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Session I. Eschatology:. the study of end time events. Why People Don’t. People who study eschatology are weird. Eschatology is impossible to understand. Eschatology is irrelevant; there are other far more relevant issues to attend to. Why We Should.
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Eschatology: the study of end time events
Why People Don’t • People who study eschatology are weird. • Eschatology is impossible to understand. • Eschatology is irrelevant; there are other far more relevant issues to attend to.
Why We Should • Eschatology and hellfire preaching saved me. • Jesus, our example, studied eschatology. • God put it in the Bible. • This stuff is just too serious to ignore. • We may very well live to see these events. • To give us understanding and prepare our hearts.
Levels of Scripture P’shat Drash Remez Sod
Goals Establish definition of terms Start the goal of coming up with a time line (NOT dates) of end time events.
Purpose That we would not be deceived!! That we would understand the need for studying end time events. That we would watch with knowledge.
Prophecy • Noun • An historic prediction accurately foretelling future events
Prophesy • Verb • To speak under divine initiation, mainly about end time events
Israel • Jacob prior to being renamed Israel, son of Isaac • 12 tribes • Reuben • Simeon • Levi • Judah • Zebulon • Issachar • Dan • Gad • Asher • Naphtali • Benjamin • Joseph • As northern kingdom
Judah • Son of Israel • Tribes of Judah, Benjamin, and Levi • Southern Kingdom
Northern Kingdom • 10 Tribes: • Ephraim • Manasseh • Reuben • Simeon • Zebulon • Issachar • Dan • Gad • Asher • Naphtali
Jacob • Whole House of Israel • All 12 Tribes
Ishmael • Son of Abraham through Hagar • Father of Arab nations
Zion • Land promised to Israel the patriach • Geographic region • Includes high places (West Bank)
Tribulation • 7 year period ruled by Anti-messiah
Great Tribulation • 3 ½ year period that starts with the Anti-messiah stopping the temple sacrifices in Jerusalem • Anti-messiah sets up a statue or a throne on the temple mount • Beginning of great persecution
Day of the Lord • One year period at the end of the Great Tribulation • 1000 year period • Day of the Messiah’s actual return • Millennium
Beast Power • World empire under control of the Anti-messiah (satan) • Combination of past world empires at the end time
Anti-messiah/Antichrist (Rev 13, Dan 8 &9) • World leader who opposes and then exalts himself against Messiah • End time world ruler • Will cover deeply in a separate session
False Prophet (Rev 13) • Religious assistant to the Anti-messiah • Performs miracles at the end time • Promotes/forces worship of Anti-messiah as God
Two Witnesses (Rev) • Servants of Most High during the Tribulation period • Supernatural powers • Witnesses against the whole Babylonish system • Witness for 3 ½ years and are killed and then raised back to life after 3 ½ days
Abomination of Desolation (Mat 24, Dan 8 &9) • Antimessiah • Statue on the Temple Mount
Babylon (Dan 2, Rev 17) • City raised to greatness by Nebuchadnezzar • Kingdom: Head of Gold – greatest empire • System: one world economic system • Mystery religion
Heavenly Signs (Mat 24 & Revelation) • Supernatural signs in heaves prior to the return of Messiah • Sun goes dark • Moon will not reflect light • Stars will not be visible • At end of the Tribulation
Gog (Ez 37, Rev 20) • Prince of Magog • Title of a ruler • Person – the Anti-messiah
Magog (Ez 37, Rev 20) • Land occupied by modern day Turkey and adjacent countries
Assyria • Second world ruling empire centered around modern day Iraq • Took Israel ( Northern Kingdom into captivity 721 BCE)
Egypt • Original world empire that enslaved Israel • Pictures sin/opposition to God
Medes/Persians (Dan 2) • 2nd great world empire of Daniel’s Image • Modern day Iran
World Empires – Beast Powers • Egypt • Assyria • Babylon • Media-Persian • Greek • Roman • Islamic (Ottoman)
