Future Events - The Approach of the Final Week

 

The Approach of the Final Week

The Signs of His Coming

• Jesus revealed a number of signs - (Mat 24:3-8, Mat 24:36-51, Mar 13:4, Luk 21:7)
  

• Latter day conditions - (Rom 1:29-31, 1 Ti 4:1-3, 2 Ti 3:1-7, 1 Th 5:1-3, 2 Th 2:1-12, Jas 5:1-8, 2 Pet 3:1-10)
  

• Primary signs - I.E. The beast will require everyone to take a mark, without which they can't buy or sell.
  

• Inferential signs - I.E. The mechanism to control buying and selling exists in the world today through technology.
  
  

World Conditions as Signs of the Latter Days

1. Israel re-birthed – The scattering - (Deu 28:64) The gathering:

   • OT Passages - (Deu 30:3-4, Isa 2:2-5, Isa 11:11-16, Isa 66:8, Eze 20:1-34-38, Eze 36:8, Eze 36:24, Eze 37:11-12, Eze 38:8) See also (Jer 16:14-16, Jer 30:1-22, Isa 43:5-7)
     

   • NT Passages - (Luk 21:24, Dan 2:24-45, Rom 11:25-27) Partially fulfilled May 14, 1948, yet to come, belief in Christ.
     

2. The revival of pure Hebrew as a spoken language of Israel - (Zep 3:8-9) (Fulfilled in Millennium or Eternal State) (See Isa 19:18, Zec 8:23)
   

• Revival of the Hebrew Language - http://www.pij.org/details.php?id=226

3. Perilous times, society wide – (2 Ti 3:1-7)
   

4. Possible Psalm 83 War – (Psa 83:4)
   

5. The rise of Gog and Magog - (Eze 38:2-3, Eze 39:1)
   

6. Communist Russian View - Rosh = Russia, Meshech = Moscow, Tubal = Tobolski. Israel's rebirth and the rise of Russia both required to fulfill Eze 38:1-23 and Eze 39:29, Gog and Magog.
   

• Islamic Antichrist View - Asia Minor (Turkey)
  

• The rise of Communist China - The Kings of the East - (Rev 16:12, Rev 9:16)
  

3. Progress in transportation and science – (Dan 12:4)
   

4. Activity Leading up to the Day of the Lord
   

• Syria - (Isa 17:1, Jer 49:24-26, Amo 1:3-5)

The Rapture (First Resurrection)

The conclusion of the Church Age between (Dan 9:26 and just prior to Dan 9:27)

Definition

Rapturo (Latin), translated from the Greek Harpazo, meaning "to seize: - catch (away, up), pluck, pull, take (by force)"

Passages Speaking of Christ Coming for His Church

• Primary passage (1 Th 4:13-18, Eph 1:9-10 Also see (2 Th 2:4) Rebellion or falling away could be depart spacially.
  

• NT - (Joh 14:1-3, Tit 2:13, Php 3:20, 1Co 1:7, 1 Co 15:51-53)
  

• See also the "Gathering Together" - (2 Th 2:1, Eph 1:10) From "Feast of Tabernacles" - (Exo 34:22)
  
  

Inaugural Sounds

• 1 Th 4:16 - "a shout of command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet of God"
  

• Christ's Shout - Perhaps akin to Saul on the Damascus Road (Act_9:27, Act_22:9) See also (Joh 12:1-28-30, Rev 4:1, Joh 5:28-29)
  

• The Archangel's Voice - (Jud 1:9)

   
• The Trumpet of God - (Num 10:2) Not to be confused with the Trumpet of Angels (Rev 8:7-12, Rev 9:1, Rev 9:13, Rev 10:7, Rev 11:15)

  
  

To the Clouds

• Rain clouds, but perhaps the Lord's Glory - (Exo 14:19-24, Exo 16:10, Exo 19:9, Exo 19:16, Exo 20:21, Exo 40:34-38)
  
  

Participants

• Those who are "in Christ" - (1 Th 4:16) Placed there: (1 Co 12:13, Gal 3:28) By the Spirit: (Act 2:1-4)
  

• The Dead in Christ first, (1 Co 15:51-53) (Saints Pentecost to Rapture from Paradise) Those who are alive second - (1 Th 4:15)
  

• This is for the church, the Bride - Consider (Eph 5:25-32, 2 Co 11:2, Rev 19:7-9)
  

• The Philadelphia church? (Rev 3:10), compare with (1 Co 15:51-52).
  

• All believers in the church age will be united.
  
  

Incorruptible Resurrection Bodies

• (1 Co 15:51-53) See also (Rom 8:23, Rom 6:6)
  
  

Timing - Pre-Tribulation View

• Israel and the Church being dealt with separately
  

• Spiritual blindness of Israel till "Fullness of Gentiles" (Rom 11:25)

   
• Holy Spirit given to the Gentiles upon Jewish rejection (Act 13:46-50, Act 2:1-4)
  
  
• The Church is "One New Man" out of Jew and Gentile (Eph 2:11-22, Gal 3:28) Yet, in the tribulation, there IS a distinction (Rev 7:1-17, Jer 30:7) (Jacob's trouble) See also (Gen 35:10)

• Purpose of Tribulation
  

• Israel is the focus (Jer 30:7) See also (Deu 4:30, Dan 12:1, Eze 20:37, Zec 13:8-9, Mat 24:15-20)
  
  

• The Church Excluded from Wrath
  

• Divine Wrath - (1 Th 5:9-10, 1 Th 1:9-10, Rev 3:10) See also (Joh 5:24, Rom 5:9-10, Col 1:13)
  

• A terrible day - (Mat 24:21, Jer 30:7, Dan 12:1, Joel 2:2) See also (Zep 1:14-15, Isa 2:12 - Rev 6:12-17, Isa 13:9, Zec 14:1)
  

• Executed by Jesus -(Joh 5:22, Joh 5:27, Rev 6:1)
  

• Those previously raptured and the angels will accompany Him during the second coming - (Mat 24:31, Rev 17:14)
  

• As differentiated from difficulty and persecution (Joh 15:18-20, 1 Th 3:3, 2 Ti 3:12, 1 Pe 4:12-16)
  
  

• When Church is Raptured, Jesus Moves from Intercession to Judgment
  

• Jesus moves from sitting in intercession (Rom 8:27, Rom 8:34, Heb 7:25)
  

• To standing in judgment (Rev 5:6-7)
  
  

• Events Between Rapture and 2nd Coming
  

• The Judgment Seat (Bema Judgment) - (1 Pe 5:4, Rev 22:12) See also (Rom 14:10, 1 Co 3:11 to 1 Co 4:5, 2 Co 5:10)
  

• The Marriage of the Lamb - (Rev 19:7-9, Eph 5:27, Joh 14:3, 1 Th 4:17)
  

• Salvation of people who will populate the Millennium - Rapture removes all believers. At the 2nd coming, large numbers are again present on earth. These will not have glorified bodies - (Isa 65:20-25)