Notes on Revelation (Rev 1-11)

Write to 7 churches
(1) Ephesus: "You have forsaken your first love"
(2) Smyrna
(3) Pergamum
(4) Thyatira
(5) Sardis
(6) Philadelphia
(7) Laodicea: "You are lukewarm... I am about to spit you out of my mouth."

The THRONE in Heaven
- 24 elders             
- 4 living creatures
- All of them WORSHIPPING Holy! Holy! Holy!

The LAMB is worthy to open the scroll (Lamb opened seals)

THE 7 SEALS (Lamb opened all 7)
(1) White horse rode to conquest (w/ rider)
(2) Fiery red horse to remove peace, make men slay each other (w/ rider)
(3) Black horse (w/ rider)
(4) Pale horse with rider Death, and Hades following, to kill 1/4 of earth
(5) Martyred souls addressed & told to wait
(6) Earthquake, sun, moon, stars, mountains ablaze, falling; everyone calls out to rocks to die rather than withstand God's wrath
(-) 144,000 sealed for God
(-) INTERLUDE
(7) 1/2 hour silence in Heaven

THE 7 TRUMPETS (7 angels sounded 7 trumpets)
(1) Hail & fire & blood (1/3 of earth burned, 1/3 trees burned)
(2) Mountain thrown into sea (turned to blood) (1/3 sea blood, 1/3 sea creatures died, 1/3 ships gone)
(3) Star fell in rivers (1/3 water bitter, star named Wormwood)
(4) 1/3 sun, 1/3 moon, 1/3 stars turned dark
(-) Woe! Woe! Woe!
(5) Star opened the Abyss (smoke rises & darkens sky) and scorpion-locusts tormen but not kill those w/o seals for 5 months; during those days men will seek death, but will not find it
(6) 4 angels returned to kill 1/3 of mankind (breathe fire/smoe/sulfur, tails of snakes)
(-) Great angel gives little scroll for John to eat
(-) INTERLUDE
(-) 2 witnesses to earth... terror & destruction
(7) Kingdom has come!