2. Summary

3. 1. We have worries and
fears about the end, but
Revelation points us in a
different direction.

4. 2. The reason for our interest
in the end is twofold:
1. We want to be ready for
Christ’s return
2. We want to be eager to live
with Him forever

5. 3. Two popular views of the
end times exist:
1. Dispensational Premillenialism
(Premillenial
Dispensationalism)
2. Amillenialism

6. Dispensational
Premillenialism
-Views Revelation as a timeline
-Problems include: multiple returns of Jesus, a
separate rapture/judgment event, the world ending
more than once, possible lost apostolic urgency (2
Corinthians 6:1-2), addition chances to believe
(Matthew 25:10; Hebrews 9:27), and the rapture
serves as a key witness to unbelievers.

7. Amillenialism
-Revelation is read as a 3D object.
-The same period of time (the time between
Christ’s first and second coming) is looked at from
different angles.
-Consistent with Scripture

8. The Six “Cycles”
1. The seven seals (6:1 – 8:5)
2. The seven trumpets (8:6 – 11:19)
3. The Church and Satan (12:1 – 14:20)
4. The seven bowls (15:1 – 16:21)
5. The overthrow of Babylon (17:1 – 19:21)
6. The binding of Satan and his destruction
(20:1-15)

9. 4. Scripture reveals that we
are living in the end times
right now. (Matthew 24;
Hebrews 1:1-2; Revelation
1:1-3; Revelation 22:6)

10. 5. The defining event of the end of the
world is Jesus’ return in glory. Jesus’
return is the same event as the
destruction of the world, the judgment of
unbelievers, and the new heavens and the
new earth. (Isaiah 66:15-24; Daniel 7:9-
14; Joel 2:1-11; Matthew 24:29-31,
26:62-64; John 14:1-14; Acts 1:6-11; 1
Thessalonians 5:1-3; Revelation 6:12-17;
Revelation 21)

11. 6. The great rule of predicting
the Last Day: if you think
you know, you don’t know.
(Matthew 24:36-44; 1
Thessalonians 5:1-3)

12. 7. God waits to bring the Last
Day because in His great mercy
He desires as many as possible
to come to saving faith in Jesus.
(Matthew 13:24-30; 1 Timothy
2:1-4; 2 Peter 3:8-10)

13. The Purpose of Revelation
1. To give us a Christology of the
exalted reign of Christ
2. To give us a theology of the
church and her mission

15. Then Jesus came to them and said, “All
authority in heaven and on earth has been
given to me. Therefore, go and make disciples
of all nations, baptizing them in the name of
the Father and of the Son and of the Holy
Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I
have commanded you. And surely I am with
you always, to the very end of the age.”
Matthew 28:18-20

16. When I saw him, I fell at his feet as though dead.
Then he placed his right hand on me and said: “Do
not be afraid. I am the First and the Last. I am the
Living One; I was dead, and behold I am alive for
ever and ever! And I hold the keys of death and
Hades. Write, therefore, what you have seen, what is
now and what will take place later. The mystery of
the seven stars that you saw in my right hand and of
the seven golden lampstands is this: The seven stars
are the angels of the seven churches, and the seven
lampstands are the seven churches.”
Revelation 1:17-20

17. I wept and wept because no one was found who was
worthy to open the scroll or look inside. Then one of
the elders said to me, “Do not weep! See, the Lion of
the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has triumphed.
He is able to open the scroll and its seven seals.”
Then I saw a Lamb, looking as if it had been slain,
standing in the center of the throne…He came and
took the scroll from the right hand of him who sat on
the throne. And when he had taken it, the four living
creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before
the Lamb.”
Revelation 5:4-8

18. For he has rescued us from the
dominion of darkness and brought us
into the kingdom of the Son he loves,
in whom we have redemption, the
forgiveness of sins.
Colossians 1:13

19. He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn
over all creation. For by him all things were
created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and
invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or
authorities; all things were created by him and for
him. He is before all things, and in him all things
hold together. And he is the head of the body, the
church; he is the beginning and the firstborn from
among the dead, so that in everything he might
have the supremacy.
Colossians 1:15-18

20. Then I saw another mighty angel coming
down from heaven. He was robed in a
cloud, with a rainbow above his head; his
face was like the sun, and his legs were
like fiery pillars. He was holding a little
scroll, which lay open in his hand. He
planted his right foot on the sea and his
left foot on the land…
Revelation 10:1-2

21. Then the voice that I had heard from heaven spoke to
me once more: “Go, take the scroll that lies open in the
hand of the angel who is standing on the sea and on the
land.” So I went to the angel and asked him to give me
the little scroll. He said to me, “Take it and eat it. It
will turn your stomach sour, but in your mouth it will
be as sweet as honey.” I took the little scroll from the
angel’s hand and ate it. It tasted as sweet as honey in
my mouth, but when I had eaten it, my stomach turned
sour. Then I was told, “You must prophesy again about
many peoples, nations, languages and kings.”
Revelation 10:8-11

22. A great and wondrous sign appeared in heaven: a woman
clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet and a
crown of twelve stars on her head. She was pregnant and
cried out in pain as she was about to give birth. Then
another sign appeared in heaven: an enormous red dragon
with seven heads and ten horns and seven crowns on his
heads…The dragon stood in front of the woman who was
about to give birth, so that he might devour her child the
moment it was born. She gave birth to a son, a male child,
who will rule all the nations with an iron scepter. And her
child was snatched up to God and to his throne. The
woman fled into the desert to a place prepared for her by
God, where she might be taken care of for 1,260 days.
Revelation 12:1-6

23. And there was war in heaven. Michael and his angels
fought against the dragon, and the dragon and his
angels fought back. But he was not strong enough, and
they lost their place in heaven. The great dragon was
hurled down—that ancient serpent called the devil, or
Satan, who leads the whole world astray. He was
hurled to the earth, and his angels with him. Then I
heard a loud voice in heaven say: “Now have come the
salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God,
and the authority of his Christ. For the accuser of our
brothers, who accuses them before our God day and
night, has been hurled down.”
Revelation 12:7-10

24. [Jesus] replied, “I saw Satan fall like
lightning from heaven. I have given you
authority to trample on snakes and
scorpions and to overcome all the power
of the enemy; nothing will harm you.
However, do not rejoice that the spirits
submit to you, but rejoice that your
names are written in heaven.”
Luke 10:18-20

25. “They overcame him by the blood of the
Lamb and by the word of their testimony;
they did not love their lives so much as to
shrink from death. Therefore rejoice, you
heavens and you who dwell in them! But woe
to the earth and the sea, because the devil has
gone down to you! He is filled with fury,
because he knows that his time is short.”
Revelation 12:11-12

26. When the dragon saw that he had been hurled
to the earth, he pursued the woman who had
given birth to the male child. The woman was
given the two wings of a great eagle, so that
she might fly to the place prepared for her in
the desert, where she would be taken care of
for a time, times and half a time, out of the
serpent’s reach.
Revelation 12:13-14

27. “…I will build my church, and the
gates of Hades will not overcome
it.”
Matthew 16:18

28. [An angel] seized the dragon, that ancient
serpent, who is the devil, or Satan, and
bound him for a thousand years. He
threw him into the Abyss, and locked and
sealed it over him, to keep him from
deceiving the nations anymore until the
thousand years were ended…
Revelation 20:1-3

29. …will be priests of God and of
Christ and will reign with him for
a thousand years.
Revelation 20:6

30. But if I drive out demons by the
Spirit of God, then the kingdom of
God has come upon you. Or again,
how can anyone enter a strong man’s
house and carry off his possessions
unless he first ties up the strong man?
Then he can rob his house.
Matthew 12:28-29

31. When the thousand years are over, Satan will be
released from his prison and will go out to deceive the
nations in the four corners of the earth—Gog and
Magog—to gather them for battle. In number they are
like the sand on the seashore. They marched across the
breadth of the earth and surrounded the camp of God’s
people, the city he loves. But fire came down from
heaven and devoured them. And the devil, who
deceived them, was thrown into the lake of burning
sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet had been
thrown. They will be tormented day and night for ever
and ever.
Revelation 20:7-10

32. Then Jesus came to them and said, “All
authority in heaven and on earth has been
given to me. Therefore, go and make disciples
of all nations, baptizing them in the name of
the Father and of the Son and of the Holy
Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I
have commanded you. And surely I am with
you always, to the very end of the age.”
Matthew 28:18-20