sentences:  References from Matthew 24, Mark 13, and Luke 21 are used as evidence that this tribulation will be cut short by the coming of Christ to deliver the righteous by means of the rapture, which will occur after specific events in Revelation, in particular after the sixth seal is opened and the sun is darkened and the moon is turned to blood.However, by this point many Christians will have been slaughtered as martyrs by the Antichrist.After the rapture will come God's seventh-seal wrath of trumpets and bowls (a.k.a.