Revelation
Key Verse: Behold He is coming…Alpha and Omega…who is,
and who was and who is to come, the Almighty, Rev 1:7-8.
A. OPENING WORDS TO THE CHURCHES, Unto Him who loved us and washed
us from our sins in His own blood 1:1-8
B. THE VISION OF THE PAST: 1:9-20
1. John saw Jesus as the all-seeing Judge of the universe, the High Priest
and Great Shepherd of His church, 1:9-20
C. THE VISION OF THE PRESENT: 2:1-3:22
2. The message to the seven churches. Christ is knocking outside the door
of the church at Laodicea, 3:14-22
D. THE VISIONS OF THE FUTURE, 4:1-22:5
THE REDEEMED IN HEAVEN, John did not see the rapture of the church
but the results of the rapture, 4:1-11
3. The church raptured by Christ to heaven before the 70th week of Daniel
begins, 4:1-11
THE 70th WEEK OF DANIEL, 5:1-18:24
4. The seven seal judgments, 5:1-8:11
5. The seven trumpet judgments, 8:2-11:19
6. Satan: War on earth against Christ as king, 12:1-6
7. Satan: War in heaven against Christ as prophet, 12:7-12
8. Satan: War on earth against Christ as prophet, 12:13-17
9. The Antichrist: The tribulation tyrant, 13:1-18
10. Jesus Christ: Lord of the harvest, 14:1-20
11. The seven bowl judgments, 15:1-16:21
12. Antichrist's religious kingdom, 17:1-18:24
13. Antichrist's
political and economic kingdom, 18:1-24
THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST, 19:1-21
14. Christ's second coming and marriage banquet, 19:1-10
15. Christ's second
coming and Armageddon, 19:11-16
THE MESSIANIC KINGDOM, 20:1-6
16. Christ's second coming and His millennial kingdom, 20:1-6
SINNERS AND SATAN DOOMED, 20:7-15
17. God judges Satan and the universe with fire, 20:7-10
18. God's great white throne judgment, 20:11-14
19. Satan and the lost in the lake of fire forever, 20:15
THE ETERNAL STATE, 21:1-22:5
20. God and the redeemed in eternity forever, 21:1-22:5
E. CLOSING WORDS TO THE CHURCHES: 22:6-21
21. The last gospel invitation to come to Christ to be saved before it is
eternally to late
and the imminent return
of Christ to rapture His church to heaven: "Even so come Lord Jesus," 22:6-21.