--------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A Travel Guide for unpacking the Book of the Revelation of Jesus Christ: --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- notes 2019 - Bridge Christian Fellowship, Oak Harbor, WA - Pastor Rick Crawford --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------- Revelation 1:19 Therefore write the things which you have seen, and the things which are, and the things which will take place after these things. -------- Rev 1 = "the things you have seen": JESUS Glorified Rev 2-3 = "the things which are": Letters to the CHURCH, in and through the Church Age Rev 4-22 = "the things which will take place after these things" Rev 4-5 = prologue to the Tribulation Rev 6 = The Tribulation begins; first 3.5 years Rev 7 = 1st Parenthetical Section; overlays Ch 6; Rev 8-9 = The Great Tribulation; second 3.5 years TRUMPET Judments; "the Wrath of God" Rev 10-15 = 2nd Parenthetical Section (Rev 10 = The Sweet & Bitter Book) (Rev 11 = The Two Witnesses - during the 1st 3.5 years) (Rev 12:1-6 = Panorama of Israel into the 2nd 3.5 years) (Rev 13 = Antichrist and the False Prophet) (Rev 14-15 = Heavenly Scenes and Declarations) Rev 16 = BOWL Judgments; Rev 17-18 = Fall of Religious/Commerical Babylon; Rev 19 = Marriage of the Lamb & Glorious Return of Christ Rev 20 = Promised Millennial Kingdom & Throne Judgment; Rev 21-22 = New Heaven, Earth, Jerusalem. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SHIFTING SCENES IN THE BOOK OF REVELATION ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rev 1-3 ~ on earth; Rev 4-5 ~ in heaven; Rev 1-8 ~ on earth; Rev 6:9-11 ~ heaven; Rev 6:12-17 ~ earth; Rev 7-8:6 ~ heaven; Rev 8:7-11:14 ~ earth; Rev 11:15-12:4 ~ heaven; Rev 12:5-14:20 ~ earth; Rev 15 ~ heaven; Rev 16-18 ~ earth; Rev 19:1-10 ~ heaven; Rev 19:11-20:10 ~ earth; Rev 20:11-15 ~ heaven; Rev 21-22 ~ New Heaven, New Earth, New Jerusalem. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- BIBLICAL PARALLELS (Between the Teachings & Revelation of JESUS CHRIST) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The 7 Kingdom Parables & the 7 Letters to the Church ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mt 13:1-23, the Sower and the Soils > Rev 2:1-7, Ephesus Mt 13:24-30, the Tares in the Wheat > Rev 2:8-11, Smyrna Mt 13:31-32, the Mustard Seed > Rev 2:12-17, Pergamos Mt 13:33-34, the Leaven > Rev 2:18-29, Thyatira Mt 13:44, the Hidden Treasure > Rev 3:1-6, Sardis Mt 13:45-46, the Costly Pearl > Rev 3:7-13, Philadelphia Mt 13:47-52, the Dragnet > Rev 3:14-22, Laodicea ------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Olivet Discourse & 1st 3.5 Years of the Tribulation: Matthew 24:1-14 Revelation 6-7 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- False Christs (24:4-5) > White Horse Rider/Antichrist (6:1-2) Wars/rumors of war (24:6-7a) > Red Horse Rider/War (6:3-4) Famine (24:7b) > Black Horse Rider/Famine (6:5-6) Plagues, Pestilence (24:7b) > Pale Horse Riders(s)/Death/Hades(6:7-8) Martyrdom (24:9-10) > Martyrs under the Altar (6:9-11) (Not explicitly shared on Olivet)> Terrors, heaven & earth (6:12-17) Global Reach of the Gospel (24:14)> Ministry of the 144,000 (7:1-17) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALCULATING THE 7 YEAR TRIBULATION ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Daniel 9:24-27 > Seventy Shabuim ("Sevens") for ISRAEL (490 years) 490 years = 173,880 days. Using the Jewish Lunar calendar at 360 days/yr), and adjusting for leap years, the first 483 years (69 "7's") were fulfilled, precisly... Decree of Artaxerxes (9:25a) to rebuild Jerusalem: 7 "7's" = 49 years Another 62 "7's" = 434 years, bringing us to April 2, 32 AD ~ the day Jesus rode into Jerusalem on a donkeys' colt (See Zechariah 9:9) (Jewish date: NISAN 10 - April 2, 32AD - Sunday) Messiah is "cut-off" & God's Prophetic "Clock" Stopped. Because this prophecy relates to Israel; when Israel rejected Messiah, the prophecy went on hold. The first 483 of 490 years was fulfilled precisely; that leaves "seven" ~ (7 years) left to fulfill the prophecy. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rev 11:2-3 > 42 months = 1260 days = the first 3.5 years (Jesus called "the Tribulation", Matthew 24:9) Rev 12:6 > 1260 days; Rev 12:14 > "a time, times, and half a time" = the 2nd 3.5 years (Jesus called, "the Great Tribulation", Mt 24:21) 3.5+3.5=7 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pastor Rick Crawford, Bridge Christian Fellowship, January 2019 https://www.bridgechristianfellowship.com/ - church website http://johnmeister.com/bible/bcf/ - MP3 sermons, archive http://BibleTech.net/bcf/ - MP3 sermons, archive ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------