Prophecy Is History Future; History That Hasn't Happened Yet

Prophecy is history future; history that hasn't happened yet.

It is as sure as past history.

Prophecy = Promises It is God proving to mankind, exactly who He is

·  FUTURIST: Most Endtimes prophetic events are still future

·  SEQUENTIAL: God reveals His plan in a generally historical time sequence

·  PREMILLENNIAL: Jesus 2nd Coming happens before the literal 1,000 year millennium begins

·  PRETRIBULATIONAL: The Rapture (Harpazio) of the Church occurs before the 7 year Tribulation begins

·  DISPENSATIONAL: (Old meaning) God, at various times throughout history, uses different groups and people(s) to represent and reveal Himself to the world.

·  SERIOUSLY: What God says, He means. What He promised, He will do....

Take God’s Word literally where the literal sense makes sense

- but also recognize the literal may also be symbolic…

What is clearly symbolic – take seriously but search out the symbolism

If God uses a symbol, He explains it in His Word – let the Bible interpret the Bible

THE REVELATION OF JESUS CHRIST

THE CHURCH UNDER GRACE = 30 AD - ?????

·  EPHESUS - DUTY W/O LOVE = (33 AD TO 100 AD)

·  SMYRNA - POOR, PERSECUTED BUT RICH = (100 AD TO 300 AD) = NO CRITICISM

·  PERGAMOS - COMPROMISE WITH THE WORLD = (300 AD TO 600 AD)

·  THYATIRA - THE GREAT COUNTERFEIT = (600 AD TO 1500 AD)

·  SARDIS - DEAD ORTHODOXY - (1500 AD TO 1750 AD) = NO COMMENDATION

·  PHILADELPHIA - REVIVAL AND EVANGELISM (1750 AD TO 1900 AD) = NO CRITICISM

·  LAODICEA - COMPROMISE AND APOSTASY - (1900 TO ???? ) = NO COMMENDATION )

APOSTASY - THE BEGINNING OF SORROWS

§  ISRAEL CONQUERS IT’S “INNER RING” NEIGHBORING NATIONS * - PSALM 83

§  RAPTURE [HARPAZIO] = JUST PRIOR TO TRIBULATION PERIOD – Rev 4, 1 Th 4, 2 TH 2, 1 CO 15

·  1ST RESURRECTION

·  RESTRAINER (HOLY SPIRIT INDWELLING THE INDIVIDUAL BELIEVER: THE CHURCH) IS REMOVED

o  CHURCH IN HEAVEN - JUDGEMENT SEAT OF CHRIST – REWARDS

§  TEMPLE (OR TABERNACLE) WORSHIP IS RE-ESTABLISHED IN ISRAEL - SACRIFICES BEGIN * Dan 9

§  GOG / MAGOG INVASION OF ISRAEL BY “OUTER RING” NATIONS OCCURS – EZEK 38-39 *

* The exact timing /sequence of these events relative to the RAPTURE [ HARPAZIO] of the Church is not clearly defined. The Rapture could occur before, during or following the above events.

§  MAN OF SIN REVEALED / COMES TO POWER

§  COVENANT IS ENFORCED UPON ISRAEL

DAY OF THE LORD / DANIEL’S 70TH WEEK OF YEARS BEGINS Dan 9

DANIEL’S 70TH WEEK OF YEARS - PERIOD OF WOE ON ISRAEL / EARTH

TIME OF JACOB'S TROUBLE = 3.5 YEARS / 42 MONTHS / 1,260 DAYS MAT 24-25, Rev 6>

§  SEAL 1 - RIDER ON A WHITE HORSE - PEACE !?!

- ANTI-CHRIST EMPOWERED

- COMES CONQUERING AND TO CONQUER

§  SEAL 2 - RIDER ON A RED HORSE - WAR, (Gog / Magog ???)

§  SEAL 3 - RIDER ON A BLACK HORSE WITH BALANCES- FAMINE

§  SEAL 4 - RIDER ON A PALE HORSE - DEATH

§  SEAL 5 - MARTYRED SOULS AT THE ALTER - PERSECUTION

§  SEAL 6 - CATASTROPHIC CHANGES IN THE EARTH - DESTRUCTION

§  SEAL 7 - SILENCE - 144,000 JEWS SEALED

§  1ST TRUMPET - HAIL, FIRE AND BLOOD -- ALL GRASS AND 1/3 TREES BURNED, 1/3 EARTH ON FIRE

§  2ND TRUMPET - FALLING METEOR -- 1/3 SHIPS DESTROYED, 1/3 FISH KILLED, 1/3 SEA FILLED W/ BLOOD

§  3RD TRUMPET - FALLING STAR -- 1/3 OF WATER POISONED

§  4TH TRUMPET - SUN, MOON, AND STARS -- 1/3 HEAVENS DARKENED, LIGHT DIMINISHED BY 1/3

§  5TH TRUMPET - DEMON LOCUSTS -- STING PEOPLE WITHOUT THE MARK OF GOD IN THEIR FOREHEADS (144,000) CAUSING 5 MONTHS OF TORMENT

§  6TH TRUMPET - SATAN'S ARMY GATHERED (200 MILLION), KILL 1/3 OF MANKIND

ABOMINATION THAT CAUSES DESOLATION = MID-POINT OF TRIBULATION

§  ABOMINATION THAT CAUSES DESOLATION -- ‘MAN OF SIN’, INDWELT BY SATAN’ PROCLAIMS HIMSELF TO BE GOD – PROFANES THE JERUSALEM TEMPLE .

§  TWO WITNESSES IN JERUSALEM AFTER TESTIFYING FOR 1,260 DAYS ARE KILLED.

·  AFTER 3.5 DAYS THEY ARE RAISED AGAIN AND CALLED UP INTO HEAVEN.

o  MOSES AND ELIJAH ?? - PERFORMED SAME ‘MIRACLES’ DURING LIFETIME

o  BOTH WERE SEEN AT MOUNT OF TRANSFIGURATION ‘BRIEFING’

o  REPRESENT THE LAW AND PROPHETS

§  FAITHFUL REMNANT IN JERUSALEM (ISRAEL) TOLD TO FLEE TO EDOM / MOAB (MODERN JORDAN)

FOR SOME REASON IT IS NOT UNDER THE CONTROL OF, ACCESSIBLE TO, ORINFLUENCED BY THE ‘MAN OF SIN’

‘WRATH OF GOD = LATER PART OF DANIEL’S 70TH WEEK - 3.5 YEAR / 42 MONTHS / 1,260 DAYS - THE GREAT TRIBULATION

§  7TH TRUMPET – EARTHQUAKE -- 7,000 DIE IN JERUSALEM - PEOPLE RUN TO THE MOUNTAINS

§  1ST VIAL – BOILS -- MALIGNANT SORES AFFECT THOSE WITH MARK OF THE BEAST

§  2ND VIAL - SEA OF BLOOD -- EVERYTHING IN THE OCEAN DIES

§  3RD VIAL - RIVERS OF BLOOD -- RIVERS AND SPRINGS TURN TO BLOOD

§  4TH VIAL - OPPRESSIVE HEAT -- SUN SCORCHES ALL MANKIND

§  5TH VIAL – DARKNESS -- EARTH IN TOTAL DARKNESS / DARKNESS THAT IS ‘FELT’ (I.E. EGYPT)

§  6TH VIAL - EUPHRATES DRIES UP -- NATIONS ARMIES MARCH ON ISRAEL

§  7TH VIAL – HAIL -- CITIES CRUMBLE

AT SOME POINT DURINGDANIEL’S 70TH WEEK - LIKELY AT THE OR NEAR THE MIDPOINT – ISRAEL IS PURGED OF IT’S UNBELEIF AND REPENTS - RETURNS TO GOD - RECOGNIZES JESUS AS THE MESSIAH AND CALLS FOR HIS HELP AND RETURN

ARMAGEDDON

§  KINGS OF THE SOUTH MOVE ON ISRAEL, KINGS OF THE NORTH AND EAST AND “ANTI-CHRIST’S” ARMIES RESPOND AND MARCH TOWARD ISRAEL

·  SOME TO ELIMINATE ANY LAST ELEMENT OF GOD’S FAITHFUL FROM THE EARTH

·  SOME TO OVERTHROW ANTI-CHRIST

SECOND COMING OF JESUS Rev 19-20

§  SEEING CHRIST RETURNING THESE ARMIES UNITE TO MAKE WAR WITH GOD PS 2

§  JESUS RETURNS TO MAKE WAR ON THE ‘UNFAITHFUL’ PUTTING DOWN ALL OPPOSITION

o  SAINTS RETURN WITH HIM BUT DO NOT MAKE WAR THEMSELVES

§  BEAST (ANTI-CHRIST) AND FALSE PROPHET CAST INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE

§  SATAN BOUND IN ABYSS (BOTTOMLESS PIT) FOR 1000 YEARS (A MILLENNIUM)

§  JUDGMENT OF THE NATIONS - SHEEP and GOATS

§  MARRIAGE SUPPER OF THE LAMB

MILLENNIUM - EARTHLY RULE OF JESUS AND SAINTS. EARTH IS RULED BY RIGHTEOUSNESS FOR 1,000 YEARS

§  AFTER 1000 YEARS, SATAN LOOSED FOR A SHORT TIME AND DECEIVES MANY WHO THEN REBEL

§  FINAL REBELLION PUT DOWN

§  SATAN CAST INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE FOR ETERNITY

GREAT WHITE THRONE JUDGEMENT - 2ND RESURRECTION

§  WORKS OF THE UNRIGHTEOUS LIVING AND DEAD JUDGED INADEQUATE

§  THOSE WHOSE NAMES ARE NOT WRITTEN IN THE BOOK OF LIFE ARE CAST INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE FOR ETERNITY

NEW HEAVEN AND NEW EARTH

§  PRESENT HEAVEN AND EARTH DESTROYED (TRANSFORMED) BY FIRE AND A NEW HEAVEN AND NEW EARTH ARE ESTABLISHED

§  JESUS AND BRIDE (CHURCH) AND OLD TESTAMENT SAINTS ABIDE IN THE NEW JERUSALEM)

§  THE SIFTED (PURGED AND PURIFIED NATIONS OF MAN LIVE ON THE NEW EARTH IN RIGHTEOUSNESS). Rev 21

WATCH FOR IT... SIGNS – “Beginning of Sorrows” è All with increasing Frequency/Intensity

Dan 12:4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book,even to the time of the end:

·  many shall run to and fro,

·  and knowledge shall be increased

·  Struggle over Jerusalem Zech 12; Luk 21

·  Global Disruption / Phenomena

o  Pestilence / Disease / Genetic mutations Rev 6:8

o  Famine / Shortages

o  Weather

o  Earthquakes

o  Astronomical

·  Wars / Rumors of Wars

·  Fear

·  Fast - Frequent World Travel / Communications

o  News as it happens worldwide

·  Knowledge access – Technology explosion

·  Financial instability / Collapse – Inflation

·  Spread of Weapons of Mass Destruction Matt 24:22

o  World wide destructive capabilities

·  Inner Ring War Psalm 83

o  Israeli victory over Syria, Lebanon, Jordan

o  Defeat of Hezbola, Hamas, PLO

o  Massive expansion of territory

·  Preparations for Magog Invasion Eze 38, 39

o  Military / Political alliances and increased ties between Russia, Iran, Turkey, North African nations

·  Rise of a European Super State Dan 2, 7

·  Decline of United States Hosea 4–14

·  Move toward Global Government Dan 11, Rev 13

o  Possibly 10 regional administrations

o  An increasingly united Europe becomes the western "Power" broker"

·  Rise of China, India, Far East Isa 49; Rev 19

o  Economically and Militarily

·  Ecumenical / Apostate Religion Rev 13, 17, 18

·  Persecution

·  Personal Apostasy / Lovers of Self / Stiff necked - men rejecting conclusions despite facts, proofs, and evidence

ENDTIMES - SOCIETY / CHARACTER

2 Tim 3:1-7

1 This know also, that in the last days

·  perilous times shall come.

2 For men shall be

·  lovers of their own selves,

·  covetous,

·  boasters,

·  proud,

·  blasphemers,

·  disobedient to parents,

·  unthankful,

·  unholy,

·  3 Without natural affection,

·  trucebreakers,

·  false accusers,

·  incontinent,

·  fierce,

·  despisers of those that are good,

·  4 Traitors,

·  heady,

·  highminded,

·  lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;

·  5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.

·  6 For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins,

·  led away with divers lusts,

·  7 Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

2 Pet 3:3-5

3 Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days

·  scoffers,

·  walking after their own lusts,

4 And saying,

·  Where is the promise of his coming? for since

·  the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as

·  they were from the beginning of the creation.

·  5 For this they willingly are ignorant of,

that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:

[Denying God is the Creator despite the evidence and facts - willingly believing a lie à Evolution]

Luke 21:1-36 KJV

(6) As for these things which ye behold, the days will come, in the which there shall not be left one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.

(7) And they asked him, saying,

Master, but when shall these things be? and

what sign will there be when these things shall come to pass?

(8) And he said, Take heed that ye be not deceived:

for many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and the time draweth near: go ye not therefore after them.

(9) But when ye shall hear of wars and commotions, be not terrified: for these things must first come to pass; but the end is not by and by.

(10) Then said he unto them, Nation shall rise against nation,

and kingdom against kingdom:

(11) And great earthquakes shall be in divers places,

and famines,

and pestilences;

and fearful sights

and great signs shall there be from heaven.

(12) But before all these, they shall lay their hands on you, and

persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues, and into

prisons, being brought before kings and rulers for my name's sake.

(13) And it shall turn to you for a testimony.

(14) Settle it therefore in your hearts, not to meditate before what ye shall answer: (15) For I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor resist.

(16) And ye shall be betrayed both by parents, and brethren, and kinsfolks, and friends;

and some of you shall they cause to be put to death.

(17) And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake.

(18) But there shall not an hair of your head perish. (19) In your patience possess ye your souls.

(20) And when ye shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that the desolation thereof is nigh. (21) Then let them which are in Judaea flee to the mountains; and let them which are in the midst of it depart out; and let not them that are in the countries enter thereinto. (22) For these be the days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled.

(23) But woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck, in those days! for there shall be great distress in the land, and wrath upon this people. (24) And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.

(25) And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring; (26) Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken. (27) And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. (28) And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh.

(29) And he spake to them a parable; Behold the fig tree, and all the trees; (30) When they now shoot forth, ye see and know of your own selves that summer is now nigh at hand. (31) So likewise ye, when ye see these things come to pass, know ye that the kingdom of God is nigh at hand.