Resurrection of the Dead & Eternal Judgment Timeline

  • 1st seal – Revelation 6:1-2 (white horse coming to conquer)

  • 2nd seal – Revelation 6:3-4 (red horse coming to take peace from the earth and cause people to slay each other)

  • 3rd seal – Revelation 6:5-6 (black horse bringing famine)

  • 4th seal – Revelation 6:7-8 (an ashen horse coming to kill by plague, famine, war, and wild beasts)

  • 5th seal – Revelation 6:9-11 (martyrs told to rest until the number of the martyrs are complete)

  • 6th seal – Revelation 6:12-17 (earthquake, sun becomes black, moon like blood, stars fall, sky splits open, mountains and islands move, people hide)

  • 7th seal – Revelation 8:1-6 (7 trumpets)

    • 1st trumpet – Revelation 8:7 (hail/fire mixed with blood, half of trees burned, grass destroyed)

    • 2nd trumpet – Revelation 8:8-9 (mountain on fire thrown into sea)

    • 3rd trumpet – Revelation  8:10-11 (burning star falls, third of waters become wormwood)

    • 4th trumpet – Revelation  8:12 (sun/moon/stars darken)

    • 5th trumpet – Revelation  9:1-11 (pit opened and demonic locusts attack those without the seal of God on them)

    • 6th trumpet – Revelation  9:13-21 (4 angels released, third of mankind killed)

    • 7th trumpet – Revelation  11:15-17 (elders’ worship, temple opens, Jesus returns, first resurrection)

      • 1 Corinthians 15:50-52 – the dead will be raised imperishable and we will be changed at the sound of the last trumpet

      • 1 Thessalonians 4:13-5:11 – the Lord will descend from Heaven with a cry of command, the voice of an archangel, and the sound of the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ and the believers who are left will be caught up with Jesus in the air

      • Matthew 24:29-31 – the angels will gather Jesus’ elect from the four winds when Jesus returns at the trumpet call

      • Believers are not destined for God’s wrath – 1 Thessalonians 5:9

      • Jesus treads the winepress of God – Revelation 19:11-19

        • 7 bowls of wrath 1-7 – Revelation 16-19

          • 1: Painful sores

          • 2: Sea turns to blood

          • 3: Rivers and waters turn to blood

          • 4: Sun scorches people with fire

          • 5: The beast’s kingdom plunged into darkness, people in anguish, and curse God

          • 6: The river Euphrates dries up, evil spirits like frogs perform signs and assemble kings for battle

          • 7: Lightning, thunder, earthquake, islands and mountains flee, plague of hailstones

      • Beast and false prophet are thrown into the Lake of Fire – Revelation 19:20

      • Satan is bound for 1,000 years – Revelation 20:1-3

      • Believers on thrones are given authority to judge the earth and reign with Christ for 1,000 years – Revelation 20:4-6 (This is the First Resurrection)

  • 1,000 years are complete/Satan is released – Revelation 20:7

    • Satan deceives the nations – Revelation 20:7-9

  • Satan defeated and thrown into the Lake of Fire – Revelation 20:10

  • Judgement Day – Revelation 20:11-12

  • Death and Hades thrown into the Lake of Fire – Revelation 20:14

    • Jesus gives authority back to God – 1 Corinthians 15:20-28 (Jesus gives up authority after defeating every rule/authority/power, the last enemy to be destroyed is death)

  • New heaven and new earth – Revelation 21