Bible Quiz: Book of Revelation
The last book of the Bible, all twenty-two chapters — a man exiled on a rocky island, seven letters to seven real cities, a throne ringed by a rainbow, a scroll no one could open, four horses, a dragon, a city with gates of pearl, and a tree whose leaves heal the nations. You get fifteen questions drawn from a bank of 77, and every answer shows the verse behind it, so even a miss teaches you where to look.
That round moved through the Book of Revelation — an island called Patmos, letters to Ephesus and Laodicea, twenty-four elders casting down their crowns, a Lamb who opens the seals, a little book sweet as honey, and a city that needs no sun.
Revelation ends with an invitation. Here is a gentle way to answer it.
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Common Questions About the Book of Revelation
What is the Book of Revelation about?
Revelation is the last book of the Bible, and it reads unlike anything before it. It opens with a man named John on a small island in the Aegean Sea, who says he saw a vision and was told to write it down. The first three chapters are seven short letters to seven real churches in what is now western Turkey, each with praise, a warning, or both. From chapter four the scene moves to a throne room in heaven, where a sealed scroll can only be opened by a Lamb that had been slain. What follows are sequences of seven seals, seven trumpets and seven bowls, along with a dragon, two beasts and the fall of a city called Babylon. The last two chapters describe a new heaven and a new earth, a city with gates of pearl, and a river and tree of life. It ends with an open invitation to come.
Who wrote Revelation, and where was it written?
The writer names himself four times as John, and says he was on the island of Patmos “for the word of God, and for the testimony of Jesus Christ,” which most readers take to mean he had been exiled there for his faith. Patmos is a small rocky island off the west coast of Turkey, and today it is part of Greece. Early Christian writers such as Irenaeus, writing in the second century, identified this John as the apostle John and placed the book near the end of the reign of the Roman emperor Domitian, in the mid-90s AD. Some modern scholars think a different John with the same name wrote it, and the book itself never says “apostle.” What is not in doubt is that it was written in Greek, to real congregations under real pressure, which is why so much of it is about staying faithful.
What are the seven churches of Revelation?
They are seven Christian congregations in the Roman province of Asia, and Revelation 1:11 names them in the order a messenger would travel between them: Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamos, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia and Laodicea. Each gets its own short letter in chapters two and three. Ephesus works hard but has “left thy first love.” Smyrna is poor and about to suffer, and is told to be faithful unto death. Pergamos lives “where Satan’s seat is” and has already lost a martyr named Antipas. Thyatira tolerates a false prophetess called Jezebel. Sardis has a reputation for being alive but is dead. Philadelphia has little strength and is given an open door. Laodicea is rich, comfortable, and lukewarm, and hears the famous line “Behold, I stand at the door, and knock.” The quiz above draws several questions from these letters, because quizzers are asked about them often.
Is this Revelation quiz good practice for Bible Quizzing or a study group?
Yes, that is what it was built for. It runs in study mode, so every answer, right or wrong, shows the exact chapter and verse along with the King James wording, which makes a miss into a pointer back to the text. The bank covers all twenty-two chapters and leans toward the kind of detail that shows up in quiz practice: numbers, names, colors, who said which line, and what came after what. There are finish-the-verse questions for memory work, and a few that test careful reading, like which tribe is missing from the list in chapter seven. It deliberately avoids questions about how to interpret the prophecies, since churches read those differently, and sticks to what the text actually says. Each round pulls fifteen questions at random from a bank of more than seventy, so a youth group or Sunday school class can run it several times and keep meeting new material.
How long does the Revelation quiz take, and can I play it more than once?
A round is fifteen questions and takes most people about six minutes, a little longer if you stop to read the verse under each answer, which is the best part of the game. You can play as many times as you like. Every new round shuffles both the questions and the order of the answers, and with more than seventy questions in the bank, your first several rounds will mostly bring fresh ones. Nothing is saved and there is no sign-up or leaderboard, so your score is just for you until you close the page. A good way to use it is to play once cold, notice which chapters tripped you up, read those chapters, and then come back to see how far your score moves. Revelation rewards a second look more than almost any book. When you are ready, scroll up and start the quiz above.