OUTLINE OF REVELATION
Prologue (1:1-8)
Title (1:1-2) - apocalyptic genre
Beatitude (1:3) - prophetic genre
Salutation (1:4-8) - epistolary genre
The glorified Son of Man (1:9-20)
Messages to the seven churches of Asia Minor (2:1-3:22)
Ephesus (2:1-7)
Smyrna (2:8-11)
Pergamum (2:12-17)
Thyatira (2:18-29)
Sardis (3:1-6)
Philadelphia (3:7-13)
Laodicea (3:14-22)
The throne and the Lamb (4:1-5:14)
The One seated on the throne (4:1-11)
The Lamb (5:1-14)
The seven seals (6:1-8:1)
Seal #1 (6:1-2) - White horse: Rider with a bow conquers and will conquer
Seal #2 (6:3-4) - Red horse: Rider with a sword takes peace from the earth
Seal #3 (6:5-6) - Black horse: Rider with a pair of scales causes food shortages
Seal #4 (6:7-8) - Pale horse: Death and Hades bring death to a fourth of the earth
Seal #5 (6:9-11) - Martyrs under the altar reassured
Seal #6 (6:12-17) - Catastrophes of earthquake, sun, moon, stars, mountains, islands
Interlude (7:1-17):
The sealing of the 144,000 (7:1-8)
The great multitude in heaven (7:9-17)
Seal #7 (8:1) - Silence for a half hour
The seven trumpets (8:2-11:19)
Introduction to the seven trumpets (8:2-6)
Trumpet #1 (8:7) - Third of the ground devastated by hail and fire
Trumpet #2 (8:8-9) - Third of seas devastated by mountain of fire
Trumpet #3 (8:10-11) - Third of rivers devastated by "wormwood" star into rivers
Trumpet #4 (8:12) - Third of skies devastated (sun, moon, and stars)
Trumpet #5 (9:1-12) - Monstrous locusts from the abyss
Trumpet #6 (9:13-21) - Monstrous cavalry from the Euphrates kill a third of human life
Interlude (10:1-11:13)
John recommissioned by eating a scroll (10:1-11)
The measuring of the Temple (11:1-2)
The two witnesses (11:3-14)
Trumpet #7 (11:15-19) - Announcement of the consummation of the kingdom
The woman, the dragon, and the beast (12:1-13:18)
The woman, the male-child, and the dragon (12:1-6)
War in heaven (12:7-12)
The woman, her children, and the dragon (12:13-17)
The beast from the sea (13:1-10)
The beast from the earth (13:11-18)
Dr. Jeff Cate, Professor of Christian Studies, California Baptist University

Victory and vindication (14:1-20)
The Lamb and the 144,000 on Mount Zion (14:1-5)
Announcements of three angels (14:6-13)
Angel #1 - Worship God (14:6-7)
Angel #2 - Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great (14:8)
Angel #3 - Eternal punishment for idolaters (14:9-11)
Call for faithfulness (14:12-13)
The harvest (14:14-20)
The grain harvest (14:14-16)
The grape harvest (14:17-20)
The seven bowls (15:1-16:21)
Introduction (15:1-16:1)
Bowl #1 (16:2) - Sores
Bowl #2 (16:3) - Seas to blood
Bowl #3 (16:4) - Rivers and springs to blood
Interlude (16:5-7) - Angel of the waters and the altar worship God
Bowl #4 (16:8-9) - Scorching heat
Bowl #5 (16:10-11) - Agonizing darkness
Bowl #6 (16:12-16) - Euphrates dried up for kings to go to Harmagedon
Bowl #7 (16:17-21) - Earthquake; islands and mountains displaced; huge hailstones
The fall of Babylon (17:1-18:24)
The great prostitute (17:1-18)
The prostitute (17:1-6a)
The beast (17:6b-8)
The seven heads (17:9-11)
The ten horns (17:12-18)
Funeral dirges for Babylon (18:1-24)
Dirge of the angel (18:1-3)
Call for faithfulness of God's people (18:4-8)
Crying kings (18:9-10)
Mourning merchants (18:11-19)
Rejoicing heavens (18:20)
Babylon's fall as a millstone into the sea (18:21-24)
Victory and vindication (19:1-22:5)
Celebration of the marriage of the Lamb (19:1-8)
John falls at the angel's feet (19:9-10)
The victory of the Rider on the white horse (19:11-16)
The defeat of the beast and the kings of the earth (19:17-21)
The thousand years (20:1-10)
Satan bound (20:1-3)
The martyrs rewarded (20:4-6)
Satan released and defeated (20:7-10)
The great white throne and the lake of fire (20:11-15)
New heavens and new earth (21:1-22:5)
The renewal of creation (21:1-8)
The new Jerusalem (21:9-27)
The river and the tree of life (22:1-5)
Epilogue (22:6-21) - Warnings and instructions
Dr. Jeff Cate, Professor of Christian Studies, California Baptist University