Unit 6

Question 1

Study of the last days

Answer 1

Eschatology

Question 2

Why should you study eschatology

Answer 2

It is a major theme of the Bible. Doesn’t pertain merely to future events. We have a part in the eschatological plan, though God will be the one to usher in His Kingdom. Should adduce alertness and watchfulness. Provides hope and encouragement

Question 3

“Last things”

Answer 3

Eschatos

Question 4

4 views on the intermediate state

Answer 4

Soul sleep
Purgatory
Instantaneous resurrection
Temporal state/paradise

Question 5

View on the intermediate state

emphasis on passages equating death with sleep. The soul either unconscious or extinct.

Answer 5

Soul sleep

Question 6

View on intermediate state

refers to a continued cleansing taking place after death. Good works help to lessen the time spent in purgatory (attending Mass, prayer, etc.) Scriptural support

Answer 6

Purgatory

Question 7

View on intermediate state

believers receive resurrection bodies immediately upon death (based on 2 Corinthians 5:1-10)

Answer 7

Instantaneous resurrection

Question 8

View on the intermediate state

even if believers receive a temporal body there is still a future resurrection. Souls of the righteous enter Paradise. To be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord. 1 Cor. 3:10-15 has to do with judgment and reward.

Answer 8

Temporal state/paradise

Question 9

Different views on millennialism

Answer 9

Amillennialism
Postmillennialism
Premillennialism

Question 10

View on millennialism

the kingdom is primarily spiritual in nature and will be fully manifested in the Second Coming.

Answer 10

Amillennialism

Question 11

View on millennialism

the millennial kingdom comes first, then Christ’s second coming (emphasis is placed on human progress and the church ushering in the kingdom.

Answer 11

Postmillennialism

Question 12

View on millennialism

the millennial kingdom comes first, then Christ’s second coming (emphasis is placed on human progress and the church ushering in the kingdom.

Answer 12

Premillennialism

Question 13

2 levels of Premillennialism

Answer 13

Dispensational

Historic

Question 14

One of the two views of Premillennialism

Pretribulational rapture, future Israel

Answer 14

Dispensational

Question 15

One of the two views of Premillennialism

Posttribulational rapture, no future Israel

Answer 15

Historic premillennialism

Question 16

How are the 3 millennial views similar and different

Answer 16

Each view holds to Christ’s second coming. They differ: the nature of the kingdom, the nature and timing of the rapture, the nature and timing of second coming, the church’s relationship to Israel, whether there’s something in God’s plan for future ethnic Israel

Question 17

“And I saw an angel coming down out of heaven, having the key to the Abyss and holding in his hand a great chain. He seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the devil, or Satan, and bound him for a thousand years. He threw him into the Abyss, and locked and sealed it over him, to keep him from deceiving the nations anymore until the thousand years were ended. After that, he must be set free for a short time. I saw thrones on which were seated those who had been given authority to judge. And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony about Jesus and because of the word of God. They had not worshiped the beast or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life and reigned with Christ a thousand years. (The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were ended.) This is the first resurrection. Blessed and holy are those who share in the first resurrection. The second death has no power over them, but they will be priests of God and of Christ and will reign with him for a thousand years. When the thousand years are over, Satan will be released from his prison and will go out to deceive the nations in the four corners of the earth—Gog and Magog—and to gather them for battle. In number they are like the sand on the seashore. They marched across the breadth of the earth and surrounded the camp of God’s people, the city he loves. But fire came down from heaven and devoured them. And the devil, who deceived them, was thrown into the lake of burning sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet had been thrown. They will be tormented day and night for ever and ever. Then I saw a great white throne and him who was seated on it. The earth and the heavens fled from his presence, and there was no place for them. 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. The sea gave up the dead that were in it, and death and Hades gave up the dead that were in them, and each person was judged according to what they had done. Then death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. The lake of fire is the second death. Anyone whose name was not found written in the book of life was thrown into the lake of fire.”

Answer 17

Revelations 20

Question 18

“Caught up”

Answer 18

Rapio

Question 19

4 views of the rapture

Answer 19

Pre-wrath
Mid-tribulation
Post-tribulation
Pre-tribulation

Question 20

View on the rapture

End of the tribulation

Answer 20

Pre-wrath

Question 21

View on the rapture

Midway through tribulation

Answer 21

Mid-tribulation

Question 22

View on the rapture

After the tribulation

Answer 22

Post-tribulation

Question 23

View on the rapture

Pre-tribulation

Answer 23

before the tribulation. Argues the rapture is not the same event as the second coming. Aspects of the rapture: return of Christ, resurrection of the saints, rapture of living, reunion with dead saints. Tribulation period or great tribulation. Day of the Lord.

Question 24

Who is the elect in Matthew 24 according to pretrib view?

Answer 24

Israel (woman in labor)

Question 25

70 weeks in Daniel 9

Answer 25

confession of Israel’s sin, God’s response through Gabriel, Daniel’s 70 weeks (a week means 7, 70 sevens = 490 years, 69 sevens [7 weeks + 62 weeks = 483 years the messiah will be cut off]). The final week: the prince who is to come shall make a covenant for one week. For ½ a week he shall put an end to sacrifice. Abomination of desolation. 42 months and 1260 (3 ½ years) Rev. 11:3 & Rev. 12:6

Question 26

Daniel 9:24

Answer 26

““Seventy ‘sevens’ are decreed for your people and your holy city to finish transgression, to put an end to sin, to atone for wickedness, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy and to anoint the Most Holy Place.” ‭‭

Question 27

Resurrection in the OT

Answer 27

Jesus’ prediction of his resurrection, Jesus’ reaching on the resurrection and Paul’s teaching on the resurrection

Question 28

Jesus’ resurrection highlights

Answer 28

bodily, not spiritual. First fruits from among the dead. No longer subject to death. We will be like Him

Question 29

3 views on the final state

Answer 29

Universalism Annihilationism Traditional view

Question 30

View on the final state All people will be saved in the end

Answer 30

Universalism

Question 31

View on the final state People will not experience punishment forever but will eventually cease to exist.

Answer 31

Annihilationism

Question 32

View on the final state though the bible may use some metaphorical language to describe Hell, it is a real place whereby people experience eternal separation from God

Answer 32

Traditional

Question 33

Nature of eternal punishment

Answer 33

both OT and NT refer to unending or unquenchable fire. Also everlasting, eternal and forever go with: burning, content, destruction and torment. Difference between hell and the lake of fire. There is a finality of future punishment (eternal). Degrees to eternal punishment

Question 34

What is the nature of heaven life

Answer 34

key to heaven is the presence of God. There will be no more pain, suffering or evil. The source of temptation, Satan, will be removed. It will be a place of rest, worship and service.

Question 35

“Then I saw “a new heaven and a new earth,” for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea. I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Look! God’s dwelling place is now among the people, and he will dwell with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God. ‘He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death’ or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.” He who was seated on the throne said, “I am making everything new!” Then he said, “Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true.” He said to me: “It is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. To the thirsty I will give water without cost from the spring of the water of life. Those who are victorious will inherit all this, and I will be their God and they will be my children. But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars—they will be consigned to the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death.” One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb.” And he carried me away in the Spirit to a mountain great and high, and showed me the Holy City, Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God. It shone with the glory of God, and its brilliance was like that of a very precious jewel, like a jasper, clear as crystal. It had a great, high wall with twelve gates, and with twelve angels at the gates. On the gates were written the names of the twelve tribes of Israel. There were three gates on the east, three on the north, three on the south and three on the west. The wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them were the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb. The angel who talked with me had a measuring rod of gold to measure the city, its gates and its walls. The city was laid out like a square, as long as it was wide. He measured the city with the rod and found it to be 12,000 stadia in length, and as wide and high as it is long. The angel measured the wall using human measurement, and it was 144 cubits thick. The wall was made of jasper, and the city of pure gold, as pure as glass. The foundations of the city walls were decorated with every kind of precious stone. The first foundation was jasper, the second sapphire, the third agate, the fourth emerald, the fifth onyx, the sixth ruby, the seventh chrysolite, the eighth beryl, the ninth topaz, the tenth turquoise, the eleventh jacinth, and the twelfth amethyst. The twelve gates were twelve pearls, each gate made of a single pearl. The great street of the city was of gold, as pure as transparent glass. I did not see a temple in the city, because the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple. The city does not need the sun or the moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gives it light, and the Lamb is its lamp. The nations will walk by its light, and the kings of the earth will bring their splendor into it. On no day will its gates ever be shut, for there will be no night there. The glory and honor of the nations will be brought into it. Nothing impure will ever enter it, nor will anyone who does what is shameful or deceitful, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s book of life.”

Answer 35

Revelations 21

Question 36

Pre tribulation rapture time line

Answer 36

Old Testament times (before the cross), the church age (after the cross), the rapture (Rev. 4:1—Rev. 6:17) - - the tribulation period (x2 3 1/2 years), the second coming (in between), the millennium 1,000 years)