Revelation

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Revelation

• An overview
• Robert C. Newman

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Outline of Revelation

• On the broadest level, there is considerable
  disagreement on how to outline the book. We will
  follow George Ladd's suggestion.
• There is general agreement on how the book is
  structured at the next level down, e.g., letters
  to churches, the seven seals, etc.

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Ladd's Structure

• Prologue (11-8)
• 1st Vision (19-322) The Present
• 2nd Vision (41-1621) The Future
• 3rd Vision (171-218) The End
• 4th Vision (219-225) The Beginning
• Epilogue (226-21)

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First Vision The Present

• Vision of the glorified Christ (19-20)
• His letters to the seven churches (21-322)

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Second Vision The Future

• The heavenly throne room (41-11)
• The seven seals (51-81)
• The seven trumpets (82-1119)
• 2nd vision interlude (121-1420)
• The seven bowls (151-1621)

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The Third Vision The End

• Babylon destroyed (171-195)
• Final victory (196-218)

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The Fourth Vision The Beginning

• The New Jerusalem (219-27)
• The River of Life (221-5)

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More Detail Next Level Down
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The seven seals (51-81)

• The scroll the Lamb (51-14)
• Six seals are opened (61-17)
• Seal interlude 2 multitudes (71-17)
• The 144,000 (71-8)
• The innumerable multitude (79-17)
• The seventh seal (81)

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The seven trumpets (82-1420)

• Trumpets prepare to sound (82-6)
• Six trumpets sounded (87-921)
• The trumpet interlude angel w/ scroll 2
  witnesses (101-1113)
• The seventh trumpet sounds (1114-20)

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2nd vision interlude (121-1420)

• The dragon, the woman her seed (121-17)
• The two beasts (131-18)
• The 144,000, the 3 angels, the 2 harvests
  (141-20)

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The seven bowls (151-1621)

• The bowls prepared (151-8)
• The bowls poured out (161-21)

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Babylon destroyed (171-195)

• The woman on the beast (171-18)
• The judgment on the city (181-195)

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Final victory (196-218)

• The marriage of the Lamb (196-10)
• Christ's second coming (1911-21)
• The millennial rule (201-10)
• The last judgment (2011-15)
• New heavens new earth (211-8)

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The End

• What practical applications do we find in the
  book of Revelation?

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Practical Applications

• Worship! more in this book than in any book of
  the New Testament.
• Persecution believers can expect to face
  persecution in this world, especially at the end.
  
• Future hope here is the clearest picture of the
  hope which believers have, which should motivate
  them to serve God.