- 1 Revelation 1 Α′ The unveiling of Jesus Christ: a prophecy given by God and signified to John, opening with a beatitude on its readers, an epistolary greeting and doxology from the eternal triune God and the faithful-witness, firstborn, ruling Christ, and climaxing in the inaugural vision of the glorified Son of Man who walks among the seven golden lampstands — the Living One who died, holds the keys of Death and Hades, and commissions John to write to the seven churches. PDF
- 2 Revelation 2 Β′ The first four of the seven oracles of the risen Christ — to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, and Thyatira — each diagnosing a church by the searching eyes of the one who walks among the lampstands, mingling commendation and rebuke, calling to repentance and endurance, and crowning the conqueror with paradise regained, the crown of life, hidden manna and a new name, and rule over the nations with the morning star. PDF
- 3 Revelation 3 Γ′ The last three of the seven proclamations — to dead Sardis, faithful Philadelphia, and lukewarm Laodicea — calling each church to wake, hold fast, or repent, and crowning the series with the risen Christ standing at the door and knocking, with the promise of co-enthronement to everyone who conquers. PDF
- 4 Revelation 4 Δ′ The throne-room vision: caught up "in the Spirit" through an open door in heaven, John beholds the One seated on the central throne, ringed by an emerald rainbow, the twenty-four crowned elders, the seven torches of the Spirit, and the four eye-covered living creatures who never cease the Trisagion — while the elders cast down their crowns and confess the Creator alone worthy of glory, honor, and power. PDF
- 5 Revelation 5 Ε′ The sealed scroll of God's purpose in the right hand of the Enthroned can be opened by no one in all creation — until the Lion of Judah is revealed as a slain-yet-standing Lamb, whose redeeming blood makes him alone worthy to take and open it; heaven, then every creature, breaks into a crescendo of doxology to God and the Lamb together. PDF
- 6 Revelation 6 Ϛ′ The Lamb opens the first six seals of the scroll: the four horsemen ride out in conquest, war, famine, and death; the souls of the martyrs cry "how long?" beneath the altar; and the sixth seal unleashes cosmic upheaval, before which all humanity flees the face of the Enthroned One and the wrath of the Lamb. PDF
- 7 Revelation 7 Ζ′ The interlude between the sixth and seventh seals: judgment is held back until God's servants are sealed — the 144,000 from the twelve tribes of Israel — while John sees an innumerable multitude from every nation before the throne and the Lamb, robed in white and crying that salvation belongs to our God; one of the elders reveals that these came out of the great tribulation, and the Lamb who is their Shepherd will lead them to springs of living water while God wipes away every tear. PDF
- 8 Revelation 8 Η′ The seventh seal opens onto a half-hour of silence in heaven and the offering of the saints' prayers with incense at the golden altar; then altar-fire is hurled to earth and the first four of seven trumpets fall — hail and blood on the land, a burning mountain in the sea, the star Wormwood on the waters, and the darkened luminaries — each a partial 'third,' until an eagle cries a threefold woe over the three trumpets yet to sound. PDF
- 9 Revelation 9 Θ′ The fifth and sixth trumpets unleash the first two Woes: a demonic locust-plague out of the abyss that torments (but cannot kill) the unsealed under their king Abaddon/Apollyon, and a 200-million-strong infernal cavalry from the Euphrates that kills a third of mankind — yet the survivors still will not repent of their idolatry and crimes. PDF
- 10 Revelation 10 Ι′ The interlude between the sixth and seventh trumpets: a mighty angel astride sea and land swears by the eternal Creator that "there will be no more delay" (χρόνος οὐκέτι ἔσται), and the seer, made to eat a little scroll sweet in the mouth but bitter in the belly, is recommissioned to prophesy to the whole world. PDF
- 11 Revelation 11 ΙΑ′ The measured temple and the two witnesses: God seals and preserves his sanctuary and people while the nations trample the holy city for the bounded half-seven; his two prophets witness, are slain by the beast from the abyss, lie unburied in the great city, then rise, ascend, and are vindicated — and the seventh trumpet sounds the consummation, "the kingdom of the world has become our Lord's," sealed by the opened heavenly temple and the ark of the covenant. PDF
- 12 Revelation 12 ΙΒ′ The cosmic war behind history: the woman clothed with the sun bears the male child destined to rule the nations, whom God snatches to his throne; Michael casts the great dragon — the ancient serpent, the Devil and Satan — down to earth, where, defeated by the blood of the Lamb and the word of testimony and knowing his time is short, he rages against the woman and wages war on the rest of her offspring. PDF
- 13 Revelation 13 ΙΓ′ The unholy trinity's assault on the saints: the dragon empowers a blasphemous beast from the sea — a Danielic composite with a healed mortal wound that wins the world's worship and wages a bounded forty-two-month war on God's people — and a second beast from the earth, the lamb-horned false prophet, whose deceiving signs, speaking image, and economic mark coerce all humanity into the beast's cult; the chapter closes with the call to wisdom to calculate the beast's number, 666. PDF
- 14 Revelation 14 ΙΔ′ Set deliberately against the beast-vision of chapter 13, the Lamb stands on Mount Zion with the redeemed who bear the divine Name, three angels proclaim the eternal gospel and announce judgment on Babylon and the beast's worshipers, and the chapter closes with the double harvest of the earth — the grain reaped and the vintage trodden in the great winepress of God's wrath. PDF
- 15 Revelation 15 ΙΕ′ The seventh and climactic sign in heaven: seven angels hold the seven last plagues, in which God's wrath reaches its end. Before the bowls fall, the conquerors of the beast stand by the fiery sea of glass and sing the song of Moses and of the Lamb — celebrating God's great and righteous works — while the heavenly tabernacle opens, the angels are armed with golden bowls of wrath, and the sanctuary fills with the smoke of God's glory until the plagues are finished. PDF
- 16 Revelation 16 ΙϚ′ The seven bowls of God's wrath, poured out at the temple-voice's command, bring the plague-cycle to its consummation: sores, blood, scorching, darkness, the demonic muster to Armageddon, and the seventh "It is done" — judgment shown to be just (the angel of the waters' theodicy) yet met by hardened blasphemy rather than repentance. PDF
- 17 Revelation 17 ΙΖ′ The judgment of "Babylon the great," the gilded prostitute drunk on the blood of the saints, enthroned on many waters and on a scarlet, blasphemy-laden beast — and the angel's decoding of the mystery: the beast that "was and is not and is about to rise," its seven heads (seven mountains and seven kings) and ten horns (ten kings), who hand their power to the beast and war on the Lamb, only to be conquered by him as Lord of lords, and then to turn and destroy the harlot herself in fulfilment of God's purpose. PDF
- 18 Revelation 18 ΙΗ′ The fall of Babylon the great: a radiant angel proclaims her doom, a heavenly voice calls God's people out of her, and the kings, merchants, and mariners who shared her luxury sing their threefold dirge — while heaven rejoices, a mighty angel hurls the millstone into the sea, and every sound of life is silenced in the city where the blood of prophets and saints was found. PDF
- 19 Revelation 19 ΙΘ′ Heaven's fourfold "Hallelujah" over the judgment of Babylon gives way to the marriage of the Lamb and the advent of the warrior-Messiah — Faithful and True, the Word of God, King of kings and Lord of lords — who rides forth from opened heaven to strike the nations with the sword of his mouth, summon the birds to the great supper of God, and cast the beast and false prophet into the lake of fire. PDF
- 20 Revelation 20 Κ′ The binding and final doom of Satan and the last judgment of the dead: the dragon is chained in the abyss for a thousand years while the martyrs live and reign with Christ in the first resurrection, then loosed for the Gog-and-Magog assault that fire from heaven devours — after which the great white throne judges every soul by its works, and Death, Hades, and all not written in the book of life are cast into the lake of fire, the second death. PDF
- 21 Revelation 21 ΚΑ′ The consummation of all things: a new heaven and new earth in which the sea — and with it death, mourning, and pain — is no more, and the holy city, the New Jerusalem, descends from God as a bride adorned for her husband. God now tabernacles with his peoples, makes all things new, and the cube-shaped city of jasper, gold, and jewels needs no temple, sun, or moon, for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple and its light, open to all whose names are written in the Lamb's book of life. PDF
- 22 Revelation 22 ΚΒ′ The consummation of all things: the river and tree of life in the renewed paradise where the curse is gone, God and the Lamb reign, and servants see his face and reign forever; then the epilogue's triple "I am coming soon," the beatitude on those who wash their robes, the open invitation "Come!", the solemn warning not to tamper with the prophecy, and the canon's closing prayer — "Amen, come, Lord Jesus" — and grace. PDF