ANALYSIS
ANALYSIS
I. PROLOGUE (1:1-20)
A. INTRODUCTION (1:1-3)
B. SALUTATION (1:4-8)
C. THE FIRST VISION (1:9-20)
i. The command to write (1:9-11)
ii. The vision of the glorious Lord (1:12-20)
II. THE LETTERS TO THE CHURCHES (2:1-3:22)
A. TO THE CHURCH OF EPHESUS (2:1-7)
B. TO THE CHURCH OF SMYRNA (2:8-11)
C. TO THE CHURCH OF PERGAMUM (2:12-17)
D. TO THE CHURCH OF THYATIRA (2:18-29)
E. TO THE CHURCH OF SARDIS (3:1-6)
F. TO THE CHURCH OF PHILADELPHIA (3:7-13)
G. TO THE CHURCH OF LAODICEA (3:14-22)
III. A VISION OF HEAVEN (4:1-11)
IV. THE SEVEN SEALS (5:1-8:5)
A. THE UNOPENED BOOK (5:1-4)
B. THE LION OF THE TRIBE OF JUDAH (5:5-14)
C. THE FIRST SEAL (6:1-2)
D. THE SECOND SEAL (6:3-4)
E. THE THIRD SEAL (6:5-6)
F. THE FOURTH SEAL (6:7-8)
G. THE FIFTH SEAL (6:9-11)
H. THE SIXTH SEAL (6:12-17)
I. AN INTERLUDE (7:I-I7)
i. The sealing of the servants of God (7:1-8)
ii. The great multitude (7:9-17)
J. THE SEVENTH SEAL (8:1-5)
V. THE SEVEN TRUMPETS (8:6-11:19)
A. THE FIRST TRUMPET (8:6-7)
B. THE SECOND TRUMPET (8:8-9)
C. THE THIRD TRUMPET (8:10-11)
D. THE FOURTH TRUMPET (8:12)
E. THE EAGLE (8:13)
F. THE FIFTH TRUMPET (9:1-12)
G. THE SIXTH TRUMPET (9:13-21)
H. AN INTERLUDE (10:1 - 11:14)
i. The little book and the seven thunders (10:1-4)
ii. The angel’s oath (10:5-7)
iii. The little book (10:8-11)
iv. The two witnesses (11:1-14)
I. THE SEVENTH TRUMPET (11:15-19)
VI. SEVEN SIGNIFICANT SIGNS (12:1-14:20)
A. THE WOMAN CLOTHED WITH THE SUN (12:1-6)
B. SATAN CAST OUT (12:7-12)
C. WAR BETWEEN SATAN AND THE WOMAN AND HER SON (12:13-17)
D. THE BEAST FROM THE SEA (13:1-10)
E. THE BEAST FROM THE EARTH (13:11-18)
F. THE LAMB ON MOUNT ZION (14:1-5)
G. THE HARVEST OF THE EARTH (14:6-20)
i. Three angels proclaim judgment (14:6-12)
ii. The dead who die in the Lord (14:13)
iii. The reaper on the cloud (14:14-16)
iv. The vintage (14:17-20)
VII. THE SEVEN LAST PLAGUES (15:1-16:21)
A. PRELIMINARIES (15:1-8)
B. THE FIRST BOWL (16:1-2)
C. THE SECOND BOWL (16:3)
D. THE THIRD BOWL (16:4-7)
E. THE FOURTH BOWL (16:8-9)
F. THE FIFTH BOWL (16:10-11)
G. THE SIXTH BOWL (16:12-16)
H. THE SEVENTH BOWL (16:17-21)
VIII. THE TRIUMPH OF ALMIGHTY GOD (17:1-20:15)
A. THE JUDGMENT OF THE GREAT WHORE (17:1-18)
i. The woman seated on the beast (17:1-6)
ii. The significance of the woman and the beast (17:7-14)
iii. The punishment of the whore (17:15-18)
B. THE JUDGMENT OF BABYLON (18:1 - 19:5)
i. The fall of Babylon (18:1-3)
ii. A call to leave the city (18:4-5)
iii. Judgment on the city (18:6-8)
iv. A lament over the city’s fall (18:9-19)
v. The destruction of the city (18:20-24)
vi. A thanksgiving for the judgment of Babylon (19:1-5)
C. THE MARRIAGE OF THE LAMB (19:6-10)
D. THE FINAL VICTORY (19:11 - 20:15)
i. One called ‘the Word of God’ (19:11-16)
ii. The overthrow of the beast and the false prophet (19:17-21)
iii. Satan bound (20:1-3)
iv. The first resurrection (20:4-6)
v. Satan’s final overthrow (20:7-10)
vi. The last judgment (20:11-15)
IX. A NEW HEAVEN AND A NEW EARTH (21:1 - 22:5)
A. ‘GOD ... WITH THEM’ (21:1-4)
B. SEPARATION BETWEEN GOOD AND EVIL (21:5-8)
C. THE HOLY CITY (21:9-21)
D. ‘NO NIGHT THERE’ (21:22 - 22:5)
X. EPILOGUE (22:6-21)