Demystifying the
Apocalypse
Beyond 2012
(Revelation 1-22)
By Alvin Mitchell
The Bible Study Hour.net Press
Phoenix, AZ
Demystifying The Apocalypse
Beyond 2012
2009 by Alvin Mitchell
First Edition
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Table of Contents
Section I
Applied
Apologetics Study:
A Scoffer’s Delight
(A Preface, Foreword and General comments)
Section II
The Churches:
Warning and Encouragement
The Snatch-Away
(Rev. 1-5)
Section III
Raindrops from Hell
America in Bible Prophecy
(Rev. 18)
Section IV
The Battle of
Armageddon
The Two Kingdoms
(Rev. 6-10, 14-16, 19-22)
Section V
The Beast
Bablyon the Great
(Rev. 12, 11, 13, 17)
About the Layout of this Book
While obviously the general flow of the events and the action of this Book of the Revelation is
chronological, it should be equally evident to the studied mind of any discerning student of
scripture that certain key moments in the action are out of sequence. That is, some elements are
not in their proper place, where the overall chronology of the Apocalypse narrative is concerned.
These out of place parts are like “inserts” into the conundrum of the Revelation riddle. Here the
Author, God the Almighty, takes the liberty of randomly leading the reader away from the events
of the moment to show him something that either has happened, or, something that will happen
(from the point of view of John). Realistically, then, therefore, these inserts need not and indeed,
they cannot be expected to occur in the actual unfolding of the apocalyptic storyline, in the place
where they are found in John’s account. The entire Revelation is a riddle and so, must be
approached as such.
The passages in question are as follows: 7:9-17; 9:12-21; 10:1-11; 11:1-12 (11:2; 11:3-6; 11:7-
12); 12:1-17 (12:1-6; 12:7-17); 13:1-18 (13:3; 13:5-18); 14:1-5; 17:1-18 (17:8, 10-11; 17:11-
12, 16-17); 18:1-24.
The order in which they should or will play out in the unveiling is as follows:
12:1-17—synopsis of the history of Israel, to the coming and takeover of the beast;
power behind all the nations that have and will interact with the Jews
18:1-24 (14:8)—collapse of Babylon the Great (rise and reign of the Jews, per Eze. 38
& 39); her fall must precede the Apocalypse and the reign of the Jews
14:1-5 (7:1-8)—ministry and work of the 144,000 Jews begins (after WWIII) and
continues to the mid-point of the last seven years of history and the reign of the beast (the
“woe” factor precludes the possibility of this period being inclusive of more than 3.5 of
the last seven years—the Great Tribulation)
11:3-6—work of the two witnesses (first 3.5 years of the last seven of history)
12:7-17—war in Heaven; satan booted out (woe #3)
11:7—mission accomplished, after 3.5 years of torment! War between the two
witnesses and the Italian prince (the beast-to-be); death of both combatants, 3.5 years
before the end of the world
13:3-4; 17:8, 10-11 (11:7)—resurrection of the beast (Daniel’s little horn); celebration
of his invincibility
11:8-12—celebration over the bodies of the witnesses; resurrection and ascension
11:2; 13:5-18 (14:9-11)—beast battles and defeats of the Jews; global reign of the
beast from Jerusalem, for 3.5 years (last 42 months of last seven years of history)
7:9-17 (14:12-13; 15:2-4)—the beast’s slaughter of the “great multitude” (in preview),
harvested by the ministry of the 144,000
17:12, 16-17—appointment and reign of the ten kings; destruction of the Great Whore
(Babylon the Great)
9:12-21 (16:12-14; 14:17-20)—thermo-baric warfare; the Battle of Armageddon,
phase I; Kings of the East at the Euphrates battle the beast and the ten kings
17:14 (Zec. 14; 19:11-21)—thermo-nuclear warfare; the Battle of Armageddon, phase
II; the ten kings and the beast battle the Lamb of God