Part 1 o The author o Intended Audience o The Life and Times o Biblical Prophecy o Revelationev (structure and timeline) Chapter 1 o Why is Revelation Important? o The Big Picture o 5 Natural Divisions o Clues to chronology o Why is Revelation Important? o Explains Biblical view of God and his relationship with humans o Gives us a glimpse of Heaven o Message of Hope o Whirlwind Tour o Rev 1 Introduction o Rev 2-3 Letters to the Seven Churches o Rev 4-20 Judgements and Vignettes o Rev 21-22:6 New Beginnings o Rev 22:7-21 Epilogue o Rev 1 Introduction o Unveils Jesus's plans (from God) Rev 1:1 o Author: John Rev 1:4 o Audience: Seven Churchs of Asia Rev 1:4 o Where: Patmos Rev 1:9 o Purpose: Preview of what will happen Rev 1:1 o Audience: God -> Jesus -> Angel -> John -> 7 Churches -> Others o Rev 2-3 Letters to the Seven Churches o Different Spiritual states o Faithful: Smyrna, Philadelphia = Encouragement o Sardis, Ephesus, Pergamum, Thyatira = Commendation + Rebuke o Laodicea = No encouragement, call to repentence o Rev 4-20 Judgements and Vignettes o 7 Seals (opened), 7 Trumpets (sound), 7 Bowls (poured) o Jesus's Return, battle of Armagedon, the Millinium, Spiritual loosed, and Last Judgement o Not a single linear storyline o Judgements o Seal opened ... Judgement occurs o Trumpet sounded ... More severe Judgement o Bowls ... Wrath without restraint o Secondary Storyline: Vignettes o 144,000 believers (Israel) Rev 7:1-8 o "Great Multitude" delivered from the Great Tribulation Rev 7:9-17 o John meets Angel; eats scroll Rev 10 o 2 witnesses Rev 11:3-12 o Woman and Dragon; war in Heaven Rev 12 o Beasts from sea and earth Rev 13 o Jesus appears w/ 144,000 on Mount Zion Rev 14:1-5 o 3 angels proclaim msgs of repentance and warning Rev 14:6-13 o Separation of believers and non-believers Rev 14:11-20 o The Great Prostitute and Babylon Rev 17:1-19:3 o Rev 21-22:6 New Beginnings o New Heaven and earth o God will live alongside humans Rev 21:3-5 o Rev 22:7-21 Epilogue o End of Prophecy o Major refrain: "Behold, I am coming soon." Rev 22:7, 22:12, 22:20 o Alerts: Obedience Rev 22:7, Action Rev 22:12, Faith Rev 22:20 * NOTE: "In the Spirit" - pg 19. * NOTE: "Transition Phrases" - pg 20. o Two layers of narrative o John's experience of the vision on Patmos (Present) o The content of the visions * NOTE: Leonardo DiCapprio Movies - Inception, Shutter Island o Parallelism: e.g., Vantage Point (Dennis Quaid) o Compare Rev 12:6 and Rev 12:13-17 o People disagree on parallelism o Millinium Disagreements -- pg 21 Chapter 2 o The author: John o Roman Empire impact o Why John wrote the book o When was the book written o Style o ID-ing John (the author) o General Consensus: Apostle John o Dissenters o Dionysius - Pope of the Alexandrian church wiki:(Pope_Dionysius) o See discussion pg 25 o Strongest point? o Defending John as author o See pg 26 o Strongest point? Point 4 o Understanding the times o Rise of the emperor gods - see chart pg 29 o Jews fleeing Palestine - pg 31 o Widening gap between Jews and Christians - pg 31 o Growth of the Christian Church o Growing persecution of Christians - pg 31 o Judaism legal. Christianity was new o Roman sponsored persecution, Antipas Rev 2:13 * NOTE: See Maps pgs 32-33 o The Dating Game (when did John write the Revelation?) o The 60's - pg 35 o Temple still standing Rev 11:1 o Refs to Nero Rev 17:9-10 Rev 13:3-4 o 666 maybe Nero Rev 13:18 o Rough Greek --- possibly John's early writings o The 90's - pg 36 o During wiki:(Domitian)'s reign o Consensus of early church leaders o State of the 7 Churches was different than during Paul's ministries o Timing of John's ministry to Asia o Earthquake in Laodicea in early 60's o Emperor Worship -- gained prominence during wiki:(Domitian)'s reign o Christian persecution outside of Rome o Style of John's writing o Epistle: Similar o Prophecy: Similar to Isaiah, Jeremiah, Haggai o Apocalyptic: Followup to Daniel, Ezekiel, Zechariah (end times) o As Epistle: pg 38 o Intro, Body, End o As Apoocalyptic Literature: pg 39 o Hard times, vivid imagery and symbolism, real-world counterparts o Angels as guides o Uses numbers o As Prophecy: pg 40 o Encourage and comfort believers 1 Cor 14:3 o Give hope Rev 1:3 o Refocus on God Rev 1:3 o As Extraordinary Inspiration - pg 41 o About Jesus John 14:26 o By the Spirit (1 Cor 2:13) o Divine Revelation Rev 1:1 o In the Spirit Rev 1:10 Chapter 3 o Exploring Old Testament Prophecy o Discovering Old Testament symbolism in Revelation o Daniel's 70 Weeks Dan 9 o Deciphering the Olivet Discourse Matt 24-25 o Old Testament Backdrop to Revelation * NOTE: 250 refs to Old Testament books used to support Revelation * NOTE: Metanarrative - pg 44 - context for stories o See pg 44-45 o "Tree of Life" 4x Rev 2:7 Rev 22:2 Rev 22:14 Rev 22:19 - Re: Gen 3:2 o Judgement on enemies Rev 19:20 Rev 20:10 - Re: Gen 19:24 o "Woman clothed with the sun..." Rev 12:1 - Re: Gen 37:9 o Peeking into Old Testament Prophecy o Isaiah - re: wiki:(Book_Of_Isaiah) - pg 47 o Ezekial - re: wiki:(Book_Of_Ezekiel) - pg 48 o Daniel - re: wiki:(Book_Of_Daniel) - pg 49 o Zechariah - re: wiki:(Book_Of_Zechariah) - pg 50 o Jeremiah - re: wiki:(Book_Of_Jeremiah) - pg 50 o Joel - re: wiki:(Book_Of_Joel) - pg 51 o The 70 Weeks of Daniel 9 Dan 9 o 70 years of captivity of Israel almost over Jer 25:8-11 o The Debate o 7 Weeks Dan 9:25 o 62 Weeks Dan 9:25 o 1 Week Dan 9:26-27 o The Long Week - Dispensationalists View wiki:(Dispensationalism) o 7 Dispensations = 7 Churches o 1 week .ne. actual week but = "weeks of years" * NOTE: 70 weeks = 490 years o See timetable pg 52