The Book of Revelation

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The Book of Revelation

• Key Word Triumph
• (of Christ)

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NT Overview (Books Key Words)
3812439-41
To the remotest part of the earth (Acts
18) Acts 9 13 14 15 16 18
21 27 28
Apr 48-Sep 49 1Galatia
Spr 53-May 57 3Asia
Feb 60-Mar 62 1Rome
Aut 67-Spr 68 2Rome
Spr 62-Fall 67 4Spain
Apr 50-Sep 52 2Aegean
May 57-Aug 59 Trials
May 57-Aug 59 DamascusAntioch
Spring 68 Expansion of Church
Fall 49 The Council
35 48 49 50
52 53 57 60 62
67 68 95
Matt
Luke
John
Mark
Acts
Kingdom
Sov 1
Believe
Disciple
Sov 2
Gal
1 Thess
1 Cor
Eph
1 Tim
2 Tim
Jude
Justify
Rapture
Unity
Order
Doctrine
Pretenders
Sanctify
2 Thess
2 Cor
Col
Titus
James
Heb
1 John
Tribulation
Deity
Conduct
Works
Super
Love
Apostle
Romans
Philem
1 Pet
2 John
Suffering
Limits
Forgive
Righteous
Phil
2 Pet
3 John
Gospels Acts
Attitude
Knowledge
Mission
Rev
Pauline Epistles
Triumph
General Epistles
Books by Category Key Words
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So Many Symbols,
So Many Interpretations!
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Focus The Return of Christ
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What time is it?
321
(Revelation 6-18 depicts which era?)
Book Written AD 95
Historicist
Futurist
Preterist
Idealist
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The Four Most Common Approaches
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PRETERIST - about 1st cent. AD history
FUTURIST - about history of the end of time
Dr. Henry Baldwins - Combo 1, 2 4
HISTORICIST - about Church history to the present
IDEALIST about good over evil in all times
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John at Patmos (110)
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Christ Among the Lamp Stands(Rev. 1)
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Revelation Summarizes Scripture
The BOOK OF THE REVELATION
?umming Up of Scripture
The Rest of the Story
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Use Revelations inspired outline
Revelation 117-19 17When I saw Him, I fell at
His feet like a dead man. And He placed His right
hand on me, saying, Do not be afraid I am the
first and the last, 18and the living One and I
was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore, and
I have the keys of death and of Hades.
19Therefore write the things which you have seen,
and the things which are, and the things which
will take place after these things.
have seen
are
will take place
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Revelation
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Sovereignty of Christ in Future Victory Sovereignty of Christ in Future Victory Sovereignty of Christ in Future Victory Sovereignty of Christ in Future Victory Sovereignty of Christ in Future Victory Sovereignty of Christ in Future Victory Sovereignty of Christ in Future Victory Sovereignty of Christ in Future Victory Sovereignty of Christ in Future Victory
Sovereignty in His Person Sovereignty in His Person Sovereignty in His Person Sovereignty over Churches Sovereignty in End-Time Events Sovereignty in End-Time Events Sovereignty in End-Time Events Sovereignty in End-Time Events Sovereignty in End-Time Events
Chapter 1 Chapter 1 Chapter 1 Chapters 23 Chapters 422 Chapters 422 Chapters 422 Chapters 422 Chapters 422
What you have seen (119a) What you have seen (119a) What you have seen (119a) What is now (119b) What will take place later (119c) What will take place later (119c) What will take place later (119c) What will take place later (119c) What will take place later (119c)
Past Past Past Present Future Future Future Future Future
Christ Unveiled Christ Unveiled Christ Unveiled Churches Unveiled Consummation Unveiled Consummation Unveiled Consummation Unveiled Consummation Unveiled Consummation Unveiled
God on Earth God on Earth God on Earth Gods Ambassadors on Earth Hell on Earth to Heaven on Earth Hell on Earth to Heaven on Earth Hell on Earth to Heaven on Earth Hell on Earth to Heaven on Earth Hell on Earth to Heaven on Earth
The Judge The Judge The Judge The Assignments The Judgments Rewards The Judgments Rewards The Judgments Rewards The Judgments Rewards The Judgments Rewards
Subject 11-3 Worship of Trinity 14-8 Glorified Christ 19-20 Seven Churches of Asia Ephesus Smyrna Pergamum Thyatira Sardis Philadelphia Laodicea Tribulation 411910 Second Coming 1911-21 Millennium 20 Eternal State 211225 Closing Imminency 226-21
AD 95 AD 95 AD 95 AD 95 AD 95 AD 95 AD 95 AD 95 AD 95
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The Seven Church of Revelation 2-3
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Pergamum
Thyatira
Smyrna
Sardis
Philadelphia
Ephesus
Laodicea
Patmos
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The Seal Judgments
The Scroll Sealed with Seven Seals
is firmly in the right hand of the Father!
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The Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of
David, has triumphed. He is able to open the
scroll and its seven seals (Rev. 55)
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The Four Horses (61-8)
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Martyrs Assured under the Altar (69-11)
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The Sixth Seal(Rev. 612)
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Chronology of Revelation
333
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144,000 sealed (71-8)
And I heard how many were marked with the seal of
God 144,000 were sealed from all the tribes of
Israel 5from Judah 12,000 from Reuben
12,000 from Gad 12,000 6from Asher 12,000 from
Naphtali 12,000 from Manasseh 12,000 7from Simeon
12,000 from Levi 12,000 from Issachar
12,000 8from Zebulun 12,000 from Joseph
12,000 from Benjamin 12,000
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Content of the Judgments
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SEALS TRUMPETS BOWLS
1 White conqueror Hail fire 1/3 vegetation Sores
2 Red war Fire 1/3 sea creatures Sea to blood
3 Black famine Star 1/3 fresh water Fresh water to blood
4 Pale death Dark 1/3 sun, moon, stars Sun burns men
(Trumpets 5-7 are woes)
5 Martyrs reassured Woe 1 locusts Beasts kingdom dark
6 Wrath earthquake, signs Woe 2 Euphrates prep Euphrates dries up
(144,000 sealed) (Trump 7 mystery)
7 1/2 hour silence Woe 3 victory imminent Earthquake hail
H O R S E S
W O E S
Adapted from Robert Gromacki, NT Survey and H.
Wayne House, Chronological Background Charts of
the NT, 19
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Judgments of the 70th Week
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Revelation 87 The first angel sounded his
trumpet, and there came hail and fire mixed with
blood, and it was hurled down upon the earth. A
third of the earth was burned up, a third of the
trees were burned up, and all the green grass was
burned up
Why Consecutive?

• Normal reading of text
• 1260 days (Rev. 126)
• Trump 1 begins after Seal 6
• Unrepeatable judgments

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The Angel with the Little Scroll (101)
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Olive Trees (114)
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The Woman the Dragon (121-6)
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Satan cast down (127-13)
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144,000 Sealed (141-8)
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Beasts of Rev. 13
Dragon Satan
Land Beast False Prophet
Sea Beast Antichrist
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Bowls (Rev. 15-16)
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Harlot Beast (Rev. 17-18)
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a white horse, whose rider is called Faithful
and True(1911)
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Beast False Prophet cast into lake of burning
sulfur(1920)
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Future Benefits(Rev. 19-20)
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The Angel with the Great Chain(201)
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He seized the dragon and bound him for 1000
years. He threw him into the Abyss, and locked
and sealed it over him(202-3a)
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Premillennialism
333b
Rapture
Second Coming
Second Advent
Church Age (no signs)
Tribulation
Millennium
Eternal Kingdom
7 years
1000 years
Judgment
Judgment
Revelation 6-18
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20
21-22
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Why am I Pretrib?

• The Tribulation tests unbelievers (310) under
  Gods wrath (616-17)
• Need to separate sheep from goats (Matt.
  2531-46)
• Need to repopulate the earth in the millennium
  (Isa. 6520)

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Why am I Premil?

• Rev. 19 (Christs return) is before Rev. 20
  (Christs rule)
• Natural way to see the 1000 years (201-6)
• OT prophets saw a future period which is neither
  the present age nor heaven
• Animal kingdom tamed (Isa. 116-9)
• Long life but still death (Isa. 6520)
• Yearly observances after Messiahs return (Zech.
  1415-17)

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Satan released(207-10)
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Then I saw a great white throne (2011)
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Differences Between the Millennium and Heaven
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Millennium Heaven
Duration 1000 years (Rev. 201-6) Eternal (Rev. 225)
Death Possible (Isa. 6520) Impossible (Rev. 214)
Longevity of Life Never again will there be an infant who lives a few days. He who dies at a hundred will be thought a mere youth (Isa. 6520) No aging (Rev. 214 implied)
Sin Nature Active (Rev. 207-9) Abolished (Rev. 2127)
Inhabitants Initially Christian, but later includes unbelieversno living with angels? (Matt. 2534 Rev. 207-9) Saints and angels alone (Rev. 2127)
Bodies Mortal and immortal living together (Isa. 6520 1 Cor. 1542-44) Only immortal (glorified) (1 Cor. 1542-44)
Satan Bound, but then released after 1000 years (Rev. 203, 7) In lake of burning sulfur, never to be released again (Rev. 2010)
Political Religious Centre Jerusalem (Isa. 22-3 Micah 41-2, 7) New Jerusalem (Rev. 21)
Place Earth (Rev. 510) New heavens and new earth (Rev. 211)
Key Passages Psalm 72 Isaiah 2 11 6566 Revelation 201-6 Revelation 2122
Millennium(Rev. 20) vs. Heaven (Rev. 21-22)
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The New Heaven New Earth
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The New Jerusalem
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Size of New Jerusalem 2,250,000 sq. miles
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The New Jerusalem SE Asia
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The New Jerusalem over present Jerusalem
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Figurative or Literal?
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A City of Gold
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Amen! Come Lord Jesus!
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