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Daniel 12. Conclusion. JPoint!. Major Predictions Covered. . Medio-Persia overthrows Babylon. . Greece overthrows Persia, by Alexander. . Rome arises, greater than all before. Rome revives as a Western European 10-nation union. ?. . Israel is dispersed & regathered. .
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Daniel 12 Conclusion
JPoint! Major Predictions Covered Medio-Persia overthrows Babylon. Greece overthrows Persia, by Alexander. Rome arises, greater than all before. Rome revives as a Western European10-nation union. ? Israel is dispersed & regathered. The Messiah would come in 33 AD. War will threaten all life on earth. World-wide Economic Control Armies of 100 millions, populations of Billions
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Major Predictions Covered Medio-Persia overthrows Babylon. Greece overthrows Persia, by Alexander. Rome arises, greater than all before. Rome revives as a Western European10-nation union. ? Israel is dispersed & regathered. The Messiah would come in 33 AD. War will threaten all life on earth. World-wide Economic Control Armies of 100 millions, populations of Billions
A “Mystery” 1 Cor. 15:50-53 Now I say this, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable. Behold, I tell you a mystery; we will not all sleep, but we will all be changed in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet; for the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. For this perishable must put on the imperishable, and this mortal must put on immortality
A “Mystery” - 1 Thes. 4:15-18 For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord, will not precede those who have fallen asleep. For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive and remain will 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. Therefore comfort one another with these words. “…And there will be a time of distress such as never occurred since there was a nation until that time; and at that time your people, everyone who is found written in the book, will be rescued.” Daniel 12:1
The Rapture • When does this event occur? 2nd Coming of Christ Abom. Great Tribulation Pact Armageddon The Tribulation
The Rapture • When does this event occur? 2nd Coming of Christ Rapture? Rapture? Rapture? Great Tribulation The Tribulation
Reasons For a Pre-Trib Rapture: • BIG differences between 2nd Advent and Rapture Event: Rapture: I Thess 4:17 “we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air” 2nd Coming Zech.14:4 On that day his feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, east of Jerusalem…5 You will flee by my mountain valley, for it will extend to Azel.
Reasons For a Pre-Trib Rapture: • BIG differences between 2nd Advent and Rapture Event. • Daniel’s “70 Weeks” is for Israel. Daniel 9:24 - "Seventy weeks have been decreed for your people…”
Reasons For a Pre-Trib Rapture: • BIG differences between 2nd Advent and Rapture Event. • Daniel’s “70 Weeks” is for Israel • The church is conspicuously absent from all tribulation accounts (See Rev. 4-20). • Tribulation Theology is Incompatible With the Church “who opposes and exalts himself above every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, displaying himself as being God.” - 2 Thes. 2:4
Reasons For a Pre-Trib Rapture: • BIG differences between 2nd Advent and Rapture Event. • Daniel’s “70 Weeks” is for Israel • The church is conspicuously absent from all tribulation accounts (See Rev. 4-20). • Tribulation Theology is Incompatible With the Church • The “millennium” is populated by mortal people, but those in the rapture are “translated” to immortal.
Reasons For a Pre-Trib Rapture: Is. 65:20 Never again will there be in it an infant who lives but a few days, or an old man who does not live out his years; he who dies at a hundred will be thought a mere youth; he who fails to reach a hundred will be considered accursed. • BIG differences between 2nd Advent and Rapture Event. • Daniel’s “70 Weeks” is for Israel • The church is conspicuously absent from all tribulation accounts (See Rev. 4-20). • Tribulation Theology is Incompatible With the Church • The “millennium” is populated by mortal people, but those in the rapture are “translated” to immortal. Church age Tribulation 2nd Coming The MillenniumRev. 20
Reasons For a Pre-Trib Rapture: • BIG differences between 2nd Advent and Rapture Event. • Daniel’s “70 Weeks” is for Israel • The church is conspicuously absent from all tribulation accounts (See Rev. 4-20). • Tribulation Theology is Incompatible With the Church • The “Millennium Kingdom” is populated by mortal people, but those in the rapture are “translated” to immortal. • Mid-trib: unlikely from #2-4 and Mt.24:16f “When you see the abomination of desolation…then those who are in Judea must flee to the mountains.” Matthew 24:16
Reasons For a Pre-Trib Rapture: • BIG differences between 2nd Advent and Rapture Event. • Daniel’s “70 Weeks” is for Israel • The church is conspicuously absent from all tribulation accounts (See Rev. 4-20). • Tribulation Theology is Incompatible With the Church • The “millennium” is populated by mortal people, but those in the rapture are “translated” to immortal. The Great White Throne Church age Tribulation 2nd Coming The Rapture The MillenniumRev. 20 X
Reasons For a Pre-Trib Rapture: Rev. 20:11 Then I saw a great white throne and him who was seated on it. Earth and sky fled from his presence, and there was no place for them. 12 And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Another book was opened, which is the book of life. The dead were judged according to what they had done as recorded in the books. • BIG differences between 2nd Advent and Rapture Event. • Daniel’s “70 Weeks” is for Israel • The church is conspicuously absent from all tribulation accounts (See Rev. 4-20). • Tribulation Theology is Incompatible With the Church • The “millennium” is populated by mortal people, but those in the rapture are “translated” to immortal. And if anyone's name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire. Rev. 20:15 The Great White Throne Church age Tribulation 2nd Coming The Rapture 1 “Truly, truly, I say to you, he who hears My word, and believes Him who sent Me, has eternal life, and does not come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.” John 5:24 The MillenniumRev. 20 2 X
Reasons For a Pre-Trib Rapture: • BIG differences between 2nd Advent and Rapture Event. • Daniel’s “70 Weeks” is for Israel • The church is conspicuously absent from all tribulation accounts (See Rev. 4-20). • Tribulation Theology is Incompatible With the Church • The “millennium” is populated by mortal people, but those in the rapture are “translated” to immortal. The Great White Throne Church age Tribulation New Heaven & Earth 2nd Coming The Rapture The MillenniumRev. 20 X Rev. 21:1 Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth passed away, and there is no longer any sea.
Implications! • Be Ready! First of all, you must understand that in the last days scoffers will come, scoffing and following their own evil desires. [4] They will say, "Where is this 'coming' he promised? Ever since our fathers died, everything goes on as it has since the beginning of creation." [5] But they deliberately forget that long ago by God's word the heavens existed and the earth was formed out of water and by water. 2 Peter 3:3-5 While they are saying, "Peace and safety!" then destruction will come upon them suddenly like labor pains upon a woman with child, and they will not escape. 1 Thes. 5:3 “It was the same as happened in the days of Lot: they were eating, they were drinking, they were buying, they were selling, they were planting, they were building; but on the day that Lot went out from Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all. It will be just the same on the day that the Son of Man is revealed.” - Luke 17:28-30
Implications! • Be Ready! • Re-Think Our Values! “Remember Lot's wife!” - Luke 17:32 “Whoever seeks to keep his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life will preserve it.” - Luke 17:33 But you, brethren, are not in darkness, that the day would overtake you like a thief; 1 Thes. 5:2-4 “The world is passing away, and also its lusts; but the one who does the will of God lives forever.” - 1 John 2:17
Implications! • Be Ready! • Re-Think Our Values! • Join Together! “Therefore encourage one another andbuild up one another, just as you also are doing.” 1 Thes. 5:11 For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, unloving, irreconcilable… 2 Tim. 3:2 “Because lawlessness is increased, most people's love will grow cold.” Matthew 24:12 “By this all men will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.” John 13:35
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