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Act One: The Church on Earth
- The Introduction and Prologue
- Greetings to the Seven Churches:
- Ephesus
- Smyrna
- Pergamum
- Thyatira
- Sardis
- Philadelphia
- Laodicea
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Act Two: Gods Purpose in History
- Seven seals are broken by the lamb:
- the white horse - conquest, war on others
- the red horse - the rider permitted to take peace from earth, war again
- the black horse - famine, often represented by a pair of scales
- the pale green horse - color of death, outcome of war
- the martyrs - the suffering that the faithful are going through will continue, saw the slaughtered people, speaking directly to Christian people being prosecuted. Message of Hope, hope is coming.
The eschatological events - apocalyptic woes.
- Interlude:
- The sealing of the saints - 144,000 saints are sealed, 12 tribes of 12,000, metaphor for isreal (the perfect people of God). Only a symbol, sense of complete church made up of the saved ones.
- The Seventh seal - Silence
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Act Three: The Church in Tribulation
- The seven trumpets sound (Plague of Exodus)
- hail and fire
- burning mountain
- falling stars
- darkness in the land
- locusts from the pit
- the evil cavalry
- Woman and the Dragon
- Birth of Christ... born and snatched away, no mention to crucifixion or resurrection, very short telling of the life of Jesus.
- Dragon - seven heads (rome), ten horns (ten emperors), seven crowns (perfect image of power)
- 1260 days - 3.5 years (and incomplete set of time, on your way to triumph)
- Woman - Mary, fleeing away to the church, about a time of waiting, a time or preparation, John had just mentioned in chapter 6 that more people were going to die, and when asked long should they wait, it was going to be longer.
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Act Four: The Salvation of The Church
- The visions of conflict:
- the women and the dragon
- the beast from the sea
- the beast from the land
- the lamb and the martyrs
- Doom to babylon
- Armageddon
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Act Five: The World in Agony
- The Seven Bowls are poured out:
- Plague on earth
- Plague on the sea
- Plague in rivers and springs
- Plague on the Sun
- Plague on the darkness (evil)
- Plague that leads to battle (Armageddon)
- Plague in the air
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Act Six: The Judgement of the World
- Seven plagues unfold
- - the women on the beat
- - the beast at war with the woman
- - the final cosmic speech
- Seven verdicts from angels
- - the word of God on a white horse
- - the angel in the sun
- - an image of victory
- - Satan cast into the abyss
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Act Seven: Church Victorious
- Seven Images of Victory:
- the throng of God
- the final Judgment
- a new heaven and a new earth
- a new Jerusalem (the city measured)
- the glory of God
- the source of all life - a new paradise
Epilogue: Finale Benediction
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