Outline of the Book of Revelation

The Revelation of Jesus Christ

Outline

 

I.  The Things Which Were Seen   –   Chapter 1
A.   Source, Subject, Blessing – 1:1-3
B.   Salutation – 1:4-8
C.   Vision of the Son of Man – 1:9-20
II. The Things Which Are   –   Chapters 2 & 3
A.   Message to the Churches

1.     Destination
2.     Description of Christ
3.     Commendation
4.     Rebuke
5.     Exhortation
6.     Promise
7.     Prophetic Application
B.   Churches

1.     Ephesus – 2:1-7

2.     Smyrna – 2:8-11

3.     Pergamum – 2:12-17

4.     Thyatira – 2:18-29

5.     Sardis – 3:1-6

6.     Philadelphia – 3:7-13

7.     Laodicea – 3:14-22

 

III. The Things Which Will Take Place   –   Chapters 4 – 22

A. The Prelude   4:1 – 5:14

1. The Worship of the Creator   4:1-11

2. The Worship of the Redeemer   5:1-14

 

B. The Seven Seals   6:1 – 8:1

1. Seals 1 – 6   6:1-17

Anti-Christ, War, Famine, Death, Tribulation Saints, Great Destruction

2. Interlude, 144,000   7:1-17

3. Seal 7   8:1

Silence, Seven Trumpets

 

C. Seven Trumpets   8:2 – 11:19

1. Trumpets 1-6   8:2 – 9:21

a.     Earthly Judgments

Vegetation, Ocean, Rivers, Heavens

b.     Three Woes

Fifth Trumpet Demons, Sixth Trumpet Vast Army

2. Interlude   10:1 – 11:14

Little Book, Two Witnesses

3. Trumpet Seven – Seven Bowls   11:15-19

 

D. The Seven Signs   12:1 – 14:20

1. Woman Clothed with the Sun   12:1-6

2. War in Heaven   12:7-12

3. Persecution of the Woman   12:13-17

4. Beast from the Sea   13:1-10

5. Beast from the Earth   13”11-18

6. The Lamb and the 144,000   14:1-5

7. Harvest of the Earth   14:6-20

 

E. The Seven Bowls   15:1 – 16:21

On the Earth, On the Sea, On the Rivers, Sun, Darkness & Scourge, Euphrates & Eastern Army, Earthquake & Hail & It’s Done

 

F. Destruction of Religious Babylon   17:1 – 18:24

 

G. The Seven Last Things   19:1 – 22:21

1, Return of the Son of God

2. Defeat and Destruction of the Beast

3. Binding of Satan

4. Millennial Reign of Christ

5. Final Rebellion of Satan

6.Great White Throne Judgment

7. Creation of New Heaven and New Earth