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Index
Title
Contents
Introduction
About This Book
Conventions Used in This Book
What You’re Not to Read
Foolish Assumptions
How This Book Is Organized
Icons Used in This Book
Where to Go from Here
Part I : Revealing the End of the Biblical Story
Chapter 1: One Man’s Visions, All Humans’ Fate
Why Read Revelation, Anyway?
Taking a Whirlwind Tour through Revelation
Monitoring the Book’s Timeline
Chapter 2: Setting the Stage: The Apostle John and the World in Which He Lived
ID-ing John Doe, Author of Revelation
Understanding the Troubled Times in Which John Lived
Playing the Dating Game
Unraveling Revelation’s Textured Style of Writing
Chapter 3: The Prequels: Prophecies throughout the Bible
Understanding the Old Testament Backdrop to Revelation
Peeking into Old Testament Prophecy
Examining the 70 Weeks of Daniel 9
Exploring the Olivet Discourse: Jesus’s Prophecy
Part II : Interpreting the Book of Revelation
Chapter 4: Choosing a Perspective for Understanding Revelation
Solving the Revelation Puzzle: Four Solutions throughout History
Futurist: Events Will Take Place at a Moment’s Notice
Historicist: Covering the Entire History of the Church
Preterist: Explaining Historical Events from the First Century
Idealist: Identifying Themes, Not Literal Events
What’s Your Angle? Evaluating the Four Approaches
Chapter 5: Deciphering Symbols with Your Secret Decoder Ring
Giving John’s Readers a Heads-up
Why Use Symbols?
Understanding Common Interpretations
Part III : Taking a Grand Tour of the Book of Revelation
Chapter 6: Setting Up the Scope of the Book (1:1–20)
Declassified! Releasing God’s Secrets in the Apocalyptic Press
Probing the Prologue (1:1–3)
Saluting the Saints in Asia (1:4–6)
Sounding the Theme (1:7–8)
Initiating the Visions (1:9–11)
Seeing the First and the Last (1:12–18)
Charting the Course (1:19–20)
Chapter 7: Reading the Seven Letters to Conflicted Churches (1:19–3:22)
The Symmetry of the Messages
Asking about the Audience
Getting to Know the Seven Churches Up Close and Personal
Chapter 8: Peeking into the Throne Room (4:1–5:14)
Focusing on the “Someone” on the Throne (4:1–11)
Singing Praise to the Lamb with Scroll-Opening Skills (5:1–14)
Chapter 9: Breaking Seven Seals (6:1–8:1)
Unsealing the Beginning of the End
The First Four Seals: The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (6:1–8)
The Fifth seal: The blood of martyrs (6:9–11)
The Sixth Seal: The Day of the Lord Has Come! (6:12–17)
Pausing for Effect (7:1–17)
The Seventh Seal: Silence in Heaven (8:1–5)
Chapter 10: Sounding Seven Trumpets (8:2–11:19)
Previewing the Seven Trumpets
The First Four Trumpets: Fire, Blood, and Hail
Wailing the Woes of the Last Three Trumpets
The First Interlude: The Angel and the Little Scroll
The Second Interlude: Two Star Witnesses in Jerusalem
Beginning of the End: The Seventh Trumpet
Chapter 11: A Woman, a Dragon, Two Beasts, and More! (12:1–14:20)
Heavenly Drama: The Dragon Falls, the Woman Is Saved (12:1–17)
Two Beasty Boys Join the Dragon to Make Their Mark (13:1–18)
The Lamb and the 144,000 (14:1–5)
Three Angels with Three Messages (14:6–13)
Harvesting and the Grapes of Wrath (14:14–20)
Chapter 12: Seven Angels, Seven Bowls, and a Final Smackdown (15:1–18:24)
A Preamble to God’s Final Wrath (15:1–8)
Pouring Out the Seven Bowls (16:1–21)
But First, a Word from Our End-Times Sponsor, the Lamb (16:15)
Exposing the Mystery of Babylon the Great (17:1–18)
Loveless in the Ruins: Celebrating Babylon’s Fall (18:1–24)
Chapter 13: Coming of the Kingdom (19:1–20:15)
Returning as Promised (19:1–21)
Dawning of the Millennial Age (20:1–6)
Letting Satan Loose (20:7–10)
Standing at the Great White Throne (20:11–15)
Sorting Out Two Theological Issues
Chapter 14: Seeing the New Jerusalem and a Triumphant Church (21:1–22:6)
Exploring a New Creation (21:1–8)
Taking a Virtual Tour of the New Jerusalem (21:9–27)
Coming Home to the Garden (22:1–6)
Chapter 15: Promising to Return (22:6–21)
Verifying the Source of the Message (22:6–8)
Getting to the End on Time (22:7)
Knocking “Other” Worship (22:8–9)
Leaving the Scroll Unsealed (22:10–15)
And Now, In Conclusion (22:16–21)
Part IV : The Part of Tens
Chapter 16: Ten Common Questions about the End Times
What Does Eschatology Mean?
What Do the Seals, Trumpets, and Bowls Symbolize?
What’s the Great Tribulation?
What’s the Rapture?
Who Are the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse?
Who is the Antichrist?
What’s the Mark of the Beast (666)?
What’s the Significance of the Term Babylon?
What’s the Millennium?
What’s the Lake of Fire?
Chapter 17: Ten Tips for Interpreting Scripture and Prophecy
Don’t Depend on English Words for Sorting Out Hidden Meanings
Keep Verses in Context
Look to Other Scripture as a Guide
Remember the Target Audience
Look for the Original Meaning
Identify the Literary Style
View Fulfilled Prophecy as a Prototype
Don’t Try to Pin Down Timelines for Fulfillment
Note that Biblical Prophecy Can Have Stages of Fulfillment
Consider that Some Biblical Prophecy Is Conditional
Appendix: Glossary
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