Revelation Overview
1. Introduction: Rev 1:1-20
a) Prologue: Rev 1:1-3 b) Greeting and doxology: Rev 1:4-8
2. Letters to the 7 churches: Rev 2:1 – 3:22
a) Jesus the author: Rev 1:9-20 b) To Ephesus: Rev 2:1-7 c) To Smyrna: Rev 2:8-11 d) To Pergamum: Rev 2:12-17 e) To Thyatira: Rev 2:18-27 f) To Sardis: Rev 3:1-6 g) To Philadelphia: Rev 3:7-13 h) To Laodicea: Rev 3:14-22
3. The throne, the scroll and the lamb: Rev 4:1 – 5:14
a) The throne in heaven: Rev 4:1-11 b) The scroll that no-one could open: Rev 5:1-4 c) The lamb who would open the scroll: Rev 5:6-14
4. Opening the seven seals: Rev 6:1 – 8:1
5. The seven trumpets: Rev 8:2 – 11:19
6. Various portents and beasts: Rev 12:1 – 14:20
a) The woman and the dragon: Rev 12:1-17 b) Two beasts: Rev 13:1-18 c) The lamb, 144,000 redeemed and harvesting the earth: Rev 14:1-20
7. The seven bowls: Rev 15:1 – 16:21
8. The judgment of Babylon the great prostitute: Rev 17:1 – 19:4
9. The triumph of the lamb: Rev 19:5 – 20:15
a) Hallelujah: Rev 19:6-10 b) The rider on a white horse: Rev 19:11-21 c) The 1,000 years: Rev 20:1-10 d) Judgement of the dead: Rev 20:11-15
10. New heavens and new earth: Rev 21:1 – 22:21
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