REVELATION OUTLINE

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THE BOOK OF REVELATION OUTLINE

Edited from New Unger’s Bible Dictionary

Revelation

1. Introduction and salutation (1:1-8)

1. PAST: “The things which you have seen”: The glorified Christ (1:9-20)

III. PRESENT: “The things which are”: The seven churches (2-3)

1. The apostolic church: Ephesus (2:1-7); 30-900
2. The persecuted church: Smyrna (2:8-11); 80-321
3. The worldly church: Pergamum (2:12-17); 321-600
4. The pagan church: Thyatira (2:18-29); 600-1517+
5. The Protestant church: Sardis (3:1-6) ; 1517+
6. The missionary church: Philadelphia (3:7-13): 1700s-1800s
7. The apostate church: Laodicea (3:14-22); 1850s+

1. FUTURE: “What must take place after these things”:

Rapture of the Church, the Great Tribulation and the Second Coming of Christ (4-22)

1. RAPTURE: The church in heaven with Christ (4)
2. Loosing of the seven-sealed book (5)

1. The Great Tribulation (6-11); 7 years2 3 1/2 yr periods
2. The seven seals (6:1-8:1); last seal opens trumpets

(1) false prophet (6:2)

(2) war (6:3-4)

(3) famine (6:5-6)

(4) death (6:7-8)

(5) martyrs (6:9-11)

(6) signs

(7) trumpets (8:1-2)

2. The seven trumpets (8:2-11:19)

(1) earth (8:7)

(2) sea (8:8-9)

(3) waters (8:10-11)

(4) lights (8:12-13)

(5) demons (9:1-12)

(6) Armageddon (9:16-21)

(7) end (11:15-19)

1. The seven performers during the Great Tribulation (12-13)
2. The woman: Israel (12:1-2)
3. The red dragon: Satan (12:3-4)
4. The male child: Christ (12:5-6)
5. Michael, the archangel, wars with the dragon (12:7-12)
6. Satan’s persecution of the woman, Israel (12:13-16)
7. The remnant of Israel (12:17)
8. The Beast out of the sea: political power and a person (13:1-10)
9. The Beast out of the earth: Antichrist (13:11-18)

1. The latter part of the Great Tribulation (14)
2. The seven bowls (15-16)
3. Judgment of ecclesiastical and commercial Babylon (17-18)

3 Christ’s second advent (19)

1. The Millennium (20)