Contents
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 |
| 6) Validation: Revelation and the Gospels link |
| 6a) Post-Cross times (‘the present age’) |
| 6b) The hiatus/ Silence |
| 6c) The Parousia |
| 6d) One-like-a-son-of-man on a cloud (14:14) |
| 6e) Gathering armies |
| 6f) ‘Elect gathering’, ‘one taken’ and the harvests |
| 6g) Gospel summary (Mt. 24:29-44) and Revelation |
| 6h) Implications |
| 6i) Applications Conclusions link |
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
3a) Christ and Babylon
3b) Babylon and the day of God’s Wrath |
4) Christ’s Parousia (14:1-20, 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 |
Conclusions link |
Framework
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1) Introduction link |
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1A) The shedding of the blood of the Lamb – section 1 construction link |
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1A.a) First step back in relative time (4:2) |
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1A.b) Second and third steps back in relative time (12:1, 12:13) |
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1A.c) Time-parallel 1: the Cross (5:5-6:1, 12:9-12, 12:17-18) |
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1A.d) Why there are two earths |
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1B) Section 1 interpretation link |
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1B.a) The beginning of the letter |
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1B.b) Beginning of Creation and the cosmic spaces |
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1B.c) Celestial mother and the birth of the Messiah |
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1B.d) The Messianic War |
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IB.e) Beginning of the two earths |
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1B.f) Battles and angels 1B.g) Consequences of the Cross 1B.h) Characters’ roles and identities |
2) Literary patterns, seals, censer, trumpets link |
2A) Section 2 construction |
2A.a) Seals, golden censer and trumpets |
2A.b) Classic literary patterns
2A.c) The Day of God’s Wrath and the Great Tribulation |
2B) Section 2 Interpretation |
2B.a) The seals |
2B.b) The ending of the seal era |
2B.c) The Day of God’s Wrath and the Great Tribulation |
2C) The ‘last days’? the eschaton and the Gospels link |
2C.a) The golden censer, trumpets begin |
2C.b) Gospels and Revelation: post-Cross times – ‘present age’ |
2C.c) Gospels and Revelation: 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
3B.d) The step back in relative time at 14:20/ 15:1 |
3C) Satan’s two beasts link |
3C.a) Two beasts and below-the-earth |
3C.b) Two beasts; two earthly spaces |
3C.c) History and the two beasts |
| 3D) The eschaton (‘last days’) is underway link |
| 3D.a) Early warning signs |
| 3D.b) Implications of this eschatology |
| 3D.c) Applications of this eschatology |
4) The Lamb, beasts and 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, the literary spiral and Babylon
4B.c) The eschaton and the Day of God’s Wrath |
4B.d) Relative time-scales |
4C) Satan’s two beasts (part 2) 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 |
4D) Babylon link |
4D.a) Babylon and the two earths |
4D.b) Who and what is Babylon? |
4D.c) Babylon and the two eras |
4D.d) Babylon’s fall and the literary spiral |
4D.e) John’s vantage points and Babylon |
4D.f) The relationship between Babylon and the Lamb |
4D.g) Armageddon – a place, not a battle |
4D.h) Jerusalem and Babylon |
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, John’s closing words |
5B) Section 5 interpretation link |
5B.a) The Parousia and the Gospels |
5B.b) The Parousia and Revelation |
5B.c) Christ and the gathering evil armies |
5B.d) One-like-a-son-of-man and the Grain Harvest |
5B.e) The Rapture? |
5B.f) The Grape Harvest – gathering |
5B.g) Crushing of the Grape Harvest and the blood on the Rider’s gown |
5B.h) The ending of the Day of God’s Wrath (the Great Battle) |
5B.i) The final ‘last days’: Millennium, Final War, Final Judgement
5B.j) The Bride of the Lamb (the New Jerusalem)
5B.k) They are done!
5B.l) Mt Zion, Mt Olives and the Parousia
5B.m) The ‘why’ of the Parousia
5B.n) Parousia on physical-spiritual earth
5B.o) Revelation: John and a waking vision
Conclusions link |
Page updated 11 February 2025