• Show how God has revealed Himself and judged human disobedience throughout the ages (innocence, conscience and moral responsibility, human government, the promise, the law, the Church, the kingdom of God)
• Introduce the three main movements of the book (the message to the seven Churches, the seven seals, the seven trumpets)
• Introduce the characteristic elements of the second coming of Christ, the judgment of Babylon, the first resurrection and the rapture of the Church, and the thousand-year reign
• Introduce and present the judgments of God (the great harlot, the beast, and the false prophet, Satan)