Chronology of Revelation

📜 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