The Foretold Event

Dangerous Knowledge

Don and medical knowledge
Lawyer and the law books
Familiarity with the Bible without real knowledge is dangerous
Last week, spoke about how confusing Eschatology can be with the casual knowledge of the Bible
Not only that, if your heart is not in the right place, God Himself will cause you to be deceived.

Declaration of Faith

Dear Heavenly Father, please give me a revelation of the power of the Gospel today. From this day forward, may Your grace be the foundation of my daily relationship with You.

I declare that I will be free from guilt, condemnation, and a performance mentality. I declare that I abide in faith, abound in hope, I keep myself in the love of God. I will overcome all trials, I will persevere, and develop Christ-like character by His power.

Open my heart to see the hope of my calling, to know the inheritance that I have in the saints, and to understand the depth of Your power at work in my life. Release upon me a Spirit of wisdom, revelation, and enlightenment today.

Lead me into an encounter with You that forever changes me and deepens my love for Jesus. Illuminate the truth of Your Word as You prepare my heart to receive it. Amen.

Unintentional Backmasking: A message is found through phonetic reversal. No intentional effort is made to hide or mask, yet when the song is played backwards, we hear a message.
Our God has risen and in the end He will go to receive God’s people. (https://johnkodiyil.com/worship)
We are living in end days
Last week, End of the age/world, Last times/days
Eschatology should be derived/understood from what the Bible actually says.
Familiarity with the Bible is dangerous.
Take the time, not only that, be part of a Church

2 Timothy 2:15 NKJV

[15] Be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

The Event

Disciples asked Jesus “Tell us, when will all this happen? What sign will signal your return and the end of the world?”

Matthew 24:15–22 NKJV

¹⁵ “Therefore when you see the ‘abomination of desolation,’ spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place” (whoever reads, let him understand), ¹⁶ “then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains. ¹⁷ Let him who is on the housetop not go down to take anything out of his house. ¹⁸ And let him who is in the field not go back to get his clothes. ¹⁹ But woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing babies in those days! ²⁰ And pray that your flight may not be in winter or on the Sabbath. ²¹ For then there will be great tribulation, such as has not been since the beginning of the world until this time, no, nor ever shall be. ²² And unless those days were shortened, no flesh would be saved; but for the elect’s sake those days will be shortened.

Mark 13:14–20 NKJV

¹⁴ “So when you see the ‘abomination of desolation,’ spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not” (let the reader understand), “then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains. ¹⁵ Let him who is on the housetop not go down into the house, nor enter to take anything out of his house. ¹⁶ And let him who is in the field not go back to get his clothes. ¹⁷ But woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing babies in those days! ¹⁸ And pray that your flight may not be in winter. ¹⁹ For in those days there will be tribulation, such as has not been since the beginning of the creation which God created until this time, nor ever shall be. ²⁰ And unless the Lord had shortened those days, no flesh would be saved; but for the elect’s sake, whom He chose, He shortened the days.

Proverbs 15:8–9 NKJV

⁸ The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord, But the prayer of the upright is His delight. ⁹ The way of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord, But He loves him who follows righteousness.

Daniel 11:31–32 NKJV

³¹ And forces shall be mustered by him, and they shall defile the sanctuary fortress; then they shall take away the daily sacrifices, and place there the abomination of desolation. ³² Those who do wickedly against the covenant he shall corrupt with flattery; but the people who know their God shall be strong, and carry out great exploits.

These calamities fell on the Jews in the time of Antiochus Epiphanes

Antiochus Epiphanes caused an altar to be erected on the altar of burnt-offering, on which sacrifices were offered to Jupiter Olympus.
The Great Tribulation that is coming has bearing on us.
It starts when you see the ‘abomination of desolation.

Tribulation timeline

Start with what is known, that which is given; the mid-point
7 years – peace treaty, could be more than 7 years
First 3.5 years, mid-point, second 3.5 years
The ‘abomination of desolation,’ spoken of by Daniel the prophet is at the mid-point.
The Great Tribulation starts after the mid-point and continues during the second 3.5 years
Wrath of the devil from the first 3.5 years to the midpoint, continuing some for time after.

Matthew 24:21-22 NASB

[21] For then there will be a great tribulation, such as has not occurred since the beginning of the world until now, nor ever will again. [22] And if those days had not been cut short, no life would have been saved; but for the sake of the elect those days will be cut short.
Then the catching away/rapture and the Lord’s second coming.
This period after the midpoint to the rapture is known as the Great Tribulation
Then starts the wrath of God

Revelation 6:16-17 NASB

[16] and they said to the mountains and the rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the sight of Him who sits on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb; [17] for the great day of Their wrath has come, and who is able to stand?”
This starts when the 6^th seal is broken.
At the breaking of the 7^th seal, there are 7 trumpets
At the 7^th trumpets, there are 7 bowls

Millennium
Judgment
Renewal of all things

The wrath of God

Pre wrath, mid tribulation, post wrath
Wrath of God vs wrath of the devil.

1 Thessalonians 1:10 NKJV

[10] and to wait for His Son from heaven, whom He raised from the dead, even Jesus who delivers us from the wrath to come.

Romans 5:8-9 NKJV

[8] But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. [9] Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him.

1 Thessalonians 5:9 NKJV

[9] For God did not appoint us to wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,
This is the wrath of God

John 16:8 NASB

[8] And He, when He comes, will convict the world regarding sin, and righteousness, and judgment:

The Second Coming

When our Lord Jesus returns

We are gathered to Him
The Lord will consume the lawless one.
Details in the Orientation Program

1 Thessalonians 4:16-17 NASB

[16] For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. [17] Then we who are alive, who remain, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord.

1 Thessalonians 4:18 NASB

[18] Therefore, comfort one another with these words.