Outlines in the book of Revelation (in progress) May 30, 2010

List of outlines:

• Focus and Emphasis – Jesus Christ
• Introduction – Revelation concludes the Bible
• The Lamb of God – runs from Gen to Rev
• Details of Genesis 1,2 and Revelation 21,22
• Revelation 21,22 – the Holy City details
• River in the Bible – runs from Gen to Rev
• The tabernacle - runs from Gen to Rev
• God’s purpose - runs from Gen to Rev
• Four main visions – 4 times “in spirit”

Focus and Emphasis – Jesus Christ

• The revelation of Jesus Christ – Rev 1:1
• Almost every chapter has something on Christ - The one exception is chapter 13 on the Anti-Christ
• What the emphasis is not – Anti-Christ or final day’s wars and world troubles
• Now go through all chapters and show the attributes and works of Jesus Christ
• Chapter 1 – Revelation, Grace and Peace, faithful witness, firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth, him that loveth us, loosed us from our sins by his blood, He made us [to be] a kingdom, [to be] priests, he cometh , every eye shall see him, tribulation and kingdom and patience [which are] in Jesus, the testimony of Jesus
• Chapter 1 – son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about at the breasts with a golden girdle. 14 And his head and his hair were white as white wool, [white] as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire; 15 and his feet like unto burnished brass, as if it had been refined in a furnace; and his voice as the voice of many waters. 16 And he had in his right hand seven stars: and out of his mouth proceeded a sharp two-edged sword: and his countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength.
• Chapter 1 – I am the first and the last, 18 and the Living one; and I was dead, and behold, I am alive for evermore, and I have the keys of death and of Hades.

Introduction – Revelation concludes the Bible

Final details to God’s purpose, the Earth, Man, Satan, Evil – God wins

• Answers a lot of questions
• what finally happens to Earth, Man, Satan, Evil,
• does God and righteousness finally win
• How does all the ages of lawlessness, pain and unrighteousness get resolved with a just God

Revelation chapter 21 and 22 is a concluding mirror to Genesis chapter 1 and 2.

• Many items are in both sections
• God, man, earth,
• Gold, silver, precious stones, river, tree of life
• Garden becomes city
• Purpose for man in Gen 1:26 fulfilled in Revelation
• Image – Man expresses God
• Dominion – Man rules for God
• Revelation 20 is a concluding mirror to Genesis chapter 3
• Genesis chapter 3 - Satan comes in and deceives man
• Revelation 20 - Satan cast to lake of file
• Memorial to what God has done to handle sin
• Lamb of God (Jesus Christ) on throne with God
• Eternal memorial to His sacrifice on the cross to deal with man’s sins
• One of the last books to be written