A CHRONOLOGY OF END-TIME EVENTS


The following paper builds on these assumptions...




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Preliminary Signs


Preliminary Signs of Jesus’ return to Earth that we should be aware of are described as the beginnings of the birth pains...



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The Rise of Babylon


The last world empire is symbolically called ‘Babylon’. It was the first world empire that Daniel and Nebuchadnezzar saw in their dreams...

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The Abomination that Causes Desolation

There is war in the heavenly realm and Satan and his angels are ejected. Having been hurled down to Earth...


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THE ANTICHRIST’S REIGN OF TERROR


The Great Tribulation gets its name from the great time of distress, such as has not happened from the beginning of nations unil then (Dan 12:1) or as Jesus expressed it...


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THE TRIBULATION SAINTS

I find it tragic that many premillennialists teach that the status of the saints who live through the seven-year tribulation period will be different from that of Christians living today...



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THE BATTLE OF ARMAGEDDON


This great battle will be a gathering of armies representing the nations of the whole world who go to fight against Jerusalem...



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THE MESSIAH’S GLORIOUS RETURN

There seems to be no reason why the following eight paragraphs cannot occur in 24 hours...

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THE RESURRECTION OF THE RIGHTEOUS


Jesus said everyone in the graves will one day hear his voice and come out...


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THE RAPTURE OF THE LIVING SAINTS

When God’s people die, they go to be home with the Lord (2 Cor 5:8)...



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The Day of the Lord


“Woe to you who long for the Day of the Lord! Why do you long for the Day of the Lord? That day will be darkness, not light” (Amos 5:18)...


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THE MESSIAH’S ENTHRONEMENT


Daniel had a vision of someone like a man, coming with the clouds of heaven....



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THE MESSIAH’S THRONES


The angel Gabriel told Mary that God would give her child the throne of his father David and he would reign over the house of Jacob...


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NEW JERUSALEM


John gives us a symbolic description of New Jerusalem (Rev 21:2 – 22:5) because the city is heavenly...

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THE MILLENNIUM


The millennium is the thousand-year reign over the Earth of Jesus the Messiah,and his Church...


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ISRAEL’S CONVERSION


The future conversion of the entire nation of Israel is clearly stated in many Scriptures, especially by later OT prophets...



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THE KINGDOM OF GOD

The kingdom of God is an ambiguous expression, difficult for the modern reader to understand...

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WHEN KINGDOM OF GOD MEANS MESSIAH


JMetonymy is the substitution of an attribute for the thing meant, ‘crown’ for the king, ‘turf’ for horse racing...

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WHEN KINGDOM OF GOD MEANS THE MESSIANIC REIGN


The verses in this section are all in a future context as they relate to the Messianic reign of Jesus and his monarchy after his return to Earth...



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WHEN KINGDOM OF GOD MEANS MONARCHY


Jesus the Messiah is coming back to reign on Earth during the millennium...



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NOW AND NOT YET


s the kingdom of God present or future or both? Is the kingdom of God a heavenly or earthly rule?...

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NEW HEAVENS AND NEW EARTH


At the very beginning of God’s revealed word, we have the declaration that God created the heavens and the Earth...

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CURRENT POLITICS


In 2007, the General Assembly of the National Council of Churches approved a resolution for further study...

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THE DOOMSDAY CLOCK


Jesus said: About that day and hour, no one knows, not even the angels in heaven...

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YOUR KINGDOM COME


From that time on, Jesus began to preach: Repent, for the kingdom of God has come near (Mt 4:17)...

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