, 0 THE KING'S BUSINESS n Analysis of the Apocalypse
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W. J. Erdman
I THE SEVEN CHURCHES
The Prologue The Son of Man The Seven Churches
. 1: 1-8
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1: 9-20 2: 1-3: 22 4: 1-5: 14 6: 1-17 7: 1-17
The Throne, the Lamb and the
Introduction Progression Episode Consummation Introduction Progression Episode Consummation Introduction Progression Consummation Introduction Progression Episode Consummation Introduction Progression Consummation Episode Episode
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The Six Seals
The Sealed and the Saved The Seventh Seal III THE SEVEN TRUMPETS The Angel and Incense The Six Trumpets The Seventh Trumpet IV THE SEVEN PERSONAGES The two. Signs in Heaven The Great Tribulation
8: 1
8: 2-5 8: 6-9: 21 10:: 1-11: 14
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The Angel, the little Book, the Two Witnesses
11 : 15-19
12:: 1-13: 1 a 13:: 1 b-18 14:: 1-13
The First Fruits and the Three Angels The Harvest and the Vintage The Overcomers and the Seven Angels
14:: 14-20 15:: 1-8 16 : 1-12 16 : 13-16 16 : 17-21 17 :' 1-18 18 : 1-24 19 : 1-10
V THE SEVEN VIALS
The Six Vials
The Gathering of the Kings The Seventh Vial VI THE SEVEN DOOMS The Babylon and the Beast The Doom of Babylon The Four Hallels The Six Final Dooms VII THE SEVEN NEW THINGS
19 : 11-20: 15
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Introduction The New Jerusalem The Epilogue
21 : 1-8 21 : 9-22: 22 : 6-21
Notes
1. The Analysis is an attempt to group the cpntents of the Book accord- ing to what seemed to be the lines of its Scripture. 2. An explanation concerning the so called Episodes may be necessary. They are in each instance both Retrospective and Prospective. Three are most notable as coming be- tween a 6th and 7th of the Seals, Trum- pet' 5 , Vials; but it is plain that 14:1-13 is also episodical for its retrogresses to the very beginning of the great tribu- lation "which is viewed in 13:1-18 as past, and thus as an Episode it is Retro- spective in its warnings against the Wor- ship of the Beast and in its word of
comfort to the Martyrs. It is also Pros- pective in announcing the Judgment to come. Likewise in 19:1-10 two of the Hallels are Retrospective to Babylon as fallen, and two Prospective to the Mar- riage Supper of the Lamb and the In- . auguration of the Kingdom. The Episode, ch. 7, telling of certain "sealed" ones, again alluded to in 9:4, and of others who were in a great trib- ulation, is not only thereby Prospective or anticipatory, but also Retrospective in evidently pointing back to the 5th Seal and its prediction of a complement of martyrs who were to appear before the Consummation. 3. The Seven Objects of the Scene in
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