Messages to the Seven Churches--Chap. 2-3
Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis,
Philadelphia, Laodicea
SEQUENCE #1--Chap. 4-11
Heavenly Worship--Chap. 4
Prelude--Chap. 5
Seven Seals--Chap. 6-8:1
White horse (conquest), Red horse (war), Black horse
(famine), Green horse (Death), Souls of Martyrs
under the Altar, Signs in heavens (cf. Mt. 24:29-30),
[Interlude: 144,000 on earth; multitude in heaven]
Silence for half an hour
Seven Trumpets--Chap. 8:2-11:19 (warning plagues)
Destroyed 1/3 of earth, 1/3 of sea, 1/3 of rivers,
1/3 of heavens, Locusts from bottomless pit 5 months.,
1/3 of mankind destroyed by cavalry of 200 million,
[Interlude: 7 thunders, John eats scroll, 2 witnesses]
Reigning in Kingdom and dead judged (end of world)
SEQUENCE #2--Chap. 12-14
woman with child (Israel?), great red dragon (Satan),
male child (Christ), war in heaven, Satan defeated
(v.10 res. & Pent.), offspring of woman (Christians),
beast from sea (7 heads & 10 horns= political power),
beast from earth (religious power), Lamb & 144,000,
3 proclaiming angels, Son of man on clouds, harvest
SEQUENCE #3--Chap. 15-16 (7 bowls of wrath=last 7 plagues)
[flashback & expansion; cf. 15:5 & 16:18-21 with 11:19]
Destruction of Earth, Sea, Rivers, Sun, Throne of beast,
Preparation for Armageddon, Destruction of Babylon
SEQUENCE #4--Chap. 17-18 (expansion of 16:19)
harlot on beast (Rome; cf. 17:18)
[7 kings: Egypt, Assyria, Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece,
Rome, Muslim rule?]
destruction of Babylon
SEQUENCE #5--Chap. 19-20
Marriage supper of the Lamb, Defeat of beast & false
prophet, Thousand year reign, Defeat of Satan, Judgment
The New Jerusalem--Chap. 21-22:5 (glorified church)
