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The featured studies
The studies in Revelation & the Last Things, sorted by the kind of thing each one teaches.
Summary
Revelation & the Last Things holds 16 of the site's 1112 featured studies, in 4 of the ten kinds.
- 2 studies ask what a whole book of the Bible says from end to end.
- 2 studies ask where a place stood and what happened on that ground.
- 9 studies ask what Scripture teaches on a subject, from its first text to its fullest.
- 3 studies ask why Christians read the same texts differently.
The studies by kind
Books of the Bible
One study for each book, with the studies of how the Bible came to us and how its writers wrote. This is the place to begin a book from end to end.
2 studies
The ground a story stands on: what was built there, what was found there, and what Scripture makes of the name afterwards.
2 studies
The New JerusalemScripture's last vision is a city measured with a golden reed — a cube of gold where Eden is restored and God dwells with men.
The Seven Churches of RevelationAsia Minor, late 1st century. Seven cities along a clockwise postal route — Ephesus to Laodicea — each receiving a letter from the risen Christ. Praises, rebukes, promises. A Matt-13 parallel reading discoverable for those who want it.
What Scripture teaches on a subject, from its first text to its fullest. The traditions that formed the teaching are named.
9 studies, 8 as cards, 1 in the register
The Day of the LORD — yom YHWHYom YHWH: the spine of the Twelve, from Joel's locusts to Malachi's Elijah, into Pentecost, the thief in the night, and the elements dissolved: near and far on one telescoping line.
The Rapture — the Blessed Hope and the Four TimingsThe promise that Christ returns for His church, and the views on when.
New Heavens and New Earth. Isaiah 65–66Isaiah's promise set as facing pages against Revelation's vision, with the honest panel on what ceases in each and what does not.
The Millennium — Revelation 20Revelation 20 laid out as data first, six mentions, two resurrections, a binding and a loosing, then three readings side by side.
Antichrist, the Word and the FigureAntichristos appears only in John's letters: many already, one still to come, while the figure itself walks the rest of Scripture as the man of sin, the little horn, the coming prince, and the beast.
The Statue and the Stone — Daniel 2 and 7One dream told twice: the metals of Nebuchadnezzar's image set against the beasts of Daniel's night vision, the same four kingdoms both ways.
Afterlife VocabularySheol, Hades, Gehenna, Tartarus, the Abyss, and Paradise — six words English hid inside one, disambiguated and sourced.
The Lake of Fire and the Second DeathRevelation drives every condemned power into one basin — and names what it empties into twice, so it cannot be missed.
Questions Christians answer differently. Each study sets out the texts both sides read, the positions with their holders, and where this site's tradition lands.
3 studies, 2 as cards, 1 in the register
The Four Schools of RevelationFuturist, preterist, historicist, idealist: four lenses over the same book, tested against the beast, the millennium and Babylon.
The Intermediate StateBetween death and resurrection, Scripture says the Christian dead are both with Christ and asleep — set the passages side by side and see how they resolve.
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