Eschatology Flashcards
(6 cards)
The Kingdom of God
Rev. 11:15 The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord, and of His Christ; and He will reign forever and ever.
The Universal Kingdom
Def. God’s eternal universal sovereign rule over all of creation.
* Ps. 145:13 Thy Kingdom is an everlasting kingdom and Thy dominion endures to all generations…
The Mediatorial Kingdom
Def. God’s rule over the earth within history and administered by Christ.
Covenants
Abrahamic
* Gen. 15 On that day, the Lord made a covenant with Abram.
Mosaic
* Ex. 19:5 …if you will will keep my covenant, then you shall be My own possession…
Davidic
* II Sam 7:16 Your house and your kingdom shall endure before Me forever…
New
* Is. 42:6 I will appoint you as a covenant to the people, as a light to the nations.
* Jer. 31:31 Behold, days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah.
* Ez. 36:24 ff. For I will take you from the nations, gather you from all the lands, and bring you into your own land. Moreover, I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; and I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.
Views on the Kingdom
Mystery Form of the Kingdom (Weak View)
Def. The manifestation of God’s sovereignty on earth during the present age.
* Matt. 13-Wheat and Tares-believers and professing believers grow together in the mystery form of the kingdom-Christendom.
Abeyance of the Kingdom (Best View)
Def.
1. The prophesied literal kingdom was offered and postponed.
2. The mysteries of the kingdom are its present operation on earth during its abeyance.
3. Sons of the kingdom are being made in preparation for the establishment of the kingdom.
* Ez. 8-11 The glory of the Lord departs (OT)
* Matt. 13-Wheat and Tares-The field is the world (Not Christendom). It will become the kingdom of Christ at His return.
* Rev. 11:15 The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord, and of His Christ; and He will reign forever and ever.
* Acts 14:22 Through many tribulations we must enter the kingdom of God (future).
* Col. 1:13 For He delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of His beloved Son (Positional).
Chronology of the End Times
Rapture
Bema Seat (Judgment Seat of Christ)
Marriage Supper of the Lamb
Tribulation
Second Coming
Millennium
The Final Rebellion
Great White Throne Judgment
Eternity
Rapture
I Cor. 15:51-58 Behold, I tell you a mystery; we shall not all sleep, but…
I Thess 4:13-18 But we do not want you to be uninformed, brethren…
Resurrection of Dead in Christ
I Thess. 4:15-17 …and the dead in Christ shall rise first…
Pre-Trib
* Phil. 3:20 For our citizenship is in heaven, from which also we eagerly wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ. (Imminent return)
* I Thess. 2:10 And to wait for His Son from heaven, whom He raised from the dead, that is Jesus, who delivers us from the wrath to come.
* I Thess. 5:9 For God has not destined us for wrath…
* Rev. 3:10 I also will keep you from the hour of testing, that hour which is about to come upon the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth.
No Epistles mention the Great Trib
No mention of the church after Rev. 3
Mid-Trib (A Response)
* I Thess. 5:9 For God has not destined us for wrath…
* Rev. 3:10 I also will keep you from the hour of testing, that hour which is about to come upon the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth.
Post-Trib(A Response)
* I Thess. 5:9 For God has not destined us for wrath…
* Rev. 3:10 I also will keep you from the hour of testing, that hour which is about to come upon the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth.
Partial(A Response)
* I Cor. 15:51 …we shall all be changed…
Millennium
Premillennial
Pro
* Acts. 1:6-8 Lord, is it at this time You are restoring the kingdom to Israel? He said to them, “It is not for you to know the times or the epochs.
* Acts 3:20-21 That He may send Jesus, the Christ appointed for you, whom heaven must receive until the period of restoration of all things about which God spoke by the mouth of His holy prophets from ancient time.
* Rom. 11:29 For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.
* I Cor. 15:23 But each in his own order: Christ the first fruits, after that those who are Christ’s at His coming, then comes the end when He delivers up the kingdom…
* Rev. 20:1-6 1,000 repeated, John’s wording, Satan’s binding, Interpretation of what John saw.
Amillennial(A Response)
* Rev. 20 Repetition of “1,000 years,” Binding of Satan, The resurrection
The distinction between Israel & the church (See Ecclesiology)
Postmillennial(A Response)
* Matt. 24:6-12 …wars and rumors of wars… Nation will rise against nation… lawlessness is increased…
* I Tim. 4:1 But the Spirit explicitly says that in later times some will fall away from the faith…
* II Tim. 3:1-5 But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come…
* Things are not getting “better and better”
Individual Eschatology
Spiritual Death
* Eph. 2:1-5 And you were dead in your trespasses and sins…
* Eph. 4:18 Being darkened in their understanding, excluded from the life of God.
Physical Death
* James 2:26 For just as the body without the spirit is dead…
* Heb. 9:27 It is appointed for men to die once and after this comes judgment.
The Second Death
* Rev. 20:14 This is the second death, the lake of fire.
