Outline of Revelation

An Outline of the Book of Revelation
 
I. Introduction and salutation (1:1-8)
II. "The things which you have seen": The glorified Christ (1:9-20)
III. "The things which are": The seven churches        (2-3)
      A. The apostolic church: Ephesus (2:1-7)
      B. The persecuted church: Smyrna (2:8-11)
      C. The worldly church: Pergamum (2:12-17)
      D. The pagan church: Thyatira (2:18-29)
      E. The Protestant church: Sardis (3:1-6)
      F. The missionary church: Philadelphia (3:7-13)
      G. The apostate church: Laodicea (3:14-22)
IV. "What must take place after these things": The Great Tribulation and the second
      coming of Christ (4-22)
      A. The church in heaven with Christ (4)
           1. Loosing of the seven-sealed book (5)
      B. The Great Tribulation (6-11)
           1. The seven seals (6:1-8:1)
           2. The seven trumpets (8:2-11:19)
      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)
      E. The seven bowls (15-16)
      F. Judgment of ecclesiastical and commercial Babylon (17-18)
      G. Christ's second advent             (19)
      H. The Millennium (20)
       I. Eternity unveiled (21-22)
          1. The new earth (21:1)
          2. The New Jerusalem (21:2-27)
          3. The new river (22:1-7)