The Prophecies in the Book of Revelation

To understand the real meaning of the prophecies in the Book of Revelation, people need to see how the prophecies in the Book of Daniel were fulfilled. There is a special feature on the fulfillment of the prophecies in the Book of Daniel. It is the multiple visions for multiple confirmation.

In the Book of Daniel, God had shown Daniel three sets of dreams and visions: the dream of a Giant Statue (Chapter 2), the vision of Four Beasts (Chapter 7), and the vision of a Ram and a Goat (Chapter 8). And they all prophesied the same historical events: the rising of four kingdoms - Babylon, Medo-Persia, Macedon-Greece and the Roman Empire, which lasted over a thousand years from 600s BC to the 400s AD. God used multiple visions in the Book of Daniel to confirm the prophecies of the same major events in the future.

In the Book of Revelation, there are also two sets of visions: The visions of the Seven Letters to the Seven Churches (Revelation 2-3) and the Visions on the Scroll (Revelation 5-22).

The first set of visions are the Seven Letters to the Seven Churches in the Asia Minor, which were established by the apostles in the first century.

Although these Seven Letters to the Seven Churches mainly contained Jesus Christ's messages of encouragement and reprimand to the early churches, they did have prophetic meanings as part of this book of prophecy. These seven letters prophesied the seven historical periods, or seven phases, of Christianity in the Christian history:

The Seven Letters to the Seven Churches	The Seven Periods/Phases of Christianity in History
The Letter to the Church in Ephesus	30 A.D. - 100 A.D. Apostolic Phase of Christianity This was the period that the Apostles of Christ were preaching the gospel and established the new churches across the Roman Empire.
The Letter to the Church in Smyrna	100 A.D. - 313 A.D. Persecuted Phase of Christianity This was the period that Christians were under severe persecution in the Roman Empire.
The Letter to the Church in Pergamum	313 A.D. - 590 A.D. Elevated Phase of Christianity This was the period that Christianity was elevated to become the state religion of the Roman Empire.
The Letter to the Church in Thyatira	590 A.D. - 1517 A.D. Authoritative Phase of Christianity This was the period that the Roman Catholic Church was given the power and authority over the Christendom in Europe.
The Letter to the Church in Sardis	1517 A.D. - 1730s A.D. Reformed Phase of Christianity This was the period that Reformation started across Europe and Protestants went to the New Continent of America.
The Letter to the Church in Philadelphia	1730s A.D. - 1900s A.D. Missionary Phase of Christianity This was the period that the Great Awakening started in the New Continent of America, which gave birth to the New Nation of God, the United States of America.
The Letter to the Church in Laodicea	1900s A.D. - 2000s A.D. Apostate Phase of Christianity This was the period that Christianity declined and yield to the secularism, and materialism and atheism took over the mainstream ideology of the society. At the end of this period or phase of Christianity, the Christ/ Messiah would come for the "Second Coming". "Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with that person, and they with me." (Revelation 3:20)

In the past several decades, some Christian scholars already figured out the prophetic meaning of these seven letters to the seven churches. Although some interpretations may vary in details, the main frame of these seven phases of Christianity are the same.

The most mysterious part of the Book of Revelation is the second set of visions in Chapter 5-22 of the Book of Revelation, the visions on the scroll. As "no one in heaven or on earth or under the earth" has the authority to open this scroll except Christ the Lamb, it does require the special authority of Christ/Messiah to unveil the real prophetic meaning of these visions on the scroll.

For the past two thousand years, many people have tried to decode the mystery of the visions on the scroll in the Book of Revelation. Some people thought these visions were about the disasters at the "End Time", some people thought they were about the disasters in the first century when Christ wrote these letters to the seven churches, and some people even thought they were about the historical events before Jesus was born. These interpretations were all incorrect.

As God is consistent in His way of prophesying the future, it is very reasonable to assume God would use the same method to prophesy the future in the Book of Revelation as He did in the Book of Daniel. Since the Book of Revelation contains many more visions than the Book of Daniel, these visions on the scroll in the Book of Revelation should prophesy a much longer period of time than the one thousand years prophesied in the Book of Daniel.

In fact, God even gave a direct hint in the Book of Revelation, which most people did not pay attention to. At the beginning of Chapter 4 of the Book of Revelation, the voice of an angel told John:

“Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after this.” (Revelation 4:1)

This clearly indicates that the visions on the scroll in the Book of Revelation starting from Chapter 6 are not about the disasters at the "End Time" two thousand years later, but about the major historical events starting after this Revelation on the island of Patmos in the first century all the way to the New Millennium.

Therefore, the visions of the Seven Letters to the Seven Churches and the visions on the scroll prophesied the same period of Christian history, from the early centuries all the way to the "Second Coming" for the New Millennium, except the visions on the scroll also prophesy beyond the New Millennium till the next Millennium for the Final Judgment and the New Heaven and New Earth in Chapter 20-22.

Therefore, to understand the prophecies in the Book of Revelation, people need to know the common feature of the prophecies in both the Book of Daniel and the Book of Revelation - the Multiple Visions for Multiple Confirmation.

Now, let's look into the most fascinating part of the Book of Revelation, the Visions on the Scroll from Chapter 6 to Chapter 22 of the Book of Revelation.

Because these visions prophesied the major historical events in the past two thousand years of Christian history, it is impossible to explain all the details of these prophecies and the related historical events on this website. They are all revealed in details in the book, Revelation Fulfilled. Here is the summary of the major historical events prophesied by the visions on the scroll in the Book of Revelation:

The Visions on the Scroll	The Historical Fulfillment of the Prophecies
Chapter 6 of the Book of Revelation: The First Seal: the Rider on a white horse The Second Seal: the Rider on a red horse The Third Seal: the Rider on a back horse The Fourth Seal: the Rider on a pale horse The Fifth Seal: the Slain Souls under the Altar The Sixth Seal: Sky receded and mountains and islands removed from their places	The Historical Events from 300s AD to 1500s AD: Constantine the Great turning the Roman Empire into a Christian Kingdom The Rising of Islam preaching faith by sword The Expansion of the Arabic Empire through trade The war and plagues in the Medieval Age, the Crusade and the Black Death The Inquisition in the Dark Age The New Age of Great Exploration
Chapter 7 of the Book of Revelation: 144,000 sealed A great multitude in white robes.	The Historical Events in the 16th century: The Protestant Reformation (1517 AD)
Chapter 8 of the Book of Revelation: The Seventh Seal: The Golden Censer filled with fire from the altar and hurled on the earth. The First Four Trumpets of Seven Trumpets: The Four Plagues of Exodus: Hails, Water into blood, Water turning bitter, Sun and Moon turning Dark.	The Historical Events in the 16th-17th century: The theological debates and the religious war between Catholics and Protestants The New Exodus from the Catholic Church to the New World
Chapter 9 of the Book of Revelation: The Fifth Trumpet: the Fallen Star and the Disaster of Locusts The King named Apollyon The First Woe The Sixth Trumpet: The War with the horses that have fire, smoke and sulfur coming out of their mouths.	The Historical Events in the 18th-19th century The coming of Lucifer and the French Revolution under the influence of Lucifer The French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte The First Woe - The Reign of Terror and wars of the French Revolution The Napoleonic War
Chapter 10 of the Book of Revelation: The Angel and the Little Scroll - The Mystery of God would be revealed	The Historical Events in the 19th century: The coming of the New Revelation
Chapter 11 of the Book of Revelation: The Two Witnesses of God The Second Woe The Seventh Trumpet: "The Kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ." The Third Woe	The Historical Events in the 19th-20th century: The New Revelation of Mormonism and Baha'ism in the 19th century The Second Woe: the American Civil War The New Motto of the United States: "In God We Trust" The Third Woe: the World War I & II
Chapter 12 of the Book of Revelation: The Red Dragon, the Woman and the birth of the Man Child Michael the Archangel and his angels defeated the Red Dragon and his fallen angels	The Historical Events in the 20th century: The Communist Revolution The Birth of the Man Child - the Messiah for the Second Coming The End of the Cold War
Chapter 13 of the Book of Revelation: The Beast of Antichrist The Beast of False Prophet and "666"	The Historical Events in the 20th century The Anti-God and Antichrist Ideology The Money-worshipping Materialism
Chapter 14 of the Book of Revelation: The Lamb and the 144,000 The Three Angels with the New Revelation of Eternal Gospel for every nation and the Warning of the Fall of Babylon The Son of Man for the Harvest of the Earth	The Historical Events in the 20th century: The Spiritual Awakening of the Messiah in the year 2000 The Manifest of the 144,000 elected The New Revelation of the Eternal Gospel The "September 11" in 2001 The Preparation of the Harvest of the Earth
Chapter 15 of the Book of Revelation: The Seven Angels with Seven Plagues	The Historical Events in the 20th century: The coming of the Seven Plagues
Chapter 16 of the Book of Revelation: The Seven Bowls of God's Wrath: - The ugly and painful sores - The sea turning into blood - The rivers and springs turning into blood - The sun scorching the earth - The kingdom plunging into darkness - The drought of the river Euphrates and the war of Armageddon - The major disasters, earthquakes and the coming of the Fall of Babylon	The Historical Events in the 20th-21st century: The plague of AIDS The Pollution of the Sea The Pollution of the River The Global Warming The Darkness during the day time The Iraq War, the war with ISIS, and the potential war of Armageddon The natural disasters, earthquakes and tsunamis, volcanoes, etc.
Chapter 17 of the Book of Revelation: The Woman on the Beast, Babylon the Great	The Historic Events in the 20th-21st century: The Social Movement of Sexual Immorality
Chapter 18 of the Book of Revelation: The Fall of Babylon	The Historic Events in the 21st century: The Potential Catastrophe in New York City
Chapter 19 of the Book of Revelation: Hallelujah The Rider on the White Horse	The Historic Events in the 21st century: The Second Coming of Messiah for the New Millennium
Chapter 20 of the Book of Revelation: Satan will be locked up a thousand years The People of Faith will reign with Christ a thousand years The Final Judgment after the New Millennium	The Future Events in the 21st -31st century: The New Millennium of Peace & Wisdom The Final Judgment after the New Millennium
Chapter 21 of the Book of Revelation: The New Jerusalem The New Heaven & New Earth The Dwelling of God will be with people, and he will live with them	The Future Events after the 31st century: The New Jerusalem The New Heaven and New Earth The Dwelling of God will be with people, and he will live with them
Chapter 22 of the Book of Revelation: The River of Life and the Tree of Life Promise of Christ: "Behold, I am coming soon! My reward is with me, and I will give to everyone according to what he has done." The Warning of Christ: "If anyone adds anything to this book of prophecy, God will add to him the plagues described in this book. Any if anyone takes words away from this book of prophecy, God will take away from him his share in the tree of life and in the holy city, which are described in this book."	The Future Events after the 31st century: The River of Life and the Tree of Life in the New Jerusalem The Promise of Christ as he will come with this rewards according to what people have done. The Warning of Christ: The Book of Revelation is the final version of the Book of Prophecy that no one can add anything to it or delete anything from it.

For more detailed information about the real meaning and the historical fulfillment of the prophecies in the Book of Revelation, please read the book, Revelation Fulfilled.

This is the first book that decodes the 2,000-year mystery of the Book of Revelation with the testimony of major historical events in the last two thousand years. It's also the ONLY book about the prophecies in the Book of Revelation that is authored by the One who is prophesied in the Book of Revelation. No one knows the prophecies in the Book of Revelation better than the one who is prophesied in the Book of Revelation.

For the coming New Millennium of Peace & Wisdom, this book, Revelation Fulfilled, will be the part of the New Millennium Testament, the "Eternal Gospel for every nation, tribe, language and people" prophesied in Chapter 14 of the Book of Revelation. Through the historical testimony of the major historical events in the last two thousand years, people will realize that all the major historical events in the last two thousand years were pre-planned by God two thousand years ago. God gave people the freedom to exercise their free will, but, in the end, God would retain the right to determine the final outcome of every event. That's the power of God's judgment.

This book, Revelation Fulfilled, will be the Book of Chronicles for the New Testament of the Bible. It will be the must-read book for all Christians and people of God, especially pastors, priests, elders, bishops, and Bible teachers and scholars. Please contact the Messiah for volume purchasing this book for your church or organization.

As prophesied in the Book of Revelation in the Bible, the 144,000 elected ones have also come to this world with the Messiah. If you are one of the 144,000 redeemed ones prophesied in Revelation 14, or who want to join the Great Mission of the "Second Coming", please join the "Second Coming Club" for the New Millennium.