Because they are the events next antecedent to the contemporary ones which succeed them; for the six first seals are the nearest antecedents of the seventh. The inner court and the battle of Michael with the dragon are the nearest antecedents of the beast, and of the assembly of the 144,000 sealed ones. Now the seventh seal (or what is nearly the same thing), the six first trumpets, are contemporaneous with the assembly of the sealed and the beast, as was shown by the former synchronism.