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Bible Summary III
I. Introduction (1:1-17)
A. Theme (1:16-17)
II. The guilty world (1:18-3:20)
A. The wrath of God revealed (1:18)
B. The universe a revelation of the power and deity of God (1:19-20)
C. The seven stages of Gentile world apostasy (1:21-23)
D. The result of the Gentile world apostasy (1:24-32)
E. The Gentile pagan moralizers no better than other pagans (2:1-16)
F. The Jew, knowing the law, is condemned by the Law (2:17-29)
G. The advantage of the Jew works his greater condemnation (3:1-8)
H. The final verdict: the whole world guilty before God (3:9-20)
III. Justification by faith in Christ crucified, the alone remedy for sins (3:21-5:11)
A. Justification defined (3:21-28)
B. Justification a universal remedy (3:29-30)
C. Justification by faith honors the law (3:31)
D. Justification by faith illustrated (4:1-4)
E. Justifying faith defined (4:5-8)
F. Justification is apart from ordinances (4:9-12)
G. Justification is apart from the law (4:13-25)
H. The seven results of justification (5:1-11)
IV. Sanctification: indwelling sin, and the Gospel remedy (5:12-8:13)
A. Through Adam, sin and death (5:12-14)
B. Through Christ, righteousness and life (5:15-21)
C. Deliverance from the power of indwelling sin (6:1-8:13)
1. By union with Christ in death and resurrection (6:1-10)
2. By counting the old life to be dead, and by yielding the new life to God (6:11-13)
3. By deliverance from the law through death, and by the Spirit (6:14-7:6)
4. The believer is not made holy by the law (7:7-14)
5. The strife of the two natures under the law (7:15-8:1)
6. The new law of the Spirit delivers, makes righteous (8:2-4)
7. Conflict of the Spirit with the flesh (8:5-13)
V. Full result of the Gospel (8:14-39)
A. The believer a son and heir (8:14-17)
B. The creation, delivered from suffering and death, kept for the sons of God (8:18-25)
C. The Spirit an indwelling Intercessor (8:26-27)
D. The unfailing purpose of God through the Gospel (8:28-34)
E. The believer secure (8:35-39)
VI. Parenthetic. The Gospel does not set aside the covenants with Israel (9:1-11:36)
A. The apostolic solicitude for Israel (9:1-3)
B. The sevenfold privilege of Israel (9:4-5)
C. The distinction between Jews who are mere natural descendants from Abraham, and Jews who are also of his spiritual seed (9:6-13)
1. The distinction illustrated (9:8-13)
D. God's mercy is under his sovereign will (9:14-24)
E. The prophets foretold the blinding of Israel, and mercy to Gentiles (9:25-33)
F. The apparent failure of the promises to Israel explained by their unbelief (10:1-21)
G. But spiritual Israel is finding salvation (11:1-6)
H. National Israel is judicially blinded (11:7-12)
I. The Gentiles warned (11:13-25)
J. Israel is yet to be saved nationally (11:26-36)
VII. Christian life and service (12:1-15:33)
A. Consecration (12:1-2)
B. Service (12:3-8)
C. The Christian and those within (12:9-16)
D. The Christian and those without (12:17-13:7)
E. The law of love toward the neighbor (13:8-14)
F. The law of love concerning doubtful things (14:1-3)
G. Jewish and Gentile believers are one in salvation (14:4-13)
H. The apostle speaks of his ministry and coming journey (14:14-15:33)
VIII. The outflow of Christian love (16:1-27)
Summary of 1 Corinthians
I. The believer's position in grace (1:1-9)
II. The contrast of the unspiritual state of the Corinthian saints with their exalted standing in Christ (1:10-4:21)
A. They were following human leaders, thus dividing the body of Christ (1:11-17)
B. They were exulting in human wisdom, which is foolishness in the things of God (1:18-25)
C. Anyway, the Corinthian believers were not of the wise (1:26-31)
D. They are reminded that the Christian revelation owes nothing to human wisdom (2:1-16)
1. Paul did not use it (2:1-8)
2. Spiritual verities are not discoverable by human wisdom (2:9)
3. But God has revealed them to prepared men (2:10-12)
4. The revealed things are taught in words given by the Spirit (2:13)
5. The revealed things are spiritually discerned (2:14-16)
E. A carnal state prevents spiritual growth (3:1-4)
F. God only is anything in Christian service (3:5-8)
G. Christian service and its reward (3:9-4:8)
1. The only foundation (3:11)
2. Two kinds of ministry and their result (3:12-23)
3. Judgment of Christ's servants is not committed to men (4:1-8)
H. The apostolic example of humility and patience (4:9-17)
I. But there is such a thing as apostolic authority (4:18-21)
III. Immorality rebuked, discipline enjoined (5:1-6:8)
A. Indifference to evil in the church the result of divisions (5:2-13)
B. Saints forbidden to go to law with each other (6:1-8)
IV. The sanctity of the body, and marriage (6:9-7:40)
A. The body is holy (6:9-7:9)
1. Because washed and justified (6:9-12)
2. Because the body is the Lord's (6:13-18)
3. Because the body is a temple (6:19-20)
4. Because God has established marriage (7:1-9)
B. The regulation of marriage among Gentile believers (7:10-40)
V. Meats and the limitations of Christian liberty (8:1-11:1)
A. Paul vindicates his apostleship (9:1-6)
B. They who preach the Gospel are to live of the Gospel (9:7-18)
C. The method and reward of true ministry (9:19-27)
D. Israel in the wilderness a warning example (10:1-15)
E. Fellowship at the Lord's table demands separation (10:16-22)
F. The law of love in relation to eating and drinking (10:23-11:1)
VI. Christian order and the Lord's supper (11:2-34)
A. Disorders at the Lord's table rebuked (11:17-22)
B. The order and meaning of the Lord's table (11:23-34)
VII. Spiritual gifts in the body of Christ for ministry and worship (12:1-14:40)
A. True ministry is the exercise of spiritual gift (12:4-11)
B. Every believer is a member of Christ's body and as such has a definite ministry (12:12-31)
C. The ministry gifts must be governed by love (13:1-13)
D. Prophecy is the greatest of the gifts (14:1-22)
E. The order of the ministry of gift in the local church (14:23-40)
VIII. The coming of the Lord and the first resurrection (15:1-58)
A. The fact of Christ's resurrection (15:1-11)
B. The importance of Christ's resurrection (15:12-19)
C. The order of the resurrections (15:20-34)
D. The method of resurrection (15:35-50)
E. All believers will not die (15:51-53)
F. The final victory over death (15:54-57)
G. The ultimate victory a motive to service (15:58)
IX. Closing instructions and greetings (16:1-24)
Summary of 2 Corinthians
I. Paul's principles of action (1:1-7:16)
A. The explanation (1:1-2:13)
B. The ministry (2:14-6:10)
1. Triumphant (2:14-17)
2. Accredited (3:1-5)
3. Spiritual and glorious--not legal (3:6-18)
4. Honest (4:1-7)
a. Because the truth taught is commended by the life (4:2)
b. Because not self but Christ Jesus as Lord is preached (4:3-6)
c. Because the power is of God alone (4:7)
5. Suffering (4:8-5:13)
a. Why death itself has no terrors for the servant of the Lord (5:1-13)
6. Motive and object (5:14-21)
7. Summary (6:1-10)
C. The appeal to separation and cleansing (6:11-7:1)
D. The heart of Paul (7:2-16)
II. The collection for the poor (8:1-9:15)
A. The example of Macedonia (8:1-6)
B. The exhortation (8:7-15)
C. The messengers (8:16-9:5)
D. The encouragement: God loves a cheerful giver; if we give, he will give (9:6-15)
III. The vindication of Paul's apostleship (10:1-13:14)
A. The divine authentication (10:1-18)
B. The godly jealousy (11:1-12)
C. The warning against false teachers (11:13-15)
D. The enforced boasting (11:16-12:18)
E. The warning (12:19-13:10)
F. Conclusion (13:11-14)
Summary of Galatians
I. Salutation (1:1-5)
II. Theme and occasion of the Epistle (1:6-9)
III. Paul's gospel is a revelation, not a tradition from the other apostles (1:10-2:14)
IV. Justification is by faith without law (2:15-3:24)
A. Even Jews must be so justified (2:15-18)
B. The law has already executed its sentence upon the believer (2:19)
C. The Christian life is the outliving of the inliving Christ (2:20)
D. To mingle law-works with grace in justification frustrates grace (2:21)
E. The gift of the Spirit is by faith, not by law-works (3:1-5)
F. The Abrahamic Covenant is a by-faith covenant (3:6-9)
G. The man under law-works is under the curse of the law (3:10-12)
H. Christ has borne our law-curse that we might have the faith-blessing (3:13-16)
I. The law does not add a new condition to the Abrahamic covenant of faith (3:17-18)
J. The true intent of the law is condemnation, and as a preparatory discipline (3:19-24)
V. The rule of the believer's life is gracious, not legal (3:25-5:15)
A. The justified believer is a son in the family of God, not a servant under the law (3:26-4:3)
B. The believer is redeemed from under the law (4:4-5)
C. The Spirit actualizes the believer's sonship (4:6-7)
D. To lapse into legality is to go back to an elementary religion (4:8-14)
E. In legality the Galatians have lost their blessing (4:15-18)
F. The two systems, law and grace, cannot co-exist (4:19-31)
G. Application of the allegory (5:1-15)
VI. Sanctification is through the Spirit, not the law (5:16-24)
A. The Spirit gives victory over sin (5:17-21)
B. Christian character is produced by the Holy Spirit, not by self-effort (5:22-24)
VII. The outworking of the new life in Christ Jesus (5:25-6:18)
A. The new life as a brotherhood (6:1-6)
1. The case of a sinning brother (6:1)
2. The case of a burdened brother (6:2-5)
3. The case of a teaching brother (6:6)
B. The new life as a husbandry (6:7-9)
C. The new life as a beneficence (6:10)
D. The new life in sacrificial love (6:11-13)
E. The new exultation of the new life (6:14-15)
F. The peace of the new life (6:16)
G. The new fellowship of suffering (6:17-18)
Summary of Ephesians
I. The apostolic salutation (1:1-2)
II. The believer's position in grace (1:3-3:21)
A. The seven elements of the believer's position (1:3-14)
B. The prayer for knowledge and power (1:15-21)
C. Christ exalted to be the Head of his body, the church (1:22-23)
D. The method of Gentile salvation (2:1-10)
E. The Gentile position by nature (2:11-13)
F. Jew and Gentile one body in Christ (2:14-18)
G. The church a temple for the habitation of God through the Spirit (2:19-3:21)
1. The church a mystery hidden from past ages (3:1-12)
2. Parenthetic: the prayer for inner fullness and knowledge (3:13-21)
III. The walk and service of the believer as in Christ, and as having the Spirit (4:1-5:17)
A. The walk to be worthy the position (4:1-3)
B. The seven unities to be kept (4:4-6)
C. The ministry gifts of Christ to his body (4:7-11)
D. The purpose of the ministry gifts (4:12-16)
E. The walk of the believer as a new man in Christ Jesus (4:17-29)
F. The walk of the believer as indwelt by the Spirit (4:30-32)
G. The walk of the believer as God's dear child (5:1-17)
IV. The walk and warfare of the believer as filled with the Spirit (5:18-6:24)
A. The inner life of the Spirit-filled believer (5:19-20)
B. The married life of Spirit-filled believers as illustrating Christ and the church (5:21-33)
C. The domestic life of Spirit-filled believers as children and servants (6:1-9)
D. The warfare of Spirit-filled believers (6:10-24)
1. The warrior's power (6:10)
2. The warrior's armour (6:11)
3. The warrior's foes (6:12-17)
4. The warrior's resource (6:18-24)
Summary of Philippians
I. Christ, the believer's life rejoicing in spite of suffering (1:1-30)
A. Salutation (1:1-7)
B. Joy triumphing over suffering (1:8-30)
II. Christ the believer's pattern, rejoicing in lowly service (2:1-30)
A. Exhortation to unity and meekness (2:1-4)
B. The sevenfold self-humbling of Christ (2:5-8)
C. The exaltation of Jesus (2:9-11)
D. The outworking of the inworked salvation (2:12-16)
E. The apostolic example (2:17-30)
III. Christ, object of the believer's faith, desire, and expectation (3:1-21)
A. Warning against Judaizers (3:1-3)
B. Warning against trusting in legal righteousness (3:4-6)
C. Christ, object of the believer's faith for righteousness (3:7-9)
D. Christ, object of the believer's desire for fellowship in resurrection power (3:10-14)
E. The appeal for unity in the walk (3:15-16)
F. But truth is not to be compromised for the sake of unity (3:17-19)
G. Christ, object of the believer's expectation (3:20-21)
IV. Christ, the believer's strength, rejoicing over anxiety (4:1-23)
A. Exhortation to unity and joy (4:1-4)
B. The secret of the peace of God (4:5-7)
C. The presence of the God of peace (4:8-9)
D. The victory over anxious care (4:10-23)
Summary of Colossians
I. Introduction: the apostolic greeting (1:1-8)
II. The apostle's sevenfold prayer (1:9-14)
III. The exaltation of Christ (1:15-29)
A. The seven superiorities of Christ (1:15-19)
B. The reconciling work of Christ (1:20-23)
C. The mystery of the indwelling Christ (1:24-29)
IV. The Godhead incarnate in Christ, in whom the believer is complete (2:1-23)
A. The danger from enticing words (2:4-7)
B. The twofold warning against (a) philosophy, (b) legality (2:8)
C. Nothing can be added to completeness (2:9-13)
D. Law observances were abolished in Christ (2:14-17)
E. Warning against false mysticism (2:18-19)
F. Warning against asceticism (2:20-23)
V. The believer's union with Christ, now and hereafter (3:1-4)
VI. Christian living, the fruit of union with Christ (3:5-4:6)
VII. Christian fellowship (4:7-18)
Summary of 1 Thessalonians
I. The model church, and the three tenses of the Christian life (1:1-10)
II. The model servant, and his reward (2:1-20)
III. The model brother, and the believer's sanctification (3:1-13)
IV. The model walk, and the believer's hope (4:1-18)
V. The model walk, and the day of Jehovah (5:1-28)
Summary of 2 Thessalonians
I. Salutation (1:1-4)
II. Comfort in persecution (1:5-12)
III. The day of the Lord and the man of sin (2:1-12)
IV. Exhortation and instruction (2:13-3:15)
V. Benediction and subscription (3:16-18)
1 Timothy
I. Legalism and unsound teaching rebuked (1:1-20)
II. Prayer, and the divine order of the sexes (2:1-15)
III. The qualifications of elders and deacons (3:1-16)
IV. The walk of a "good minister of Jesus Christ" (4:1-16)
V. The work of a "good minister of Jesus Christ" (5:1-6:21)
2 Timothy
I. The apostolic greeting (1:1-18)
II. The path of a "good soldier" in the time of apostasy (2:1-26)
III. The apostasy predicted: the believer's resource--the Scriptures (3:1-17)
IV. A faithful servant and his faithful Lord (4:1-22)
Titus
I. The divine order for the local churches (1:1-16)
II. The pastoral work of a true minister (2:1-3:15)
Philemon
I. The apostolic greeting (1:1-3)
II. The character of Philemon (1:4-7)
III. Intercession for Onesimus (1:8-21)
IV. Salutations and conclusion (1:22-25)
Hebrews
I. The great salvation (1:1-2:18)
A. The Son better than the prophets (1:1-3)
B. The Son better than the angels (1:4-14)
C. Parenthesis: hearers warned (2:1-4)
D. The earth to be put under the man Christ Jesus (2:5-8)
E. Jesus, made for a little time lower than the angels, dies for man that he may lift men above angels into the family of God (2:9-18)
II. Parenthetic: The rest of God (3:1-4:16)
A. Christ the Son better than Moses the Servant (3:1-6)
B. Exhortation: the generation that came out of Egypt did not enter the Canaan-rest because of unbelief (3:7-19)
C. But there is a better rest for the believer, of which God's creation-rest is the type (4:1-8)
D. The believer rests in a perfect work of redemption, as God rested from a perfect work of creation (4:9-13)
E. The believer is kept in perfect rest by mercy and grace, through the Son of God (4:14-16)
III. Our great High Priest (5:1-8:6)
A. The office of high priest (5:1-4)
B. Christ a high priest after the order of Melchisedec (5:5-10)
C. Parenthetic: appeal and warning (5:11-6:12)
D. Our High Priest within the veil assures our coming there too (6:13-20)
E. The historic Melchisedec a type of Christ (7:1-3)
F. Melchisedec high priesthood greater than the Aaronic (7:4-8:6)
1. Because Aaron in Abraham paid Melchisedec tithes (7:4-10)
2. Because the Aaronic priesthood made nothing perfect (7:11-22)
3. Because the Aaronic priests died: Christ ever liveth (7:23-28)
4. Because the Aaronic priests served the shadows of which Christ serves the realities (8:1-5)
5. Because Christ mediates a better covenant (8:6)
IV. The new covenant better than the old (8:7-10:39)
A. The ordinances and sanctuary of the old covenant were mere types (9:1-10)
B. The sanctuary, and sacrifice of the new covenant are realities (9:11-15)
C. The new covenant is also the last will and testament of Christ, sealed by his blood (9:16-22)
D. The heavenly sanctuary purged with a better sacrifice (9:23-24)
E. The one sacrifice of the new covenant is better than the many sacrifices of the old (9:25-10:18)
F. The believer worships in the holiest (10:19-25)
G. Parenthetic: The wavering warned: the Jewish sacrifices had lost their efficacy; it is Christ or judgment (10:26-39)
V. The superiority of the faith way (11:1-40)
A. The sphere of faith (11:1-3)
B. Instances of faith (11:4-40)
1. Abel (11:4)
2. Enoch (11:5-6)
3. Noah (11:7)
4. Abraham and Sara (11:8-19)
5. Isaac and Jacob (11:20-21)
6. Joseph (11:22)
7. Moses and his parents (11:23-29)
8. Joshua and Israel (11:30)
9. Rehab (11:31)
10. The many heroes of faith (11:32-40)
VI. The walk and worship of the believer-priest (12:1-13:25)
A. Jesus the example (12:1-2)
B. Parenthetic (12:3-17)
1. The Father's chastening (12:3-15)
2. Esau a warning to professors lest they miss the priesthood (12:16-17)
C. The believer-priest does not come to Mount Sinai (12:18-24)
D. Warnings and instructions (12:25-13:9)
E. Christian separation and worship (13:10-14)
F. The believer-priest's sacrifice (13:15-16)
G. The believer-priest's obedience (13:17)
H. Conclusion: the apostolic benediction (13:18-25)
James
I. The testings of faith (1:1-2:26)
A. The purpose of testings (1:1-12)
B. Solicitation to do evil is not of God (1:13-21)
C. The test of obedience (1:22-25)
D. The test of true religion (1:26-27)
E. The test of brotherly love (2:1-13)
F. The test of good works (2:14-20)
G. The illustration of Abraham (2:21-26)
II. A true faith will control the tongue (3:1-18)
III. The rebuke of worldliness (4:1-17)
IV. The rich warned (5:1-6)
V. Exhortations in view of the coming of the Lord (5:7-20)
1 Peter
I. Christian suffering and conduct in the light of full salvation (1:1-2:8)
II. The believer's life in view of his sevenfold position, and of the vicarious suffering of Christ (2:9-4:19)
A. The vicarious suffering of Christ (2:21-3:17)
B. The vicarious suffering of Christ, preached by Christ through the Spirit in Noah (3:18-4:19)
III. Christian service in view of the coming again of the Chief Shepherd (5:1-14)
2 Peter
I. The great Christian virtues (1:1-14)
II. The Scriptures exalted (1:15-21)
III. Warnings concerning apostate teachers (2:1-22)
A. They will deny redemption by blood: many will follow them (2:1-14)
B. The marks of the false teachers (2:15-22)
1. They are like Balaam (2:15-16)
2. They are destitute of the Spirit (2:17)
3. Their words are learned and pretentious (2:18)
4. They affect liberality (2:19-21)
5. Unsaved professors run after them (2:22)
IV. The return of the Lord and the day of the Lord (3:1-18)
A. The return of the Lord to be generally disbelieved (3:4-9)
B. The day of the Lord (3:10-18)
1 John
I. The family with the Father: fellowship (1:1-3:24)
A. The incarnation makes fellowship possible (1:1-2)
B. Fellowship is with the Father and with the Son (1:3-4)
C. The conditions of fellowship (1:5-3:24)
1. The walk in the light (1:5-7)
2. The fact of indwelling sin admitted (1:8)
3. Sins confessed, forgiven, and cleansed (1:9-10)
4. Fellowship maintained by Christ's advocacy (2:1-2)
5. The tests of fellowship: obedience and love (2:3-3:24)
a. The children must not love the present world (2:15-17)
b. The children warned against apostates who deny the true deity of Christ (2:18-28)
c. How the little children may know each other (2:29-3:10)
d. How the little children must live together (3:11-24)
II. The family and the world (4:1-5:21)
A. Parenthetic (4:1-6)
1. The children warned against false teachers (4:1)
2. The marks of false teachers (4:2-6)
a. The false doctrine of Christ's person (4:2-4)
b. The world-marks of false teachers (4:5-6)
B. The true children are born of God through faith in the propitiation of the Son of God (4:7-10)
C. The love-life is shown by the life of love (4:11-21)
E. Faith is the overcoming principle in the world-conflict (5:1-21)
2 John
I. "The truth" and love inseparable in the Christian life (1:1-6)
II. Doctrine the final test of reality (1:7-11)
III. Superscription (1:12-13)
3 John
I. Personal greetings (1:1-4)
II. Concerning ministering brethren (1:5-8)
III. The domineering Diotrephes (1:9-14)
A. The good Demetrius (1:12-14)
Jude
I. Introduction (1:1-2)
II. Occasion of the Epistle: the apostasy (1:3-4)
III. Historical instances of apostasy (1:5-7)
IV. Apostate teachers described (1:8-19)
V. True believers assured and comforted: their sevenfold duty (1:20-25)
Revelation
I. "The things which thou hast seen" (1:1-20)
A. Introduction (1:1-3)
B. Salutation (1:4-8)
C. The Patmos vision (1:9-18)
D. The command to write (1:19-20)
II. "The things which are": the seven churches (2:1-3:22)
A. The message to Ephesus. The church at the end of the apostolic age; first love left (2:1-7)
B. The message to Smyrna. Period of the great persecutions to AD 316 (2:8-11)
C. The message to Pergamos. The church under imperial favour, settled in the world, AD 316 to the end (2:12-17)
D. The message to Thyatira. AD 500-1500: the triumph of Balaamism and Nicolaitanism; a believing remnant (2:18-29)
E. The message to Sardis. The period of the Reformations; a believing remnant (3:1-6)
F. The message to Philadelphia. The true church in the professing church (3:7-13)
G. The message to Laodicea. The final state of apostasy (3:14-22)
1. Place and attitude of Christ at the end of the church-age (3:20-22)
III. "Things which shall be hereafter" (4:1-22:21)
A. The seven seals (4:1-8:1)
1. Introduction (4:1-5:14)
a. The throne in heaven (4:1-3)
b. The enthroned elders (4:4-5)
c. The four living creatures (4:6-8)
d. The living creatures and elders worship because of creation (4:9-11)
e. The seven-sealed book (5:1-4)
f. Christ in his kingly character opens the book (5:5-7)
g. The living creatures and elders worship because of redemption (5:8-10)
h. The angels exalt the Lamb (5:11-12)
i. Universal adoration of the Lamb who is King (5:13-14)
2. The seals (6:1-8:1)
a. The first seal (6:1-2)
b. The second seal: peace taken from earth (6:3-4)
c. The third seal: famine (6:5-6)
d. The fourth seal: death (6:7-8)
e. The fifth seal: the martyred remnant (6:9-11)
f. The sixth seal: anarchy (6:12-17)
g. Parenthetical: the saved of the tribulation period (7:1-17)
(1) The remnant out of Israel sealed (7:4-8)
(2) Vision of the Gentiles who are to be saved during the great tribulation (7:9-17)
h. The seventh seal, out of which the trumpets come (8:1)
B. The seven trumpets (8:2-11:19)
1. Introduction: Christ as High Priest (8:2-6)
2. The trumpet judgments (8:7-11:19)
a. The first trumpet (8:7)
b. The second trumpet (8:8-9)
c. The third trumpet (8:10-11)
d. The fourth trumpet (8:12-13)
e. The fifth trumpet: the first woe (9:1-12)
f. The sixth trumpet (9:13-21)
g. Parenthetical (10:1-11:14)
(1) The mighty angel and the "little book" (10:1-7)
(2) The "little book" eaten (10:8-11)
(3) The "times of the Gentiles" to end in forty-two months (11:1-2)
(4) The two witnesses to Prophesy forty-two months (11:3-12)
(5) The second woe (11:13-14)
h. The seventh trumpet (11:15-19)
C. The seven personages (12:1-13:18)
1. The woman: Israel. The woman clothed with the sun, and the man-child (12:1-2)
2. Satan (12:3-4)
3. The Child: Christ (12:5-6)
4. The archangel (12:7-16)
a. Satan and Israel in the tribulation (12:13-16)
5. The Jewish remnant (12:17)
6. The Beast out of the sea (13:1-10)
7. The Beast out of the earth (13:11-18)
D. Parenthetical (14:1-13)
1. Vision of the Lamb and the one hundred and forty and four thousand (14:1-5)
2. Vision of the angel with the everlasting Gospel (14:6-7)
3. The fall of Babylon announced (14:8)
4. The doom of the Beast-worshippers announced (14:9-12)
5. The blessedness of the holy dead (14:13)
E. Vision of Armageddon (14:14-20)
F. The seven vials (15:1-16:21)
1. Vision of the angels of the seven last plagues: the bowls of the wrath of God (15:1-8)
2. The vials of the wrath of God upon the earth (16:1-21)
a. The first vial (16:2)
b. The second vial (16:3)
c. The third vial (16:4-7)
d. The fourth vial (16:8-9)
e. The fifth vial (16:10-11)
f. The sixth vial (16:12)
g. Parenthetical (16:13-16)
h. The seventh vial (16:17-21)
G. The seven dooms (17:1-20:15)
1. The doom of "Babylon" (17:1-19:19)
a. The divine view of "Babylon" (17:1-7)
b. The last form of Gentile world-power (17:8-18)
c. The last form of apostate Christendom: the warning to God's people (18:1-8)
d. The human view of "Babylon" (18:9-19)
e. The angelic view of "Babylon" (18:20-24)
f. Parenthetical: the four alleluias of the glorified saints (19:1-6)
g. The marriage of the Lamb (19:7-10)
h. The second coming of Christ in glory (19:11-16)
i. The battle of Armageddon (19:17-19)
2. Doom of the Beast, and Doom of the False Prophet (19:20)
3. Doom of the kings (19:21-20:15)
a. Satan bound in the abyss during the kingdom-age (20:1-3)
b. The first resurrection, and the kingdom-age (20:4-6)
c. Satan loosed: the doom of Gog and Magog (20:7-9)
d. The doom of Satan (20:10)
e. Doom of the unbelieving dead: the last judgment (20:11-15)
H. The seven new things (21:1-22:7)
1. The new heaven, and the new earth (21:1-2)
2. The new peoples (21:3-8)
3. The Lamb's wife: the new Jerusalem (21:9-21)
4. The new temple (21:22)
5. The new light (21:23-27)
6. The new Paradise and its river of the water of life (22:1-7)
I. The last message of the Bible (22:8-19)
J. The last promise and the last prayer of the Bible (22:20-21)
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