Things to Come

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Things to Come

• Bible Prophecy - Part 2

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The Time of His Coming

• Matthew 24 36No one knows when that day or hour
  will comenot the angels in heaven, nor the Son,
  but only the Father,
• 1 Thess. 5 1Now you do not need to have anything
  written to you about times and dates, brothers,
  2for you yourselves know very well that the Day
  of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.

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Signs of His Coming

• Matthew 24 3. Tell us, when will these things
  take place, and what will be the sign of your
  coming and of the end of the age?
• 1) 4Jesus answered them, See to it that no one
  deceives you, 5because many will come in my name
  and say, I am the Messiah, and they will
  deceive many people. 6You are going to hear of
  wars and rumors of wars.
• Matthew 24 3. Tell us, when will these things
  take place, and what will be the sign of your
  coming and of the end of the age?
• 1) 4Jesus answered them, See to it that no one
  deceives you, 5because many will come in my name
  and say, I am the Messiah, and they will
  deceive many people. 6You are going to hear of
  wars and rumors of wars.
• 2) There will be famines and earthquakes in
  various places. 8But all these things are only
  the beginning of the birth pains.

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Introduction Phil. 19-11(ISV)

• 9And this is my prayer, that your love will keep
  on growing more and more with full knowledge and
  insight, 10so that you may be able to choose what
  is best and be pure and blameless until the day
  when the Messiah returns, 11having been filled
  with the fruit of righteousness that comes
  through Jesus the Messiah so that God will be
  glorified and praised.

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A Brief Time Line

• 4004 BC
• Creation, Garden of Eden, Adam Eve, Dinosaurs
• 3017 BC
• Rapture of Enoch
• 2348 BC
• Noahs Flood
• 1996 BC
• Birth of Abraham
• 1491 BC
• Exodus from Egypt Begins Giving of the Law
  (Torah, 10 Commandments) on Mount Sinai

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• 1055 BC David becomes King
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• 897 BC Rapture of Elijah
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• 441 BC Malachi (Last book of the Old Testament
• (400 years of silence from God)
• 63 BC Roman Empire begins
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• 4 BC Birth of John the Baptist Birth of Jesus
  Christ
• (Note adjustment of calendars. 360 vs. 365 ¼
  days per year.)

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• 27 AD Beginning of Christs Earthly Ministry
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• 30 AD Crucifixion of Christ End of 69th Week of
  Daniel Stephen is Martyred
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• 67 AD Death of Paul Death of Peter Neros
  Reign Ends
• 70 AD Roman Army (under Titus) Destroys the
  Second Temple
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• 90-96 AD Book of Revelation complete
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Whats Next

• Antichrist Final 7 Years of Daniels 70 Weeks
  Tribulation
• Battle of Armageddon Christ Returns to Earth
• Millennium under Christs Rule
• New Heavens and New Earth

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Timeline Snapshot

• (Cross)2000 yearsNov. 16, 2008.
• 7 years.Millennium..RebellionEternity

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Fact He is coming again

• John 141-4 (FOR the Saints)
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• 1 Do not let your hearts be troubled. Believe in
  God, believe also in me. 2There are many rooms in
  my Father's house. If there were not, would I
  have told you that I am going away to prepare a
  place for you? 3And if I am going away to prepare
  a place for you, I will come back again and
  welcome you into my presence, so that you may be
  where I am. 4You know where I am going, and you
  know the way.

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Acts 110

• While he was going and they were gazing up toward
  heaven, two men in white robes stood right beside
  them. 11They asked, Men of Galilee, why do you
  stand looking up toward heaven? This same Jesus,
  who has been taken up from you into heaven, will
  come back in the same way you saw him go up into
  heaven.

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Three Aspects of Tribulation

• 1. Chastisement - of Sons (spanking) Meaning
  and translation - chastening 3, nurture 1,
  instruction 1, chastisement 1 The concept is
  training a child.
• Proverbs 311-12
• 11 My son, do not reject the Lords discipline,
• and do not despise his correction,
• 12 because the Lord corrects the person he loves,
• just as a father corrects the son he delights in.
  
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Hebrews 125-6 (Chastisement of Sons)

• 5You have forgotten the encouragement that is
  addressed to you as sons My son, do not think
  lightly of the Lord's discipline or give up when
  you are corrected by him.
• 6 For the Lord disciplines the one he loves,
• and he punishes every son he accepts.
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2. Tribulation

• Translated in KJV as tribulation 21,
  affliction 17, trouble 3, anguish 1,
  persecution 1, burdened 1, to be afflicted
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• John 1633
• 33I have told you this so that through me you may
  have peace. In the world you will have trouble,
  but be courageousI have overcome the world!

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Rev. 210 (to church at Smyrna)

• 10Don't be afraid of what you are going to
  suffer. Look! The devil is going to throw some of
  you into prison so that you may be tested. For
  ten days you will undergo suffering. Be faithful
  until death, and I will give you the victor's
  crown of life.

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You will undergo suffering

• Trouble will come. Holocaust 6 million Jews, 5
  million Christians and others from Poland and
  other parts of Europe.
• More Christians martyred in the 20th century than
  all others combined.
• Foxs Book of Martyrs. Compare Hebrews 11.
• Does it get any worse than seeing your children
  killed because of your faith? Or your children
  seeing you killed?
• Starvation Disease Economic Problems

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Great Tribulation (The Wrath of God)

• Daniel 12 (NLT)
• 1 "At that time Michael, the archangel who stands
  guard over your nation, will arise. Then there
  will be a time of anguish greater than any since
  nations first came into existence. But at that
  time every one of your people whose name is
  written in the book will be rescued. 2 Many of
  those whose bodies lie dead and buried will rise
  up, some to everlasting life and some to shame
  and everlasting contempt. 3 Those who are wise
  will shine as bright as the sky, and those who
  turn many to righteousness will shine like stars
  forever. 4 But you, Daniel, keep this prophecy a
  secret seal up the book until the time of the
  end. Many will rush here and there, and knowledge
  will increase."

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The prophecy of Jesus Matthew 24

• Matt. 2421-22 
• 19How terrible it will be for women who are
  pregnant or who are nursing babies in those days!
  20Pray that it may not be in winter or on a
  Sabbath when you flee, 21because at that time
  there will be great suffering, the kind that has
  not happened from the beginning of the world
  until now and certainly will never happen again.
  22If those days had not been limited, no one
  would survive. But for the sake of the elect,
  those days will be limited.

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Revelation 713

• Then one of the elders said to me, Who are these
  people wearing white robes, and where did they
  come from?
• 14I said to him, Sir, you know.
• Then he told me, These are the people who are
  coming out of the terrible suffering.(Great
  Tribulation in margin) They have washed their
  robes and made them white in the blood of the
  lamb.
• By the power of the Holy Spirit YOU can do it.

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Ignorance is Not allowed

• 1 Thess. 4 13But we do not want you to be
  ignorant (without knowledge), brothers, about
  those who have died, so that you may not grieve
  like other people who have no hope. 14For if we
  believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so
  through Jesus God will bring those who have died
  with him. 15For we declare to you what the Lord
  has told us to say We who are alive and remain
  until the coming of the Lord will by no means
  precede those who have died. 16With a shout of
  command, with the archangel's call, and with the
  sound of God's trumpet, the Lord himself will
  come down from heaven, and the dead who belong to
  the Messiah will rise first. 17Then we who are
  alive and remain will be caught up in the clouds
  together with them to meet the Lord in the air.
  And so we will be with the Lord forever. 18So
  then, encourage one another with these words.

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Six views of when the Rapture will occur.

• 1. The Amillennial View.
• We are in it now.
• Jesus will come back someday.
• Judgment for your works.
• Eternity

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2. Post-Tribulation Rapture
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3. Mid-Tribulation Rapture
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4. Pre-Ttribulation Rapture
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5. Pre Wrath Rapture
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6. Pan Rapture Theory

• It will all Pan Out!

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The Time of His Coming

• Matthew 24 36No one knows when that day or hour
  will comenot the angels in heaven, nor the Son,
  but only the Father,
• 1 Thess. 5 1Now you do not need to have anything
  written to you about times and dates, brothers,
  2for you yourselves know very well that the Day
  of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.

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Signs of His Coming

• Matthew 24 3. Tell us, when will these things
  take place, and what will be the sign of your
  coming and of the end of the age?
• 1) 4Jesus answered them, See to it that no one
  deceives you, 5because many will come in my name
  and say, I am the Messiah, and they will
  deceive many people. 6You are going to hear of
  wars and rumors of wars.

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• There will be famines and earthquakes in various
  places. 8But all these things are only the
  beginning of the birth pains.
• 11Many false prophets will appear and deceive
  many people, 12and because lawlessness will
  increase, the love of many people will grow cold.

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• at that time there will be great suffering, the
  kind that has not happened from the beginning of
  the world until now and certainly will never
  happen again. 22If those days had not been
  limited, no one would survive. But for the sake
  of the elect, those days will be limited.

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• 1 Thess 5 When people say, There is peace
  and security, destruction will strike them as
  suddenly as labor pains come to a pregnant woman,
  and they will not be able to escape.

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• 2 Timothy 3 1You must realize, however, that in
  the last days difficult times will come. 2People
  will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money,
  boastful, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their
  parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3unfeeling,
  uncooperative, slanderous, degenerate, brutal,
  hateful of what is good,

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2 Timothy 3 (continued)

• 4traitors, reckless, conceited, and lovers of
  pleasure rather than lovers of God. 5They will
  hold to an outward form of godliness but deny its
  power. Stay away from such people.
• V.4 What is important to you?
• V.5 Strong instruction.

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Other Signs, Problems Speculations

• The Mark of the Beast 666 Revelation 13-16-18
• . 16The second beast forces all peopleimportant
  and unimportant, rich and poor, free and
  slavesto be marked on their right hands or on
  their foreheads, 17so that no one may buy or sell
  unless he has the mark, which is the beast's name
  or the number of its name.18In this case wisdom
  is needed Let the person who has understanding
  calculate the total number of the beast, because
  it is a human total number, and its the sum of
  the number is 666.

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• Zip code of Topeka, Ks - 66675
• Aliens
• Illinois pick 3 lottery the day after the
  election.

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The Mark of the Beast 666 (continued)

• Most plausible at the moment is a Microchip
  containing a GPS, medical records, personal
  history, finances.
• Bar Codes on products already have 666.

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Spirit of Antichrist

• 1 John 4 3But every spirit who does not
  acknowledge Jesus is not from God. This is the
  spirit of the antichrist. You have heard that he
  is coming, and now he is already in the world.

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• 1 John 2 18Little children, it is the last hour.
  Just as you heard that an antichrist is coming,
  so now many antichrists have appeared. This is
  how we know it is the last hour.

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The Antichrist

• How will we know him?
• Some say he will come from the European Common
  Market.
• Look for the Antichrist to come from one

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Antichrists treaty with Israel
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Daniel 926-27 (NIV)

• 26The end will come with a flood, and war and its
  miseries are decreed from that time to the very
  end. 27 The ruler will make a treaty with the
  people for a period of one set of seven, but
  after half this time, he will put an end to the
  sacrifices and offerings. And as a climax to all
  his terrible deeds, he will set up a sacrilegious
  object that causes desecration, until the fate
  decreed for this defiler is finally poured out on
  him.

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My Conclusions

• I am sure that He is coming again.
• I am not sure exactly when.
• I am sure things are going to get bad.
• I am not sure if some Christians will be a part
  of it.
• I am sure that I will be ultimately SAFE in HIM.

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Concerning the Views of Others

• In Essentials Unity
• In Non-Essentials Liberty
• In ALL things Charity