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STUDIES

IN

THE BOOK

OF

REVELATION

BEHOLD, I COME QUICKLY.- REVELATION 22:7A -

STUDY GUIDE FOR THE WEEKLY BIBLE STUDY OF THE

BEREAN PROTESTANT REFORMED CHURCH

CUBAO, METRO MANILA, THE PHILIPPINES

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Bible Study REVELATION

The Title of the Book(Revelation 1:1-3)

1. How must we interpret Revelation? a. Are all the things in the book literally true?

b. Are the things of Revelation past, present, or future?

2. What does verse 1 tell us is the contents of the book?

3. Does this title apply only to the book of Revelation?

4. What does the word “must” mean in verse 1 about the things that come to pass in the NT?

5. What does the word “shortly” tell you about what Christ does in the NT?

6. What are different ways God revealed His Word to His people? How does God reveal HisWord here?

7. Who is this John? Why does the Lord reveal the book of Revelation to John?

8. Did all of this truth come from the angel?

9. What is the purpose of Revelation according to verse 2?

10. What are the blessings of having the truth of Revelation?

11. What does this phrase mean for us: “the time is at hand”? Can you find other passages ofScripture that say the same thing?

12. How can we tell that “the time is at hand”?

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The Introduction to Revelation(Revelation 1:4-8)

1. Name the 7 churches. Find them all on the map of Asia Minor.

2. Is verse 4 merely a greeting, like a “hello”?

3. From Whom does this blessing flow?

4. In what 3 ways is Jesus Christ described in verse 5a? What do they mean?

5. What did Christ do to show His great love unto us (vs 5b)?

6. What does Christ make us unto God? (vs 6) What does it mean?

7. What kind of adoration and honor do we with John ascribe to Jesus? (vs 6b)

8. How will Jesus come? (vs 7a) What is the significance of Jesus’ coming this way?

9. Who shall see His coming? (vs 7b)

10. Why will they wail because of Jesus?

11. Jesus says He is “Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end.” What does this mean?

12. What does vs 8 say about the contents of the book of Revelation?

13. What does vs 8 say about our salvation?

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Christ in the Midst of the Golden Candlesticks(Revelation 1:9-20)

1. From a map, commentary, and/or Bible dictionary try to figure out:a. Where is the isle of Patmos?b. When was John sent there?c. By whom? d. What kind of “tribulation” is John referring to in verse 9?

2. What is the significance of the “Lord’s Day”? a. What day of the week was that?b. Is this proof of when we should worship God? What other proof in Scripture is there

that we should worship as the Church on this day?c. Did the Lord reveal all of the contents of Revelation to John on this day?d. What does this say about how we should worship today: what should be the content of

the preaching?

3. Where are the 7 churches of vs 11?

4. Explain the significance of the following details about Christ in the midst of the goldencandlesticks:a. “clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt... with a golden girdle” (vs 13)

b. “like unto the Son of man” (vs 13) (cf. Daniel 7:13,14)

c. “His head and hairs were white like wool” (vs 14a) (cf. Daniel 7)

d. “His eyes were as a flame of fire” (vs 14b)

e. “His feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace” (vs 15a)

f. “His voice as the sound of many waters” (vs 15b)

g. “Out of His mouth went a sharp two-edged sword” (vs 16)

5. In verse 17, we with John, having seen the dread glory of Christ in this vision, would falldown at His feet as dead. But, the Lord says to John and us: “Fear not!” In other words,be comforted! Hence, what points of comfort can we find (in verses 17-18) in thisrevelation of Christ in the midst of the golden candlesticks?

6. What is the significance of seven (seven candlesticks, seven stars, seven spirits)?

7. What does it means that Christ had “in his right hand seven stars”?

8. To what do the candlesticks refer?

9. To whom do the “stars” refer? Do the “angels” of vs 20 refer to the heavenly angels?

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Ephesus: The Church Who Lost Her First Love(Revelation 2:1-7)

1. Do the 7 churches represent anything? Are the letters to the seven churches only meantfor those particular churches?

2. Can you determine what is the basic and reoccurring format or structure of each letter?

3. What do we know about the city of Ephesus?

4. When and through whose labors was the church in Ephesus established?

5. What were the several strengths of the church at Ephesus?

6. Did they uphold the marks of a true church? Prove this from the passage.

7. Were they afraid of persecution?

8. What does the Lord judge as the problem with the church of Ephesus? What does thismean? What was lacking in the congregation?

9. Does this mean that it is possible for the saints to fall away from salvation?

10. What does the Lord admonish the church to do?

11. What does the Lord threaten to do to the church? What does this mean?

12. What is the blessed promise that the Lord speaks? What does this mean?

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Smyrna: The Church in Tribulation(Revelation 2:8-11)

1. Where was Smyrna located?

2. What does a Bible dictionary say about the city of Smyrna?

3. What did the church in Smyrna have to endure for the name of Christ?

4. What was her financial condition? Why was she this way?

5. Who are the true Jews? Are you? How?

6. What could the church of Smyrna expect in the days ahead? (vs 10)

7. Who is the author of this persecution? (vs 10) What is his purpose in persecution?

8. How long will the tribulation last?

9. Despite the tribulation, how was the spiritual condition of the church in Smyrna?

10. How could the church in Smyrna be rich when they were poor?

11. How does Christ identify Himself in vs 8? What significance does this have with respect tothe church in tribulation? How would this encourage us in persecution?

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Pergamos: The Church Lax in Discipline(Revelation 2:12-17)

1. For what was the city of Pergamos known? What religion was popular in that city?

2. How does Jesus reveal Himself in vs 12? What does it mean?

3. What does it mean that “Satan’s seat” was there? (vs 13)

4. The Church’s strengths:a. What does it mean that they “held fast My Name”? (vs 13)

b. In what ways might the church have shown that they did not deny “My faith”? (vs 13)

c. What is a martyr? What does that say about his faith?

5. The Church’s weaknesses:a. What was their weakness?

b. Who was Balaam?

c. What was the doctrine of the Nicolaitans? What is that false doctrine called today?

d. How did that weakness come about? What was a possible reason for this weakness?

6. Jesus’ Word to the Church.a. What does it mean to repent and turn from sin?

b. What would need to happen for the church to repent from its lax discipline?

c. What would the Lord do if the church refused to repent and do its proper disciplinework?

d. What 3 things does Christ promise the faithful?

e. What do these 3 things symbolize?

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Thyatira: The Church Tossed To and Fro(Revelation 2:18-29)

1. Where was Thyatira? For what was it known?

2. What were her strengths? (vs 19).a. What were these “works”?

b. What does “charity” mean?

c. What does “faith” mean?

d. What does “patience” mean?

e. Was this condition improving or deteriorating?

3. What were her weaknesses?a. Who was this Jezebel?

b. What did she claim to be?

c. Where did she get her prophecies? From the Bible?

d. What was her false doctrine?

e. What was the sin of the church?

4. What judgment did the Lord announce?a. Who will inflict the judgment? Why?

b. Can the Lord’s judgment be perfect? How does verse 18 help us know that Christ canjudge perfectly this church?

c. What is the judgment for the woman and her impenitent followers?

d. What is the purpose of this judgment?

5. What is the promise to the faithful?a. What burden did the Lord not put on the church? (vs 24)

b. What does it mean that the Lord will give us power over the nations? When will thishappen?

c. What does it mean that the Lord will give the faithful “the morning star”?

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Sardis: The Church Withering and about to Die(Revelation 3:1-6)

1. What does Christ say about Himself in vs 1a? What does this mean?

2. What does the name “church” tell us about the people of God?

3. How did the condition of the church contradict what its name meant? (vs 1)

4. Why was the church dead?

5. What does it mean that her works were not perfect before God? (vs 2)

6. What does it mean that many “defiled their garments”? (vs 4)

7. How would we be a “dead church”?

8. The Lord admonishes the church to remember: remember what?

9. What would happen the church did not listen to Christ?

10. What would the Lord take away like a thief in the night?

11. What 3 things does Christ promise those that overcome?

12. How must we avoid this weakness in Sardis?

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Philadelphia: The Little Church in Need of Encouragement(Revelation 3:7-13)

1. What does Christ say about Himself in vs 7? What is the significance of a key and thisparticular “key of David”? (cf. Isaiah 22:22)

2. How is this announcement of Christ concerning Himself encouragement to the church?

3. What does it mean that the church was of “little strength”? (vs 8b)

4. Did the church’s “little strength” make them discouraged and want to disband?

5. What 3 good things are described about the church? (vss 8c & 10a)

6. What was their patience? Through what were they being patient? Who were their spiritualenemies?

7. What 2 important promises are given to the little church? (vs 8b & vs 10b)

8. What is an “open door”? Does God give this to us today? Where?

9. What would this positive fruit (converts gathered into the church) bring upon the littlechurch from the wicked around them? Do you think this could happen on a mission field?

10. When will this “hour of trial” be the worst for the little church of Jesus Christ?

11. How shall we be kept in the hour of trial: by our own strength?

12. What encouragement does the Lord give the little church in vs 11?

13. What encouragement does the Lord give in vs 12?

14. What is a “pillar in the temple of my God”? What were the names of the 2 pillars inSolomon’s temple? What did those 2 names mean? Why is this an encouragement to thefaithful?

15. What is encouraging about this promised 3-fold name for the faithful?

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Laodicea: The Church Nauseating to Christ(Revelation 3:14-22)

1. What does Christ say about Himself in vs 14? What does it mean?

2. How does Christ vividly describe the condition of Laodicea? (vs 16)

3. Is Christ saying by this description that the church ought to be either good or bad, but nottry to be in between?

4. How does Christ describe the church’s situation? (vs 17b)

5. What was the church’s problem which caused her to be untasty and repulsively lukewarm? (vs 17a)

6. Where should they have looked for their riches: in themselves?

7. What 3 things does the Lord counsel them to buy? (vs 18)

8. What do those 3 things symbolize?

9. When the Lord commands us “to buy,” how is this possible? (cf. Proverbs 23:23)

10. What judgment does the Lord announce in vs 16b?

11. There is a promise for the small remnant left in the nauseating church. The Lord “stands atthe door, and knocks.” (vs 20a).a. Where does the Lord knock: at the door of the church or the door of man’s heart?

b. What is the purpose of the Lord’s knocking: to let himself in or to call us out of such anapostate church?

c. Does the Bible ever say that the Lord stands at the door of our hearts, knocking, asking,waiting for us to unlock and open the door to let Him into our hearts? (cf. Ready toGive an Answer, p. 95)

d. What error is it that teaches Christ stands at our heart-doors knocking, waiting for us tolet Him into our hearts?

12. What promise are the faithful given in vs 21? When will this be fulfilled?

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The Vision of God’s Throne and the New Kingdom(Revelation 4)

1. What did John see? Was it a dream?

2. What was the purpose of being shown all the things from ch 4 to the end of the book ofRevelation? (vs 1c)

3. Whose throne does John behold in the vision in vs 2?

4. How is God described in vs 3? What do each of the stones symbolize about God?

5. What is the significance of the rainbow around the throne? When was the first rainbow?

6. What comes out of the throne, and what does that signify?

7. Here we see at the trhone: seven lamps of fire. What does this represent? Why seven?

8. What is the sea of glass? (vs 6)

9. What do the four beast represent? (vs 7) (cf. Romans 8:19-22)

10. Can you find another vision like the one in vs 8, but in the OT with a similar praise to ourAlmighty God? Who saw that vision?

11. Why are there 24 elders before the throne? Whom do they represent?

12. Why do the elders cast their “crowns” before the Lord? What does that act represent? (vs10)

13. Why did God create the heavens and the earth? (vs 11b) How does this fact influence ourunderstanding of how and how long God created the heavens and earth?

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The Lamb Found Worthy to Open the Book(Revelation 5)

1. What is the significance of God’s “right hand”? (vs 1)

2. Whose book is on God’s right hand?

3. How much is written in this book? Are there empty pages? Is that important?

4. Can anyone read it? What safeguards the book from getting into the wrong hands?

5. Why are there seven seals and not five or just one?

6. To what does the book refer?

7. Can just anyone open it? What are the responsibilities for the one who opens the book?

8. To what 3 parts of God’s creation does the call go froth: “Who is worthy to open the book?”

9. Why did John weep? (vs 4)

10. Why should he not weep? (vs 5)

11. The Lamb has 7 horns and 7 eyes. What does this mean?

12. Why is He worthy to take the book? What happened to Him and what did He do accordingto the middle of vs 6?

13. Who praises the Lamb?

14. From whence are God’s people gathered (vs 9c)?

15. What did the Lamb make us (vs 10)? What is another name for that (cf. Acts 11:26b)?

16. When did the Lamb sit on the throne?

17. How much power and authority does the Lamb have today?

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The Four Horsemen(Revelation 6:1-8)

1. Why are there seven seals and not more or less? What is the significance of seven?

2. What do the seals represent?

3. Do the four horsemen represent what Christ does only at certain times in history orthroughout history until the end?

4. What does the horse signify in Scripture?

5. Do the horses run aimlessly or are they controlled? What comfort is it to know that thehorses have riders?

6. The White Horse and Ridera. What does the colour white signify?b. What does the white horse and rider signify? What goes forth conquering and to

conquer today?c. Can this power ever be defeated?d. When does this horse run?

7. The Red Horse and Ridera. What does the color red signify? (Isaiah 63:1-6)b. What directed power does this horse and rider represent?c. Can you think of examples of the running of this horse today?

8. The Black Horse and Ridera. What does the color black signify? (Jeremiah 14:2; Lamentations 5:10)b. What does the rider hold in his hands? What is it?c. What is the significance that this horse and rider make the basic necessities of life

expensive and leaves the luxuries of life untouched?d. Can you think of examples of social strife? Does this often follow as a consequence of

war?

9. The Pale Green Horse and Ridera. What does this color signify?b. What is the task of this horse and rider according to the rider’s name and what follows

him?c. What percentage of men must he kill?d. What comfort is it for the Church and the believer to know that this horse and rider are

directed by Christ?

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The Opening of the Fifth Seal: The Cry of the Souls under the Altar(Revelation 6:9-11)

1. What is the altar pictured here? (vs 9)

2. Whose souls are these under the altar?

3. What happened to them? (vs 9b)

4. Whom do the souls represent: only martyrs? (Acts 14:22, II Timothy 3:12)

5. To whom do they cry? (vs 10)

6. What do the souls earnestly want?

7. May we pray this prayer?

8. The answer to their prayer was first of all that white robes were given to them. What doesthat mean?

9. When will the ultimate answer to their prayer be given? (vs 11b)

10. Why must we suffer tribulation? (see Colossians 1:24)

11. What is your only comfort in tribulation? (Romans 8:35-39)

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The Opening of the Sixth Seal: The Shakeup of the Physical Universe(Revelation 6:12-17)

1. What signs are mentioned in vss 12-13?

2. Will these things literally happen? Will the firmament of the heavens be rolled up as ascroll?

3. Is this complete shakeup of the physical universe mentioned elsewhere? (Joel 2:30-31;Matthew 24:29; II Peter 3:7-10)

4. Is this prophecy fulfilled only at the end, or is it being fulfilled already now?

5. How long will the final shakeup of the universe take place? Immediately or millions ofyears?

6. What affect does this destruction of the creation have upon the wicked?

7. Why do they try to hide? Why do not they repent?

8. What affect will this destruction have upon the tiny remnant of the church that will live onthe earth at this time?

9. What does this destruction remind us about seeking the things of this earth? (Luke 12:31;II Peter 3:11-12)

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REVIEW(Revelation 1-6)

1. The Title of the Book (1:1-3)

2. The Introduction (1:4-8)

3. The vision of Christ in the midst of the golden candlesticks (1:9-20)

4. The letters to the 7 Churches (2-3)a. The Church that lost its first love (Ephesus)b. The Church in tribulation (Smyrna)c. The Church lax in discipline (Pergamos)d. The Church tossed to and fro from the Scriptures (Thyatira)e. The Church about to wither and die (Sardis)f. The Church which is a small remnant (Philadelphia)g. The Church nauseating to Christ (Laodicea)

5. The vision of God’s throne and the new kingdom (4)

6. The vision of the Lamb worthy to open the book with the 7 seals (5)

7. The four horsemen (opening of the first 4 seals) (6:1-8)

8. The vision of the souls under the altar (opening of the 5 seal) (6:9-11)th

9. The shakeup of the physical universe (opening of the 6 seal) (6:12-17)th

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The Sealing of the 144,000(Revelation 7:1-8)

1. Does this section of Revelation belong to the opening of the 6 seal? th

2. What does the 144,000 represent?

3. What are the important factors of this number and what is their significance?

4. What are the 2 tribes not mentioned?

5. What is this seal upon the 144,000? Is it a visible mark?

6. Where are the 144,000: in heaven or on the earth?

7. What does this seal mean? (Ephesians 1:13; 4:30)

8. Why is this seal necessary?

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The Numberless Throng(Revelation 7:9-17)

1. What prophecy is fulfilled in the numberless throng? (Gen 13:16; Gen 15:5; Hebr 11:12)

2. From whence do the members of the numberless throng come?

3. Where is this numberless throng: in heaven or on the earth?

4. What is their clothing? What does it mean?

5. Through what did they pass before joining the numberless throng? (vs 14)

6. To whom does this refer: just the believers in the last days or to the church of all ages? Are we in tribulation?

7. Is this group the same as the 144,000? What might make them different? What mightrequire us to view them as the same group?

8. What is their new song which they sing? Do you think it is significant in any way? (vss 10-12)

9. What is their home in glory?

10. Who is in the midst of the throne? Is that important?

11. Describe the blessedness of that temple for the numberless throng. (vss 16-17)

12. Will there be a sun in the new heavens and earth? (vs 16)

13. What Psalm speaks of the same idea of Christ leading “them unto living fountains ofwaters”?

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The Presentation of the Prayers of the Saints(Revelation 8:1-6)

1. Why are there 7 seals opened, and not more seals or less seals?

2. What happens when the 7 seal is opened?th

3. Why was there silence in heaven about the space of half an hour? (vs 1) Do we use“moments of silence” in our life? Why?

4. What is the significance of the angels holding trumpets? How were trumpets used in theBible?

5. What is the significance of the fact that these 7 angels, like Gabriel (Luke 1), stand beforeGod?

6. Give a description of the process of how the OT priests offered incense in the temple?

7. What is different about this altar in the vision as compared to the altar of incense inSolomon’s temple? What does this say about the altar in the vision?

8. Who are the “saints” that are praying? (vs 4)

9. What is the main thought and words of the prayers of the saints?

10. Will our prayers be heard? What assurance does the passage give us? (vs 4)

11. Who makes our prayers heard and acceptable to God?

12. In connection with the 7 seals and the 7 trumpets, for what must we never neglect to pray?

13. What was/is God’s answer to the prayers of the saints? (vs 5)

14. What is the fire that is cast upon the earth? What does it signify? (vs 5)

15. Does this passage mean to teach that when we pray for God’s Kingdom to come, that Godactually hears our prayers for Christ’s sake and in the way of our prayers causes the signsof Christ’s coming to unfold? In other words, are our prayers for the coming of Christanswered by God in the actual earthquakes and other signs of Christ’s coming?

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The Blowing of the First Four Trumpets(Revelation 8:7-12)

1. Are the events associated with the blowing of each trumpet figurative (symbolic) or literalevents?

2. What happened when the first trumpet was sounded?

3. What is the significance of the effects of the blowing of the first trumpet?

4. What happened when the second trumpet was sounded?

5. What is the significance of the second trumpet’s effects? Is this happening now?

6. What happened when the third trumpet was sounded?

7. What is the significance of this third trumpet’s effects?

8. What happened when the fourth trumpet was sounded?

9. Are the effects of the fourth trumpet happening now?

10. We are told that the effects of the four trumpets affect one-third (vss 7, 8, 9, 10). Theeffects of theo pening of the first four seals spoke of one-fourth (see ch 6:8). What is thesignificance in this change?

11. Do we know who the angel of vs 13 is? Does it matter?

12. What does “woe, woe, woe” mean?

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The Blowing of the Fifth Trumpet: The Locusts out of the Abyss(Revelation 9:1-12)

1. Who is the fallen star? (see Ephesians 2:2; Mark 3:22; Luke 10:18)

2. What is the “bottomless pit” or the abyss mentioned in vs 1?

3. What significance is there in that the “fallen star” receives the key to the bottomless pit?

4. Describe the 8 descriptions of the ugly locusts?

5. What is their purpose and to whom are they sent (vs 4b)? What is their significance (cf. Exodus 10:3ff; Joel 2)?

6. What is the name of their leader, and what does that mean?

7. Are they literal locusts which we must expect to come in the end times? To whom do thelocusts refer? (see II Peter 2:4, Jude 6)

8. How do they affect the world in their work? Do we see this happening in the world today?

9. What is the significance that they do their work for only “five months”? (vs 5)

10. What kind of condition does verse 6 describe regarding the world under the influence ofthese “locusts”?

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The Blowing of the Sixth Trumpet: The Plague of the Triple Monsters(Revelation 9:13-22)

1. What is the condition of the world at this time?a. Religiously (vs 20)b. Morally (vs 21)

2. Will this religious and moral ungodliness be especially great towards the end of time? (seevs 13; also look at I Timothy 4:1-3 & II Timothy 3:1-5)

3. What OT types and examples picture the ungodliness of the world at the end of time?

4. What is the significance of the river Euphrates out of which come the 4 angels? (The“Euphrates” is mentioned in Genesis 15:18, Deuteronomy 1:7; Joshua 1:4; and I Kings4:21)

5. What binds the angels until they are loosed?

6. What is the purpose of the 4 angels?

7. Describe the horsemen:a. How many are there?b. What do they look like?c. What comes out of their mouths?

8. What do these triple monsters represent?a. Fire represents “War.”

i. Proof(1) Jealousy (Ps 79:5, Zephaniah 1:18)(2) Anger (Psalm 39:3; Psalm 59:4)(3) Vengeance (Jeremiah 12:1)

ii. To which of the 4 horsemen and horses (Rev. 6) does this correspond?b. Famine

i. What does the color “hyacinth” look like? ii. To which of the first 4 horsemen of Rev. 6 does this correspond?

c. Pestilencei. This is pictured by the brimstone. What is this? What does it smell like?ii. Where else in Scripture is brimstone mentioned?

9. How many people do these monsters kill?

10. Concerning those of the world who are not killed, how do they respond to the effects of theblowing of the sixth trumpet and its destruction by the triple monsters? (vs 21)

11. According to John 14:16-18, what is the comfort of the Church while she must live throughthese terrible judgments which are poured out by Christ upon mankind?

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The Mighty King-Judge In Troublous Times(Revelation 10:1-7)

1. Whom does the angel, which comes down from heaven, picture? Prove your answer fromvss 1-3.

2. What proof is there in vss 1-3 that He is presented as a Royal Judge?

3. What does the seven thunders of vs 3 represent?

4. May we know what was said by those 7 thunders? Why may John know what was said andnot us?

5. The first thing the Angel does is “stand upon the sea and upon the earth.” What does thismean?

6. The second thing the Angel does is make an oath (vs 6). What is this oath about?

7. What is “the mystery of God” (vs 7)?

8. When will that mystery of God be finished? Does the time of the sounding of the seventhtrumpet give a clue? When will that be?

9. Why does the Lord teach us these things in this section? What purpose does it have for theChurch who must live at the end of the ages, especially in the decades and years before therise of the antichrist and then during the closing events of history?

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The Little Book That is Swallowed(Revelation 10:8-11)

1. What is this little book? Is the same as the book of chapter 5:1? What makes it different?

2. What is the connection between the book of 7 seals and this l itt le book? (see vs 11)

3. What do you think might be the “chapters” or prophecies in this little book?

4. What did John have to do with this book? What does that act which he did symbolize?

5. How did it taste in his mouth? Why was it that way? How does this apply to us today?

6. How did it affect his stomach? Why was that so? How is that true for us today?

7. What is our calling in light of the truths revealed in this section?

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The Measuring of the Temple and the Two Witnesses(Revelation 11:1-4)

1. Of what is the rod, given to the angel for measuring the temple, a symbol? (cf. Psalm 2:9)

2. Of what is Jerusalem, the city, a picture?

3. What must and must not the angel measure? Is this to be understood literally that anangel will measure an actual temple in Jerusalem, or that there will be such a temple soonin Jerusalem?

4. What does the measured temple signify? What conclusion must we reach when we learnthat the angel only measures the temple, but not the outer court nor the city of Jerusalem?

5. Is Christ Lord over all? (Philippians 2:11) Is it also true that Christ a spiritual King over theworld?

6. What does it mean that the Gentiles will tread under foot for 42 months (1260 days, 3 1/2years) the holy city? a. When does this happen? Only at a certain time in history or throughout New Testament

history? b. Does this refer to the corruption in the church world in church history?

7. Whom do the two witnesses picture? (see Zechariah 4)a. What positions in post-captivity Judah did the 2 men in Zechariah for have?b. Does the church have official positions? What are those three positions?

8. What does this tell us about the work of the Church in the earth? How is the church ofJesus Christ like a candlestick in the earth and in the midst of the world of sin anddarkness?

9. Does this mean then that we should let our light shine for the goal of converting the worldand making the world a better place before Christ returns?

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The Defeat and Victory of the Two Witnesses(Revelation 11:5-13)

1. What is the work and calling of these witnesses? What does the word “candlesticks” (vs 4)tell us about their work?

2. Why are they clothed in sackcloth? Why did people in the OT wear sackcloth and ashes?

3. What power has God given these witnesses to overcome their enemies? Of what prophet inthe OT does this remind you? Does the power of the witnesses devour their enemiesliterally or spiritually?

4. To whom in the New Testament is this power of the two witnesses given? What are thekeys of the kingdom of heaven?

5. What two men in the OT do the two witnesses remind you of? (vs 6) Who appeared toJesus on the Mt. during His Transfiguration?

6. Who is the beast of the bottomless pit? (vs 7)

7. What does he do to the two witnesses? How will the beast “kill” the two witnesses in thestreet?

8. What does this mean for the church at the end of the ages? Will all the saints be killed? Can you think of examples of this sort of thing happening to God’s people today in thenations of the earth?

9. How does vs 9 show the attitude of the world to the church when we read, “...and shall notsuffer their dead bodies to be put in graves. And they that dwell upon the earth shallrejoice over them, and make merry, and shall send gifts one to another....” Of what twopeople at the time of Christ’s crucifixion does this remind you?

10. Can Satan and the anti-Christ defeat the church? Prove your answer from vs 11.

11. What is the significance of 3 ½ days?

12. When will the fulfilment of this resurrection of the two witnesses take place?

13. How will the world and the anti-Christ be destroyed?

14. Who is the “remnant” in vs 13? Is that the remnant of the elect or the remnant of thewicked left on the earth before the final judgment? Can you give an example from the OTof what the wicked do in vs 13? (example: Daniel 4:34-37) Does this mean that they saythese things because they love God?

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The Blowing of the Seventh Trumpet(Revelation 11:14-19)

1. What is the second woe? What is the third woe?

2. What is the significance of the fact that the seventh angel sounds? What does 7 signify?

3. What do the voices say? What does it mean? When does this happen?

4. What happens at this point to the enemies of the kingdom of Christ? Are they part of thisfinal kingdom? Were they ever part of His Kingdom?

5. Whom do the 24 elders represent? What does that tell us about the relationship betweenthe church of Christ and the kingdom of Christ? Are the two separate or are they one?

6. What attributes of God are mentioned by the elders in vs 17?

7. In light of vs 18, why do the elders rejoice that the final judgment has come?

8. In vs 19 we read of the temple of God. What is that temple?

9. What does it mean that it is opened? What does that mean for us? What about for thewicked?

10. What signs of judgment are listed in vs 19? Can you think of examples of these today?

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The Two Signs in Heaven(Revelation 12:1-6)

1. What is mentioned about the woman in vss 1 and 2?

2. Whom does she represent?

3. Whom does the man-child she brings forth represent?

4. What is mentioned about this red dragon?

5. Whom does this represent? What does his color “red” represent?

6. What does his seven heads and ten horns represent about him?

7. To what history in heaven does verse 4a refer?

8. List as many of the prophecies of the coming of Christ from the Old Testament.

9. Can you give examples from the Bible history of the dragon standing before the womanready to devour the man-child as soon as he was born. Was the devil successful or did theseed of the woman always have the victory?

10. What comfort is there for us knowing that the seed of the woman always has the victory inChrist Jesus, even today and unto the end?

11. What event marked the complete failure of the red dragon to defeat and destroy the HolySeed, the Christ? (vs 5b) When is that final victory to be revealed fully?

12. What is the wilderness into which the woman flees and lives there 1260 days (3 ½ years)?

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The War in Heaven(Revelation 12:7-12)

1. What does the angel Michael’s name mean? What does this tell us about him? What do welearn about him from Daniel 10:13, Daniel 12:1, and Jude 9?

2. Who is the enemy of Michael and his angels? What is he called in verse 10b?

3. Did Satan have access to heaven in the Old Testament? (see Job 1 and 2)

4. When does or did this war take place?

5. What was the issue over which Michael and Satan fought?

6. How did the issue of Moses’ body fit into this war? (Jude 9)

7. When was that war decisively finished?

8. Having been cast out of heaven, does the devil do nothing or is he active?

9. Does he know that he is defeated? (vs 12)

10. What will be his last and greatest attempt to destroy the cause of Christ and the seed of thewoman?

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War Between the Dragon and the Woman(Revelation 12:13-17)

1. What does the woman in vs 13 represent?

2. When in history does what the woman represents in vss 13ff appear in history?

3. How does the dragon persecute the church? What is his ultimate goal?

4. “Two wings of an a great eagle” are given to the woman for her deliverance. What do these“wings” represent?

5. What does the wilderness, the place of the woman’s refuge, represent? Why cannot thedragon follow the woman into the desert?

6. What does the “flood” out of the mouth of the dragon represent?

7. Here in verse 16 we see in the vision that the earth helped the woman by swallowing upthe flood out of the mouth of the dragon. Should we expect a literal fulfilment of this, or isthere a symbolic meaning to this as well?

8. What characterizes the “remnant of her seed” whom the dragon seeks to persecute untilthe end of time?

9. What is the defense and safety of the remnant in the midst of this grievous conflict?

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The Beast out of the Sea(Revelation 13:1-10)

1. What is the connection between chapter 12 and what we are told in chapter 13?

2. Details about the monster out of the sea are mentioned in vss 2-3. What is the significanceof the fact that it is a leopard, lion, and bear?

3. What is the symbolical meaning of the “sea” out of which the beast arises?

4. What does it mean that hte beast has 10 horns and 7 heads?

5. What connection is there between this beast and Nebuchadnezzar’s dream of the multi-metal image and Daniel 7?

6. Will the beast be a dictator or a group of people (oligarchy)?

7. What does the deadly wound represent?

8. What does it mean that this wound is healed? Has this happened yet?

9. What kind of powers does this beast possess according to vss 5-8?

10. We read in verse 7 that the beast will “make war with the saints, and... overcome them.” How do we understand that statement in light of the truth of I John 2:12-14, 28-29, whichteaches us that the saints shall overcome and shall remain until the coming of Christ?

11. What is the attitude and of the saints towards the anti-Christ’s wars and opposition to thesaints according to verse 10?

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The Beast out of the Earth(Revelation 13:11-18)

1. On the basis of the section, we are given the following descriptions about the second beast.a. He arises out of the earth. (vs 11).b. He has 2 horns like a lamb (vs 11).c. He speaks as a dragon (vs 11).d. He exercises all the power of the first beast before him (vs 12).e. He perform miracles before the first beast (vs 12).f. He persuades men to make an image of the beast (vs 14).g. He moves men to worship the beast and his image (vs 12,15).h. He establishes the mark of the beast (vs 16-18).

2. What do we learn about the second beast by the statement that he arises out of the earth?

3. What is the second beasts relationship to the first beast according to the last phrase inverse 12: “...to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed”? Can the secondbeast be described as the bride or wife of the first beast?

4. Is it possible to maintain an absolute separation between religion and government?

5. What significance is it in the statement that he looks like a lamb with two horns, but speakslike a dragon?

6. What kind of power is being described by the fact that he speaks and does miracles?

7. What kind of miracles does the second beast perform? Are they being done today?

8. Is this second beast visible today or is it yet to come? Is it the pope and the cardinals of theRCC?

9. What is the “image” that is built to be worshipped? Is it like Nebuchadnezzar’s image inDaniel 2?

10. What is the mark of the beast? Is it a physical or spiritual mark, or both?

11. What is the mark of the saints?

12. What is the consequence of not having the mark of the beast but the mark of Christ? (vss15, 17)

13. Some say that the prophecy of the antichrist and the tribulation in Revelation 13 wasfulfilled in A.D. 70. What parts of the chapter show that the antichrist and the greattribulation are yet in the future?

14. What does the number of the second beast, “666", signify?

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The Lamb on Mt. Zion(Revelation 14:1-5)

1. What does verse Mt. Zion symbolize here? What do we pray for in the 2 petition of thend

Lord’s prayer?

2. Who is the Lamb? Why is He seen standing in vs. 1 on Mt. Zion?

3. Do all men like the truth that Christ is the Lamb and exercise His rule in the earth? (seePsalm 2:6)

4. Whom do the 144,000 symbolize?

5. What does it mean when they are described in vs 4 as those not defiled with women, “forthey are virgins”?

6. What does it mean that the follow the Lamb of God whithersoever He goes?

7. What is our calling according to vs 5?

8. Are we safe in this life from the Anti-Christ? What are the 3 reasons in the passage thatassure us of our safety from the terrible anti-Christ? (cf. vss 1 and 4b)

9. What is this song that they sing? Can just anyone know the music and the words of thissong?

10. What does Psalm 103:14 teach about God’s knowledge of us? In light of that truth in Psalm103, why do you think Christ gave us vision of the Lamb on Mt. Zion? What is the purpose?

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The First Three Angels and the Voice from Heaven(Revelation 14:6-13)

1. 3 angels are presented before us.a. What does the first angel say (vss 6-7)?b. What does the second angel say (vs 8)?c. What does the 3 angel say (vss 9-11)?rd

2. What is the significance of what the 3 angels say?a. What comfort is there for the saints in the 1 angels message?st

b. What does the 2 angel say to remind us of the certainty of “Babylon’s destruction”?nd

c. How does the message of the 3 angel help us?rd

3. What is our calling with respect to what the angel’s say?

4. Should we be afraid of the coming judgment day?

5. What is our hope according to vs 13?

6. How will our works follow us into heaven? Does that mean that the things we made will betaken with us into heaven?

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The Harvest(Revelation 14:14-20)

1. When does this harvest take place?

2. Does the Son of Man know the time of this harvest before it takes place?

3. What does “the golden crown” and the “white cloud” indicate about the Son of Man inrelationship to the harvest?

4. Why is the harvest sickle “sharp”?

5. What two things are harvested (vs 16 and vs 18)? What significance does this have?

6. Does the fact that the elect are gathered first indicate that the elect will be gathered out ofthe world before the final day of God’s wrath against the ungodly?

7. “And the winepress was trodden without (outside) the city.” (vs 20a) What does this mean? Who treads in this winepress? What is the blood that gushes out and why is it so deep?

8. Some suggest that vss 19-20 is a symbolical picture of the wrath of God revealed throughthe battle of Armageddon. Does this reveal a universal judgment of God on the enemies ofChrist? (See ch 19:11-21)

9. Here is a summary of the order of events at the end.a. Great apostasyb. Anti-Christ develops and reignsc. Great tribulationd. Battle of Armageddone. Coming of Christ (parousia)f. The resurrection of the deadg. The final judgmenth. The everlasting age

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The Song of Moses and of the Lamb(Revelation 15)

1. What makes this chapter and its sign “great and marvelous”?

2. Are the 7 last plagues of the wrath of God specific plagues, such as Egypt experienced? Why are there 7 and not 10?

3. We see in the vision a “sea of glass mingled with fire”? Why are “glass” and “fire” used todescribe the sea?

4. Who stand upon the sea of glass?

5. What significance do the harps have in the vision?

6. Why is the song called the song of “Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb”?

7. Why are given this song in the vision before the pouring out of the 7 vials?

8. In vs 4 we read that “all nations shall come and worship before thee.” Who exactly makeup the “all nations”?

9. According to vs 5, what exactly in the temple was opened?

10. What is the significance of the clothing and its colors which the 7 angels wear (vs 6)?

11. What is significant about one of the 4 beasts presenting the angels with 7 golden vials fullof the wrath of God?

12. Smoke fills the temple so that no man was able to enter therein. When is it possible toenter again into the temple? What is the point of showing that none can enter until theplagues are fulfilled?

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The First Four Vials(Revelation 16:1-8)

1. Whose voice is this in vs 1? What is the significance of its greatness and its messagecoming “out of the temple”?

2. Generally speaking, is there much difference between the vials which are poured out andthe earlier the opening of the 7 seals and the blowing of the 7 trumpets?

3. To what do all the vials have reference? What is the focus of their judgment?

4. Can a comparison (or contrast) be described between the vials and the plagues in Egypt?

5. The First Vial.a. Upon what is this vial poured?

b. What is its effect?

c. Is this happening around us today?

6. The Second Viala. Upon what is this one poured and what is the effect?

b. Is this actually happening now?

7. The Third Viala. Upon what is this vial poured, and what is the effect?

b. What is the message of the angel with this 3 vial?rd

c. What is the significance of the angel’s message and the other angel’s response?

8. The Fourth Viala. Upon what was this vial poured, and what happens?

b. How is this happening today? Is this a prophecy of “Global Warming” or of somethingelse?

9. According to vs 9, what is the effect of the pouring out of the vials upon man? Is manreacting this same way today towards God’s judgments?

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The Last Three Vials(Revelation 16:10-21)

1. The Fifth Vial (vss 10-11)a. Are the vials poured out in chronological order or simultaneously? b. Is the destruction caused by the vials only reserved for the days of the anti-Christ, or

are there signs that the vials are being poured out now?

c. Upon what was the 5 vial poured out?th

d. How is the effect of the outpouring of the 5 vial on the kingdom of darknessth

described? Is this evident today?

e. How do the wicked respond?

2. The Sixth Vial (vss 12-16)a. What does the great river Euphrates represent?

b. What does the drying up of the river signify? Is this happening now?

c. Who are the kings of the east?

d. What do the frogs from the dragon, the beast, and the false prophet signify and what istheir purpose?

e. What is the promise given to the saints?

f. What do their garments signify?

g. Does Christ come as a thief in the night for the faithful saints?

h. What is Armageddon?

i. When does this battle take place historically? Who are the two sides of the battle whenit is about to begin?

j. Can we determine what Satan’s role and goal might be in the battle of Armageddon?

3. The Seventh Vial (vss 17-21)a. “It is done.” What does that statement reveal about the 7 vial?th

b. Why are earthquakes emphasized so much in vs 18?

c. Who is the great Babylon of vs 19?d. What is the “cup of the fierceness of His wrath”?e. Does vs 20 indicate literal destruction in the creation or is that merely a symbolical

expression of the fierceness of God’s wrath?

f. What is the response of the wicked to the hailstones which are cast down from heavenupon the wicked?

g. Is the Church still on the earth when the last 3 vials are poured out on the earth andjust prior to the visible appearing of Christ?

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Babylon(Revelation 17:1-6)

1. Who is Babylon? Why is she not called Jerusalem or some other city? Does this signifyRome?

2. What does it mean that she sits upon many waters? (vs 1)

3. What does it mean that she sat upon a scarlet colored beast, full of names of blasphemy,having seven heads and ten horns? (vs 3)

4. What do the following descriptions tell us about the Babylon of the passage:a. Her name: “Mystery, Babylon the Great, the Mother of Harlots and Abominations of the

Earth.” (vss 1,5)

b. “With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication” (vs 2)

c. “Having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication.”(vs 4)

d. “And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet color, and decked with gold andprecious stones and pearls.” (Vs 4a)

e. She is drunk with the blood of the saints. (Vs 6a)

5. Is this a picture of the false church in its final manifestation in history?

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The Mystery of the Beast(Revelation 17:7-14)

1. Why did John marvel at this beast “with great admiration” (vs 6)?

2. Who is this beast? What is the significance of his 7 heads and 10 horns?

3. What significance is the fact that the beast ascends “out of the bottomless pit”? (vs 8)

4. Why is the beast described as “was and is not and shall be”? What perspective of the beastare we given in this section of Revelation?

5. What are the other 6 great world powers which all serve the coming of the final anti-christ(“and the other is not yet come”)?

6. What does this phrase tell us about the anti-Christ: “and the beast that was, and is not,even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition” (vs 11)?

7. How long is the “one hour” in which the 10 kings shall receive power as kings with thebeast?

8. How shall the beast make war with the Lamb? (vs 14a)

9. What is the victory of the Lamb? How is this experienced by the saints who must endurethis war of the beast?

10. According to the end of vs 14 what is certainty of the preservation of the saints through thewar that the beast shall wage against the Lamb and His saints on earth?

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The Destruction of the Harlot, Babylon(Revelation 17:15-18)

1. Is Babylon, the Harlot-City, the same as the 10 kings and the Beast?

2. What are the “waters” over which the whore sat? Can she bring unity to all whom thewaters represent?

3. What will begin the destruction of Babylon?

4. How will the 10 kings destroy Babylon?

5. What assures us in vs 17 that this will occur at precisely the correct time?

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Babylon’s Great Judgment(Revelation 18)

1. Babylon’s Fall (vss 1-8) a. What is the significance of the angel’s appearance and “coming down from heaven” in

connection with his message?

b. What is the significance for the Church of the fact that the vision presents the fall ofBabylon in the present tense (“is fallen”)?

c. Is this message of the angel something new for Scripture? (Compare to Isaiah 13:20-22; Isaiah 34:11-15; Jeremiah 51)

d. What does it mean that Babylon becomes the place of devils?

e. Knowing such is the imminent and sure destruction of Babylon, what is the command ofChrist to the church? (vs 4) How does that apply to us today?

f. There are four plagues poured out on Babylon: death, mourning, famine, fire. What doeach of these signify about Babylon’s destruction.

g. To whom does the command “Reward her....” go forth? (vs 6a)

h. Why must Babylon receive “her double” reward of God’s wrath?

i. According to vs 8, what is the absolute certainty that Babylon’s great judgment willcome to pass?

2. Babylon’s Despair and Anguish (vss 9-19)a. The lament of the kings (vss 9-10)

i. Whom do the kings represent?ii. When and where does this lament and anguish take place?

b. The lament of the merchants (vss 11-17a)i. Whom do the merchants signify? ii. What was Babylon for the merchants?iii. How does vss 14-15 describe the merchants? (cp with Luke 12:16-21)

c. The lament of the ship captains (vss 17b-19)

3. Babylon’s Just Judgment (vss 20-24)a. How are Babylon’s sins summarized? (vss 23-24)

b. Why should the Kingdom of Christ rejoice as a reaction to Babylon’s fall? (vs 20)

c. Is this judgment given by God upon the world today?

4. Having studied the chapter, how would you describe the difference between theannouncement of Babylon’s fall here in Chapter 18 and the announcement of it in chapter17?

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A Song of Praise and the Marriage of the Lamb(Revelation 19:1-10)

1. What connection is indicated between this section and chapter 18 by the words “after thesethings”?

2. Does this group which sings only consist of saints who died during the closing months ofhistory (see vs 4)?

3. What does “Alleluia” mean?

4. What is the significance of the people proclaiming salvation, glory, honour and power untoGod?

5. How do vss 2 and 3 support the fact that this vast multitude must be the exalted church?

6. To whom does the voice of vs 5 belong?

7. What does “both small and great” indicate about the diversity in the multitude that praisesGod for ever and ever?

8. Does the song of vs 6 proclaim what has been established or what has always been true?

9. Who is the “wife” of the Lamb, mentioned in vs 7?

10. How can it be true of the church that “she has made herself ready” for the marriage of theLamb?

11. What is the significance of the phrase: “the fine linen of the righteousness of saints”?

12. When does this marriage supper take place: before a 1,000 year reign of Christ upon earth? Before the battle of Armageddon?

13. Where else in Scripture is this symbolism of the marriage supper revealed in Scripture?

14. How was John corrected when overwhelmed by the revelation of the perfection of theChurch in glory with Christ?

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The Appearing of the Lord (“The Parousia”)(Revelation 19:11-21)

1. Where has this scene in Revelation 19 been described before in Revelation?

2. What is unique about this revelation about the end?

3. What is the significance of the following descriptions of Christ?a. White horse

b. The known names of “Faithful and True” (vs 11)

c. The unknown name (vs 12)

d. “King of Kings, Lord of Lords” (vs 16)

e. Eyes as a flame of fire (vs 12)

f. Many crowns on His head (vs 12)

g. A vesture dipped in blood (vs 13) (cf. Isaiah 63)

h. A sharp Sword (vs 15)

i. A rod of iron (vs 15)

4. Who belong to the ranks of those armies in heaven which follow Chief Captain on whitehorses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean?

5. What is the significance of the supper of the great God and the fowls devouring the wickedmen and the horses? (vss 17-18)

6. What is the description of the antichristian kingdom according to vs 19? Is this adescription true at the coming of Christ or throughout history?

7. According to vs 20, do the beast and the false prophet participate in the final judgment?

8. What is the lake of fire burning with brimstone?

9. Of what is the gruesome description of the battlefield destruction in vs 21 signify?

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The Millenium and the end of Gog and Magog(Revelation 20:1-10)

1. Because this section of Revelation speaks of the millenium, it is important that we have agrasp on the differences between pre-millenialism (historic and dispensational), post-millenialism, and a-millenialism. A chart is included on the next page to illustrate briefly thedifferences.

2. How is the binding of Satan described in vss 1-3?

3. What always binds and controls Satan throughout history?

4. What is the significance of the 1,000 years in which time Satan is bound? When in historyis the symbolical period of 1,000 years fulfilled?

5. From what is Satan bound and what cannot he do for this symbolical period of 1,000 years?

6. When will Satan be loosed “a little season”? Do you think that this has that happenedalready?

7. The reign of the saints (vss 4-6).a. Who are the saints mentioned in vs 4? Will this include us?

b. Where are they?

c. What is their “first resurrection” according to vs 5?

d. What is the “second death” which has no power over these saints?

e. Of what does this ruling with Christ consist during the millenium?

8. What happens when Satan is loosed?

9. Who is the “camp of the saints” against which Gog and Magog assemble to fight? Is it thefew remaining saints left on the earth after the great tribulation?

10. Though the purpose of Gog and Magog is to destroy Christ’s Kingdom, do they really evenknow the difference between the antichristian kingdom and the true kingdom, between thefalse church and the true church? Is vs 8 another description of the battle of Armageddon?

11. What is the immediate end of Gog and Magog, the beast, Satan, the false prophet, etc.?

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The Final Judgment(Revelation 20:11-15)

1. Who is Judge?

2. Who are judged?

3. How is it possible for Christ to judge everyone, men and angels, which is an innumerablemultitude, all at once?

4. Can cremation prevent one’s appearance before the great white throne?

5. Which books are opened?

6. What does it mean that we are judged “according to our works”? Will we be rewardedaccording to our good works?

7. What is the second death?

8. Will “death and hell” be cast into hell? What is the better translation for “hell” in vs 14?

9. Ultimately why are the saints not cast into the lake of fire? (vs 15)

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The Tabernacle of God with Men(Revelation 21:1-8)

1. How does the “first heaven and the first earth” pass away?

2. What does it mean that in the new heaven and new earth there will be “no more sea”?

3. To which “heaven” does “new heaven” in vs 1 refer?

4. Will the barrier between heaven and earth still exist in the new creation?

5. The holy city, the new Jerusalem, comes down from God from heaven. How do we respondto the idea that this means the Kingdom of heaven will be established on this (old) earth?

6. What is the tabernacle of God with men? (vs 3)

7. According to vs 4, what is the condition, positively and negatively, of that life in theCovenant in the new heaven and earth?

8. Why is the description of that condition so brief?

9. According to vss 5-6, what is the assurance that what we learn in vs 4 will actually come topass?

10. According to vs 6b-7, who are the inhabitants of that new Jerusalem?

11. Who will not and cannot be the inhabitants of the new Jerusalem? (vs 8)

12. What makes the difference between whether one partakes of the life of the New Jerusalemor whether one must partake of the second death?

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The New Jerusalem(Revelation 21:9-22)

1. Is there a reason why one of the 7 angels who poured out the contents of the 7 bowls ofwrath now shows John “the Lamb’s wife”?

2. What does it mean that the holy Jerusalem descends “out of heaven from God”?

3. What is the shape and size of the New Jerusalem? What is the significance of this?

4. What is the description of the walls and the gates? What is the significance of this?

5. What is revealed about the foundation of the New Jerusalem? What is the significance ofthis?

6. What materials are found in the New Jerusalem? What are the significance of thesematerials?

7. Why does this New Jerusalem not have a temple with the outer court, the holy place, andthe most holy place?

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The Blessed, Covenant Life of Heavenly Perfection(Revelation 21:23-22:6)

1. According to vs 23, what will the new creation not have anymore? Will this be literally true?

2. What does vs 23 teach us about our knowledge of God in heaven as compared to ourknowledge of God here in the earth?

3. “There shall be no night there.” (vs 25b) What is the significance of that statement?

4. Who will walk in the light of that new creation?

5. What is significant about the truth that the river of life flows from the throne of God and theLamb?

6. What is the meaning and significance of the tree of life with its 12 manner of fruits?

7. Why is there no tree of the knowledge of good and evil in the new creation?

8. Will the animals have a place in the new creation?

9. What does it mean that there shall be no more curse in the new creation? (vs 3)

10. How is our life and work in heaven described in vs 3b? Why is that important?

11. What is significant about the fact that we shall have God’s Name in our foreheads?

12. When will all these things come to pass according to vs 6? Why is that significant?

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Keeping the Words of This Book Knowing That Jesus is Coming Quickly(Revelation 22:7-21)

1. How many times in this passage do we read that Christ comes “quickly”? Significant?

2. Why must not John seal the sayings of the prophecy of this book?

3. What is the point of vs 11?

4. Vs 12 speaks of the reward that is with Christ in His coming. What is our reward and why isit our reward?

5. How and why do we receive the right to the tree of life?

6. What makes the difference between those of in the group of vs 14 and those in the groupof vs 15?

7. How does Christ identify Himself in vs 16? Why are these names significant in this place?

8. Who will take the water of life freely?

9. What is the warning about the prophecy of Revelation in vss 18-19?

10. Does this warning apply only to the book of Revelation?

11. What must be the prayer of the Church in response to Christ’s word: “Surely, I comequickly!”? How does the church show that?

12. How can Christ be coming quickly when His return again has not occurred for almost 2,000years? How does the Church avoid discouragement regarding Christ’s return?

13. How is it possible for the church to pray and live that prayer according to vs 21?

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