–Revelation in a Nutshell!
About John
The Book of Revelation Summary is the fruit of the apostle John, John the beloved, John the revelator, John the author of the Gospel of John, was getting this revelation on the Island of Patmos as an exile, banished there around the 90s AD.
The Roman’s had tried to kill him, boil him in oil and so on, but he wouldn’t boil, so they sent him to the Island of Patmos, where they thought he couldn’t subvert any Romans with the Christian Gospel that threatened the Roman Empire!
In so doing, they helped the plan of God, and in his solitude, he was better able to listen to God and receive these amazing revelations! And here we are studying the Words he received on that island, which have spread around the World for 2000 years!
Book of Revelation Summary. The Division of the Chapters
You’ll find the book of revelation is divided into three beautiful divisions of exactly seven chapters each–plus one. It’s 22 chapters and the 21 chapters have three divisions of seven chapters each, plus a glorious and beautiful 22nd chapter about Heaven.
Each group of seven chapters covers a different subject.
The FIRST SEVEN chapters are like the introduction to the essence of the book, a general introduction to the Endtime, because the first seven chapters cover the entire history of man from John’s day to the End. These chapters also tell of the book with seven seals, a scroll with seven seals that Jesus opens. As He breaks open each seal, a different period of history occurs.
The SECOND SEVEN chapters, the 8th through the 14th, have to do with a famous and very great and important final period of man’s history known as the reign of the Antichrist and the Great Tribulation period. This includes the 7 great Trumpets of Tribulation and all the terrible things that happen, ending with the marvelous coming of Christ and the Rapture of His saints in the 14th chapter!
In the LAST SEVEN chapters, plus one, we find a detailed description of this end period, including some more details about the Wrath of God and the great destruction of Babylon, the World System, and the final great Battle of Armageddon in which the forces of God fight against the forces of Satan and destroy him, or at least defeat him, and his Antichrist Devil-man and his False Prophet and his whole kingdom, and gain a glorious victory as Jesus comes back again, this time with us on great white horses to charge through the skies to conquer the forces of the Enemy, to set up His Kingdom here on Earth!
—Followed by the wonderful, beautiful, heavenly kingdom of Jesus Christ on earth, Heaven on earth, called the Millennium because it lasts a thousand years on the Earth as it should have been, like the Garden of Eden restored again! No more pollution, no more curse and almost no more death! If anybody dies at even a hundred years of age, they’ll think he’s just a child! You’ll be long-lived, like they were before the flood, when they lived to be nearly a thousand years of age! People will live like that again during the Millennium.
OUTLINE
Chapter 1: introduction of things shortly coming to pass.
Chapters 2 and 3: Letters to the Churches, churches that existed in that day in Asia, as well as types of churches to come and church periods to come.
Chapters 4 and 5: the Throne Scene, with the Lamb of God, Jesus Christ, upon the throne in Heaven, Who opens the 7-sealed Book of the Future!
Chapter 6: The opening of the first six seals and a preview of the whole contents of history to the End!
Chapter 7: The sealing of the saints, protecting the final saints before the Tribulation days.
Chapters 8 and 9: The Tribulation Trumpets, the seven great trumpets of the Tribulation, and the angels of God are warned only to hurt the unsealed, only to wreak the judgments of God upon those who do not have the seal of God in their foreheads but have taken the seal of the Antichrist instead, the Mark of the Beast!
Chapter 10: A grand announcement that the end is coming soon!
Chapter 11: The Two Witnesses of the Tribulation and their Rapture, some of the details of the Endtime, lasting 42 months or 1260 days.
Chapter 12: The Church in Tribulation, 1260 days, the Dragon wars with the Church.
Chapter 13: The Great Red Beast of Tribulation, a harsh rule lasting 42 months, the Antichrist government.
Chapter 14: The Rapture of the Church, God’s Children, and the Wrath of God after the gospel has been preached in all the World and the destruction of Babylon, the great World System of the Devil!
Chapter 15-16: The WRATH OF GOD, with the Angels of Wrath and the Vials of Wrath!
17th Chapter: The picture of Babylon and the Beast, the World System and its worship of materialism and its beastly government of the Antichrist and the Devil himself.
Chapter 18: The Destruction of Babylon in one hour! The great Materialistic System of the World is going to be destroyed in one hour!
Chapter 19: ARMAGEDDON, that final great battle of this period on earth and the marvelous victory of Jesus Christ over Satan and his Devil-man and his False Prophet!
Chapter 20: the Millennium and the Battle of Gog and Magog following, in which Satan and all his hosts and the wicked are completely wiped out and forever, completely! Followed by the Great White Throne Judgment of the unsaved dead.
CHAPTERS 21 and 22: are really the only detailed specific description in the whole Bible of what Heaven is like, and to your surprise, you find out that Heaven is on earth! A beautiful New Earth, even more beautiful than the first one! No more sea, no more high rugged mountains, just beautiful rolling lovely green pasture and farmlands and trees and flowers and no deadly insects, reptiles, vipers, pests, or anything that would hurt in the whole creation! Everything is beautiful, nothing deadly, nothing harmful and no curse.