A Travel Guide for unpacking the Book of the Revelation of Jesus Christ:
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A Travel Guide for unpacking the Book of the Revelation of Jesus Christ:
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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.
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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.
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SHIFTING SCENES IN THE BOOK OF REVELATION
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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.
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BIBLICAL PARALLELS (Between the Teachings & Revelation of JESUS CHRIST)
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The 7 Kingdom Parables & the 7 Letters to the Church
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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
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The Olivet Discourse & 1st 3.5 Years of the Tribulation:
Matthew 24:1-14 Revelation 6-7
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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)
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CALCULATING THE 7 YEAR TRIBULATION
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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.
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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
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Pastor Rick Crawford, Bridge Christian Fellowship, January 2019
https://www.bridgechristianfellowship.com/ - church website
http://johnmeister.com/BIBLE/CHURCHES/The_Bridge/ - MP3 sermons, archive
http://bibletech.net/bcf/ - two series through the Revelation of Jesus Christ, Bridge Christian Fellowship, Oak Harbor, WA
http://bibletech.net/ccm/ - a series through the Revelation of Jesus Christ with notes, Calvary Monroe,WA
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