“REVELATION: DOES IT DESCRIBE OUR DAYS?” SERIES
#9: “Chapter 4”
INTRO:
With this chapter, we start the second description of the church age (or Christian
dispensation). The previous section, the letters to the seven churches, provided the first
description by showing us the many characteristics of the church during its existence.
From the letters to the seven churches, we understand that all seven types of churches
will exist in the church age and that in any given time a congregation may resemble any
one of the seven.
Let’s read this chapter. Follow along in whatever version you have. I’ll be
reading from the English Standard Version.
(Read chapter 4.)
This section, chapters 4-7, focuses on the tribulation and the persecution the
church faces throughout its existence.
The first thing to notice is in verse 1: “I will show you what must take place
after this.”