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ESCHATOLOGY

ESCHATOLOGY. WHY CHRISTIANS SHOULD STUDY BIBLE PROPHECY. Prophecy acquaints us with the most important subject of the ages, God’s plan for man. Studying Bible prophecy convinces us that there really is a God.

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ESCHATOLOGY

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  1. ESCHATOLOGY

  2. WHY CHRISTIANS SHOULD STUDY BIBLE PROPHECY • Prophecy acquaints us with the most important subject of the ages, God’s plan for man. • Studying Bible prophecy convinces us that there really is a God. • The literal fulfillment of prophecy teaches us that prophecy should be interpreted literally.

  3. The study of prophecy prepares the Christian to avoid the deceptions of the many false prophets that are arising in our day. • The study of prophecy promotes an evangelistic church. • The study of prophecy tends to purify the believer. • Prophecy offers confident hope in a hopeless age.

  4. THE VARIOUS VIEWS OF THE MILLENNIUM • PREMILLENNIALISM • AMILLENNIALISM • POSTMILLENNIALISM

  5. AMILLENNIAL

  6. PREMILLENNIALISM(Dispensational) • Description: Second Coming precedes Millennium. Christ comes to set up the kingdom for Israel which rules over the world. • Teachings • Church is raptured prior to the Tribulation. • A literal kingdom is established at the return of Christ, after the Tribulation and will last 1000 years.

  7. PREMILLENNIALISM(Dispensational) • Three literal bodily resurrections. • The church at the Rapture. • The Tribulation saints just prior to the Millennium. • The unrighteous of all ages at the end of the Millennium.

  8. PREMILLENNIALISM(Dispensational) • Abrahamic Covenant fulfilled with ethnic Israel. • Use of a consistent, grammatical-historical (literal/normal) hermeneutic.

  9. REPRESENTATIVES • Dwight Pentecost • John Walvoord • Charles Ryrie • John MacArthur • Paul Benware

  10. FUTURISTIC PREMILLENNIALISM • A CONSISTENT HERMENEUTIC • AN INPARTIAL EXEGESIS • GOD’S UNCONDITIONAL COVENANTS • GOD’S UNCOMPROMISING PROMISES • ISRAEL’S PRESERVATION • ISRAEL’S EXCLUSITITY - DEUTERONOMY 28 • ISRAEL’S FIXED IDENTITY • CHRIST’S COMING AND REIGNING SEQUENCE • EARLY CHURCH PREMILLENNIAL

  11. LITERAL INTERPRETATION • Embraces the normal, everyday, common understanding of words. • The literal method does not eliminate figures of speech. Text could be taken figuratively when… • It is obviously figurative • The text itself authorizes the figurative sense • When a literal interpretation would contradict other truths inside or outside the Bible

  12. LITERAL INTERPRETATION • The literal method does not eliminate the use of symbols. • The literal method does not eliminate the use of parables.

  13. Good Reasons to Take Literal Approach • A literal interpretation is the normal approach in all languages. • The greater part of the Bible makes good sense when taken literally. • A literal approach allows for allegorical or symbolic meanings when indicated in the context.

  14. Good Reasons to Take Literal Approach • All allegorical or symbolic meanings actually depend on the literal meaning. • The literal method is the only sane and safe check on subjective imaginations. • The literal method is the only approach that is consistently in line with the nature of inspiration.

  15. Charles C. Ryrie In the interpretation of unfulfilled prophecy, fulfilled prophecy forms the pattern…The logical way to discover how God will fulfill prophecy in the future is to discover how He fulfilled it in the past. If the hundreds of prophecies concerning Christ’s first coming were fulfilled literally, how can anyone reject the literal fulfillment of the numerous prophecies concerning His second coming and reign on the earth?

  16. REVELATION 20 Major views include: • Amillennialism • Satan is bound/saints are reigning • The Abyss and binding of devil are seen as metaphors • Satan can still deceive but is no longer able to deceive the nations. • When Christians die they experience the “first resurrection.” • Millennial kingdom and tribulation are taking place now.

  17. Major views continued: • Postmillennialism • We are in the Tribulation now • It will give way as the world accepts the gospel. • At that time Satan will be bound • Jesus will reign through His saints on earth • The “first resurrection” is spiritual regeneration • Jesus returns after the millennium • At which time a physical resurrection of all people will take place.

  18. Major views continued: • Historical premillennialism • Church enduring the Tribulation • “First Resurrection” before the millennium. • Second resurrection of unrighteous at end of millennium.

  19. Major views continued: • Dispensational premillennialism • At the end of the Tribulation Satan will be bound • Physical reign of Christ on earth (millennium) • “First Resurrection of Tribulation saints • Second resurrection of unrighteous of all ages. • End of millennium, Satan released • That rebellion squashed and Satan thrown into lake of fire.

  20. BIBLICAL COVENANTS • Adamic (Genesis 1:26-31; 2:16, 17) • Fallen Man (Genesis 3:16-19) • Noahic (Genesis 9:1-18; esp. vv. 9-11) • Abrahamic (Genesis 12:1-3; 13:14-17; 15:1-7; 17:1-8) • Mosaic (Exodus 20:1-31; 18) • Palestinian (Deuteronomy 28-30; esp. 30:1-10) • Davidic (2 Samuel 7:4-17) • New (Jeremiah 31:31-34)

  21. DISPENSATIONALISM • Definition: • A distinguishable economy in the outworking of God’s purpose. • Distinctions: • Different governing relationship with God. • Man’s responsibility. • Man’s failure. • God’s judgment.

  22. “Each dispensation, therefore, begins with man divinely placed in a new position of privilege and responsibility, and closes with the failure of man resulting in righteous judgments from God.” Chafer

  23. Particulars (or sin qua non) • Keep Israel and the church separate. • Normal hermeneutics (grammatical-historical). • God’s purpose: glorify Himself.

  24. Distinctions between the Church & Israel

  25. Distinctions between the Church & Israel

  26. SEVEN DISPENSATIONS(Traditional but varies) • Innocence - Adam & Eve to fall. • Conscience - Fall to Noah. • Human Government-Flood to Abraham. • Promise-Abraham to Moses. • Law-Moses to cross. • Grace (church)-Cross to rapture. • Kingdom-Millennium.

  27. INNOCENCE (Gen 1:28-3:22) • Responsibility: to abstain from the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, and to tend the garden. • Failure: original sin (3:6). • Judgment: God drove them out of the garden, died spiritually and began to die physically (3:16-19, 24).

  28. CONSCIENCE (Gen 3:22-7:23) • Responsibility: to respond to God through the promptings of his conscience and bring sacrifices to God (Gen 4:4). • Failure: widespread evil desire (Gen 6:5). • Judgment: the flood (6:6-7).

  29. CIVIL OR HUMAN GOVERNMENT(GEN 8:20-11:9) • Responsibility: to scatter and fill the earth (9:6, 7). • Failure: stayed together and built the Tower of Babel to show their independence of God (11:1, 4). • Judgment: confusion of languages at the Tower of Babel (11:7-9).

  30. PROMISE (GEN 12:1- EX 19:8) • Responsibility: to believe and serve God (12:1-3). • Failure: Jacob led the people to Egypt and they stayed (Gen 50:22, Exod 1:7). • Judgment: Slavery (Exod 1:11).

  31. LAW (EX 19:8 – ACTS 1:26) • Responsibility: to obey the Law (Exod 20) • Failure: did not obey (2 Kings 17:7, 14-15; 2 Chron 36:15-17) • Judgment: captivity (2 Kings 17:18) and later dispersion (70 A.D.) and also the Tribulation period

  32. GRACE (Church Age ) (ACTS 2:1 – Rapture) • Responsibility: to accept the gift of salvation through Christ (Gal 3:10-14) • Failure: the vast majority reject Him (Matt 7:13-14) • Judgment: church removed (1 Thess 4:13-18); rejecters of Christ will go into the tribulation.

  33. KINGDOM (REV 20:4-15) • Responsibility: to obey the King and His laws (Rev 20:4-6) • Failure: rebellion against Christ (Rev 20:7-9) • Judgment: rebels cast into everlasting punishment (Rev 20:14, 15)

  34. DISPENSATIONS Rapture Human Government Conscience Kingdom Promise Innocence Law Grace Tribulation Responsibility: Failure: Judgment: Law (Grace) Tribulation

  35. SIX ESSENTIAL BELIEFS OF DISPENSATIONALISM • Progressive revelation from the New Testament does not cancel the original authorial intent of the Old Testament. • National Israel is not a type that is superseded by the church. • Israel and the church are distinct. • There is both spiritual unity in salvation between Jews and Gentiles and a future role for Israel as a nation.

  36. SIX ESSENTIAL BELIEFS OF DISPENSATIONALISM • The nation Israel will be saved and restored with a unique identity and function in a future millennial kingdom upon the earth. • There are multiple senses of “seed of Abraham.” • Biological descendents • Messiah (Heb 2:16-17) • Righteous remnant of Israel (Isa 41:8 with Rom 9:6) • Spiritual sense for believing Jews and Gentiles (Gal 3:29)

  37. Rapture of the Church Definition – that event at which Christ returns to catch up His true church in the air so that they may always be with Him.

  38. Description of the Rapture • Christ returns in the air, personally, bodily – 1 Thess 4:17. • The dead in Christ are raised – v. 16. • The living are transformed – v. 17 and 1 Cor 15:51; Phil 3:20.

  39. Description of the Rapture • Reunions – two groups are caught up together to be with the Lord forever – 1 Thess 4:17; John 14:1-3. • Accomplished “in a moment” – 1 Cor 15:51, 52. • Called a mystery – 1 Cor 15:51

  40. THE VARIOUS VIEWS OF THE RAPTURE • THE FOUR VIEWS: • The Partial Rapture View • The Mid-Tribulational View • The Pre-Tribulation View • The Post-Tribulation View

  41. Time of the Rapture • Posttribulation – The church will be present on earth during the tribulation period. • Midtribulation • Partial rapture

  42. POSTTRIBULATION

  43. WHY THE RAPTURE MUST BE PRETRIBULATIONAL • The Lord Himself promised to deliver us. • Only the pre-Trib view preserves imminency. • The church is to be delivered from the wrath to come. • Christians are not appointed to wrath. • The church is absent in Revelation 4-18.

  44. PREMILLENNIUM PRETRIBULATION

  45. Time of the Rapture • Pretribulation – The rapture of the church will take place before the seven year tribulation period begins. Seven years later the Lord will return to earth with His people to set up His millennial kingdom. • Support for this view: • Revelation 3:10 • 2 Thessalonians 2:1-10 • 1 Thessalonians 5:1-11

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