ENDTIME PROPHECIES OF THE CHURCH

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ENDTIME PROPHECIES OF THE CHURCH

• But you, brethren, are not in darkness, so that
  this day should over take you as a thief 1st
  Thessalonians 54

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Church As A Human Organization

• Human organization or visible church
• Can be a simple or complex organization
• Mix of true believers in Christ and those who
  have never been born again.
• Referred to more than 100 times in New Testament

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Church As A Spiritual Entity

• Composed of only true believers in Christ
• Composed of those born into Gods family
• Have been baptized (or placed) into the spiritual
  body of Christ by Holy Spirit

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Defining End Time

• A phrase that refers to the closing events
• of the church, Israel, and unsaved Gentile world.
• the end, the end of the age, end times
• the time of the end, the latter days, the
  last times, the latter years.

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Lo, I Am With You Always, Even To The End Of The
Age.

• In Matthew 2819, 20
• Jesus made this promise to the those who became
  the first church, the 120 disciples
• To the end, churches will be winning souls,
  baptizing and teaching His commands.

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Good and Evil Will Be Present

• Jesus gave seven parables about the kingdom of
  heaven. Matthew 1311
• Good Things Good seed, Good soil, Good fish to
  be kept
• Bad Things The evil one. The enemy, the devil,
  the tares (weeds), leaven, bad fish.
• Angels will separate the bad from the good.

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The Church Age

• The first three chapters of Revelation reveals
  seven churches in Asia
• These represent the organized (or visible) church
• Each has a message for us today

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The Seven Churches

• The church at Ephesus. Means desired.
• The betrothed bride of Christ that left its first
  love by end of apostolic period.
• The church at Smyrna. Means Myrrh, a sweet
  fragrance. Suffered great persecution from
  Domitian to Constantine

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• The church at Pergamos. Means objectionable
  marriage. The church was married to pagan
  idolatry under Constantine.
• The church of Thyatira. Means continual
  sacrifice. Worshipped idols of the formerly
  pagan temples, not the once-for-all sacrifice
  of Christ.

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• The church of Sardis. Means remnant or the
  church that started anew in the 14th and 15th
  centuries.
• The church of Philadelphia. Brotherly love or
  the one before whom Jesus set an open door.
  From this came the greatest revivals and
  missionary outreaches in the history of the church

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The Final Church of the Age

• The church of Laodicea. Means peoples rights
  organized to accomplish what members want,
  rather than seeking mind of Christ.
• It is neither hot nor cold and Jesus spews it out
  of His mouth.

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Church No Longer On Earth

• John saw a door standing open in heaven and a
  voice saying, Come up here
• The church is not mentioned again until Jesus
  returns with His bride-the church.
• Revelation 19

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Church Departs From Faith

• 1st Timothy 41
• Now the Spirit expressly says that in latter
  times some will depart from the faith
• 2nd Peter 21,2
• There will be false teachers among youdenying
  the Lord Who bought them

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Effect of the Church

1. The truly saved within the organized church keep
   the church from a total departure from the faith.
2. The Anti-Christ cannot be produced until the Holy
   Spirit (working through the truly saved) is taken
   out of the way.

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Jesus Comes for True Believers

• 1st Thessalonians 415-17
• For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven..
  .and thus we shall always be with the Lord.
• Paul tells us in 1st Corinthians 1551, 52 in
  the twinkling of an eye.
• Christians, living or dead, become immortal and
  incorruptible.
• Every Christian will receive their crown

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