McClurg Ministries- Revelation

I. "The things which thou hast seen" (1:1-20)
A. Introduction (1:1-3)
B. Salutation (1:4-8)
C. The Patmos vision (1:9-18)
D. The command to write (1:19-20)
II. " The Things which are": the seven churches (2:1-3:22)
A. The message to Ephesus, first love left. (2:1-7)
B. The message to Smyrna, poor but rich church (2:8-11)
C. The message to Pergamos, false doctrines (2:12-17)
D. The message to Thyatira. False prophetess (2:18-29)
E. The message to Sardis. A believing remnant- A name of living, but was dead (3:1-6)
F. The message to Philadelphia. The true church in the professing church (3:7-13)
G. The message to Laodicea, lukewarm (3:14-22)
1. Place and attitude of Christ at the end of the church-age (3:20-22)
III. "Things which shall be hereafter" (4:1-22:21)
A. The seven seals (4:1-8:1)
1. Introduction (4:1-5:14)
a. The throne of heaven (4:1-3)
b. The enthroned elders (4:4-5)
c. The four living creatures- lion, eagle, face of a man, calf (4:6-8)
d. The living creatures and elders worship because of creation (4:9-11)
e. The seven-sealed book (5:1-4)
f. Christ in his kingly character opens the book, seen as Lamb (5:5-7)
g. The living creatures and elders worship because of redemption (5:8-10)
h. The angels exalt the Lamb (5:11-12)
i. Universal adoration of the Lamb who is King (5:13-14)
2. The Seals (6:1-8:1)
a. The first seal; white horse, to conquer (6:1-2)
b. The second seal: red horse, peace taken from earth (6:3-4)
c. The third seal: black horse, balances, famine (wheat/barely prices as daily wages) hurt
not oil/wine (6:5-6)
d. The fourth seal: pale horse and rider death and hell followed (6:7-8)
e. The fifth seal: the martyred remnant under the altar (6:9-11)
f. The sixth seal: sun-black; moon-blood; stars-fell; heaven-rolled up, Day of His wrath
(6:12-17)
g. Set off, named: the saved of the tribulation period (7:1-17)
(1) The remnant out of Israel sealed (7:4-8)
(2) Vision of the Gentiles who are to be saved during the great tribulation (7:9-17)
h. The seventh seal, silence in heaven 1/2 hour; out of which the trumpets come (8:1)
B. The seven trumpets (8:2-11:19)
1. Introduction: Christ as High Priest; prayers of saints with fire thrown to earth, earthquakes
etc. (8:2-6)
2. The trumpet judgments (8:7-11:19)
a. The first trumpet: hail, fire and blood on earth 1/3 trees all grass burns up (8:7)
b. The second trumpet: mt. burning cast into the sea and 1/3 creatures and ships
destroyed (8:8-9)
c. The third trumpet: Star Wormwood fell on rivers and fountains and made them bitter
(8:10-11)
d. The fourth trumpet: sun, moon, and stars shine not for 1/3 of day (8:12-13)
e. The fifth trumpet: the first woe; star with key to bottomless pit opens it and scorpion
like creatures come out to hurt those with out the seal of God for 5 months (9:1-12)
f. The sixth trumpet: 1/3 of men killed by 4 angels loosed from Euphrates with 200,000,000;
yet those left did not repent (9:13-21)
g. John to eat the book from angel's hand; Time to be no more (10:1-11:14)
(1) The mighty angel and the "little book" (10:1-7)
(2) The "little book" eaten (10:8-11)
(3) The "times of the Gentiles" to end in forty-two months (11:1-2)
(4) The two witnesses to Prophesy forty-two months (11:3-12)
(5) The second woe (11:13-14)
h. The seventh trumpet: time to judge dead, reward servants, Temple and ark in heaven
(11:15-19)
C. The seven personages (12:1-13:18)
1. The woman: Israel. The woman clothed with the sun, and the man-child (12:1-2)
2. Satan as great red dragon with 7 heads and 10 horns and crowns (12:3-4)
3. The Child: Christ child rule with rod of iron (12:5-6)
4. The archangel Michael (12:7-16)
a. Woman gives wings to get away from serpent's flood (12:13-16)
5. The remnant of woman's seed then warred by dragon (12:17)
6. The Beast out of the sea with blasphemy on his head (13:11-18)
7. The Beast out of the earth, deceiver with power like 1st beast (13:11-18)
D. The fall of Babylon (14:1-13)
1. Vision of the Lamb and the one hundred and forty and four thousand (14:1-5)
2. The vials of the wrath of God upon the earth (16:1-21)
a. The first vial: sores on those with mark of the beast (16:2)
b. The second vial: sea became blood (16:3)
c. The third vial: rivers/fountains became blood (16:4-7)
d. The fourth vial: sun scorch men (16:8-9)
e. The fifth vial: poured on seat of beast; they gnawed their tongues in pain (16:10-11)
f. The sixth vial: unclean spirits from dragon, beast and false prophet gather Armageddon
(16:12)
g. The seventh vial: It is done. Great Earthquake, Babylon before God, blasphemed.
(16:17-21)
G. The seven dooms (17:1-20:15)
1. The doom of "Babylon" (17:1-19:19)
a. The divine view of "Babylon": causing kings and people to commit fornication (17:1-7)
b. War with the Lamb, King of Kings wins with called, chosen and faithful (17:8-18)
c. Babylon is fallen: the warning to God's people (18:1-8)
d. The human view of "Babylon" (18:9-19)
e. The angelic view of "Babylon" (18:20-24)
f. The four alleluias of the glorified saints: Praise that marriage of Lamb has come (19:1-6)
g. The marriage of the Lamb (19:7-10)
h. The second coming of Christ in glory (19:11-16)
i. The battle of Armageddon (19:17-19)
2. Doom of the Beast, and Doom of the False Prophet into lake of fire (19:20)
3. Doom of the kings (19:21-20:15)
a. Satan bound in the bottomless pit during the kingdom-age (20:1-3)
b. The first resurrection, and kingdom-age (20:1-3)
c. Satan loosed: the doom of Satan (20:10)
d. The doom of Satan (20:10)
e. Doom of the unbelieving dead: the last judgment (20:11-15)
H. The seven new things (21:1-22:7)
1. The new heaven, and the new earth (21:1-2)
2. The new peoples (21:3-8)
3. The Lamb's wife: the new Jerusalem (21:9-21)
4. The new light is the glory of God and the Lamb (21:22)
5. The new light is the glory of God and the Lamb (21:23-27)
6. The new Paradise and its river of the water of life (22:1-7)
I. The last message of the Bible (22:8-19)
J. The last promise and the last prayer of the Bible (22:20-21)