As far as I remember from my own religious upbringing, I thought the Trumpets weren't supposed to happen until the actual end started? Like, you'd have the Rapture or whatever and then God would wreck havoc on the earth or whatnot.
Yeah, but there are differing schools of thought about the rapture. Generally, yes, there is supposed to be the rapture and then the world gets havoc wrought upon it (Left Behind) but some people think it can occur during (like in the Seth Rogen movie This Is The End) or some people think it will occur at the end of the judgments.