Revelation Outline

I. Introduction (1:1-8)
II. The Vision of Christ: “the things which you have seen” (1:9-20)
III. Letters to the Churches: “the things which are” (2:1-3:22)
IV. Further Visions: “the things after these things.”
  A. The Seven Seals
    i. The Heavenly Throneroom (4:1-5:14)
    ii. The First Six Seals (6:1-17)
    iii. Interludes:
      The sealing of the 144,000 (7:1-8)
      The multitude of the saved in the Throneroom (7:9-17)
  B. The Seventh Seal: Seven Trumpets
    i. The Seventh Seal (8:1,2)
    ii. The First Six Trumpets (8:3-9:21)
    iii. Interludes:
      The Angel and the Little Scroll (10:1-11)
      The Two Witnesses (11:1-13)
  C. The Seventh Trumpet: Seven Bowls of God’s Wrath
    i. The Seventh Trumpet (11:14-18)
    ii.Interludes: Visions of the Cosmic Conlict
      The Woman and the Dragon (11:19-12:17)
      The Beasts from the Sea and the Land (13:1-18)
      Visions of Salvation and Judgment (14:1-20)
    iii. The Bowls of God’s Wrath (15:1-16:21)
  D. Three Further Visions
    i. The Judgment of Babylon (17:1-19:10)
    ii. The Defeat of God’s Enemies (19:11-21:8)
    iii. The New Jerusalem (21:9-22:9)
V. Epilogue (22:10-21)