THE BOOK OF
REVELATION OUTLINE
Edited from
New Unger's Bible Dictionary
Revelation
I. Introduction and salutation (1:1-8)
II. PAST: "The things which you have seen": The
glorified Christ (1:9-20)
III. PRESENT: "The things which are": The seven
churches (2-3)
A. The apostolic church: Ephesus (2:1-7); 30-900
B. The persecuted church: Smyrna (2:8-11); 80-321
C. The worldly church: Pergamum (2:12-17); 321-600
D. The pagan church: Thyatira (2:18-29); 600-1517+
E. The Protestant church: Sardis (3:1-6) ; 1517+
F. The missionary church: Philadelphia (3:7-13): 1700s-1800s
G. The apostate church: Laodicea (3:14-22); 1850s+
IV. FUTURE: "What must take place after these
things":
Rapture of the
Church, the Great Tribulation and the Second Coming of Christ (4-22)
A. RAPTURE: The church in heaven with Christ (4)
1. Loosing of the seven-sealed book (5)
B. The Great Tribulation (6-11); 7 years2 3 1/2 yr periods
1. The seven seals (6:1-8:1); last seal opens trumpets
(1) false prophet (6:2)
(2) war (6:3-4)
(3) famine (6:5-6)
(4) death (6:7-8)
(5) martyrs (6:9-11)
(6) signs
(7) trumpets (8:1-2)
2. The seven trumpets (8:2-11:19)
(1) earth (8:7)
(2) sea (8:8-9)
(3) waters (8:10-11)
(4) lights (8:12-13)
(5) demons (9:1-12)
(6) Armageddon (9:16-21)
(7) end (11:15-19)
C. The seven performers during the Great Tribulation (12-13)
1. The woman: Israel (12:1-2)
2. The red dragon: Satan (12:3-4)
3. The male child: Christ (12:5-6)
4. Michael, the archangel, wars
with the dragon (12:7-12)
5. Satan's persecution of the woman, Israel (12:13-16)
6. The remnant of Israel (12:17)
7. The Beast out of the sea:
political power and a person (13:1-10)
8. The Beast out of the earth: Antichrist (13:11-18)
D. The latter part of the Great Tribulation (14)
1. The seven bowls (15-16)
2. Judgment of ecclesiastical and commercial Babylon (17-18)
3 Christ's second advent (19)
E. The Millennium (20)