THE BOOK OF REVELATION

#602                                        THE BOOK OF REVELATION

Scripture  Revelation                                                                                                                         

Timeline/Series:           Bible Study, Book of Revelation

Introduction

            Preface                                                1:1-8

I.                    The Lamb                                            1:9-20

II.                 The Lamb and the Churches               2:1-3:22

A.                 Ephesus—Identification, Commendation, Complaint, Warning, Promise, Counsel, Judgment

B.                  Smyrna

C.                 Pergamum

D.                 Thyatira

E.                  Sardis

F.                  Philadelphia

G.                 Laodicea

III.       The Lamb and the Sealed Book           4:1-5:14

A.                 The Sovereign                         4:1-11

B.                  The  Redeeming Lamb             5:1-14

1-       Purchased for God             v9

2-       Through His blood

3-       For all

4-       Establishes a kingdom       v10

IV.       The Lamb Opens the Seals                                           6:1-11:19

A.      The Title Deed to Souls

1-       First Seal, White Horse:  Conquest             6:1-2

2-       Second Seal, Red Horse: W ar                     6:3-4

3-       Third Seal, Black Horse: Famine                6:5-6

4-       Fourth Seal, Pale Horse: Pestilence             6:7-8

5-       Fifth Seal, Martyred Saints: Persecution     6:9-11

6-       Sixth Seal, Earthquake: Judgment              6:12-17

B.      Provisions for the Redeemed                           7:1-17

1-     The Redeemed of Israel                            7:1-8

2-     The Redeemed of the Nations                  7:9-17

C.        The Final Seal, Incense:  Victory                                              8:1-5

1-      Interlude                                                                        8:1-2

2-      Incense                                                                           8:3-5

a)             First Trumpet/Woes upon land                         8:7

b)            The Second Trumpet/Upon the sea                  8:8

c)             The Third Trumpet/Upon fresh waters             8:1

d)            The Fourth Trumpet/Upon the heavens           8:12

e)             The Fifth Trumpet/The foes of God’s people face natural calamity, internal decadence                                                                    9:1-12

f) The Sixth Trumpet/External invasion                          9:13-21  (See Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire)  

D.        Announcement of Retribution                                    10:1-11:13

1-      The angel and the seven thunders                       10:1-7

a)             The trumpets are warning enough

b)            The time  of the end  has come

c)            No more delay                                     10:6

2-      The little book                                                    10:8-11

3-      Measuring the temple                                         11:1-2

4-      The two witnesses                                               11:3-13

5-      The Seventh Trumpet, Covenant                        11:14-19

V.         The Lamb and the Conflict                                                     12:1 –20:10

A.         The Radiant Woman and Her Children                       12:1-2, 5-6, 14-17

B.         The Red Dragon and his forces                                    12:3, 4, 7-9

C.        Michael                                                                       12:7    

1 Gibbon, E. (1996). The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire (D. Womersley, Ed.). Penguin Classics.