Giving Revelation a structure

Settings

• Author: John (the apostle?)
• Time: AD 94-96
• Location: Patmos
• Audience: 7 churches 
• Situation: Development of the churches under increasing persecution 
• Theme: Revelation about Jesus Christ 
• Geographical map

Outline

• Visual summary

4 different views

• Preterist 
• Futurist
• Historicist
• Idealist
• Visual summary

Views on the millennium 

• Post-millennialism
• Pre-millennialism
  • Dispensional
  • Historic
• Amillennialism
• Visual summary

Next meeting

• Revelation 1:1-20