Having carried his thoughts concerning Satan's destiny and the resurrection of unbelievers to their conclusions in chapter 20, John now returns to the beginning of the Millennium to describe the new home of the Church in chapter 21 and the new Earth in chapter 22.

The Great Tribulation has ended, Babylon has been destroyed, and Planet Earth is ready to receive her King. All that remains is the capture of that unholy trinity that's caused all the devastation and the annihilation of their army. It sounds like a big job, but with the Lord personally directing events it won't take long at all.

With the conclusion of the bowl judgments we've seen the end of the Great Tribulation. Now we'll back up a little and get the detail on Babylon's destruction.

A Bible Study by Jack Kelley The time of the Bowl Judgments is upon us. The full fury of God’s Wrath, begun in chapter 6, is coming. It’s been building in stages to give all those who will, the opportunity to seek and find Him before it’s too late. But now the climax is at […]

A Bible Study by Jack Kelley The Great Tribulation is about to begin on Earth. The Temple will soon be made desolate. When that happens, the Jewish remnant will heed the Lord’s call from Matt. 24:15-16 and flee to a place of supernatural protection as we saw in Rev. 12. When they do, Satan’s target […]

At the end of our last installment in the Book of Revelation, I promised to tell you where in Israel the next Temple will be located. So let's get started with a little review.

We take a break from the Trumpet Judgments now to give the world its final warnings before the Great Tribulation begins. These are the Seven Thunders and the Two Witnesses that God has sent to Israel to warn His people to "get right with God" while there's still time.

The first cycle of judgments is ending. The 144,000 have been commissioned and a huge group of martyrs has arrived in Heaven. In many places on Earth war rages unchecked, with its attendant famine and pestilence, and yet in other places peace still prevails. But in Heaven it's a different story, because God is about to unleash the 7 Trumpet judgments.

Between the 6th and 7th seals there's a pause where two important events take place, one on Earth and the other in Heaven. Both involve the disposition of a group of God's people, but neither one is the Church. It won't be seen or heard from as a group again until the end of chapter 17.

Now I watched when the Lamb opened one of the seven seals, and I heard one of the four living creatures say with a voice like thunder, "Come!" and I looked, and behold, a white horse! And its rider had a bow, and a crown was given to him, and he came out conquering, and to conquer.