MOTIFS — REVELATION

Question 1

John’s Messages to the Seven Churches

Answer 1

• Rev 2-3
• Ephesus (loveless)
• Smyrna (loyal)
• Pergamum (lax)
• Thyatira (liberal)
• Sardis (lifeless)
• Philadelphia (laboring)
• Laodicia (lukewarm)

Question 2

The Seven Seals

Answer 2

• Rev 4-5
• White Horse
• Red Horse
• Black Horse
• Pale Horse
• Martyrs
• Devastation
• Trumpets

Question 3

The Seven Trumpets

Answer 3

• Rev 8-9 and 11

1. Blood, Hail, 1/3 Vegetation destroyed
2. Fireball, 1/3 ocean polluted
3. Falling star, 1/3 fresh water polluted
4. Darkness, 1/3 sun/moon/stars darkened
5. Demonic invasion
6. Demonic army, 1/3 humanity killed
7. The Kingdom, announcement of Christ’s reign

Question 4

The Seven Bowls

Answer 4

• Rev 16

1. Earth - sores on worshippers of antichrist
2. Seas - turned to blood
3. Fresh water - turned to blood
4. Sun - intense heat
5. Antichrist’s kingdom - darkness and pain
6. River Euphrates - armageddon
7. Air - earthquakes and hail

Question 5

The 144,000 Jews

Answer 5

Rev 7 and 14

Question 6

The Two Witnesses

Answer 6

• Rev 11:3-14
• tied to trumpet judgments
• killed and come back to life

Question 7

The Woman and Dragon of Revelation 12

Answer 7

Three scenes:
• Pregnant woman, dragon wants to consume child, child escapes to heaven
• Woman flees to wilderness for 3.5 years
• Woman is protected, but dragon attacks her children

Question 8

The Two Beasts of Revelation 13

Answer 8

1. A coming world political ruler (antichrist/beast out of the sea/heads that reflect Dan 7)
2. The religious henchment (beast out of the earth)

Question 9

666

Answer 9

• Rev 13
• name of the antichrist
• gematria

Question 10

Babylon of Revelation 17-18

Answer 10

• City completely opposed to God

* political system completely opposed to God

Question 11

The Second Coming

Answer 11

Rev 19

Question 12

The Binding of Satan

Answer 12

Rev 20:2

Question 13

The Millennium

Answer 13

Rev 20:1-6

Question 14

Gog and Magog

Answer 14

• Where the nations will gather in the final battle after the millennium
• Rev 20:8

Question 15

The Great White Throne Judgment

Answer 15

• Rev 20:11-15
• judge
• books
• verdict
• sentence

Question 16

New Heavens and Earth

Answer 16

Rev 21:1-22:5

Question 17

The Silence in Heaven

Answer 17

• Rev 8:1

* At the opening of the seventh seal for half an hour

Question 18

The Casting of Satan out of Heaven

Answer 18

Rev 12:7-12

Question 19

The Marriage Supper of the lamb

Answer 19

Rev 19:7-10

Question 20

The Measuring of the Temple

Answer 20

Rev 11:1-2

Question 21

The Fall of Babylon

Answer 21

Rev 18

Question 22

The Casting of the Beast into the Lake of Fire

Answer 22

Rev 20:10

Question 23

The New Jerusalem

Answer 23

• Rev 21:1-22:5

* 2225 km in length, width, and height

Question 24

Wormwood

Answer 24

• Name of star in Rev 8:10-11
• Affected drinking water
• Third trumpet judgment
• Associated with bitterness, poison, and death

Question 25

The Tribulation

Answer 25

* Seven years | * From Dan 9:24-27

Question 26

The Great Tribulation

Answer 26

* "These are the people who came out of the great Tribulation" (Rev 7:14) * Last half of the tribulation

Question 27

Preterist View of Revelation

Answer 27

* Full/hyper/extreme: everything has already been fulfilled | * Moderate/partial: Most are fulfilled, but some (i.e., Christ's return) is not

Question 28

Historicist View of Revelation

Answer 28

Revelation is a panorama of church history from time of apostles to Second Coming

Question 29

Idealist View of Revelation

Answer 29

It's an anaolgy for the battle between the church and the world at all times in church history

Question 30

Futurist View of Revelation

Answer 30

Rev 4-22 describes real people/events that will happen in the future

Question 31

Four Pillars of Orthodox Eschatology

Answer 31

* Literal, visible return of Christ * Bodily resurrection * Final judgment * Literal heaven/hell

Question 32

Amillennial

Answer 32

* No future, literal, earthly, one-thousand-year reign of Christ * kingdom is spiritual in nature

Question 33

Postmillennial

Answer 33

* Christ will return after the millennium * no literal thousand-year reign * golden age is ussered in by the church

Question 34

Premillennial

Answer 34

literal one-thousand-year reign of Christ