: Bruce Charsky
: Reconsider Revelation Chronological Order
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This book covers the topic of end times. The purpose of this book is to detail out the chronological order of events described in the book of Revelation from the Bible. I believe the Bible is the holy and inspired word of God and that the book of Revelation gives us insight into the events both leading up to and including the end times. The book of Revelation also covers the topic of eternity and how our decisions about Jesus determine our eternal destination. This book takes the reader through the entire book of Revelation with many other biblical references to support and provide additional information and put the material into the appropriate context for the reader.

I grew up in a Christian home and accepted Jesus as my Lord and Savior at the age of 12. During seventh grade, the book of Revelation was taught to me in Sunday School. Later in my early college years, I committed to reading the Bible for 30 days straight. Fulfilling this commitment, I have included Bible reading in my daily life ever since those college days. Over the years, I have read the Bible many times over and realized I had a passion to teach small groups in Bible study. Teaching small groups challenged me to take on the more difficult books and topics in the Bible. I have taught books of the Bible from both the Old and New Testaments and have taught topics such as Creation, the book of Daniel, prophecies fulfilled by Jesus, a New Testament survey of topics and the book of Revelation. But I yearned to know more about the book of Revelation. This desire led me into a multiple year study on Revelation reading several authors, such as Dr. David Jeremiah, Warren Wiersbe, Charles Swindoll and others wanting to learn all I could about the end times. But none of these authors ever put the book of Revelation into a chronological timeline as fully as I so desperately wanted to understand. Then I found the book by Henry Morris entitled The Revelation Record. This book gave me the confidence to search the Scriptures more deeply to find the chronological order that I knew had to exist. I feel that God inspired both the desire and the understanding to now present such a book detailing the events of the biblical end times into an order that the reader can understand and even create their own mental picture of the event and the global impact of that event. Blessings to each one who reads this book.

Visions Given to the ApostleJohn

The Apostle John is the author of the book of Revelation, who wrote while on the island of Patmos in approximately 90AD, as an eyewitness to the revealed visions of future events. He was told to “write, therefore, what you have seen, what is now and what will take place later,” (Rev. 1:19).1 The Bible tells us that “all scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness” (2 Timothy 3:16).2 Do you believe that the word of God is the inerrant holy inspired word of God? That all verses, chapters and books are true and holy inspired? I have heard that “the book of Revelation isn’t hard to understand – it’s hard to believe!”3 So, as you start through Revelation, what is your starting point? Do you believe the Bible as a whole, believe only some of it or maybe you do not believe in the Bible at all. No matter your starting point, we should all read and study the book of Revelation with a sense of spiritualurgency!

John was the beloved disciple of Jesus whom he loved. But under the Roman Emperor Nero (37-68AD) John faced martyrdom as he was boiled in a huge basin of boiling oil, but was miraculously delivered from death. As a result of surviving this horrific death sentence, John was sentenced to exile on the island of Patmos, a small island in the Aegean Sea just off the coast of modern-day Turkey. While on the island, John was given a series of visions along with prophecies and recorded those visions in the book of Revelation as a result, the last and 66th book of the Bible. I found this description quite appropriate from Mark Batterson in his bookWhisper: How to Hear the Voice of God as he wrote “the entire book of Revelation is a moving picture recorded by John while he was exiled on the island of Patmos.”4 Revelation is also a picture of how the Lord is in control and the Sovereignty of the LordJesus.

John’s original, intended audience were the seven churches in the province of Asia, but is still very much relevant for all mankindtoday.

Before we get into the actual Tribulation events that will take place in the future, I want to examine the experience John had “On the Lord’s Day I was in the Spirit, and I heard behind me a loud voice like a trumpet,” (Rev. 1:10).5

John experienced visions for the entire book while in the Spirit, but Chapters 1, 4, 5, 10 were a manifestation of the Lord Jesus; explaining why He has the authority to bring judgment on the earth and all of mankind as “You are worthy, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for you created all things, and by your will they were created and have their being,” (Rev. 4:11).6

Below is a short overview of each chapter followed by a deeper review of thesechapters.

Chapter 1

The revelation from Jesus Christ toJohn

Promisedblessings

Vivid imagery of the “son ofman”

Chapters 4

John in the throneroom

Sees the twenty-fourelders

Sees the 4 livingcreatures

Chapter 5

The Scroll and theLamb

“Title deed to theearth”

Verse 9 establishes why Jesus is worthy and has the authority tojudge

Scroll in layers with each next successivejudgment

Chapter 10

Angel and the LittleScroll

Scroll is nowopen

Although not actually during the Tribulation, John sees the Lord Jesus in a future settingTribulation

Verse 6 “there will be no moredelay”

John is told to eat the scroll per (Revelation 10:9)7 “Take It and eat it. It will turn your stomach sour, but “in your mouth it will be as sweet as honey.” This refers to the Lord’s saints participating in the judging of non-believers and angels. “Do you not know that we will judge angels? (1 Corinthians 6:3)8

Now let’s take a deeper look into these fourchapters.