Contents Page
This is the contents page for the three main chapters on this website
Towards ...
1) Introduction link |
| 1a) Genre |
| 1b) An abductive insight – how the macrostructure was uncovered |
| Mapping |
| Time-lines and time-parallels |
| 1c) Revelation’s overview |
| 2) Methodology link |
| 2a) The cosmic setting |
| 2b) In practice … |
| 2c) A single vision? |
| 2d) A symbolic journey |
| 3) Macrostructures and structural context link |
| 3a) Published macrostructures |
| 3b) Classic literary patterns |
| 3c) Composition and Framework |
| 3d) Layers and webs |
| 3e) Spatial approaches |
| 3f) New views on an old mystery |
| 4) Macrostructures and spatio-temporal analysis link |
| 4a) Spatio-temporal mapping |
| 4b) Steps back in relative time (4:2, 12:1, 12:13, 15:1) |
| 4c) John’s journey |
| 5) The proposed spatio-temporal macrostructure link |
| 5a) An active chronology |
| 5b) Three choices |
Repetitions ...
1) Introduction link |
1a) The structural problem: repetitions, abrupt transitions, paradoxes |
2) The blood of the Lamb (5:5-7, 12:9-12, 12:17) link |
3) Fall of Babylon (14:8, 16:17-21, 18:1-3, 19:1-4) link |
4) Christ’s Parousia (14:1-5, 19:11-16) link |
5) Mapping: structural reconciliation and the proposed spatio-temporal macrostructure link |
5a) Spatio-temporal mapping |
5b) Steps back in relative time (4:2, 12:1, 12:13, 15:1) |
5c) John’s vantage points |
5d) Proposed spatio-temporal macrostructure |
5e) The Lamb appears on Mt Zion |
Conclusions link |
Framework
1) Introduction link |
1A) The shedding of the blood of the Lamb – section 1 construction link |
1A.a) First step back in relative time (4:2) |
1A.b) Second and third steps back in relative time (12:1, 12:13) |
1A.c) Time-parallel 1: the Cross |
1A.d) Two earths |
1B) Section 1 interpretation link |
1B.a) The beginning of the letter |
1B.b) Beginning of Creation and the cosmic spaces |
1B.c) Celestial mother and the birth of the Messiah |
1B.d) The beginning of the two earths |
IB.e) Battles and angels |
1B.f) Consequences of the Cross |
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2) Literary patterns, seals, censer, trumpets link |
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2A) Section 2 construction |
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2A.a) Seals, golden censer and trumpets |
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2A.b) Classic literary patterns |
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2B) Section 2 Interpretation |
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2B.a) The seals |
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2B.b) The ending of the seal era |
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2B.c) The Day of God’s Wrath (part 1) and the Great Tribulation |
2C) The ‘last days’? eschaton (part 1) and the Gospels (part 1) link |
2C.a) The golden censer, trumpets begin |
2C.b) Post-Cross times – ‘present age’ |
2C.c) Pre-Parousia times – ‘age to come’ |
3) Woes announced: beasts, bowls link |
3A) Section 3 construction |
3A.a) Overcoming the paradoxes |
3A.b) Time-parallels 2 – 8 |
3A.c) Satan’s two beasts arise |
3A.d) The Third Woe |
3B) Section 3 Interpretation link |
3B.a) Last trumpets, beasts, woes, bowls |
3B.b) The mighty angel and the little scroll |
3B.c) John’s visionary vantage points (part 1)
3B.d) The step back in relative time at 14:20/ 15:1 |
3C) Satan’s two beasts (part 1) link |
3C.a) Two beasts and below-the-earth |
3C.b) Two beasts; two earthly spaces |
3C.c) History and the two beasts in Revelation |
| 3D) The ‘last days’ are underway (eschaton part 2) link |
| 3D.a) Early warning signs |
| 3D.b) Implications of this eschatology |
| 3D.c) Applications of this eschatology |
4) The Lamb, imminent war, Babylon link |
4A) Section 4 construction |
4A.a) Time-parallels 8b to 11 |
4A.b) Which earth? |
4A.c) The literary spiral construction |
4A.d) Options, advantages and disadvantages link
4B) Section 4 interpretation link |
4B.a) The Lamb, Babylon, satan’s beasts |
4B.b) John’s visionary vantage points (part 2), the literary spiral and Babylon
4B.c) The eschaton (part 3) and the Day of God’s Wrath (part 2) |
4B.d) Relative time-scales |
4C) Satan’s two beasts (part 2), Babylon link |
4C.a) Satan’s beasts and angels |
4C.b) Satan’s beasts and Babylon |
4C.c) Satan’s beasts’ images |
4C.d) Two eras |
4C.e) The end of satan’s two beasts |
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4D) Babylon link |
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4D.a) Babylon and the two earths |
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4D.b) Who and what is Babylon? |
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4D.c) Babylon and the two eras |
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4D.d) Babylon’s fall and the literary spiral |
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4D.e) John’s vantage points (part 3) and Babylon |
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4D.f) The relationship between Babylon and the Lamb |
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4D.g) Armageddon – a place, not a battle |
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4D.h) Jerusalem and Babylon |
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4D.i) It is done! |
5) Final events – Revelation, the Gospels and the Parousia link |
5A) Section 5 construction |
5A.a) Time-parallels 12-18 |
5A.b) The New Jerusalem, closing words |
5B) Section 5 interpretation link |
5B.a) The Bride (New Jerusalem) |
5B.b) The Grain Harvest and the Gospels’ Great Supper |
5B.c) The Rapture? |
5B.d) The Grape Harvest |
5B.e) Crushing of the Grape Harvest, the blood on the Rider’s gown |
5B.f) The Day of God’s Wrath (part 3) and the Great Battle |
5B.g) Final ‘last days’: Millennium, Final War, Final Judgement |
5B.h) They are done! |
5B.i) Revelation’s characters’ spatially-related identities and roles
5B.j) John and a waking vision
Conclusions link |
Page updated 27 September 2024