The Second Coming

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The Second Coming

• Learning to Serve

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Eschatology

• the study of the end of history from a religious
  perspective
• The branch of theology that is concerned with
  the end of the world or of humankind.
• A belief or a doctrine concerning the ultimate
  or final things, such as death, the destiny of
  humanity, the Second Coming, or the Last
  Judgment.

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The Beast

• Is Emperor Nero
• The Pope
• An immense computer in Europe containing all our
  details
• Saddam Hussein
• Barcodes

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In 2s or 3s

• Write down as many words associated with the 2nd
  Coming as you can think of.

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Is there anything Christians agree on?

• The Certainty of Christs return
• Christs own witness
• The Angels witness
• The Apostles witness
• The witness of NT Church
• The NT as a whole

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Is there anything Christians agree on?

• 2. The significance of Jesus return
• a) Significance to Jesus himself
• b) Significance to Christs holy ones
• c) Significance as it relates to the wicked
• d) Significance to creation

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Is there anything Christians agree on?

• 3. Conclusion
• a) There are great certainties about which there
  is little or no debate amongst believers.
• b) These certainties should excite us as history
  is brought to its glorious conclusion under God

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Definitions

• Second Coming
• Heb. 928, "So Christ, having been offered once
  to bear the sins of many, will appear a second
  time, not to deal with sin but to save those who
  are eagerly waiting for him."
• A general reference to the final coming of Christ
  from heaven to earth to establish his glorious
  kingdom.

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Definitions

• Rapture
• This word is not in the Bible. But it refers to
  the snatching away of believers from the earth
  mentioned in 1 Thess. 417,
• Then we who are alive, who are left, shall be
  caught up together with them in the clouds to
  meet the Lord in the air and so we shall always
  be with the Lord.

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• Tribulation
• A general word referring to the hardships and
  sufferings that God's people will always have to
  pass through
• Through many tribulations we must enter the
  kingdom of God. (Acts 1422)
• Let no one be moved by these afflictions. You
  yourselves know that this is to be our lot. (1
  Thess. 33 -4 cf. 2 Thess. 14)

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Definitions

• Seven Years
• That the tribulation will last seven years is not
  a New Testament teaching. It comes from Daniel
  924-27 where Daniel predicts "seventy weeks of
  years" for the accomplishment of God's redemption.

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Definitions

• Millennium
• The period of time mentioned in Revelation 204
  during which the saints "reign with Christ a
  thousand years." During this time Satan is bound
  and thrown into a pit "that he should not deceive
  the nations till the thousand years are ended"
  (Rev. 203).

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Three views of the Millennium

• Pre-millennialism
• A-millennialism
• Post-millennialism

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Pre- millennialism

• Jesus will return before the 1000 years
• Satan deprived of power
• Christians raised to rule on earth with Jesus
• Satan re-emerges to destroy saints at end
• Resurrection of rest of dead
• Judgement
• Destruction of wicked
• New heaven and earth

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Pre-millennialism
SECOND ADVENT
ASCENSION
NEW HEAVEN AND EARTH
THIS AGE
MILLENNIUM
FIRST ADVENT
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A-millennialism

• The 1000 years represents this age in which we
  live now
• The Second Coming will usher in the final state
  of new heaven and earth
• Understands Revelation as symbolic language not
  literal truth
• Binding of Satan and first resurrection are
  metaphors of time between first and second coming
  of Jesus i.e. we are in it now.

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A-millennialism
SECOND ADVENT
ASCENSION
NEW HEAVEN AND EARTH
MILLENNIUM
THIS AGE
FIRST ADVENT
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Post-millennialism

• Millennium is ushered in by success of gospel.
• Conversions bring golden age to church
• After a period of peace and righteousness there
  is an outbreak of evil.
• Christ comes in person to win the victory.
• The period of improvement speaks to many of
  social justice.

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Post-millennialism
SECOND ADVENT
ASCENSION
NEW HEAVEN AND EARTH
MILLENNIUM
THIS AGE
FIRST ADVENT
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Pan-millennialism

• A theory by a great friend of mine

• It will all pan out in the end!