The Most Revealing Book of the Bible
by Vernard Eller

This publication was originally published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. (Grand Rapids, MI: 1974).

Bible selections are from the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1989 (NRSV) by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

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Table of Contents

Preliminaries

1. Revealing What?
2. The Gospel according to John the Revealer

"The Revelation of Jesus Christ, Made Known to John"

• The Introduction to the Book 1:1-20
  1. The Commission 1:1-3
  2. The Greeting 1:4-8
  3. John and the Revealer 1:9-20
• The Revealer's Letters to Seven Actual Churches of the End-Time 2:1-3:22
  1. To Ephesus 2:1-7
  2. To Smyrna 2:8-11
  3. To Pergamum 2:12-17
  4. To Thyatira 2:18-29
  5. To Sardis 3:1-6
  6. To Philadelphia 3:7-13
  7. To Laodicea 3:14-22
  8. The Great Disjuncture that Isn't
• The Control of History in the End-Time 4:1-5:14
  1. The Throne of God 4:1-11
  2. The Scroll 5:1-5
  3. The Lamb 5:6-14
• The End-Time as Seven Seals 6:1-8:1
  1. Seals 1-4: The Four Horsemen 6:1-8
  2. An Excursus on Trauma
  3. Seals 5-6: The Saints and the Kings 6:9-17
  4. The Seal Interlude: The Church-Below and Above 7:1-17
     1. Part A: The Church of the Living 7:1-8
     2. Part B: The Church of Those Who Have Died 7:9-17
  5. Seal 7: The Coming of the End 8:1
• The End-Time as Seven Trumpets 8:2-11:19
  1. Introduction to the Trumpets 8:2-6
  2. Trumpets 1-4: The Four Plagues 8:7-12
  3. Trumpet 5: The Warrior Locusts 8:13-9:12
  4. Trumpet 6: The Demonic Cavalry 9:13-21
  5. The Trumpet Interlude: The Scroll and Its Contents 10:1-11:13
     1. The Eating of the Scroll 10:1-11
     2. The Fate of the Church 11:1-13
  6. Trumpet 7: Victory to Our God! 11:14-19
• The End-Time in Freehand Sketch 12:1-14:20
  1. The Woman and Her Child 12:1-6
  2. The Dragon Thrown Down 12:7-17
  3. Enter, the Beast 13:1-10
  4. And Another, the Unholy Spirit 13:11-18
  5. The Lamb and His Hundred Forty-Four Thousand 14:1-5
  6. The Collapse of Evil's Kingdom 14:6-13
  7. The Parousia as Harvest 14:14-20
• The End-Time Intensification as Seven Bowls 15:1-16:21
  1. Introduction to the Bowls 15:1-16:1
  2. Bowls 1-5: The Worst Plagues of All 16:2-11
  3. Bowls 6 (Interlude) and 7: Collapse at Armageddon 16:12-21
• The Events of the End 17:1-20:3
  1. The Great Whore, Babylon 17:1-6
  2. The Whore and Beast Explained 17:7-8 & 18
  3. The Nero Ciphers 13:18 and 17:9-17
  4. The Fall of Babylon 18:1-8
  5. Lament Over Babylon 18:9-24
  6. Exultation and the Promise of the Wedding Supper 19:1-10
  7. The Parousia of the Rider 19:11-20:3
• The Apportioning of Mankind 20:4-15
  1. LIFE: The Millennial Resurrection 20:4-10
  2. DEATH: The Final Sentencing to the Lake of Fire 20:11-15
• The New Heaven and the New Earth 21:1-22:21
  1. Introductory Overview 21:1-8
  2. The New Jerusalem in Detail 21:9-27
  3. The New World Attempted 22:1-5
  4. An Excursus on Universalism
  5. Closing Exhortations 22:6-21
• An Epilogue

Figures and Tables

• Time Line
• Outline
• Literary Symmatry in Revelation
• Asia Minor Map: The Seven Churches
• Laodicean Analysis
• Triangular Numbers
• Emperor Table
• The Destiny of Man

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