Book of Revelation

The Apocalypse of Saint John, otherwise called the book of Revelation is the final book of the New Testament and likewise the Bible. The work describes the author's visions of the End Times. The author uses common Hebraic symbolism to represent nations, peoples, and objects that are crucial to the end of days.

Authorship
There are two prime candidates for whom to ascribe the authorship of Revelation to. The first candidate is the disciple of Jesus Christ: the Apostle John. The second candidate is John of Patmos, a mysterious man that some early Church historians identified as a separate person from the apostle John. John of Patmos is also called John the Revelator.

Laurencian tradition cites John the Apostle as the author of Revelation, and so the article will be written from this perspective.

The entire book is the risen Jesus Christ showing the End Times unto John, and the opening of Revelation is a message from Jesus to each of the seven churches, thus making Jesus the divine author and John the human scribe.

Target audience
Revelation was originally written, and technically still is, to be read aloud in congregations. The book was sent as a letter to each of the seven churches of East Asia minor. An appeal is made to those who have "ears" to hear God's messages for the churches, in other words a call to obedience of the believing readers. Revelation 1:3 states that all those who hear/read the words within the book and believe are blessed. Revelation, like the Book of Enoch, is for the future generations to interpret and understand as the world comes closer and closer to the End.

Outline
I. The Book of Revelation
 * A. Introduction (1:1-20)


 * B. Letters (2:1-3:22)
 * 1. To Ephesus (2:1-7)
 * 2. To Smyrna (2:8-11)
 * 3. To Pergamum (2:12-17)
 * 4. To Thyatira (2:18-29)
 * 5. To Sardis (3:1-6)
 * 6. To Philadelphia (3:7-13)
 * 7. To Laodicea (3:14-22)
 * C. The Throneroom of God (4:1-11)
 * 1. The Lamb and the Sealed Scroll (5:1-14)
 * D. The Seal Judgements (6:1-7:5)
 * 1. The Breaking of the First 6 Seals (6:1-17)
 * 2. The 144000 Sealed (7:1-8)
 * 3. The Great Multitude in White Robes (7:9-17)
 * 4. The Seventh Seal (8:1-5)
 * E. The Trumpet Judgements (8:6-)
 * 1. The First 6 Trumpet Blasts (8:6-9:21)
 * 2. The Angel with the Little Scroll (10:1-11)
 * 3. The Two Witnesses (11:1-14)
 * 4. The Seventh Trumpet Blast (11:15-19)
 * F. The Dragon and the Beasts (12-13)
 * 1. The Woman Clothed with the Sun and the Dragon (12:1-13:1)
 * 2. The Beast out of the Sea (13:1-10)
 * 3. The Beast out of the Earth (13:11-18)
 * 4. The Mark of the Beast (13:16-18)
 * G. The Lamb and the 144000


 * H. The Three Angels


 * I. The Harvest of the Earth


 * J. The Bowl Judgements