.
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Study to shew thyself approved, a workman need not be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth!
Rev 4:4 KJV And round about the throne were four and twenty seats: and upon the seats I saw four and twenty elders sitting, clothed in white raiment; and they had on their heads crowns of gold.
Only believers in Jesus Christ, during the dispensation of Grace, receive white raiment and crowns of gold.
These 42 elders are Old Testament saints