📜 Foundational Background
· ⚔️War in Heaven— Revelation 12:7
· 👶Birth of Christ — Revelation 12:1–2
· 🩸Satan tries to destroy Christ — Revelation 12:3–4
· 💪Christ’s victory and ascension — Revelation 12:5
· ⬇️Satan cast out— Revelation 12:8-9
🏛️ Church Eras and Seals— (Revelation 2–6; 12)
🕊️Apostolic Church (31–100)
· ⛪1st Church: Ephesus (pure but beginning to lose first love) — Revelation 2:1–7
· 📜1st Seal: White Horse — Gospel goes forth conquering — Revelation 6:1–2
· 🌎Heaven rejoices, woe to Earth — Revelation 12:9–12
🩸Persecuted Church (100–313)
· ⛪2nd Church: Smyrna — Faithful under Roman persecution — Revelation 2:8–11
· 📜2nd Seal: Red Horse — Bloodshed and martyrdom — Revelation 6:3–4
· 👰♀️Woman persecuted — Revelation 12:13, Revelation 12:6
🏴Compromising Church (313–538)
· ⛪3rd Church: Pergamum — Church unites with the state — Revelation 2:12–17
· 📜3rd Seal: Black Horse — Spiritual famine — Revelation 6:5–6
· Trumpets begin (judgments on Rome) — Revelation 8:6–13
o 🎺1st Trumpet: Barbarian Invasions (395–410) — Revelation 8:7
o 🎺 2nd Trumpet: Naval Destruction (428–468) — Revelation 8:8–9
o 🎺3rd Trumpet: Fall of Leadership/Rome (451–453) — Revelation 8:10–11
o 🎺4th Trumpet: Western Roman Empire collapses (476) — Revelation 8:12
🪦Dark Ages and the Rise of Apostasy (538–1517)
· ⛪4th Church: Thyatira — Church fully corrupted, long era — Revelation 2:18–29
· 📜4th Seal: Pale Horse — Death and the grave follow — Revelation 6:7–8
· 👰♀️Woman flees to wilderness for 1260 years — Revelation 12:14-15
· 👹Rise of the Sea Beast (Papal Rome) — Revelation 13:1–10
· 🎺5th Trumpet (1st Woe): Rise of Islam (622–750) — Revelation 9:1–11
· 🎺6th Trumpet (2nd Woe): Ottoman Turks (1449–1840) — Revelation 9:13–21; 11:14
🙏Protestant Reformation (1517–1755)
· ⛪5th Church: Sardis — Reformation begins but fades — Revelation 3:1–6
· 📜5th Seal: Souls under the altar cry out — Revelation 6:9–11
· 📖Two Witnesses slain — Bible banned in France — Revelation 11:3–10
🚪Great Awakening (1798–1844)
· ⛪6th Church: Philadelphia — Missionary revival and open door — Revelation 3:7–13
· 🦬Earth Beast (USA) rises — Revelation 13:11–17
· 👰♀️Earth helps the woman (Religious freedom in America) — Revelation 12:16–17
· Precursor signs of 6th Seal — Revelation 6:12–13
o 1755 Lisbon earthquake
o 1780 Dark Day
o 1833 Falling stars
⏳ End-Time Era (1844–Close of Probation)
· ⛪7th Church: Laodicea — Lukewarm end-time church — Revelation 3:14–22
· ⌛Investigative Judgment begins — Revelation 14:7; Daniel 8:14
· 👼Three Angels’ Messages begin sounding — Revelation 14:6–12
Worship God and keep the Sabbath — Revelation 14:7
Babylon is fallen (spiritual apostasy) — Revelation 14:8
Warning against Mark of the Beast — Revelation 14:9–11
· Final call to come out of Babylon — Revelation 18:1–5
· Mark of the Beast enforced — Revelation 13:15–17
· 144,000 sealed, great multitude praises God — Revelation 7:1–17
· Close of probation — Revelation 22:11
🌍 Final Crisis and Deliverance
· ☠️Seven Last Plagues — Revelation 16:1–21
· ⌛ Babylon fully falls and is judged — Revelation 17–18
· 📜6th Seal closes: Heaven departs, mountains moved — Revelation 6:14–17
· 🎺7th Trumpet : God's kingdom proclaimed - Revelation 11:15-19
· 📜7th Seal: Silence in heaven — Revelation 8:1
👑 Second Coming and the Millennium
· Christ returns on white horse — Revelation 19:11–16
· Beast and false prophet destroyed — Revelation 19:19–21
· Satan bound 1,000 years — Revelation 20:1–3
· First resurrection — Righteous reign with Christ — Revelation 20:4–6
· Satan released, final deception — Revelation 20:7–9
· Fire from heaven destroys the wicked — Revelation 20:9–10
🌈 Eternity: Controversy Ended
· Great White Throne Judgment — Final sentencing — Revelation 20:11–15
· Wicked judged and destroyed — Revelation 20:14–15
· New heaven and new earth — Revelation 21:1
· New Jerusalem descends — Revelation 21:2–27
· Tree of Life and river of water of life — Revelation 22:1–2
· Eternal life and peace restored forever — Revelation 22:3–5