ANSWER: To explain each of these chapters in detail would require volumes. The main thrust of the book of Revelation, however, is to show that, in spite of many trials and tribulations, the church of Christ would one day be victorious; that Christians who lived at that time would overcome the persecutions being pressed upon them by the Roman Empire which held the nation of Israel captive.

Generally, the chapters in question have to do with the church (the woman of chapter twelve); her afflictions and persecutions by Rome (the beast and his followers-chapter thirteen); a view of the heavenly Jerusalem prepared for the faithful, which stands in contrast to the destruction of earthly Jerusalem (chapter fourteen); the wrath of God poured out upon the persecutors of God’s people (chapters fifteen, sixteen, seventeen and eighteen); a description of the one (Christ) by whom the judgment on Rome would come (chapter nineteen); the binding and loosing of Satan, the final end of Satan, and the final judgment of all (chapter twenty); and the church triumphant (chapters 21 & 22). Though this is a rather sparse outline of this section of The Revelation, perhaps it will aid in your studies.