As you begin reading chapter 4 you see something that will appear a number of times,
(Rev 4:1 KJV) After this I looked, and, behold, a door was opened in heaven: and the first voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me; which said, Come up hither, and I will shew thee things which must be hereafter.Notice that twice in this verse it has a time element, a chronological order statement. The NASB says “after these things” in both places. It would seem to me that this should influence the school of interpretation you are in. Of course, being Revelation and being apocalyptic literature, there seem to be few appeals to logic but this verse seems to put the rest of the book following the letters to the churches.
I rarely read the comments in my study Bible but in the letters to the churches I was curious about the idea that the different churches represent historical ages in the church. It would seem that this simple statement of “after this” would make that interpretation impossible.
And of course, being prophecy, everyone has their own irrefutable opinion about whether the events in Revelation are in order or not.
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