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Revelation and Human Reality

Revelation and Human Reality. Session 57 A-level Amphitheater LLUMC March 5, 2011, 10:30-11:30 AM. Clarifying Retrospective. Clarification of timeline concepts plot. Timeline. BEFORE. AFTER. ‘1000 YEARS’. Second Coming.

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Revelation and Human Reality

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  1. Revelation and Human Reality Session 57 A-level Amphitheater LLUMC March 5, 2011, 10:30-11:30 AM

  2. Clarifying Retrospective • Clarification of • timeline • concepts • plot

  3. Timeline BEFORE AFTER ‘1000 YEARS’

  4. Second Coming Rev 1:7 Look! He is coming with the clouds; every eye will see him, even those who pierced him; and on his account all the tribes of the earth will wail. So it is to be. Amen. Rev 22:20 He who testifies to these things says, “Yes, I am coming quickly.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus.

  5. Second Coming – Then What? John 13:3 Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into His hands, and that He had come forth from God, and was going back to God… John 17:13 But now I am coming to you, and I speak these things in the world so that they may have my joy made complete in themselves.

  6. “Where I Am” NJB John 14:2-3 In my Father's house there are many places to live in; otherwise I would have told you. I am going now to prepare a place for you, and after I have gone and prepared you a place, I shall return to take you to myself, so that you may be with me where I am.

  7. “Where I Am” John 17:24 Father, I desire that those also, whom you have given me, may be with me where I am, to see my glory, which you have given me because you loved me before the foundation of the world.

  8. “And So We Will Be with the Lord” 1 Thess 4:15-17 For this we declare to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will by no means precede those who have died. For the Lord himself, with a cry of command, with the archangel's call and with the sound of God's trumpet, will descend from heaven, and the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up in the clouds together with them to meet the Lord in the air; and so we will be with the Lord forever.

  9. “God Will Be with Them” Revelation 21:3-4 And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “See, the home of God is among mortals. He will dwell with them; they will be his peoples, and God himself will be with them; he will wipe every tear from their eyes.”

  10. “With Me” vs. “With Them” When Jesus says that “they will be with me,” the spatial referent is heaven. When Revelation says that “God will be with them,” the spatial referent is the earth [New Earth].

  11. Timeline BEFORE AFTER NEW EARTH • SECOND COMING ‘1000 YEARS’

  12. ‘Great Ordeal’ Rev 7:13-15 Then one of the elders addressed me, saying, “Who are these, robed in white, and where have they come from?” I said to him, “Sir, you are the one that knows.” Then he said to me, “These are they who have come out of the great tribulation; they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. For this reason they are before the throne of God, and worship him day and night within his temple, and the one who is seated on the throne will shelter them.”

  13. ‘Great Ordeal’ - OT Daniel 12:1 “At that time Michael, the great prince, the protector of your people, shall arise. There shall be a time of anguish, such as has never occurred since nations first came into existence. But at that time your people shall be delivered, everyone who is found written in the book.

  14. Timeline BEFORE AFTER NEW EARTH • SECOND COMING • GREAT ORDEAL ‘1000 YEARS’

  15. Sealing Rev 7:2 -3 I saw another angel ascending from the rising of the sun, having the seal of the living God, and he called with a loud voice to the four angels who had been given power to damage earth and sea, saying, “Do not damage the earth or the sea or the trees, until we have marked the servants of our God with a seal on their foreheads.”

  16. Timeline BEFORE AFTER NEW EARTH • SECOND COMING • GREAT ORDEAL • SEALING ‘1000 YEARS’

  17. Harmagedon Rev 16:13, 14, 16 And I saw three foul spirits like frogs coming from the mouth of the dragon, from the mouth of the beast, and from the mouth of the false prophet. These are demonic spirits, performing signs, who go abroad to the kings of the whole world, to assemble them for battle on the great day of God the Almighty. And they assembled them at the place that in Hebrew is called Harmagedon.

  18. Timeline BEFORE AFTER NEW EARTH • SECOND COMING • GREAT ORDEAL • SEALING • HARMA-GEDON ‘1000 YEARS’

  19. End of Surrogate Powers Revelation 19:20 And the beast was captured, and with it the false prophet who had performed in its presence the signs by which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped its image. These two were thrown alive into the lake of fire that burns with sulfur.

  20. Timeline BEFORE AFTER NEW EARTH • SECOND COMING • GREAT ORDEAL • SEALING • HARMA-GEDON • END - 1 ‘1000 YEARS’

  21. End of Satan NRS Revelation 20:10 And the devil who had deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet were, and they will be tormented day and night forever and ever. (Rev 20:10 NRS)

  22. Timeline BEFORE AFTER NEW EARTH END - 2 • SECOND COMING • GREAT ORDEAL • SEALING • HARMA-GEDON • END - 1 ‘1000 YEARS’

  23. Final Message NRS Revelation 14:6-7 Then I saw another angel flying in midheaven, with an eternal gospel to proclaim to those who live on the earth-- to every nation and tribe and language and people. He said in a loud voice, “Fear God and give him glory, for the hour of his judgment has come; and worship him who made heaven and earth, the sea and the springs of water.”

  24. Timeline BEFORE AFTER NEW EARTH END - 2 • SECOND COMING • GREAT ORDEAL • SEALING • HARMA-GEDON • END – 1 • FINAL MESSAGE ‘1000 YEARS’

  25. Final Opportunity NIV Revelation 22:11 “Let him who does wrong continue to do wrong; let him who is vile continue to be vile; let him who does right continue to do right; and let him who is holy continue to be holy.”

  26. Timeline BEFORE AFTER NEW EARTH END - 2 • FINAL MESSAGE • FINAL OPPOR-TUNITY • SECOND COMING • END – 1 ‘1000 YEARS’

  27. Timeline of Judgment(courtesy Ralph Thompson) BEFORE AFTER Post-millennial ‘Distributive judgment’ (not retributive) • Pre-advent • ‘Decision judgment’ BETWEEN ‘Explanatory judgment’ ‘1000 YEARS’

  28. Clarifying the Concept of Judgment The human decision and the divine decision correlate; there is never a divine decision only. The divine action is subject to review. Till the very last moment, the human action in judgment looms larger than the divine action.

  29. Clarifying the Concept of Judgment “The judgment being never juridical but revelatory, it is not the expression of the servile terror of men, but of their comprehension of the divine reality.” “The judgment at this moment is then: to be what one has actually wished to be, but seeing in the light of God what it was.”Ellul, Apocalypse, 172, 176.

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