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    REVELATION

    OUTLINE OF CONTENTS

    • 1

      • A revelation from God, through Jesus (1-3)

      • Greetings to the seven congregations (4-8)

        • “I am the Alpha and the Omega” (8)

      • John in the Lord’s day by inspiration (9-11)

      • Vision of the glorified Jesus (12-20)

    • 2

      • Messages to Ephesus (1-7), to Smyrna (8-11), to Pergamum (12-17), to Thyatira (18-29)

    • 3

      • Messages to Sardis (1-6), to Philadelphia (7-13), to Laodicea (14-22)

    • 4

      • Vision of Jehovah’s heavenly presence (1-11)

        • Jehovah seated on his throne (2)

        • The 24 elders on thrones (4)

        • The four living creatures (6)

    • 5

      • A scroll with seven seals (1-5)

      • The Lamb takes the scroll (6-8)

      • The Lamb is worthy to open the seals (9-14)

    • 6

      • The Lamb opens the first six seals (1-17)

        • Conqueror on the white horse (1, 2)

        • Rider of fiery-colored horse to take away peace (3, 4)

        • Rider of black horse to bring famine (5, 6)

        • Rider of pale horse is named Death (7, 8)

        • Slaughtered ones under the altar (9-11)

        • A great earthquake (12-17)

    • 7

      • Four angels holding back destructive winds (1-3)

      • The 144,000 sealed (4-8)

      • A great crowd in white robes (9-17)

    • 8

      • The seventh seal opened (1-6)

      • Sounding the first four trumpets (7-12)

      • Three woes announced (13)

    • 9

      • The fifth trumpet (1-11)

      • One woe past, two more coming (12)

      • The sixth trumpet (13-21)

    • 10

      • A strong angel with a little scroll (1-7)

        • “No delay any longer” (6)

        • Sacred secret to be finished (7)

      • John eats the little scroll (8-11)

    • 11

      • The two witnesses (1-13)

        • Prophesying 1,260 days in sackcloth (3)

        • Killed and left unburied (7-10)

        • Brought to life after three and a half days (11, 12)

      • Second woe past, third coming (14)

      • The seventh trumpet (15-19)

        • Kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ (15)

        • Those ruining the earth will be brought to ruin (18)

    • 12

      • The woman, the male child, and the dragon (1-6)

      • Michael battles the dragon (7-12)

        • Dragon hurled to the earth (9)

        • Devil knows he has a short time (12)

      • Dragon persecutes the woman (13-17)

    • 13

      • Seven-headed wild beast from the sea (1-10)

      • Two-horned beast from the earth (11-13)

      • Image of the seven-headed beast (14, 15)

      • Mark and number of the wild beast (16-18)

    • 14

      • The Lamb and the 144,000 (1-5)

      • Messages from three angels (6-12)

        • Angel in midheaven with good news (6, 7)

      • Happy are those who die in union with Christ (13)

      • Two harvests of the earth (14-20)

    • 15

      • Seven angels with seven plagues (1-8)

        • The song of Moses and of the Lamb (3, 4)

    • 16

      • Seven bowls of God’s anger (1-21)

        • Poured out on the earth (2), the sea (3), the rivers and springs (4-7), the sun (8, 9), the throne of the wild beast (10, 11), the Euphrates (12-16), and the air (17-21)

        • God’s war at Armageddon (14, 16)

    • 17

      • Judgment on “Babylon the Great” (1-18)

        • The great prostitute sits on a scarlet-colored beast (1-3)

        • The beast ‘was, is not, but is to ascend out of the abyss’ (8)

        • Ten horns to fight the Lamb (12-14)

        • Ten horns to hate the prostitute (16, 17)

    • 18

      • Fall of “Babylon the Great” (1-8)

        • “Get out of her, my people” (4)

      • Mourning over Babylon’s fall (9-19)

      • Rejoicing in heaven over Babylon’s fall (20)

      • Babylon to be hurled into the sea like a stone (21-24)

    • 19

      • Praise Jah for his judgments (1-10)

        • Marriage of the Lamb (7-9)

      • Rider on a white horse (11-16)

      • Great evening meal of God (17, 18)

      • Wild beast defeated (19-21)

    • 20

      • Satan bound for 1,000 years (1-3)

      • Millennial rulers with Christ (4-6)

      • Satan released, then destroyed (7-10)

      • The dead judged before the white throne (11-15)

    • 21

      • A new heaven and a new earth (1-8)

        • No more death (4)

        • All things made new (5)

      • New Jerusalem described (9-27)

    • 22

      • River of water of life (1-5)

      • Conclusion (6-21)

        • ‘Come! Take life’s water free’ (17)

        • “Come, Lord Jesus” (20)