Date This Page Last Edited: Monday, February 25, 2008 Bible Study For Busy People :: Understand Prophecy and the Second Coming Overview Of End Time Events and how to live to tell about it. Click http://FinalEvents.com/ INTRODUCTION: In this lesson we will study what the Bible says will happen when and after Jesus comes back to this earth. I. Revelation 19:11-16 Second coming of Christ. A. Matthew 25:31-32 1. Millennium begins with the return of Christ to earth. 2. Word "millennium" comes from two Latin words: "mille" = 1,000 and "annus" = a year, thus 1,000 years. 3. Revelation mentions the 1,000-years period six times, in chapter 20: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 & 7 II. Events at the beginning of the millennium. A. The return of Christ -- Revelation 19:11 B. Righteous dead raised to life - 1 Thessalonians 4:16 C. Living saved taken to heaven -- 1 Thessalonians 4:17 D. The living wicked slain -- Revelation 19:11-16 E. Rest of dead (wicked) remain dead - Revelation 20: F. Earth is desolate -- Revelation 16:17-21; Revelation 6:14-17; Jeremiah 25:30-33; Jeremiah 4:23-27; Isaiah 24; Jeremiah 4 III. Events during millennium. A. All the saved are in heaven -- Revelation 20:4, 6 1. Revelation 3:21 2. John 14:1-3 B. All wicked remain dead -- Revelation 20:5 -- Jeremiah 25:33 C. Satan bound (alone without any man) -- Revelation 20:3; Jeremiah 4. IV. Events at close of millennium. A. Wicked raised to life -- John 5:28-29 -- Revelation 20:5 B. Holy City descends from heaven -- Revelation 21:2-3 C. Satan loosed out of prison -- Revelation 20:7 D. Wicked surround City -- Revelation 20:9 E. Fire devours all wicked -- Revelation 20:9-15 F. Earth cleansed and restored -- 2 Peter 3:10-13 -- Revelation 21:1,5 Closing Thoughts to Ponder: Whom will you meet at the Millennium? Jesus at the beginning or Satan at the end? Each of us will be alive someplace on the earth at the close of the millennium; either on the earth with the Satan OR inside the beautiful City with the saved and Christ. THE CHOICE IS OURS TO MAKE TODAY. Everyone has the same 24 hour day. One group ends up safe inside the city of God and the other outside. Fire devours all wicked outside of the city.-- Revelation 20:9-15 Your priorities make the difference in which side of that wall you will be on. Pastor Tom Hughes Life Records Summary Life Records Expanded May God help us all to make the right decisions, to get our priorities in order, and to not let anything keep us from our destiny in the New Jerusalem with Jesus our King! Expanded Prophecy Chart > Source: http://www.lightministries.com/id9.htm Conflicts in the Last Days... The Four Winds - Weather and Calamities Discover God's protection in these troubled times - the second coming and end of the world! http://www.egwtext.whiteestate.org/conflicts.html Popular Culture Can Not Explain God's Plan! Popular Culture, or Pop Culture, is the vernacular (people's) culture that prevails in any given society. Source: Wikipedia.org The content of popular culture is determined by the daily interactions, needs and desires, and cultural 'moments' that make up the everyday lives of the mainstream. It can include any number of practices, including those pertaining to cooking, clothing, mass media and the many facets of entertainment such as sports and literature. Source: WikiPedia.org May not reflect subsequent edits to articles. Warning and Assurance from Jesus Christ upon the Mount of Olives rehearsed the fearful judgments that were to precede His second coming: "Ye shall hear of wars and rumors of wars: . . . Nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. All these are the beginning of sorrows" [Matt. 24:6-8]. While these prophecies received a partial fulfillment at the destruction of Jerusalem, they have a more direct application in the last days.--Testimonies for the Church, vol. 5, p. 753 (1899). Angels are Holding the Winds. The prophet saw "four angels standing on the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that the wind should not blow on the earth, nor on the sea, nor on any tree." Another angel, ascending from the east, cried to them, saying, "Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads." This points out the work we now have to do, which is to cry to God for the angels to hold the four winds until missionaries shall be sent to all parts of the world, and shall have proclaimed the warning against disobeying the law of Jehovah.--Review and Herald Extra, Dec. 11, 1888. I asked my accompanying angel the meaning of what I heard, and what the four angels were about to do. He said to me that it was God that restrained the powers, and that He gave His angels charge over things on the earth; that the four angels had power from God to hold the four winds, and that they were about to let them go; but while their hands were loosening, and the four winds were about to blow, the merciful eye of Jesus gazed on the remnant that were not sealed, and He raised His hands to the Father and pleaded with Him that He had spilled His blood for them. Then another angel was commissioned to fly swiftly to the four angels and bid them hold, until the servants of God were sealed with the seal of the living God in their foreheads.--Early Writings, p. 38. My dear brethren and sisters, let the commandments of God and the testimony of Jesus Christ be in your minds continually and let them crowd out worldly thoughts and cares. When you lie down and when you rise up, let them be your meditation. Live and act wholly in reference to the coming of the Son of man. The sealing time is very short, and will soon be over. Now is the time, while the four angels are holding the four winds, to make our calling and election sure.--Early Writings, p. 58. Now, just now, we need to be preparing for the Lord's second coming.--Letter 308, 1907 (Last Day Events, p. 23). The nations are in unrest. Times of perplexity are upon us. Men's hearts are failing them for fear of the things that are coming upon the earth. But those who believe in God will hear His voice amid the storm, saying, "It is I; be not afraid."--Signs of the Times, Oct. 9, 1901. Terrible shocks will come upon the earth, and the lordly palaces erected at great expense will certainly become heaps of ruins.--Manuscript Releases, vol. 3, p. 312 (1891). When God's restraining hand is removed, the destroyer begins his work. Then in our cities the greatest calamities will come.--Manuscript Releases, vol. 3, p. 314 (1897). The end is near and every city is to be turned upside down every way. There will be confusion in every city. Everything that can be shaken is to be shaken and we do not know what will come next. The judgments will be according to the wickedness of the people and the light of truth that they have had.--Manuscript Releases, vol. 1, p. 248 (1902). O that God's people had a sense of the impending destruction of thousands of cities, now almost given to idolatry.--Evangelism, p. 29 (1903). The time is near when large cities will be swept away, and all should be warned of these coming judgments.--Evangelism, p. 29 (1910).Bible Locate Ellen White's Writings, Our High Calling, That I May Know Him, Desire of Ages http://egwdatabase.whiteestate.org/nxt/gateway.dll?f=templates$fn=default.htm$vid=defaultMore Ellen White... _________________________________________________________________________ What teachings of the false religious system are not supported in the Bible? 1) Limbo 2) Infant Baptism 3) Worship of Saints 4) Sale if Indulgences 5) Human Priests Forgive Sin ...In the Wednesday, December 12, 1984, Los Angeles Times: "Rebutting a belief widely shared by Protestants and a growing number of Roman Catholics, Pope John II, on Tuesday dismissed the 'widespread idea that one can obtain forgiveness directly from God.' and exhorted Catholics to confess more often to their priests." 6) Purgatory 7) Infallibility of the Pope 8) Worship Virgin Mary 9) Masses for the Dead 10 Sunday Worship Unveiling The Apocalypse, by John Osborn, Page 24, Prophecy Countdown, Inc., P.O. 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Samuele Bacchiocchi, Ph. D.,
Retired Professor of Theology and Church History,
Andrews University
What is the time for beginning and ending the Sabbath today? This is not merely an academic question for scholars to debate, but a practical one relevant to many Christians who believe in the validity and value of the principle of seventh-day Sabbath keeping for today. The problem of when to begin and to end the observance of the Sabbath is particularly acute in those parts of the world where it is difficult, if not impossible, to observe the Sabbath according to the sunset reckoning, because in these places the sun rises or sets very early or very late or not at all during certain periods of the year. http://biblelight.net/sunday.htm http://www.AmazingDiscoveries.org/Amazing Discoveries is a front-line evangelistic ministry that uses innovative methods to reach secular people for Christ! We are committed to giving the last message of warning to this world with special emphasis on Bible Prophecy, the music world, scientific findings, and the benefits of a healthy lifestyle. We seek, “To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and an inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in [Him].” (Acts 26:18)  Earth's Final Warning! Ecumenical Movement
List of Dignitaries - Countries - at Funeral of Pope John II Story Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php? title=List_of_dignitaries_at_the_funeral_of_Pope_John_Paul_II&oldid=33322863 White Priviledge Judge Alito Will Create Catholic Majority on USA Supreme CoNews Link: http://www.abcnews.go.com/Nightline/story?id=1536354&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312 Methodists Join Roman Catholics, Lutherans in Ecumenical Leap Catholic Teachings A History of Sabbath and Sunday Readiness for the Second Advent
John Paulien, Ph. D.,
Chairman, New Testament Department
Andrews University Theological Seminary When as Adventists we think about the End, we tend to do so more with the head than with the heart. We find it much easier to discuss current events in general than our own personal hopes and fears. We find it easier to expound on details of prophecy and history than to have a living relationship with God. We find it much easier to speculate on the nature and timing of the events of the End Time than to give people a practical path toward readiness for those events. Talk is cheap. Genuine life change is challenging.
What does it really mean to get ready for Jesus' return? How can I get ready in the midst of the rough and tumble busyness of the Information Age? These are questions that we will address briefly in this essay. But before we talk about how to get ready, let me explore some dead ends along the path to readiness. In my experience with Adventist audiences on six continents, I have learned that there are four unhealthy ways that Adventists approach the issue of getting ready for Jesus' return. ***** Endtime Issues Newsletters http://www.biblicalperspectives.com/endtimeissues/ by Dr. Samuele Bacchiocchi Have you ever wished that you could keep abreast with those significant developments in the religious world that have prophetic significance for our Christian life today? If you do, you will be pleased to read these Endtime Issues Newsletters that examine significant current issues from a Biblical perspective. If you would like to have each issue E-mailed to you when it is published, please send E-mail to sbacchiocchi@biblicalperspectives.com and request that you be put on the Endtime Issues Newsletter mailing list. The newsletters are offered in two formats. SundayLaw.net Sunday Law...Worldwide 
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Prove All Things Think differently! Matthew 3:2 In-depth Bible Study :: (SSNET) Sabbath School & Bible Study Center Quick Links/Quick Insights Three Days and Three Nights by Joe Crews & Richard Anthony Fox's Book of Martyrs by John Foxe 1516-1587 History of Persecutions of Christian Martyrs Introduction: Early Martyrs Including Original 12 Apostles Steps to Christ First published 1893 The Bible in a Nutshell 23 Short Text Articles (e.g. - Lesson 21 God's True Church Identified) THE LAW OF GOD
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as changed by man | 1.
I am the Lord thy God, Thou shall have no other gods before Me. | 1.
I am the Lord thy God, Thou shall have no other gods before Me. | 2.
Thou shall not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: Thou shall not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me, and shows mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments. | 2.
Thou shall not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain. | 3.
Thou shall not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain; for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that takes his name in vain. | 3.
Remember that you keep holy the Sabbath day. | 4.
Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shall thou labor and do all thy work: but the Seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shall not do any work, thou nor thy daughter thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: for in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day. Wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day, and hallowed it. | 4.
Honor thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God has gives you. | 5.
Honor thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God gives you. | 5.
Thou shall not kill. | 6.
Thou shall not kill. | 6.
Thou shall not commit adultery. | 7.
Thou shall not commit adultery. | 7.
Thou shall not steal. | 8.
Thou shall not steal. | 8.
Thou shall not bear false witness against thy neighbor. | 9.
Thou shall not bear false witness against thy neighbor. | 9.
Thou shall not covet thy neighbor's wife. | 10.
Thou shall not covet thy neighbor's house, thou shall not covet thy neighbor's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is thy neighbor's. | 10.
Thou shall not covet thy neighbor's goods. |
Source: http://dedication.www3.50megs.com/sundaylaw.html The Final Shaking - a Prediction We are in the shaking time, the time when everything that can be shaken will be shaken. The Lord will not excuse those who know the truth if they do not in word and deed obey His commands. If we make no effort to win souls to Christ we shall be held responsible for the work we might have done, but did not do because of our spiritual indolence. Those who belong to the Lord's kingdom must work earnestly for the saving of souls. They must do their part to bind up the law and seal it among the disciples. (Testimonies for the Church Volume Six, page 331, paragraph 2) Ellen White. < Look-up > http://egwdatabase.whiteestate.org/nxt/gateway.dll?f=templates$fn=default.htm$vid=default [Top of Document] One of Ellen White’s unfulfilled predictions relates to future events. Key words that describe the forces that will focus on Seventh-day Adventists are “sifting” and “shaking.” Human beings have been sifted by trials and temptations ever since the Garden of Eden, but Ellen White foresaw a time prior to the close of probation when special circumstances will test and sift every Adventist. The special sifting is often called the “shaking” time. Sometimes she uses the term “shaking” to refer to the process19 by which all church members will be tested; at other times she refers to the profound shaking that will prevail during the Seven Last Plagues.20 Some of the causes of the final shaking within the Adventist Church will be: · Persecution from outside the church.21 · Erroneous doctrines within the church.22 · Prevailing worldliness caused by not having experienced “the love of the truth,” or being “sanctified through obedience to the truth.”23 · Resistance to the “straight testimony called forth by the counsel of the True Witness to the Laodiceans.”24 · Specific rejection of the sanctuary doctrine involving the significance of the pre-advent judgment and the relationship between the cleansed sanctuary and cleansed people.25 · Rejection of the ministry of Ellen White.26 The impact of the shaking on Seventh-day Adventists will be enormous: · Defections among church leaders.27 · Apostasies of ministers who have preached false doctrine.28 · The church will seem about to fall.29 · An impressive number of church members will leave.30 · New converts will take the place of the defectors.31 · Preparation for the crisis involves developing habits of enthusiasm, courage, and loyalty.32 Source/Story: http://www.WhiteEstate.org/books/mol/Chapt47.html
________________________________________________________________ Sabbath Texts to Ponder Pastor Tom Hughes Rev. 14:6, 7 God's final message to mankind is a call to worship the Creator. The language reflects the fourth commandment. Worship is the issue, not legalism. Rev. 4:11 The basis of all worship is the fact that God created us. His Sabbath reflects his creative power and authority over those he made. Eph. 3:9 Since Jesus was the active agent in creation. Revelation's final call to worship the Creator is a call to give honor to Jesus. John 1: 1-3 states he made everything including the Sabbath. Ex. 20:8-11 We worship Him as the Creator by keeping His Sabbath. For in six days he made. Gen. 2:1-3 The Sabbath was set apart at creation. God rested upon the seventh day, blessed the seventh day and hallowed it. Men cannot unbless what God has blessed. Heb. 4: 4-10 God rested the Seventh-day. There remains a Keeping of the Sabbath for the people of God. We are to ender into it by ceasing from our works As God did from His. How did God? By resting on the Seventh day Sabbath, a symbol of our resting in Christ's works and not in our own works. The Sabbath is a symbol of Grace and Salvation. Mk. 2:27, 28 The Sabbath was given to the human race 2300 years before the existence of the Jews as a memorial for all mankind. Jesus said the Sabbath was made for Anthropos the word we get anthropology from, denoting all of mankind. Ezek. 20:12, 20 The Sabbath was established for all mankind as a sign between God and His people. Lk. 4:16 Jesus was a faithful Sabbath keeper. As HIS CUSTOM was he kept the Sabbath. Matt. 24:20 Jesus predicted the Sabbath would be kept in 70 A.D. at the destruction of Jerusalem over 35 years after His death. Never mentioned any diminishing or changing of the day. Acts 13:42-44; 18: 4, 11 Paul both kept the Sabbath himself and met to worship God with the whole city, Jews and Gentiles alike. Paul kept 78 Sabbaths in a row at Corinth. Acts 16:13 In Philippi, Paul met privately with a group of believers in a country setting, since there was no established Christian church. They had a prayer meeting. Rev. 1:10 The Lord still has a special day at the end of the first century. Rev. 1:10 does not clearly reveal which day is the Lord's Day, but Matt. 12:8, Mk. 2:27, 28; Isaiah 58: 13, 14 and Lk. 6:5 do. Matt. 12:8 The Son of Man is Lord also of the Sabbath. If the Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath, the Sabbath must be the Lord's Day. These books were written around 30 years after Christ ascended, and yet still consider the Sabbath a sacred day, without mentioning any Countermanding order. Lk.23:54-56; 24:1 This passage lists three days in succession. The day Christ diedthe preparation Friday. The day Jesus rested in the tomb SabbathSaturday. The day Jesus resurrected the first day Sunday. The Sabbath is clearly Saturday, the seventh day of the week. The Women Rested the Sabbath according to the commandment. Luke made it a point of mentioning which day they kept. If the day had been diminished in any way, he would have told us. Heb. 13:8 Jesus is the same yesterday, today and forever. Isa. 66:22, 23 In the new heavens and new earth we shall keep Sabbath each week. God assures us we will meet on the Sabbath and worship him, and everyone knows which day the true Bible Sabbath was when Isaiah wrote this text. It was kept by the Old Testament prophets, Jesus and the apostles, and will be kept in the new earth. Men have always kept it in the New Testament era as well. There is an unbroken golden thread of men who honor God's Commandments throughout recorded history. Here are they that keep the Commandments of God, and have the Faith of Jesus. Amen Commonly Asked Questions Regarding the Bible Sabbath Since Paul declares "Let no one judge you regarding the Bible Sabbath, " Isn't Sabbath-keeping unnecessary (Col. 2:16, 17)? This passage, Col. 2:16, 17 is one of the most misunderstood passages in the Bible. One principle of Bible interpretation is that you do not allow what may be somewhat unclear to keep you from doing what you understand. The Bible is plain on the Sabbath. It was given at creation (Gen. 2:1-3). Jesus observed it (Lk. 4:16). Paul observed it (Acts 13:42-44), and it will be observed in heaven (Isa. 66:22, 23). The Bible mentions two kinds of sabbaths. The seventh-day Sabbath and the yearly sabbaths. The seventh-day Sabbath, instituted at creation and part of the Ten Commandment law, is a weekly reminder of the loving, all-powerful Creator. The yearly Sabbath relates specifically to the history of Israel. Col. 2:16,17 specifically states "Let no one judge you regarding sabbath days which are a shadow of things to come." The seventh-day Sabbath is a memorial of creation not a shadow of something to come. Heb. 10:1 connects the law of shadows with animal sacrifice. Ezek. 45:17 uses the exact same expressions in the exact same order as Col. 2:16,17 and connects it all with the ceremonial systems of feasts and sacrifices (meat offerings, drink offerings, feasts, new moons, and sabbaths to make reconciliation for the house of Israel. Lev. 23:3 discusses the Seventh-day Sabbath. Lev. 23:5-32 discusses the ceremonial sabbaths (passover, verse 5; unleavened bread, verse 6; wave sheaf, verse 10; first fruits, verse 17; trumpets, verse 24; Day of atonement, verses 27-32; tabernacles, verses 34-36). Both the feast of trumpets (verse 24), and the Day of Atonement (verse 32) are specifically called sabbaths. These annual sabbaths were intimately connected to events foreshadowing Christ's death and His Second Coming. They were designed by God to be shadows or pointers to the coming Messiah. Lev. 23:37 uses the language of Col. 2:16,17 to describe these ceremonial sabbaths. Lev. 23:38 distinguishes the ceremonial sabbaths from the seventh-day Sabbaths by using the expression "Beside the sabbaths of the Lord." Since Christ has come, the shadowy sabbaths of the ceremonial law have found their fulfillment in Him. The seventh-day Sabbath continues to lead us back to the Creator God who made us. God's people will keep it as a distinguishing sign of their relationship to Him (Rev. 14:12, Ezek. 20:12,20). What about Rom. 14:5? "One man esteems one day above another; another esteems every day alike. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind." Really, what difference does a day make? Sometimes it's helpful to carefully notice what a Bible text does not say as well as what it does say. Verses 5 and 6 say nothing about either worship or the Sabbath. They simply talk about regarding a day. To say this particular day is the Sabbath is an unwarranted assumption. Rom. 14:1 sets the tone for the entire passage indicating that the discussion focuses on "doubtful disputations" or disputes on doubtful matters. Is the seventh-day Sabbath set apart by God at creation (Gen. 2:1-3) placed within the heart of the moral law (Ex. 20:8-11) a doubtful matter? Certainly not! There is no indication anywhere in scripture that the weekly Sabbath was ever questioned by Jesus or the Apostles. Had they done so, the controversy it generated would have been instant and hotly contested. The key to our passage is found in verse 6 which states, "He that regards the day regards it unto the Lord, and he that regardeth not the day regards it not to the Lord. He that eateth, eateth to the Lord for He giveth God thanks, and he that eateth not to the Lord, he eateth not for he giveth God thanks." The issue revolved around fast days not Sabbath days. Some Jewish Christians believed there was particular merit in fasting on certain days. They judged others by their own standards. The Pharisees fasted at least twice a week and boasted about it (Lk. 18:12). In Rom. 14, Paul is pointing out that to fast or not to fast on a certain day is a matter of individual conscience, not a matter of God's command. Didn't the disciples meet on the first day of the week? Acts 20:7 The reason this meeting is mentioned in the narrative is because Paul was leaving the next day and worked a mighty miracle in raising Eutychus from the dead. It is clear that the meeting is a night meeting. It is the dark part of the first day of the week (Acts 20:7). In Bible times, the dark part of the day preceded the |
