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The Book of Revelation Outline
(Taken from the writings of the late David B. Brandt and other authors)

Writer, The Apostle John
Place,The Island of Patmos, off the western coast of modern Turkey
Date, Traditional opinion about A.D. 96
Authority, It is declared to be the Revelation of Jesus Christ, Ch 1.1
Circumstances, Unable to kill John through various methods the Roman Government opted for exile in a remote island. as way of limiting his influence or to completely silenced him. The stratagem backfired as in the solitude and peace of the island and away from distractions, John received the most extraordinary book ever written by man.
Peculiar Features,
(1) the book of Revelation or the Apocalypse as is also known is the only book in the entire Bible that contains a special promise to the obedient reader. Rev 1:3 Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of the prophecy, and keep the things that are written therein: for the time is at hand.
At the same time a curse is upon those who tamper with its contents.Rev 22:18 I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, if any man shall add unto them, God shall add unto him the plagues which are written in this book:
Rev 22:19 and if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part from the tree of life, and out of the holy city, which are written in this book.
(2) The number seven is the ruling number of the book; as there are
seven candlesticks,churches, seals, trumpets, thunders, vials, stars and more.

The book of Revelation is divided into three beautiful divisions of exactly seven chapters each--plus one! Its 22 chapters and the 21 chapters have three divisions of seven chapters each, plus a glorious and beautiful 22nd chapter about Heaven that's all in a class by itself.
Probably that 22nd chapter should have been a part of the 21st chapter, but it was so long then, all describing Heaven. The writer, John the Apostle, dedicated so much space to this subject that whoever divided the book into chapters finally decided that it was a little bit too long for the last chapter, so they divided it into the 21st and 22nd chapters. Each group of chapters, each seven of chapters, has to do with a different subject.

OUTLINE

Chapters	Theme	Details
1	Introduction	The introduction to things shorlty to come to pass
2 3	Letters to The Churches	Letters to the Churches that existed in John's days, in Asia as well as types of churches to come and church periods to come.
4 5	The Throne Scene The Lamb of God	The throne scene with the Lamb, Jesus Christ, who opens the 7-sealed Book of the Future
6	Opening of the First 6 Seals	Opening of the first six seals and a preview of the whole contents of history to the End.
7	The Sealing of the Saints	The sealing of protection of the final saints before the tribulation days.
8 9	The Tribulation Trumpets	The seven great trumpets. The angels are warned only to hurt the unsealed and to wreak the judgments of God on those who have taken the mark of Beast.
10	The Grand Announcement that the End is Coming
11	The Two Witnesses	The Two Witnesses, their rapture and more details about the End time.
12	The Church in Tribulation	The Dragon wars with the Church.
13	The Great Red Beast	The Red Beast of the Tribulation and the Antichrist Government.
14	The Rapture of the Church	God's children are raptured at the end of the Tribulation
15 16	The Wrath of God	The vials of God's wrath are poured, by His angels, upon the Earth.
17	Babylon and the Beast	A description of Babylon, the world economic system and the worship of materialism by its beastly governments.
18	Babylon is Destroyed	The great commercial and capitalistic system of the world is destroyed in just one hour according to God's word. The world merchants lament their loss.
19	Armageddon	The great and final battle is fought.
20	The Millennium	The victory at Armageddon ushers in the glorious one thousand reign of peace with Jesus Christ as its rightful ruler.
21 22	What Heaven is Like	These two chapters are the only specific descriptions of what heaven is like.

The first seven chapters [1-7]
Is like the introduction to the core of the book, a general introduction to the end time, because the first seven chapters cover the entire history of the world from John's days.
It is within these chapters that we have what are known as the Seven Seals. The Lord Himself, the Lamb, receives this book of seven seals, a scroll actually, with seven seal's. He breaks open each seal and as He does, a different period of history happens, a different event in history occurs. We will study that in detail later in the first seven chapters of the seven seals.

The second seven chapters [8-14]
Unlike the first ones, the second set of chapters deal more closely with the events of the end time, the very end of the 2000 or so years of history which John predicted by the Spirit of Christ.
We find the second seven chapters, from the 8th through the 14th, have to do with a famous and very great and important final period of man's history known as the reign of the Antichrist and the great tribulation period, and it ends with the marvelous coming of Christ and the rapture of his saints in the 14th chapter. In the second 7 chapters are the 7 great trumpets of tribulation, and all the terrible things that happen during the great tribulation period.

The third seven chapters [15-21]
Chapter 15 though 21 and 22, is a terrible, awful picture, as well as a beautiful gorgeous picture of the end time. First come the bad news, and then comes the good news. Because the worse it gets, the better it's going to get. And the sooner it gets worse the sooner its going to get better.
So in those last seven chapters, plus one, we find a detailed description of this end period, including some more details about the wrath of God and the great destruction of Babylon, the world system, and the final great battle of Armageddon in which the forces of God fight against the forces of Satan and destroy him, or at least defeat him, and his Antichrist devil-man and his false prophet and his whole kingdom, and gain a glorious victory as Jesus comes back again, this time with His followers on great white horses to charge through the skies to conquer the forces of the enemy, to set up His kingdom here on earth. Followed by the marvelous, beautiful, heavenly kingdom of Jesus Christ on earth, Heaven on earth, called the Millennium because it lasts a thousand years on the earth as it should have been, like the garden of Eden restored again. No more pollution, no more evil curse and almost no more death. If anybody dies at even a hundred years of age they'll think he's just a child! You'll be long-lived like they were before the flood, when they lived to be nearly a thousand years of age! People will live again like that during the millennium. In other words, the ones who have managed to survive the wrath of God, He's merciful enough to let them survive it, they live through it, and the battle of Armageddon, the survivors, even the wicked, those who were not saved--maybe not so wicked--the Lord had mercy. At least, and spared them--are going to live on into the Millennium, that thousand-year period at the end.
The saved, those who know God then will be in their spiritual, supernatural, miraculous, heavenly bodies and will be able to fly around with the speed of thought, appear and disappear at will, walk through walls! They won't even need "Star Trek" transporters or spaceships, and thank God there won't be any "Star Wars"!--because right there in the middle of the Antichrist's reign there's a big Star War in which Satan is cast out of heaven with all his angels. And this is what starts the tribulation as he possesses this devil-man Antichrist!

But after it's all over after the Wrath of God and the battle of Armageddon, before which the saved were caught up to be with Jesus in the air and the great marriage super of the Lamb, they are going to return with Jesus to conquer the earth and set up the Kingdom of Jesus Christ for a thousand years over the unsaved who remain, the unsaved who survive the tribulation, the Wrath of God and the battle of Armageddon.

The book of Revelation carries us right on then through that great millennial period and the final war of all, the battle of Gog and Magog when Satan is loosed out of the pit of hell for just a little while to again go out and deceive the wicked people of the earth, the unbelievers, just to show that even though mercy be showed unto the wicked, yet they will not learn righteousness.
Even after a thousand-year reign of Jesus Christ in person with His followers as His personal officers and police and guardian angels, they will rebel again against the lord Jesus Christ and his church, his people ruling the earth, and God will have to destroy them all by fire including the earth itself!--and the heavens, the atmospheric heavens!

They'll roll away in a big ball of fire like a scroll, and the earth will be completely burned out, burned up, burned over--not the ball itself, it'll remain. God didn't intend to let the earth itself be destroyed, not the planet but the surface of the earth, in order to purify it totally, completely wipe out all the wicked, wipe out all the pollution, wipe out everything that was bad or evil that still remained and reoccurred even during the Millennium because of the wicked, and then he creates a new heaven and a new earth.

So that's how this marvelous book goes. Three 7's! The first seven are a synopsis or like a preview of the whole world's history from the time of John to the end. Second seven, we come in close for a close look at the last seven years and the last seven trumpets of the tribulation period. Third seven, the horrible end of it all, the Wrath of God, the battle of Armageddon, and then the wonderful final end, the millennium battle of Gog and Magog for awhile, and then a new heaven and a new earth wherein dwelled righteousness only.
Those are the three 7's of chapters of the book of revelation

to be continued