The Strand Study Bible

THE NEW TESTAMENT AND WORLD HISTORY Force and violence continued to rule Rome as Roman armies made and unmade one Roman emperor after another (Galba, Otho, and Vitellius). Finally Vespasian emerged victorious. Called the Flavian emperors, Vespasian and his two sons (Titus and Domitian) ruled Rome from AD 69-96. Neither Vespasian nor his son Titus persecuted Christians. Titus, brother of Domitian and the older son of Vespasian, was a general at the time of Jerusalem’s destruction in AD 70. Domitian, brother of Titus, was the younger son of Vespasian. He was assassinated.

10. Vespasian

(AD 69-79)

11. Titus

(AD 79-81)

12. Domitian

(AD 81-96) c. AD 90 c. AD 90 c. AD 90

I Jn

1-5

The key to fellowship

II Jn 1 III Jn 1

John rejoices over a local church that walks in the truth

John commends Gaius and his local church

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The revelation of JESUS CHRIST

AD 96

1:1-3 1:4-9

Grace and peace from the Triune Godhead:

1:10-11

“The things which thou hast seen”

1:12

The seven golden candlesticks (The seven churches)

The Son of Man

1:13-15 1:16-18 1:19-20 2:8-11 2:12-17 2:18-29 2:1-7

The seven stars (The pastors of the seven churches)

The outline of Revelation (Map #74)

“The things which are”: A message to the pastor at Ephesus “Energetic But Egotistical”

A message to the pastor at Smyrna “Tried But True” A message to the pastor at Pergamos “Laborious But Lenient” A message to the pastor at Thyatira “Loving But Lacking” A message to the pastor at Sardis “Popular But Powerless” A message to the pastor at Philadelphia “Little But Loyal” A message to the pastor at Laodicea “Better Off But Blind”

3:1-6

3:7-13 3:14-22

THE BEGINNING OF DANIEL’S “LAST SEVEN YEARS”

4:1 4:2

“The things which shall be hereafter”: The Rapture of the Church

New Testament Saints to receive their new resurrected bodies ; rewards to be given out at the Judgment Seat of CHRIST

4:3-11 5:1-14

The scene in heaven after the Rapture The scene in heaven after the Rapture (con’t)

6:1-2

The First Seal

13:1-4 11:3-6

The rise and reign of the Antichrist

Enoch and Elijah to preach the Gospel during the first half of Daniel’s Seventieth Week

6:3-4

The Second Seal

The Antichrist murders CHRIST’S two witnesses

11:7-13

7:1-8

Israel’s spiritual rebirth

THE MIDDLE OF DANIEL’S “LAST SEVEN YEARS” (Called the DAY OF THE LORD ; the Great Tribulation; the Time of Jacob’s Trouble)

11:1-2 13:5-6 12:1-13 12:14-17 7:9-17 13:7-10 13:11-18

The time of the Gentiles to last three and one half years The Antichrist reveals himself to the world as God The Antichrist’s hate for Israel and her child ( JESUS CHRIST )

144,000 “born-again” Jews flee from Israel and spread the Gospel to the world

Gentile multitudes are saved during the Great Tribulation

The Antichrist makes war with the saints The False Prophet exalts the Antichrist

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