This is the point in Revelation that fulfills Luke 17:26-29, "And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man. They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the DAY that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all. Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded; But the same DAY that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all." At the sixth seal, "the great DAY of his wrath is come." So, the 144,000 are sealed, the elect are gathered, the seventh seal is opened and the trumpet judgments start - to parallel Noe and Lot.