Table of Contents
Introduction 9
1 John's Introductory Prologue (1:1-8) 15
2 John's Awesome Vision (1:9-20) 22
3 The Churches at Ephesus and Smyrna (2:1-11) 29
4 The Churches at Pergamum and Thyatira (2:12-29) 36
5 The Churches at Sardis and Philadelphia (3:1-13) 44
6 The Church at Laodicea (3:14-22) 51
7 God's Majestic Throne in Heaven (4) 58
8 He Who Is Worthy: Jesus Christ (5) 65
9 The First Four Seal Judgments (6:1-8) 72
10 The Fifth and Sixth Seal Judgments (6:9-17) 79
11 The 144,000 Jewish Evangelists (7:1-8) 86
12 The Great Multitude of Believers (7:9-17) 93
13 The Seventh Seal Judgment (8:1-6) 100
14 The First Four Trumpet Judgments (8:7-13) 107
15 The Fifth and Sixth Trumpet Judgments (9) 114
16 The Message of the Little Scroll (10) 121
17 The Ministry of the Two Prophetic Witnesses (11:1-6) 128
18 The Death, Resurrection, and Ascension of the Two Witnesses (11:7-14) 135
19 The Seventh Trumpet Judgment (11:15-19) 142
20 The Outbreak of War (12) 149
21 The Rise of the Antichrist (13:1-4) 156
22 The Blasphemy of the Antichrist (13:5-10) 163
23 The Rise of the False Prophet (13:11-14) 170
24 The False Prophets Exaltation of the Antichrist (13:15-18) 177
25 Announcements from Heaven (14) 184
26 Prelude to the Bowl Judgments (15) 191
27 The First Four Bowl Judgments (16:1-9) 197
28 The Fifth, Sixth, and Seventh Bowl Judgments (16:10-21) 204
29 The Fall of Religious Babylon (17) 210
30 The Fall of Commercial Babylon, Part 1 (18:1-8) 217
31 The Fall of Commercial Babylon, Part 2 (18:9-24) 224
32 Shouts of Hallelujah and the Marriage Supper of the Lamb (19:1-10) 231
33 The Second Coming of Christ (19:11-16) 238
34 The Campaign of Armageddon (19:17-21) 244
35 Christ's Millennial Kingdom (20:1-6) 251
36 Satan's Final Rebellion and the Great White Throne (20:7-15) 258
37 The Descent of the New Jerusalem (21:1-8) 265
38 A Description of the New Jerusalem (21:9-27) 272
39 The Delights of the New Jerusalem (22:1-5) 278
40 Johns Epilogue (22:6-21) 285
Postscript 293
Bibliography 295
Notes 297