Revelation 17-20

By David Maas
{ENEMIES DESTROYED}

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  1. Great Harlot Revealed - {PDF Copy} - (Revelation 17:1-6 - Babylon is unveiled as a bejeweled whore dripping with the shed blood of martyred saints)
  2. Babylon Rides the Beast - {PDF Copy} - (Babylon, the Great Harlot, for centuries has ridden the Beast from the Sea and its seven heads and ten horns)
  3. Lamb Overcomes Babylon - {PDF Copy} - (Revelation 17:14-18 - The Lamb overcomes the Beast and the kings of the earth but in a very paradoxical manner)
  4. Babylon is Fallen - {PDF Copy} - (Revelation 18:1-8 - The Fall of Babylon is pronounced, and her ritual impurity denounced by an angel from heaven)
  5. Babylon Destroyed - {PDF Copy} - (Revelation 18:9-24 - The complete destruction of Babylon is God’s response to the persecution by her of the “saints”)
  6. Heaven Celebrates - {PDF Copy} - (The celebration of heaven over the “wedding” of the “Lamb” follows the destruction of “Babylon, the Great Harlot”)
  7. Rider on a White Horse - {PDF Copy} - (The Messiah “shepherds” the nations by the “word” that proceeds out of his mouth in preparation for the final battle)
  8. Two Beasts Destroyed - {PDF Copy} - (Revelation 19:17-21 - Next, the Rider on a White Horse destroys the “Beast from the sea” and the “False Prophet”)

{THE MILLENNIUM}
  1. Imprisonment of Satan - {PDF Copy} - (The Devil is bound in the Abyss until the appointed time when he is released to launch his final assault against the saints)
  2. Reign of the Saints - {PDF Copy} - (The saints reign as a kingdom of priests during the thousand years, having overcome the Beast)
  3. The End of the Dragon - {PDF Copy} - (Satan is released from the Abyss and launches his final attack on the saints, but he is the one who is defeated and judged)
  4. Great White Throne - {PDF Copy} - (Following the defeat of the “Dragon,” the final judgment unfolds at least before a Great White Throne)
  5. Multiple Judgments? - {PDF Copy} - (Each of the three sevenfold series in Revelation concludes with a final judgment scene at the end of the age)
  6. Gog and Magog - {PDF Copy} - (Revelation identifies Gog and Magog as the nations from the four corners of the Earth that attack the saints)

{INDIVIDUAL TOPICS}
  1. The Wrath of God - {PDF Copy} - (In Revelation, wrath refers to the final judicial sentence of God on His enemies. Tribulation is what the church endures)
  2. Armageddon - Final Battle - {PDF Copy} - (At the end of the age, Satan will launch his final attempt to exterminate the church, the saints who have the testimony of Jesus)

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