Resources for a Biblical Worldview
Section: Keywords • Controversial Topics • Complex Topics • Connecting the Dots • Differentiations • Closer Looks •
| 1:1-8 | Intro | |
| 1:9-20 | A vision of Christ | |
| Letters to the seven churches | ||
| 2:1-7 | Ephesus | |
| 2:8-11 | Smyrna | |
| 2:12-17 | Pergamum | |
| 2:18-29 | Thyatira | |
| 3:1-6 | Sardis | |
| 3:7-13 | Philadelphia | |
| 3:14-22 | Laodicia | |
| 4:1-11 | God worshiped on his throne by 4 animals and 24 elders (remember EZK 1:1-3:14) | |
| Beginning of the Great Tribulation with a scroll with seven seals | ||
| 5:1-14 | Who is worthy to open the scroll? Jesus the Lamb of God | |
| 6:1-8 | Breaking the 1st four seals brings the "Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse": · White: wins victories · Red: removes peace from Earth · Black: (not clear, some sort of judgment) · Pale green: brings death to ¼ the Earth | |
| 6:9-11 | Breaking the 5th seal brings martyrs asking for justice, but they are told to wait | |
| 6:12-17 | Breaking the 6th seal makes the heaves, mountains and islands disappear, and the sky is rolled back and taken away, and all people try to hide from judgment | |
| 7:1-8 | Four angels hold back the four winds of the Earth, and God's people get his seal on their forehead | |
| 7:9-17 | Innumerable people robed in white worship God | |
| 8:1-2 | Breaking the 7th seal brings silence for ½ hour, then 7 angels are given 7 trumpets | |
| 8:3-5 | An angel offers incense to God | |
| Seven trumpets | ||
| 8:6-12 | The first 4 angels blow their trumpets | |
| 8:13-9:12 | The 5th angel blows the 5th trumpet, bringing the 1st terror: locusts with horses bodies, human heads and a scorpion's sting to torture people for 5 months | |
| 9:13-21 | The 6th angel blows the 6th trumpet, bringing the 2nd terror: 4 more angels on horses bring fire, smoke and burning sulfur | |
| 10:1-11 | An angel has a sweet and sour scroll and warns of the 3rd terror | |
| 11:1-4 | The 2 witnesses | |
| 11:5-19 | The 7th angel blows the 7th trumpet, lots of voices are heard in heaven and God's temple opens | |
| Dragon and the two beasts | ||
| 12:1-18 | The symbolic woman and the dragon, a metaphorical history lesson (followup 17:1-7) | |
| 13:1-10 | The 1st beast comes out of the sea and serves the dragon | |
| 13:11-18 | The 2nd beast comes out of the earth and serves the 1st (14-15: the statue (see DAN 9:27, 11:31-32, 12:11-12, MT 24:15-25, MK 13:14-23) 16-18: the mark) | |
| End of the Great Tribulation | ||
| 14:1-5 | 144,000 worship God with a new song | |
| 14:6-13 | 3 angels fly across the sky with proclamations and warnings | |
| 14:14-16 | The righteous are harvested from the Earth | |
| 14:17-20 | The unrighteous are harvested from the Earth | |
| 15:2-4 | The righteous praise God on a sea of glass & fire | |
| Seven bowls | ||
| 15:1,5-16:1 | 7 angels are introduced with the last 7 plagues | |
| 16:2 | 1st angel, 1st plague: sores appear on those carrying the mark of the beast | |
| 16:3 | 2nd angel, 2nd plague: the sea turns to blood and everything in it dies | |
| 16:4-7 | 3rd angel, 3rd plague: the rivers & springs turn to blood | |
| 16:8-9 | 4th angel, 4th plague: a sun burst burns everyone, they curse God but do not repent | |
| 16:10-11 | 5th angel, 5th plague: kingdom of the beast plunged into darkness, people again curse God and do not repent | |
| 16:12 | 6th angel, 6th plague: Euphrates dried up in prep for war | |
| 16:13-16 | 3 frogs (spirits) come from the mouth of the beast, preparations begin for war at Armageddon | |
| 16:17-21 | 7th angel, 7th plague: the worst earthquake the world has ever seen followed by 75 pound hailstorm followed by more grumbling against God | |
| End of time | ||
| 17:1-7 | John is shown a vision of a woman (prostitute) sitting on a dragon (remember ch 12) | |
| 17:8-18 | The vision is explained by an angel | |
| 18:1-24 | Angelic and divine description of the impending complete and final destruction of Babylon | |
| 19:1-10 | Heaven rejoices at the fall of Babylon | |
| 19:11-16 | The 2nd coming of Jesus Christ | |
| 19:17-21 | The 'battle' of Armageddon (pretty lopsided), the imprisonment of the beast and the false prophet | |
| 20:1-3 | Temporary imprisonment of Satan | |
| 20:4-6 | The 1,000 year reign of Christ and the resurrected martyrs of the beast | |
| 20:7-9 | Satan let free, gathers people to war against God, but God just sends fire from heaven and kills them all | |
| 20:10 | Satan imprisoned forever | |
| 20:11-15 | The 2nd (final) judgment and 2nd death (for those whose names are not written in the Book of Life) | |
| Beginning of eternity | ||
| 21:1-8 | Presentation of the new Heaven, new Earth & new Jerusalem (compare 21:1 to 20:11) | |
| 21:9-27 | Detailed description of the new Jerusalem city | |
| 22:1-5 | Description of the river and trees just outside the city | |
| 22:6-21 | Concluding remarks (especially do not add or subtract) | |
Last Modified: Friday, January 13, 2012