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Reading Revelation
A Literary and Theological Commentary

By Joseph Trafton

Editor's Foreword

Author's Preface

Introduction

Prologue (1:1-8)

John's First "In the Spirit" Experience (1:9-3:22)

John's Commission (1:9-20)

The Letters to the Seven Churches: An Overview

The letter to the church at Ephesus (2:1-7)

The letter to the church at Smyrna
(2:8-11)

The letter to the church at Pergamum (2:12-17)

The letter to the church at Thyatira (2:18-29)

The letter to the church at Sardis
(3:1-6)

The letter to the church at Philadelphia (3:7-13)

The letter to the church at Laodicea (3:14-22)

John’s Second "In the Spirit" Experience (4:1-11:19)

Introducing the Lamb and the Great Multitude (4:1-8:6)

Meet the Lamb (4:1-5:14)

Meet the great multitude (6:1-7:17)

The judgment draws near (8:1-6)

God's judgments and mankind's stubbornness (8:7-11:14)

The plagues begin (8:7-9:21)

The message of judgment (10:1-11:14)

The judgment has arrived (11:15-19)

Three Signs in Heaven (12:1-16:21)

The first and second signs in heaven (12:1-13:18)

The woman vs. the dragon (12:1-17)

The dragon's revenge (13:1-18)

Whom will you worship? (14:1-20)

The third sign in heaven (15:1-16:21)

John's Third "In the Spirit" Experience (17:1-20:15)

The judgment of Babylon 1--The great harlot
(17:1-18)

The judgment of Babylon 2--Lamentations on earth and rejoicing in heaven (18:1-19:4)

The announcement of the wedding of the Lamb (19:5-10)

The judgment of the Beast and the False Prophet (19:11-21)

The judgment of the Devil (20:1-10)

The Judgment of the Dead and the Opening of the Lamb's Book (20:11-15)

John's Fourth "In the Spirit" Experience (21:1-22:6a)

The Announcement of the Dwelling of God with His People (21:1-8)

John's Vision of the New Jerusalem (21:9-22:6a)

Epilogue (22:6b-21)

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