Last Days
{LAST DAYS DAWNED IN JESUS}
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- The Last Days in the Book of Acts - {PDF Copy} - (Joel 2:28-32 - The promised gift of the Spirit marked the commencement of the "last days")
- Doomsayers and Christian Angst - {PDF Copy} - (Scripture encourages Christians to exercise discernment of prophecies, visions, and dreams. Voices constantly warning of imminent disaster should not be taken at face value)
- Joel's Prophecy Applied in the New Testament - {PDF Copy} - (Several times the New Testament applies Joel's prophecies of the Spirit and the commencement of the "last days" to the outpouring of the Spirit on the church)
- The Last Days in the book of Hebrews - {PDF Copy} - (God has spoken His final word in His Son upon the "last of these days")
- The Apostle Paul and the Last Days - {PDF Copy} - (In Christ, one era arrived at its intended endpoint and another commenced)
- The Last Days according to John - {PDF Copy} - (False teachers infiltrating the church constitute unequivocal evidence that we are living in the “last days”)
- The Unsealed Scroll - The Time of Fulfillment is Now - {PDF Copy} - (What was Sealed in the book of Daniel is Unsealed and Revealed in Revelation)
- The Order of Final Events - {PDF Copy} - (In presenting his arguments for the necessity of the resurrection, Paul lays out several events that occur prior to or at the arrival of Jesus)
- Rescued from this Evil Age - {PDF Copy} - (Galatians 1:1-5 - Paul begins his letter on an apocalyptic note; in Jesus, the age to come has dawned)
{SIGNS AND SEASONS}
- The Key Sign of the End of the Age - {PDF Copy} - (Matthew 24:14 - The "End" will not come until the Gospel of Jesus Christ is proclaimed to all nations)
- Deceivers - The Sign of the Last Days - {PDF Copy} - (The presence of false teachers in the church provides a clear sign that we are in the period known as the “last days” - 2 John 7-8)
- Is the Parable of a Budding Fig Tree a Sign of Israel Flourishing in the Land? - {PDF Copy} - (The parable of the budding fig tree meant that the fulfillment of the things predicted by Jesus on the Mount of Olives signaled the imminent destruction of the Temple)
- The Days of Noah - Normalcy or Chaos? - {PDF Copy} - (An analogy from the ancient past to illustrate the need to remain ever ready for the sudden return of Jesus)
- Deceivers, Tumults, and Opposition - {PDF Copy} - (Mark 13:5-13 - The Olivet Discourse opens with warnings about coming deceivers who will deceive many with false expectations about the end of the age)
- Three Repeated Warnings of Jesus - {PDF Copy} - (Three specific warnings to disciples are repeated by Jesus in his Olivet Discourse to help them avoid deception)
- Signs and Wonders or Christ Crucified? - {PDF Copy} - (Claims that the Church will reap a great harvest of souls through displays of mighty "signs and wonders" do not square with Scripture)
- The Abomination of Desolation - {PDF Copy} - (When disciples see the “abomination of desolation standing where it ought not,” they are to flee the vicinity of Jerusalem)
- The Apostle Paul and the Signs of the Times - {PDF Copy} - (The Apostle reaffirmed that the Son of Man will arrive unexpectedly "like a thief in the night")
- Know the "Times and Seasons" - {PDF Copy} - (Did Jesus command us to know the signs and seasons that will signal his soon arrival?)
- "This Generation" in the Olivet Discourse - {PDF Copy} - (Biblical usage of “this generation” consistently applies the phrase to the generation that was alive at the time it was uttered)
{HIS RETURN}
- The Single and Final Parousia of Jesus - {PDF Copy} - (The Parousia of Jesus will be a singular and final event, both the righteous and the wicked)
- Hastening the Day - {PDF Copy} - (The conduct of the church may “hasten the Day of the Lord.” In the interim, God has granted humanity the opportunity to repent before that day inevitably arrives – 2 Peter 3:3-14)
- Meeting Jesus in the Air - {PDF Copy} - (1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 - Paul reassured the Thessalonians that both living and dead saints will participate in the arrival of Jesus from heaven)
- New Creation and the Parousia of Jesus - {PDF Copy} - (2 Peter 3:3-12 - The Parousia of Jesus ushers in the Day of the Lord, final judgment, and the New Creation)
- The Finality of His Return at the End of the Age - {PDF Copy} - (The “coming” of Jesus produces the final judgment, the resurrection, the consummation of his kingdom, the cessation of death, ultimate victory over all his enemies, and the New Creation)
- Hastening the Day of the Lord - {PDF Copy} - (2 Peter 3:3-13 - Right Christian conduct could "hasten" the arrival of the "Day of the Lord")
- The Key Sign of the End of the Age - {PDF Copy} - (Matthew 24:14 - Jesus declared, definitively, that the “end” will not come until “this gospel of the kingdom of God is proclaimed to all nations”)
- The Parousia and the End of the Age - {PDF Copy} - (The note of finality in passages about the return of Jesus leaves no room for any interim period after his arrival)
- Summary of the Parousia of Jesus - {PDF Copy} - (A summary of the terms used for the return of Jesus at the end of the age)
- The Coming of Jesus in Corinth - {PDF Copy} - (The arrival of Jesus means the Day of the Lord, the resurrection, the consummation of the kingdom, judgment, and the cessation of Death)
- The Revelation of Jesus in 1 Peter - {PDF Copy} - (Peter exhorts believers to persevere in trials and to live holy lives in light of the coming revelation of Jesus from heaven)
- The Coming of Jesus in the letters of John - {PDF Copy} - (The presence of false teachers in John's churches constituted evidence that Christians were living in the “last days”)
- The Last Enemy, Death - {PDF Copy} - (1 Corinthians 15:20-28 - Paul defends the bodily resurrection and links it and the cessation of death to the coming of Jesus)
{ANTICHRIST AND DECEIVERS}
- The Spirit of Antichrist - Deceivers in the Church - {PDF Copy} - (In the New Testament, the Antichrist is a deceiver intent on leading the elect of God away from the Christ revealed in the Bible)
- Antichrist-S in the Church - {PDF Copy} - (1 John 2:18 - According to John, "Antichrists" are false teachers that operate within the local churche)
- The Beast and its Counterfeit Religion - {PDF Copy} - (Believers must be on alert for clever ploys of Satan to compromise with the beliefs of the world order)
- The Antichrist - What Kind of Leader? - {PDF Copy} - (Will the Beast be a global political leader or a deceiver within the church?)
- The Ravenous Beasts in the Church - {PDF Copy} - (Throughout the present age, the Church is plagued with deceivers from within bent on causing apostasy)
- Embracing the Mark of the Beast - {PDF Copy} - (In the book of Revelation, the inhabitants of the earth take the Beast's mark of their own volition)
- The Man of Lawlessness - The Problem - {PDF Copy} - (2 Thessalonians 2:1-2 - Disinformation fed to the Thessalonians about the “day of the Lord” alarmed many members of the congregation)
- The Man of Lawlessness - Missing Events - {PDF Copy} - (2 Thessalonians 2:3-4 - The Man of Lawlessness must appear and the apostasy must occur before the Day of the Lord commences)
- The Man of Lawlessness - Until Revealed - {PDF Copy} - (2 Thessalonians 2:5-7 - The Mystery of Lawlessness is already at work in the world to prepare for the unveiling of the Man of Lawlessness)
- The Man of Lawlessness - His Destruction - {PDF Copy} - (2 Thessalonians 2:5-7 - Jesus will undo the evil works of the Man of Lawlessness at his Parousia or “Arrival")
- Kingdom of God or Christendom? - {PDF Copy} - (The deception of ‘Christendom’ is an attempt to domesticate the Jesus of scripture so he may be used to validate national institutions, ideologies, and values often more antichrist than Christian)
- Little Horn - Son of Destruction - {PDF Copy} - (The “little horn” in Daniel is the model for the “man of lawlessness” described by Paul – 2 Thessalonians 2:3-9)
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