Four Epic Apocalypses

The following may be viewed as a good outline for a sermon or bible lesson and title it as I did at the head of this posting. 

The Greek word for the English word "apocalypse" is "apokálypsis" and means an unveiling or a revelation. It is often used to signify someone who appears or comes bodily to another person. 

First Apocalypse Of Christ

That occurred when Christ appeared the first time by incarnation. 

Second Apocalypse Of Christ

I Corinthians 1: 7 - ἀπεκδεχομένους τὴν ἀποκάλυψιν τοῦ κυρίου ("awaiting eagerly the revelation of our Lord") (see also II Thess. 1: 7; I Peter 1: 7) 

"But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all. Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed." (Luke 17: 29-30)

Apocalypse of the Sons of God

Romans 8: 19 - κτίσεως τὴν ἀποκάλυψιν τῶν υἱῶν ("waits eagerly for the revelation or apocalypse of the sons of God")

Apocalypse of Antichrist

"Let no one deceive you by any means; for that Day will not come unless the falling away comes first, and the man of sin is revealed (apokalupto), the son of perdition...And now you know what is restraining, that he may be revealed (apokalupto) in his own time...And then shall that Wicked be revealed (apokalyphthēsetai), whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming: Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, " (II Thess. 2: 3,6, 8-9) nkjv) 

In this text the forms of the word "apocalypse" are used to refer to the "coming" of the man of lawlessness, to the Antichrist. In this text, the word for "revealed" and the word for "coming" (parousia) are used in regard to the end time appearing of Antichrist, and they are the same words used to describe Christ' coming, both the first and second.