This
present age of grace. The Church began on the Day of Pente- cost and
will be completed at the
Rapture. The Church is composed of all who trust in Jesus
Christ
for forgive- ness and eternal life during this present era.
One enters the Church by admitting his sin, under- standing that the
wages of sin is death, realizing that Jesus paid his death penalty for
him, and trusting in Jesus alone for forgiveness and eternal
life. |
The
next event
on the prophetic calendar. The Rapture is imminent - could happen any
time. Jesus will return for His
bride, the Church, in mid-air. Dead Church-Age believers will be
resurrected.
Living believers will be transformed without dying into
resurrected, immortal people, free of moral or spiritual defect! |
A
7-year time period begun when a charismatic world leader from Europe
"solves" the Arab-Israeli conflict. Half-way through he double-crosses
both sides, gains power over the whole world. God pours out
His
wrath on the earth with terrible plagues. Ends with the battle of Arma-
geddon. |
Jesus
will return to earth as the Jewish and world Messiah (Anointed King).
Many Jews and
Gentiles will have trusted in Jesus. He will destroy the
earth's
armies gathered to destroy Israel and Himself. He will judge
every
living person and destroy all who have not accepted His sacrificial
death on the cross and resurrection for their sin and have thus failed
to submit to His rule. |
Having
judged and destroyed all His enemies, Jesus will reign as King of
Israel
and King of the world. Satan will be bound, unable to deceive
the world, so
righteousness and justice will prevail. Peace will prevail
between all nations
and between man and the animal kingdom. Longevity will increase
dramatically. |
At
the end of 1000 years of unprecedented peace and prosperity,
God
will release Satan. Believers in Christ will have given birth to
children
who conform outwardly to the King, but inwardly their hearts will not
be with Him.
Satan will deceive them; they will revolt against Jesus, and
will be
destroyed. To purify the universe, God will terminate the existing
earth and heavens in a fiery explosion! |
The
unbe- lieving dead of all ages will be resurrected. The existing
universe having been destroyed, the dead will stand before
Jesus, the
Judge, without material support. Sadly, because of their failure to
trust God and Jesus, His sacrifice for their sins will do them no good,
and they will be consigned forever to the Lake of Fire, which is the
Second Death. |
Having
eradicated all sin, corruption, death, and decay, God will create a New
Heaven and Earth in which only righteous- ness dwells. The
saved
of all ages will live in resurrection bodies on a pristine earth with
access
to the New Jeru- salem, the New Earth's Capital of unparalleled beauty
and size. Evidently Israel and the Church will inhabit the
capital city, which either orbits the earth or comes to rest on it.
In the new universe death will have been destroyed and all
tears
wiped away. |
Matt
16:18; Acts 2:1-47; Eph. 5:23-32; Col. 1:15-18; Rev. 2-3.
Rom.
3:23; 6:23; 5:8; John 1:11-12; 3:16-18; 3:36; 5:24; 11:25-26;
14:6; Acts 16:31; Rev. 3:20. |
John
14:1-3; 1 Cor. 15:50-58; 1 Thess. 1:10; 4:13-18; Tit. 2:13 |
Isa.
24:1-6, 17-21; Ezek. 38 - 39; Dan. 9:26-27; Zech. 13:9; Matt. 24:15-29;
1 Thess. 5:1-3; Rev. 6 - 18 |
Psa.
2; Dan. 7:9-14; Zech. 12:1 - 13:1; 14:1-15; Matt. 24:37-51; Matt. 25;
John 5:25-29; 2 Thess. 1:6-10; Rev. 19:11-21. |
Psa.
2:6-9; Isa. 2:1-4; 9:6-7; 11:1-12; 25:6-10; 29:17-21; 35:1-2, 5-7;
54:3; 60:1-22;
61:4 - 62:7; 65:16-25; 66:10-14, 19-23; Ezek. 40-48; Dan.
2:44;
7:14, 21; Zech. 14:9-21; Rev. 20:1-6. |
Rev.
20:7-10; 2 Pet. 3:7-12; Rev. 20:11. |
Dan.
12:2; Matt. 5:22, 29-30; 10:28; 18:9; 23:15, 33; Mark 9:43-48; Luke
12:5; John 5:25-29; Rev. 20:11-15. |
Isa. 25:6-9; 60:19-22;
65:17-19; 2 Pet. 3:13; Rev. 21 - 22. |
