NOTE: I have written up a detailed account, complete with pictures, on my VISION page how the apostle John has the Earth hosting a Pangaea during the bowls.

1. Distinguish the literal from the figurative.

2. Distinguish the science from the supernatural.

3. Distinguish scenes in heaven from scenes on Earth.

4. Distinguish events on the timeline in the Apocalypse from events not clearly on the timeline in the Apocalypse.

The structure of the Apocalypse needs to revolve around the Woes.  Due to the use of the first woe surfacing only in the time of the fifth trumpet, it proves that the woes are time periods, not judgments.  The fifth trumpet is just that, the fifth trumpet.  Yet the first woe takes place at the exact same time, leaving zero wiggle room for anything else to take place, proving the woes are time periods, not judgments.  So you have the pre-Woe era, Woe One, Woe Two, Woe Three, and the post-Woe eras.