MOTIFS — REVELATION Flashcards
John’s Messages to the Seven Churches
- Rev 2-3
- Ephesus (loveless)
- Smyrna (loyal)
- Pergamum (lax)
- Thyatira (liberal)
- Sardis (lifeless)
- Philadelphia (laboring)
- Laodicia (lukewarm)
The Seven Seals
- Rev 4-5
- White Horse
- Red Horse
- Black Horse
- Pale Horse
- Martyrs
- Devastation
- Trumpets
The Seven Trumpets
• Rev 8-9 and 11
- Blood, Hail, 1/3 Vegetation destroyed
- Fireball, 1/3 ocean polluted
- Falling star, 1/3 fresh water polluted
- Darkness, 1/3 sun/moon/stars darkened
- Demonic invasion
- Demonic army, 1/3 humanity killed
- The Kingdom, announcement of Christ’s reign
The Seven Bowls
• Rev 16
- Earth - sores on worshippers of antichrist
- Seas - turned to blood
- Fresh water - turned to blood
- Sun - intense heat
- Antichrist’s kingdom - darkness and pain
- River Euphrates - armageddon
- Air - earthquakes and hail
The 144,000 Jews
Rev 7 and 14
The Two Witnesses
- Rev 11:3-14
- tied to trumpet judgments
- killed and come back to life
The Woman and Dragon of Revelation 12
Three scenes:
• Pregnant woman, dragon wants to consume child, child escapes to heaven
• Woman flees to wilderness for 3.5 years
• Woman is protected, but dragon attacks her children
The Two Beasts of Revelation 13
- A coming world political ruler (antichrist/beast out of the sea/heads that reflect Dan 7)
- The religious henchment (beast out of the earth)
666
- Rev 13
- name of the antichrist
- gematria
Babylon of Revelation 17-18
- City completely opposed to God
* political system completely opposed to God
The Second Coming
Rev 19
The Binding of Satan
Rev 20:2
The Millennium
Rev 20:1-6
Gog and Magog
- Where the nations will gather in the final battle after the millennium
- Rev 20:8
The Great White Throne Judgment
- Rev 20:11-15
- judge
- books
- verdict
- sentence
New Heavens and Earth
Rev 21:1-22:5
The Silence in Heaven
- Rev 8:1
* At the opening of the seventh seal for half an hour
The Casting of Satan out of Heaven
Rev 12:7-12
The Marriage Supper of the lamb
Rev 19:7-10
The Measuring of the Temple
Rev 11:1-2
The Fall of Babylon
Rev 18
The Casting of the Beast into the Lake of Fire
Rev 20:10
The New Jerusalem
- Rev 21:1-22:5
* 2225 km in length, width, and height
Wormwood
- Name of star in Rev 8:10-11
- Affected drinking water
- Third trumpet judgment
- Associated with bitterness, poison, and death
The Tribulation
- Seven years
* From Dan 9:24-27
The Great Tribulation
- “These are the people who came out of the great Tribulation” (Rev 7:14)
- Last half of the tribulation
Preterist View of Revelation
- Full/hyper/extreme: everything has already been fulfilled
* Moderate/partial: Most are fulfilled, but some (i.e., Christ’s return) is not
Historicist View of Revelation
Revelation is a panorama of church history from time of apostles to Second Coming
Idealist View of Revelation
It’s an anaolgy for the battle between the church and the world at all times in church history
Futurist View of Revelation
Rev 4-22 describes real people/events that will happen in the future
Four Pillars of Orthodox Eschatology
- Literal, visible return of Christ
- Bodily resurrection
- Final judgment
- Literal heaven/hell
Amillennial
- No future, literal, earthly, one-thousand-year reign of Christ
- kingdom is spiritual in nature
Postmillennial
- Christ will return after the millennium
- no literal thousand-year reign
- golden age is ussered in by the church
Premillennial
literal one-thousand-year reign of Christ
