Chapter Outline of the Book of Revelation
Chapter 1
Story Flow: Introduction
Chapter 2-3
*Message to the seven churches
Chapter 4-5
Story Flow: Prelude—Setting
Chapter 6
Story Flow: First six seals
Chapter 7
Story Flow: 144.000 and the great multitude
Chapter 8-10
Story Flow: The trumpet plagues
Chapter 11
Story Flow: The two witnesses
Chapter 12
*The true church
Chapter 13
* The two beasts
Chapter 14
*The three messages
Chapter 15-16
Story Flow: The seven last plagues
Chapter 17-18
*The false church
Chapter 19
Story Flow: The return of Jesus Christ
Chapter 20
Story Flow: The Millennium
Chapter 21-22
Story Flow: The new heaven and new earth
Inset: *Several chapters in the book are insets. Although most of the book's chapters flow in chronological order, these chapters describe background events and conditions that are not part of the story flow and may span centuries.