Are you confused by the great variety of interpretations of the book of Revelation, such as the preterist, the historicist, the futurist, the idealist, and an eclectic approach that embraces the strengths of all these? Would you like a clear understanding of various millennial approaches related to the last times?
In this book of sermons on Revelation, Joel Beeke gives you all this and much more as he preaches through Revelation in a thoroughly biblical, doctrinal, experiential, and practical way intended to comfort and mature believers, to warn the unsaved to flee to Christ for salvation, and to exalt Christ as the King of kings and only Head of His church.
Contents
- Introducing the Book of Revelation (1:1-3)
- A Salutation from the Throne of Heaven (1:4-8)
- First Vision: Christ among the Seven Candlesticks (1:9-20)
- Christ's Message to a Church Whose Love Has Faded (2:1-7)
- Christ's Message for a Suffering Church (2:8-11)
- Christ's Message to a Wordly Church (2:12-17)
- Christ's Message to an Overly Tolerant Church (2:18-29)
- Christ's Message to a Dying Church (3:1-6)
- Christ's Message to a Favored Church (3:7-13)
- Christ's Message to a Lukewarm Church (3:14-22)
- The Throne of God (4:1-11)
- A Scroll, a Savior, and a Song (5:1-14)
- Four Seals, Four Horses, Four Riders (6:1-8)
- Seals Five and Six: The Persecuted Church (6:9-17)
- Visions of the Church (7:1-8:1)
- Angels, Prayers, and Trumpets (8:2-13)
- The Woes of Demon-Commissioned Judgment (9:1-21)
- The Angel with the Little Scroll (10:1-11)
- The Church's Witness to Jesus Christ (11:1-13)
- The Seventh Trumpet Sounds (11:14-19)
- The Man-Child and Woman versus the Dragon (12:1-17)
- The Dragon's Helpers: The Two Beasts (13:1-18)
- The Lamb on Mount Zion (14:1-5)
- The Vision of the Three Angels (14:6-13)
- Earth's Final Harvest (14:14-20)
- Celebrating on the Sea of Glass (15:1-4)
- The Seven Vials of Wrath (15:5-16:21)
- The Mystery Woman and Babylon's Fall (17:1-18:24)
- Hallelujah: The Coming Lord Prepares His Bride (19:1-10)
- The King's Victorious Return (19:11-21)
- The Millennium (20:1-10)
- The Great White Throne (20:11-15)
- Utopia: Life in the World to Come (21:1-8)
- New Jerusalem (21:9-27)
- New Jerusalem's City Center (22:1-5)
- 'I Come Quickly' (22:6-21)
Joel R. Beeke (PhD, Westminster Theological Seminary) serves as the chancellor and professor of homiletics and systematic theology at Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary. He is also a minister of the Heritage Reformed Congregation of Grand Rapids, Michigan. He frequently lectures at seminaries and speaks at Reformed conferences around the world. The Lord has blessed him and his wife, Mary, with three children and eleven grandchildren.
Jon D. Payne (MTh New College, University of Edinburgh; DMin Reformed Theological Seminary) is series editor for The Lectio Continua Expository Commentary on the New Testament. He is pastor of Christ Church Presbyterian (PCA) in Charleston, South Carolina, and visiting lecturer in practical theology/homiletics at Reformed Theological Seminary, Atlanta.