Revelation Review (Chapter 1-13)

The Book of Revelation Outline by Chapters

Chapter 1: Intro & blessing

 LEARNED: Jesus’ people are obviously different than the culture in which they live.  

Chapter 2-3: Jesus’ report to the 7 churches of Asia Minor 

1.     Ephesus

a.     Good doctrine

b.     Loss of 1^st love

c.     Remember & repent

2.     Smyrna

a.     Endured persecution & spiritually rich

b.     Stay faithful

3.     Pergamum

a.     Held fast to Christ

b.     Accepted false teaching

c.     Told to repent

4.     Thyatira

a.     Growing love & good deeds

b.     Tolerant of sin & lack of discernment

c.     Told to Hold fast & keep doing good works

5.     Sardis

a.     NOTHING GOOD

b.     Dead works

c.     Told to repent 

6.     Philadelphia

a.     Patient endurance & NOT denying Jesus’ name.

b.     NOTHING BAD

c.     Keep doing what you’re doing!

7.     Laodicea

a.     NOTHING GOOD

b.     Spiritually blind, bankrupt, naked, and lukewarm. 

c.     Will spit you out of Christ’s mouth.

Learned:

What We DO & BELIEVE both matter to God!  

Repentance is a mark of God’s people.  

Chapter 4: Heaven revealed

Chapter 5: Only Jesus is worthy to take the scroll from God the Father’s right hand and open its seals.

Learned:

1.     That's God’s plan to redeem the earth back to Himself & it’s original state prior to the fall in Genesis 3.

2.     Jesus is worthy of worship & praise & thankfulness for His role! We commit ourselves to His LORDSHIP!

Chapter 6: 6 of the 7 Seals Opened.  

Seals

1White horse (counterfeit Christ)

a.     Comes in peace & Brings peace for a time

b.     Restores the Temple in Jerusalem

c.     Until he enters & declares himself God   

2Red horse (war)

3 Black horse (famine)

a.     Natural result of war

b.     Came with a pair of scales

4 Pale Horse (pestilence & death)

5Martyrs under the alter

a.     Crying out with ALL saints for God to answer their prayers & deal with sin & Satan! 

b.     Jesus lets them know HE will answer. He has heard. Waiting on the last few believers!

6.Physical changes in Heaven & on Earth.

a.     Earthquake, sun black, full moon like blood, stars falling to earth.

b.     People fleeing to the mountains

Chapter 7: Intermission following the opening of the 6^th Seal.

Chapter 8-9: The 7^th Seal opened which opened 7 trumpet judgments. 

7 Trumpet Judgments

1.     Hail & fire mixed with blood cast on land – burned up 1/3 earth

2.     Burning mountain cast into sea– 1/3 turned to blood

3.     Burning stars fall on rivers and springs – 1/3 bitter

4.     1/3 of sun moon and stars darkened.

5.     Demons from the abyss to wreak havoc on the earth. 1/3 of people killed

6.     Invasion from the east killing 1/3^rd of mankind

7.     Opening of the Bowl Judgements

Chapter 10-11: Intermission following the start of the 6^th trumpet judgment

Chapter 11: The 7^th Trumpet judgments 

Chapter 12: The women and the dragon (Israel & Satan)

Learned: Satan has tried to stop Gods plan many times in many ways.

*Chapter 12 – 15 is the interim between the last Trumpet (7) & the 1^st Bowl Judgment

Chapter 13: The 2 Beast (Antichrist & False Prophet)

Learned: The beast was a combination & culmination of the beast in Daniels dream in Daniel 7. 

the 7 churches in Asia Minor 

the beast described in Revelation 13 which is made up of the beasts in Daniel 7

the beasts described in Daniel 7 which will culminate into the beast of Revelation 13 

the statue described in Daniel 2 which are the nations that would come after that point which will culminate into the final beast 

timeline of events in Revelation (debatable) 

I'm looking forward to preaching the remainder of the Book of Revelation over the next several weeks!