Introduction to the Book of Revelation

1. The Book of Revelation
Introduction

2. Revelation 1: 1 – 2

4. Revelation: comes from
the Greek word
“apokalupsis”
(αποκαλυψις)

5. Apocrypha: tell of future
of the world and God’s
impending judgment

6. Revelation 1: 1

10. Genesis vs. Revelation
• Paradise Lost • Paradise Regained
• Creation of Heaven • The new heaven
and earth and earth
• Earthly Paradise of • Heavenly paradise
God • Satan punished, sin
• Satan's appearance, wiped out
sin's beginning • The doom of
• The rise of Babylon Babylon
• Man estranged from • Man re-united with
God God

11. Two Warnings
1. We will never completely
understand the book of
Revelation

12. Revelation 1: 3

13. Presuppositions
Authorship
• Apostle
John
• Another
John

14. Presuppositions
Authorship Date
• Apostle • Early: during reign
John of Nero (54-68 AD)
• Another • Late: during reign
John of Domitian (81-96)

15. 4 Interpretive Models
1. Futurist: prophecies are yet to
be fulfilled

16. 4 Interpretive Models
1. Futurist
2. Historicist

17. 4 Interpretive Models
1. Futurist
2. Historicist
3. Preterist

18. 4 Interpretive Models
1. Futurist: yet to be fulfilled
2. Historicist: are being fulfilled
3. Preterist: have been fulfilled
4. Idealist: spiritual metaphors

20. Sevens
• Churches
• Seals
• Trumpets
• Signs
• Bowls
• Last Things

21. Four Sections
1. The Son of Man among the Seven
Churches (1-3)
2. The Seven Seals, Trumpets, Signs,
and Bowls (4-19:10)
3. The Return of Christ (19:11-20:15)
4. The New Heaven and Earth (21-22)

22. Revelation 1: 19

23. Three Divisions
1. What you have seen (1)
2. What is now (2-3)
3. What will take place later (4-22)

24. Description
1. Visions of God in Glory (1)
2. Vision of the Church on Earth
(2-3)
3. Visions of Government That
Will Be Established in the
Future (4-19)
4. Visions of Glory (20-22)

25. Two Warnings
1. We will never completely
understand the book of
Revelation
2. The purpose of prophecy is to
encourage the way we live
today not just give more
knowledge

26. 1 Corinthians 4: 5

27. 1 Corinthians 11: 26

28. Colossians 3: 1 – 4

29. 1 Thessalonians 3: 12 – 13

30. 2 Timothy 4: 1 – 2

31. Hebrews 10: 25

32. James 5: 8

33. 1 John 3: 2 – 3

34. 1 John 2: 28

35. Titus 2: 12 – 13

36. Jude 1: 20 – 23

37. 1 Thessalonians 4: 16 – 18