An Expanded Outline

 

Part I

 

“The things which thou hast seen”

 

I. The Prologue                      Rev. 1:1-2

 

·       The title                       Rev. 1:1-3

·       The salutation              Rev. 1:4-6

·       The soon coming of Christ                                                      Rev. 1:7

·       The personal testimony of Christ                                             Rev. 1:8

 

II. The Command to Write                                                                            Rev. 1:9-10

·       The circumstances of the vision                                              Rev. 1:9-11

·       The Christ of the vision                                                           Rev. 1:12-16

·       The critical results of having had the vision                            Rev. 1:17-20

 

Part II

 

“The things which are”

 

III. Seven Letters of love to the Seven Churches

 

·       The letter of love to the church of Ephesus                 Rev. 2:1-7      

 

·       The letter of love to the church of Smyrna                   Rev. 2:8-11

 

·       The letter of love to the church of Pergamos               Rev. 2:12-17

 

·       The letter of love to the church of Thyatira                 Rev. 2:18-29

 

·       The letter of love to the church of Sardis                                Rev. 3:1-6

 

·       The letter of love to the church of Philadelphia                      Rev. 3:7-13

 

·       The letter of love to the church of Laodicea                Rev. 3:14-22

 

Part III

“The thing which shall be hear after”

 

IV.    The Vision Unfolds from the Throne of God

 

·       The door of heaven     Rev. 4:1

 

·       The decorative heavenly throne                                              Rev. 4:2-3,5-6

 

·       The twenty-four elders and the four beasts                              Rev. 4:4-8

 

q      The first beast was like a lion                                           Rev. 4:7

q      The second beast was like a calf                                       Rev. 4:7

q      The third beast had the face of a man                    Rev. 4:7