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)