2 Peter 3:8-9

1. FUTURIST: MOST OF THE EVENTS ARE YET TO HAPPEN, SEQUENTIAL: REVELATION WAS GIVEN IN HISTORICAL TIME ORDER PREMILLENNIAL: THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST HAPPENS BEFORE THE LITERAL MILLENIUM BEGINS PRETRIBULATIONAL: THE RAPTURE OCCURS PRIOR TO THE GREAT TRIBULATION DISPENSATIONAL: GOD USES DIFFERENT GROUPS AND PEOPLE TO REPRESENT AND REVEAL HIMSELF TO MANKIND AT DIFFERENT TIMES SERIOUSLY: WHAT GOD SAYS, HE MEANS, WHAT HE PROMISED, HE WILL DO Petra Bosrah Ammon Edom Moab Modern Jordan PS 27:5 CHURCH IN HEAVEN WITH CHRIST JESUS ZEPH 2:2-3 JUDGEMENT SEAT OF CHRIST - REWARDS MARRIAGE OF THE LAMB Virgin Bride without spot or wrinkle ISA 26.20 1 COR 15.22-28 ZECH 13.6 Wounds in the house of my friends… GREAT WHITE THRONE JUDGEMENT 1 COR 15.51-53 Sheep / Goat Judgment Judgment of the Nations 1 THES 4:15-18 ZECH 12:10 MATT 23.39 Go away until Israel acknowledges their sin / their guilt and seek me / call on me ISA 63 Returns to Bozrah to make war FINAL REBELLION 2ND COMING OF CHRIST EZEKIEL’s 430 YEARS EZEK 4.1-8 LEV 26.18, 21, 24, 28 Zeph 3 ZECH 11.17 Worthless shepherd Right Eye and Arm wounded ZECH 13.1-14.21 REV 19.3 May 14, 1948 June 7, 1967 30th Day – Man of Sin’s Work and Evil put down ??? J- Judgment of the Nations complete ??? ASCENSION MARTYRS FROM THE TRIBULATION PERIOD ZECH 13.8-9 2/3 Israel Purged 1/3 tried as by Fire CROSS 45th Day – Marriage Supper Of the Lamb Servitude of the Nation 606 BC – 1st siege of Nebuchadnezzar Desolations of Jerusalem 597 BC – 3rd siege of Nebucahdnezzar ISRAEL A NATION AGAIN IJERUSALEM RETAKEN RESURRECTION RAPTURE ELIJAH / MOSES 2 Witnesses / 144,000 Sealed PENTECOST A NEW HEAVEN AND NEW EARTH ETERNITY FUTURE 2 Peter 3:8-9 Ezek 20.33-38 ISRAEL: Purged / Pass under the rod / Try as by fire Dan 12:12 ETERNITY PAST Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4 Day 5 Day 6 Day 7 – (Sabbath) 3.5 years, 42 months, 1260 days 3.5 years, 42 months, 1260 days AMOS 9.7-15 Purged Israel from Edom ISA 61.1 LU 4.16-21 GEN 3.15 REV 20.13-15 Mat 24:24 1 Tim 4 2 Tim 2; 3 2 Co 11:13 2 Ptr 2 MILLENIUM (1,000 YEARS) Jesus rules on David’s Throne AGE OF CONSCIENCE ISRAEL - UNDER LAW CHURCH - UNDER GRACE THE GREAT TRIBULATION BEGINNING OF SORROWS B.C. 0 A.D. TIME OF JACOB’S TROUBLE THE WRATH OF GOD HOSEA 6.2 Back for 1 day ISA 61.2-3 4000 B.C. 1000 A.D. 2000 B.C. EZEKIEL 36-38 MATTHEW 24-25 MARK 13 LUKE 21 144,000 SEALED ??? 2000 A.D. TWO WITNESSESS REBELLION AGAINST MAN OF SIN REBELS UNITE AGAINST GOD 200,000,000 MAN ARMY GATHERS TJL_Eschatology_Timeline_8.5x11.ppt SATAN LOOSED FOR A SHORT TIME WAR - GOG/MAGOG EZ 38-39 ABOMINATION THAT CAUSES DESOLATION MAN OF SIN (ANTI-CHRIST) & FALSE PROPHET CAST INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE WAR – INNER RING VICTORY PS83 MAN OF SIN COMES TO POWER Hos 6:1 Gone for two days… As man reckons time on earth ARMAGEDDON • Take God’s Word literally where the literal sense makes sense • - but also recognize the literal may also be symbolic… • What is clearly symbolic – take seriously but search out the symbolism • If God uses a symbol, He explains it in His Word – let the Bible interpret the Bible SATAN BOUND FOR 1,000 YEARS 2 THES 2 Satan and those NOT found in the BOOK OF LIFE are cast into the Lake of Fire for eternity

2. FUTURIST: MOST OF THE EVENTS ARE YET TO HAPPEN, SEQUENTIAL: REVELATION WAS GIVEN IN HISTORICAL TIME ORDER PREMILLENNIAL: THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST HAPPENS BEFORE THE LITERAL MILLENIUM BEGINS PRETRIBULATIONAL: THE RAPTURE OCCURS PRIOR TO THE GREAT TRIBULATION DISPENSATIONAL: GOD USES DIFFERENT GROUPS AND PEOPLE TO REPRESENT AND REVEAL HIMSELF TO MANKIND AT DIFFERENT TIMES SERIOUSLY: WHAT GOD SAYS, HE MEANS, WHAT HE PROMISED, HE WILL DO Petra Bosrah Ammon Edom Moab Modern Jordan PS 27:5 CHURCH IN HEAVEN WITH CHRIST JESUS ZEPH 2:2-3 JUDGEMENT SEAT OF CHRIST - REWARDS MARRIAGE OF THE LAMB Virgin Bride without spot or wrinkle ISA 26.20 1 COR 15.22-28 ZECH 13.6 Wounds in the house of my friends… GREAT WHITE THRONE JUDGEMENT 1 COR 15.51-53 Sheep / Goat Judgment Judgment of the Nations 1 THES 4:15-18 ZECH 12:10 MATT 23.39 Go away until Israel acknowledges their sin / their guilt and seek me / call on me ISA 63 Returns to Bozrah to make war FINAL REBELLION 2ND COMING OF CHRIST EZEKIEL’s 430 YEARS EZEK 4.1-8 LEV 26.18, 21, 24, 28 Zeph 3 ZECH 11.17 Worthless shepherd Right Eye and Arm wounded ZECH 13.1-14.21 REV 19.3 May 14, 1948 June 7, 1967 30th Day – Man of Sin’s Work and Evil put down ??? J- Judgment of the Nations complete ??? ASCENSION MARTYRS FROM THE TRIBULATION PERIOD ZECH 13.8-9 2/3 Israel Purged 1/3 tried as by Fire CROSS 45th Day – Marriage Supper Of the Lamb Servitude of the Nation 606 BC – 1st siege of Nebuchadnezzar Desolations of Jerusalem 597 BC – 3rd siege of Nebucahdnezzar ISRAEL A NATION AGAIN IJERUSALEM RETAKEN RESURRECTION RAPTURE ELIJAH / MOSES 2 Witnesses / 144,000 Sealed PENTECOST A NEW HEAVEN AND NEW EARTH ETERNITY FUTURE 2 Peter 3:8-9 Ezek 20.33-38 ISRAEL: Purged / Pass under the rod / Try as by fire Dan 12:12 ETERNITY PAST Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4 Day 5 Day 6 Day 7 – (Sabbath) 3.5 years, 42 months, 1260 days 3.5 years, 42 months, 1260 days AMOS 9.7-15 Purged Israel from Edom ISA 61.1 LU 4.16-21 GEN 3.15 REV 20.13-15 Mat 24:24 1 Tim 4 2 Tim 2; 3 2 Co 11:13 2 Ptr 2 MILLENIUM (1,000 YEARS) Jesus rules on David’s Throne AGE OF CONSCIENCE ISRAEL - UNDER LAW CHURCH - UNDER GRACE THE GREAT TRIBULATION BEGINNING OF SORROWS B.C. 0 A.D. TIME OF JACOB’S TROUBLE THE WRATH OF GOD HOSEA 6.2 Back for 1 day ISA 61.2-3 4000 B.C. 1000 A.D. 2000 B.C. EZEKIEL 36-38 MATTHEW 24-25 MARK 13 LUKE 21 144,000 SEALED ??? 2000 A.D. TWO WITNESSESS REBELLION AGAINST MAN OF SIN REBELS UNITE AGAINST GOD 200,000,000 MAN ARMY GATHERS TJL_Eschatology_Timeline_8.5x11.ppt SATAN LOOSED FOR A SHORT TIME WAR - GOG/MAGOG EZ 38-39 ABOMINATION THAT CAUSES DESOLATION MAN OF SIN (ANTI-CHRIST) & FALSE PROPHET CAST INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE WAR – INNER RING VICTORY PS83 MAN OF SIN COMES TO POWER Hos 6:1 Gone for two days… As man reckons time on earth ARMAGEDDON • Take God’s Word literally where the literal sense makes sense • - but also recognize the literal may also be symbolic… • What is clearly symbolic – take seriously but search out the symbolism • If God uses a symbol, He explains it in His Word – let the Bible interpret the Bible SATAN BOUND FOR 1,000 YEARS 2 THES 2 Satan and those NOT found in the BOOK OF LIFE are cast into the Lake of Fire for eternity

3. FUTURIST:MOST OF THE EVENTS ARE YET TO HAPPEN, • SEQUENTIAL:REVELATION WAS GIVEN IN HISTORICAL TIME ORDER • PREMILLENNIAL: THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST HAPPENS BEFORE THE LITERAL MILLENIUM BEGINS • PRETRIBULATIONAL:THE RAPTURE OCCURS PRIOR TO THE GREAT TRIBULATION • DISPENSATIONAL:GOD USES DIFFERENT GROUPS AND PEOPLE TO REPRESENT AND REVEAL HIMSELF TO MANKIND AT DIFFERENT TIMES • SERIOUSLY:WHAT GOD SAYS, HE MEANS, WHAT HE PROMISED, HE WILL DO • Take God’s Word literally where the literal sense makes sense - but also recognize the literal may also be symbolic… • What is clearly symbolic – take seriously but search out the symbolism • If God uses a symbol, He explains it in His Word – let the Bible interpret the Bible • Isa 28:13 (Isa 28:10) • But the word of the LORD was unto them • precept upon precept, precept upon precept; • line upon line, line upon line; • here a little, and there a little; • that they might go, and fall backward, and • be broken, and snared, and taken. KJV • Hos 12:10 I have also spoken by the prophets, • and I have multiplied visions, • and used similitudes, • by the ministry of the prophets. KJV • CHURCH UNDER GRACE = 30 AD - ????? • EPHESUS - DUTY W/O LOVE = (33 AD TO 100 AD) • SMYRNA - POOR, PERSECUTED BUT RICH = (100 AD TO 300 AD) = NO CRITICISM • PERGAMOS - COMPROMISE WITH THE WORLD = (300 AD TO 600 AD) • THYATIRA - THE GREAT COUNTERFEIT = (600 AD TO 1500 AD) • SARDIS - DEAD ORTHODOXY = (1500 AD TO 1750 AD) = NO COMMENDATION • PHILADELPHIA - REVIVAL AND EVANGELISM (1750 AD TO 1900 AD) = NO CRITICISM • LAODICEA - COMPROMISE AND APOSTASY - (1900 TO ???? ) = NO COMMENDATION ) • APOSTASY - THE BEGINNING OF SORROWS • ISRAEL CONQUERS IT’S “INNER RING” NEIGHBORING NATIONS - PSALM 83 * • RAPTURE [HARAZIO] = JUST PRIOR TO TRIBULATION PERIOD – Rev 4, 1 Th 4, 2 TH 2, 1 CO 15 • 1ST RESSURECTION • RESTRAINER (HOLY SPIRIT INDWELLING THE INDIVIDUAL BELIEVER: THE CHURCH) IS REMOVED • CHURCH IN HEAVEN • JUDGEMENT SEAT OF CHRIST - REWARDS • MARRIAGE SUPPER OF THE LAMB • TEMPLE (OR TABERNACLE) WORSHIP IS RE-ESTABLISHED IN ISRAEL - SACRIFICES BEGIN * Dnl 9 • GOG / MAGOG INVASION OF ISRAEL BY “OUTER RING” NATIONS OCCURS – EZEK 38-39* • MAN OF SIN REVEALED / COMES TO POWER • COVENANT IS ENFORCED UPON ISRAEL • DAY OF THE LORD / DANIEL’S 70TH WEEK OF YEARS BEGINS Dnl 9 • Exact timing relative to the RAPTURE [ HARPAZIO] of the Church is not defined clearly. Rapture could occur before, during or following these events. • DANIEL’S 70TH WEEK OF YEARS - PERIOD OF WOE ON ISRAEL / EARTH • TIME OF JACOB'S TROUBLE = 3.5 YEARS / 42 MONTHS / 1,260 DAYS MATT 24-25, Rev 5>> • SEAL 1 - RIDER ON A WHITE HORSE - PEACE, ANTI-CHRIST REVEALED • SEAL 2 - RIDER ON A RED HORSE - 1ST WAR, THE RUSSIAN INVASION • SEAL 3 - RIDER ON A BLACK HORSE WITH BALANCES- FAMINE • SEAL 4 - RIDER ON A PALE HORSE - DEATH • SEAL 5 - MARTYRED SOULS AT THE ALTER - PERSECUTION • SEAL 6 - CATASTROPHIC CHANGES IN THE EARTH - DESTRUCTION • SEAL 7 - SILENCE - 144,000 JEWS SEALED • TRUMPET JUDGMENTS • 1ST TRUMPET - HAIL, FIRE AND BLOOD -- ALL GRASS AND 1/3 TREES BURNED, 1/3 EARTH ON FIRE • 2ND TRUMPET - FALLING METEOR - - 1/3 SHIPS DESTROYED, 1/3 FISH KILLED, 1/3 SEA FILLED W/ BLOOD • 3RD TRUMPET - FALLING STAR -- 1/3 OF WATER POISONED • 4TH TRUMPET - SUN, MOON, AND STARS -- 1/3 HEAVENS DARKENED, LIGHT DIMINISHED BY 1/3 • 5TH TRUMPET - DEMON LOCUSTS -- STING PEOPLE WITHOUT THE MARK OF GOD IN THEIR FOREHEADS (144,000) CAUSING 5 MONTHS OF TORMENT • 6TH TRUMPET - SATAN'S ARMY GATHERED (200 MILLION), KILL 1/3 OF MANKIND • ABOMINATION THAT CAUSES DESOLATION • ABOMINATION THAT CAUSES DESOLATION = MID-POINT OF TRIBULATION • ABOMINATION THAT CAUSES DESOTATIOIN -- ‘MAN OF SIN’,INDWELT BY SATAN’ PRCLAIMS HIMSELF TO BE GOD – PROFANES THE JERUSALME TEMPLE . • TWO WITNESSES IN JERUSALEM AFTER TESTIFYING FOR 1,260 DAYS ARE KILLED. AFTER 3.5 DAYS THEY ARE RAISED AGAIN AND CALLED UP INTO HEAVEN. (ELIJAH AND MOSES ?? - PERFORMED SAME ‘MIRACLES’ DURING LIFETIME - BOTH WERE SEEN AT MOUNT OF TRANSFIGURATION ‘BRIEFING’ • FAITHFUL REMNANT IN JERUSALEM (ISRAEL) TOLD TO FLEE TO EDOM / MOAB (MODERN JORDAN WHICH FOR SOME REASON IS NOT IN THE CONTROL OF OR INFLUENCED BY THE ‘MAN OF SIN’ • ‘WRATH OF GOD = LATER PART OF DANIEL’S 70TH WEEK - 3.5 YEAR / 42 MONTHS / 1,260 DAYS • THE GREAT TRIBULATION • 7TH TRUMPET – EARTHQUAKE -- 7,000 DIE IN JERUSALEM - PEOPLE RUN TO THE MOUNTAINS • VIAL (BOWL) JUDGMENTS • 1ST VIAL – BOILS -- MALIGNANT SORES AFFECT THOSE WITH MARK OF THE BEAST • 2ND VIAL - SEA OF BLOOD -- EVERYTHING IN THE OCEAN DIES • 3RD VIAL - RIVERS OF BLOOD -- RIVERS AND SPRINGS TURN TO BLOOD • 4TH VIAL - OPPRESSIVE HEAT -- SUN SCORCHES ALL MANKIND • 5TH VIAL – DARKNESS -- EARTH IN TOTAL DARKNESS / DARKNESS THAT IS ‘FELT’ (I.E. EGYPT) • 6TH VIAL - EUPHRATES DRIES UP -- NATIONS ARMIES MARCH ON ISRAEL • 7TH VIAL – HAIL -- CITIES CRUMBLE • AT SOME POINT DURING DANIEL’S 70TH WEEK - LIKELY AT THE OR NEAR THE MIDPOINT – ISRAEL IS PURGED OF IT’S UNBELEIF AND REPENTS - RETURNS TO GOD - RECOGNIZES JESUS AS THE MESSIAH AND CALLS FOR HIS HELP AND RETURN • ARMAGEDDON • KINGS OF THE SOUTH MOVE ON ISRAEL, KINGS OF THE NORTH AND EAST AND “ANTI-CHRIST’S” ARMIES RESPOND AND MARCH ON THE NOW FAITHFUL ISRAEL TO ELIMINATE ANY LAST ELEMENT OF GOD’S FAITHFUL FROM THE EARTH • SECOND COMING OF JESUS Rev 19-20 • SEEING CHRIST RETURNING THESE ARMIES UNITE TO MAKE WAR WITH GOD • JESUS RETURNS TO MAKE WAR ON THE ‘UNFAITHFUL’ PUTTING DOWN ALL OPPOSITION • SAINTS / BRIDE RETURN WITH HIM BUT DO NOT MAKE WAR THEMSELVES • BEAST (ANTI-CHRIST) AND FALSE PROPHET CAST INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE • SATAN BOUND IN ABYSS (BOTTOMLESS PIT) FOR 1000 YEARS (A MILLENNIUM) • JUDGMENT OF THE NATIONS - SHEEP and GOATS • MILLENNIUM - EARTHLY RULE OF JESUS AND SAINTS. EARTH IS RULED BY RIGHTEOUSNESS FOR 1,000 YEARS • AFTER 1000 YEARS, SATAN LOOSED FOR A SHORT TIME AND DECEIVES MANY WHO THEN REBEL • FINAL REBELLION PUT DOWN • SATAN CAST INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE FOR ETERNITY • GREAT WHITE THRONE JUDGEMENT - 2ND RESURRECTION • WORKS OF THE UNRIGHTEOUS LIVING AND DEAD JUDGED INADEQUATE • THOSE WHOSE NAMES ARE NOT WRITTEN IN THE BOOK OF LIFE ARE CAST INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE FOR ETERNITY • PRESENT HEAVEN AND EARTH DESTROYED (TRANSFORMED) BY FIRE AND A NEW HEAVEN AND NEW EARTH ARE ESTABLISHED • JESUS AND BRIDE (CHURCH) AND OLD TESTAMENT SAINTS ABIDE IN THE NEW JERUSALEM) • THE SIFTED (PURGED AND PURIFIED NATIONS OF MAN LIVE ON THE NEW EARTH IN RIGHTEOUSNESS). Rev 21-22 Ps 27:5 Zeph 2:2-3 John 14:1>> Isa 26:20 1 Cor 15:51-53 1 Thes 4:15-18 2 Thes 2 • Hos 6:1 Gone for two days…Hos 6.2 Back for 1 day • Ezek 4.1-8 Ezekiel’s 430 years (Lev 26.18, 21, 24, 28) • Dan 9:24-27 70 Sevens • Zech 12:10 Matt 23.39 Go away until Israel acknowledges their sin and their guilt and seek me / call on me • Zeph 3 Zech 13.1-14.21 Rev 19.3 • Isa 61.2-3 • Isa 63:1>> • Amos 9.7-15 Purged Israel from Edom • The Revelation ISRAEL A NATION AGAIN – May 14, 1948 Ezek 367-37 JERUSALEM RETAKEN – June 7, 1967 50%-80% of Earth’s population killed – Rev 5 >> Seals/Trumpets/Bowls Zech 13.8-9 2/3 Israel Purged / 1/3 tried as by Fire THE GREAT TRIBULATION 3.5 years, 42 months, 1260 days 3.5 years, 42 months, 1260 days GEN 3.15 REV 20.13-15 CHURCH - UNDER GRACE TIME OF JACOB’S TROUBLE THE WRATH OF GOD BEGINNING OF SORROWS Mat 24:24 1 Tim 4 2 Tim 2; 3 2 Co 11:13 2 Ptr 2 RAPTURE VIALS (BOWLS) OF GOD’s WRATH POURED OUT ON THE EARTH SEALS BROKEN TRUMPETS BLOWN ARMAGEDDON ??? 2000 A.D. COVENANT – PEACE ENFORCED MAN OF SIN COMES TO POWER WAR – INNER RING VICTORY - PS 83 • SIGNS – “Beginning of Sorrows” • All with increasing Frequency/Intensity • Wars / Rumors o Wars • Geological Weather Hydrological Turmoil • Fear • World travel / communication • Knowledge access – Technology • Financial instability/collapse – Inflation • World wide destructive capabilities • Diseases / Pestilence / Genetic mutations • Famine – Shortages of staples • Persecution • Astronomical Phenomina • Apostasy / Lovers of Self / Stiff necked WAR – OUTER RING - GOG/MAGOG EZ 38-39 Psalm 83 Ezekiel 36-38 Matthew 24-25 Mark 13 Luke 21 • STRATEGIC TRENDS • Struggle for Jerusalem Zech 12; Luk 21 • Magog Invasion Eze 38, 39 • Rise of European Super State Dan 2, 7 • Rise of China Isa 49; Rev 19 • Toward Global Government Dan 11, Rev 13 • Ecumenical Religion Rev 13, 17, 18 • Global Pestilence Rev 6:8 • Decline of United States Hosea 4–14 • Weapons of Mass Destruction Mat 24:22 ABOMINATION THAT CAUSES DESOLATION Zech 11.17 Worthless shepherd Right Eye and Arm will be wounded TJL_Eschatology_Timeline_8.5x11.ppt 2ND Coming of Christ