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t's VERY IMMATURE To Divide Over Eschatology.
Mature People Have Different Perspectives Among Godly People.

Eschatology is the study of the last days/End Times.

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ESCHATOLOGY We affirm the bodily, personal, second coming of the Lord Jesus Christ, the resurrection of the saints, the millennium, and the final judgment. The final judgment will determine the eternal status of both the saints and the unbelievers, determined by their relationship to Jesus Christ. We affirm with the Bible the final state of the new heavens and the new earth.

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End Times/Last Days
The Days after Jesus Ascended to Heaven


Tribulation:
The tribulation refers to seven years of judgment that take place in the eschaton, a time when God will rain judgment upon the earth in general and the nation of Israel in particular.


Antichrist
A figure empowered by Satan who functions as an enemy of Jesus Christ and the Church.


The Return Of Christ / Second Coming
This doctrine describes the expected return of Jesus Christ at the end of time, when he will come to judge the world and usher in the fullness of his kingdom.


Millennial
The 1000 year period at the end of history, where all God’s purposes for world history are fulfilled.


The Return of Christ/ The Second Coming”
This doctrine describes the expected return of Jesus Christ at the end of time, when he will come to judge the world and usher in the fullness of his kingdom.

The Return of Christ ispersonal

If you believe Jesus is God, then you MUST believe He's coming again!

The Return Of Christ isliteral

· The Return of Christ is visible, public

The Return of Christ isglorious!

Jesus Is our Glorious Hope!

This is the heart posture of those who love Jesus:

Until I can be with you, I want to be like you!

The Signs of The Season:
- It will be sudden, unexpectant

The Signs of The Season:
- Evil will abound

The Signs of The Season:
- There will be global disturbances

PRACTICAL ADVICE:
Ask God for wisdom everyday.

The Trouble with Pre-Trib Theology:
1. You can't come to a pre-trib theology With the Bible alone

The Trouble with Pre-Trib Theology:
2. It's a fear-based theology!

“All views fall into one of the following categories:
Jesus comes before the Millennia, after the Millennia or there will be no Millennia.”

QUESTION:
Where did we get the pre-tribulation theology?

No Church Fathers embraced this theology before the early 1800’s!

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The Trouble with Pre-Trib Theology:
3.The same scriptures that are “Pre-Trib” rapture scriptures all describe the second coming!

Your eschatology shouldn’t make you persecution proof!

Misunderstandings:

1. We will not go through Gods Wrath!

No one loses their faith this year.

”Tribulation” in Greek (filipsis) occurs over 40 times in New Testament.

The tribulation Is not the only time God poured out His wrath.

MORE EXAMPLES:
2 Chronicles 34:21&25
Lamentations 2:4
Jeremiah 6:11
Jeremiah 7:20
Jeremiah 42:18
Jeremiah 44:6
Ezekiel 20:8
Ezekiel 13
Ezekiel 21
Ezekiel 21:31

2. Definitions in Greek for Wrath:
(Thumos) “Anger” & (Orge) “Catastrophic Judgment”

When Paul Speaks to God protecting us From His wrath there is no indication that He is speaking of the tribulation but to God’s destruction at Christ's return!”

We will go through tribulations!

Some of the worst theology comes from misplaced empathy: when we identify more with a feeling of others than the word of God.

Relief comes when the Lord returns taken vengeance on evil. = the one second coming

Misunderstandings:
2. He's coming & coming again!

harpázō – properly, seize by force; snatch up, suddenly and decisively
– like someone seizing bounty (spoil, a prize); to take by an open display of force (i.e. not covertly or secretly)

caught up” greek word: harpazó (har-pah'-zo) The Latin translate it as Raptur-EZ = Rapture

parousia: (par-oo-see'-ah)a presence, a coming
(a) presence, (b) a coming, an arrival, advent, especially of the second coming of Christ.

Misunderstandings:
3. Pre-Trib Theology makes Jesus Second Coming a secret!

parousía (from parōn, "be present, arrive to enter into a situation") – properly, coming, especially the arrivalof the owner who alone can deal with a situation.

(parousía) is a "technical term with reference to the visit of a king or some other official, 'a royal visit' " (Souter) – "hence, in the NT, specifically of the Adventor Parousia of Christ" (A-S).

(parousía) is "used in the east as a technical expression for the royal visit of a king, or emperor. The word means literally 'the being beside,' thus, 'the personal presence"

Matthew 24:27
Matthew 24:27
Matthew 24:27
1 Thessalonians 4:15
1 Thessalonians
James 5:75:23
2 Peter 3:4
1 Corinthians 15:23

Additional references:
Acts 1
Matthew 24
Revelation 19

Jesus' second coming is not a secret moment but a GLORIOUS APPEARING.

Occupy = pragmateuomai (prag-ma-too'-om-ahee) to busy oneself transact business, trade. to be occupied in anything.

Stop playing it safe!

Eschatology matters because it will influence how you live your life.

Are you ready?
Have you done something with the [DUNAMIS] POWER God’s given you?

The end time will require FAITH, belief and trust in God!

Additional References:


MATTHEW 23:39
For I tell you, you will not see me again, until you say, ‘Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.’

ROMANS 11:15
For if their rejection means the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance mean but life from the dead?

1 THESSALONIANS 4:13-18
But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about those who are asleep, that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope. 14For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep. 15For this we declare to you by a word from the Lord,d that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will not precede those who have fallen asleep. 16For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. 17Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord.18Therefore encourage one another with these words.

JAMES 5:8
You also, be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is at hand.

REVELATION 1:7
Behold, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, even those who pierced him, and all tribes of the earth will wail on account of him. Even so. Amen.

JOHN 14:2-3
In My Father’s house are many dwelling places; if it were not so, I would have told you; for I go to prepare a place for you. 3“If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself, that where I am, there you may be also.

ROMANS 8:34
Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died—more than that, who was raised—who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us.

JOHN 5:24-30
Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life.25“Truly, truly, I say to you, an hour is coming, and is now here, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live. 26For as the Father has life in himself, so he has granted the Son also to have life in himself. 27And he has given him authority to execute judgment, because he is the Son of Man.28Do not marvel at this, for an hour is coming when all who are in the tombs will hear his voice 29and come out, those who have done good to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil to the resurrection of judgment.30“I can do nothing on my own. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is just, because I seek not my own will but the will of him who sent me.

JUDE 1:5-7
Although you are fully aware of this, I want to remind you that after Jesus had delivered His people out of the land of Egypt, He destroyed those who did not believe. 6And the angels who did not stay within their own domain but abandoned their proper dwelling—these He has kept in eternal chains under darkness, bound for judgment on that great day. 7In like manner, Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, who indulged in sexual immorality and pursued strange flesh, are on display as an example of those who sustain the punishment of eternal fire.

2 CORINTHIANS 5:6-10
So we are always of good courage. We know that while we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord, 7for we walk by faith, not by sight. 8Yes, we are of good courage, and we would rather be away from the body and at home with the Lord. 9So whether we are at home or away, we make it our aim to please him. 10For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive what is due for what he has done in the body, whether good or evil.

1 CORINTHIANS 4:1-5
This is how one should regard us, as servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God. 2Moreover, it is required of stewards that they be found faithful. 3But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you or by any human court. In fact, I do not even judge myself. 4For I am not aware of anything against myself, but I am not thereby acquitted. It is the Lord who judges me. 5Therefore do not pronounce judgment before the time, before the Lord comes, who will bring to light the things now hidden in darkness and will disclose the purposes of the heart. Then each one will receive his commendation from God.

MATTHEW 25:31-46
When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then he will sit on his glorious throne. 32Before him will be gathered all the nations, and he will separate people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. 33And he will place the sheep on his right, but the goats on the left.34Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. 35For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, 36I was naked and you clothed me, I was sick and you visited me, I was in prison and you came to me.’ 37Then the righteous will answer him, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you drink? 38And when did we see you a stranger and welcome you, or naked and clothe you?39And when did we see you sick or in prison and visit you?’ 40And the King will answer them, ‘Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers,f you did it to me.’
41“Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.42For I was hungry and you gave me no food, I was thirsty and you gave me no drink, 43I was a stranger and you did not welcome me, naked and you did not clothe me, sick and in prison and you did not visit me.’ 44Then they also will answer, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not minister to you?’ 45Then he will answer them, saying, ‘Truly, I say to you, as you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to me.’ 46And these will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”

REVELATION 20:11-15
Then I saw a great white throne and him who was seated on it. From his presence earth and sky fled away, and no place was found for them. 12And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Then another book was opened, which is the book of life. And the dead were judged by what was written in the books, according to what they had done. 13And the sea gave up the dead who were in it, Death and Hades gave up the dead who were in them, and they were judged, each one of them, according to what they had done. 14Then Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire. 15And if anyone’s name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.

ACTS 1:10-11
And while they were gazing into heaven as he went, behold, two men stood by them in white robes, 11and said, “Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into heaven? This Jesus, who was taken up from you into heaven, will come in the same way as you saw him go into heaven.”

1 THESSALONIANS 4:13-18
But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about those who are asleep, that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope. 14For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep. 15For this we declare to you by a word from the Lord,d that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will not precede those who have fallen asleep. 16For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. 17Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord.18Therefore encourage one another with these words.

2 THESSALONIANS 1:7-10
and to give relief to you who are afflicted and to us as well when the Lord Jesus will be revealed from heaven with His mighty angels in flaming fire, 8dealing out retribution to those who do not know God and to those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus. 9These will pay the penalty of eternal destruction, away from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of His power, 10when He comes to be glorified in His saints on that day, and to be marveled at among all who have believed—for our testimony to you was believed.

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