The Sequence may be the most significant academic treatise on the subject of the chronology of biblical end time events in the past one hundred years because it approaches the mystery in an extraordinary unique manner: rather than providing the reader a brief history of the various positions surrounding the subject followed by why certain positions should be considered the more attractive options, which is the typical approach, The Sequence presents for the first time six newly unveiled end time sequences hidden within the three major sources in the New Testament regarding the subject, i.e., Paul’s letters to the Thessalonians, Christ’s dialogue on the Mount of Olives, and John’s account of his visions recorded in Revelation.
Through a careful reconciliation of these six newly discovered sequences, Bates will prove that there’s only one sequence of end times, which he has labeled “The Post-Armageddon, Premillennial Resurrection.”
Had any other proposed sequence of end times been correct, whether pretribulationism, mid-tribulationism, pre-wrath, postmillennialism, a-millennialism, preterism, or any other end time sequence that one could possibly imagine, he maintains that the proponents of that postulation should be able to take the same six sequences from Scripture and reconcile them precisely with one another, paragraph by paragraph, and sentence by sentence, and prove whatever sequence they propose.
But he is assured that no one will ever attempt such an endeavor because it’s theoretically impossible. Scripture’s six sequences only confirm one sequence and it is the one which has been presented in The Sequence.
