Outline
I. Introduction (1:1-8)
A. Prologue (1:1-3)
B. Greetings and Doxology (1:4-8)
II. Jesus among the Seven Churches (1:9-20)
IV. The Throne, the Scroll and the Lamb (chs. 4-5)
. The Throne in Heaven (ch. 4)
G. The Angel and the Little Scroll (ch. 10)
. The Woman and the Dragon (ch. 12)
A. The Two Beasts (ch. 13)
. Introduction: The Song of Moses and the Seven Angels with the Seven Plagues (ch. 15)
. Babylon Described (ch. 17)
A. The Fall of Babylon (ch. 18)
Revelation 1 NLT
1 This is a revelation from Jesus
Christ, which God gave him to show his servants the events that must soon take
place. He sent an angel to present this revelation to his servant John,
2 who faithfully reported everything he
saw. This is his report of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus
Christ.
3 God blesses the one who reads the
words of this prophecy to the church, and he blesses all who listen to its
message and obey what it says, for the time is near.
4This letter is from John to the seven
churches in the province of Asia. Grace and peace to you from the one who is,
who always was, and who is still to come; from the sevenfold Spirit before his
throne;
5 and from Jesus Christ. He is the
faithful witness to these things, the first to rise from the dead, and the
ruler of all the kings of the world. All glory to him who loves us and has
freed us from our sins by shedding his blood for us.
6 He has made us a Kingdom of priests
for God his Father. All glory and power to him forever and ever! Amen.
7 Look! He comes with the clouds of
heaven. And everyone will see him— even those who pierced him. And all the
nations of the world will mourn for him. Yes! Amen!
8 “I am the Alpha and the Omega—the
beginning and the end,” says the Lord God. “I am the one who is, who always
was, and who is still to come—the Almighty One.”
9 I, John, am your brother and your
partner in suffering and in God’s Kingdom and in the patient endurance to which
Jesus calls us. I was exiled to the island of Patmos for preaching the word of
God and for my testimony about Jesus.
10 It was the Lord’s Day, and I was
worshiping in the Spirit. Suddenly, I heard behind me a loud voice like a
trumpet blast.
11 It said, “Write in a book everything
you see, and send it to the seven churches in the cities of Ephesus, Smyrna,
Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea.”
12 When I turned to see who was speaking
to me, I saw seven gold lampstands.
13 And standing in the middle of the
lampstands was someone like the Son of Man. He was wearing a long robe with a
gold sash across his chest.
14His head and his hair were white like wool,
as white as snow. And his eyes were like flames of fire.
15 His feet were like polished bronze
refined in a furnace, and his voice thundered like mighty ocean waves.
16 He held seven stars in his right
hand, and a sharp two-edged sword came from his mouth. And his face was like
the sun in all its brilliance.
17 When I saw him, I fell at his feet as
if I were dead. But he laid his right hand on me and said, “Don’t be afraid! I
am the First and the Last.
18 I am the living one. I died, but
look—I am alive forever and ever! And I hold the keys of death and the
grave.
19 “Write down what you have seen—both
the things that are now happening and the things that will happen.
20 This is the meaning
of the mystery of the seven stars you saw in my right hand and the seven gold
lampstands: The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches, and the seven
lampstands are the seven churches.
