Note that this is not the full study, only the summarizing charts and reference points. Email me if you have interest in obtaining a copy of the full length study.
| Segment | Verses | Purpose | |
| 1 | Intro | 1:1-1:7 |
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| 2 | Jesus & 7 Churches | 1:8-3:22 |
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| 3 | Thrones & Seals | 4:1-8:6 |
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| 4 | Trumpets & Witnesses | 8:7-11:19 |
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| 5 | Great Signs | 12:1-15:4 |
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| 6 | Bowls & Babylon | 15:5-18:24 |
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| 7 | The Great End | 19:1-22:21 |
His... |
Is Compared to... |
In... |
Important characteristics |
Overall Appearance |
A Son of man |
1:13 |
Similar but not identical. This is the glorified Jesus |
Voice |
A trumpet |
1:15 |
Startling, forceful, gets your attention, hard to miss |
Clothed |
Clothes of royalty (robe to the floor, girded w/ golden sash) |
1:13 |
Long robes was impractical for people who do their own laundry and walk on dirt roads. Gold is expensive. Implication: Jesus = royalty. |
Hair |
White wool, snow |
1:14 |
Blindingly white. Not brown like we usually picture his hair |
Face |
Sun shining in its strength |
1:16 |
Midday sun is relentless, beats down on you. |
Eyes |
Flame of fire |
1:14 |
To be able to see this flame of fire coming out of something that looks like the sun, this isn’t like a candle flickering (more like blowtorches) |
Feet |
Burnished bronze glowing in a furnace |
1:15 |
Jesus is so full of vitality that his skin glows. |
Voice |
Sound of many waters |
1:15 |
Really loud, thunderous like Niagara Falls |
Seeing Jesus |
A dead man |
1:17 |
Seeing this Jesus makes you think you’d died. |
Pay attention to deviations from this structure, they are significant.
Church |
What Jesus likes about them: |
What Jesus has against them: |
Should Be... |
Ephesus |
Deeds, toil, perseverance |
Left their first love |
Perfect in love |
Smyrna |
Tribulation |
(no bad qualities) |
Faithful in tribulation |
Pergamum |
Hold fast in tribulation, don’t deny Jesus’ name |
Have bad doctrine mixed in (eg. eat food sacrificed to idols, commit acts of immorality) |
Accurate in doctrine |
Thyatira |
Deeds, love, faith, service, increasing greatness of deeds |
tolerate Jezebel, immorality |
Zealous for purity |
Sardis |
Deeds, good name |
You are dead |
Spiritually Alive |
Philadelphia |
Deeds |
(no bad qualities) |
Consistently biblical |
Laodicea |
(no good qualities) |
Lukewarm |
Extreme |
Church |
Description of Jesus |
Significance |
Ephesus |
The one who holds the seven stars in his right hand |
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The one who walks among the seven golden lamp-stands |
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Smyrna |
The first and last |
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Who was dead and has come to life |
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Pergamum |
Has the sharp two-edged sword |
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Thyatira |
Eyes like a flame of fire |
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Feet like burnished bronze |
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Sardis |
Has the seven Spirits of God |
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Has the seven stars |
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Philadelphia |
Has the key of David |
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Opens doors no one will shut |
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Shuts doors no one will open |
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Laodicea |
Faithful and true witness |
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The beginning of the creation of God |
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Church |
To Him Who Overcomes |
Comments |
Ephesus |
I will grant to eat of the tree of life which is the Paradise of God |
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Smyrna |
Will not be hurt by the second death |
The first death might hurt, but they will have eternal life with Jesus rather than a second death. |
Pergamum |
Given: some of the hidden manna, a white stone, and a new name written on the stone which no one knows but he who receives it. |
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Thyatira |
Given: Authority to rule over the nations, and the morning star |
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Sardis |
Clothed in white garments, name will not be erased from book of life, Jesus will confess your name before His father and His angels |
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Philadelphia |
Be made a pillar in the temple of God, God’s name, new name, and city written on you |
You become a permanent fixture in God’s kingdom, something that bears the weight of others. |
Laodicea |
Sit with Jesus on His throne |
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Seal |
Trumpet |
Bowl |
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1 |
white horse
conquering
(political change) |
to the earth
hail & fire w/ blood
1/3 earth burned,
1/3 trees burned,
1/3 grass burned |
on earth
loathsome and malignant sore (on mark of beast) |
2 |
red horse
takes peace from earth
(sociological change) |
to the sea
mountain burning with fire thrown into sea
1/3 sea becomes blood |
on sea
sea became blood |
3 |
black horse
w/ scales and money
(economic change) |
to the rivers & springs
star burning like torch fell
1/3 waters become wormwood |
rivers
became blood |
4 |
ashen horse
kill w/ sword, famine, pestilence, & beasts
(ecological/demographical change) |
1/3 sun struck
1/3 mood struck
1/3 stars struck
(shine 1/3 less) |
sun
scorch men w/ fire |
5 |
martyrs cry out for avengeance
given white roves while wait for more of them |
locusts released from bottomless pit, tormented non-believers
for 5 months, sting like scorpion |
throne of beast
kingdom darkened (gnawed tongues) |
6 |
great earthquake, sun blackened, moon like blood, stars
fell to earth, kings of earth hid |
Kill 1/3 mankind with plagues: fire, smoke, brimstone |
the great river
Euphrates dries up |
7 |
prayers of saints go up to God, 7 trumpets given to 7
angels |
lightening, thunder, earthquake, great hailstorm. |
the air
earthquake, leveling planet, 100lb hail |
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