Basics For Believers

Lesson Twenty Nine: End Time Events (Part Two)

I. The Antichrist and the seven year tribulation.

1. The Bible teaches that after the rapture of the church there will be a seven year tribulation.

a. Dan. 9:24-27; 12:1-9; Matt. 24:21; Rev. 6:17; 14:7.

2. There will be a political one world ruler commonly referred to in Christian circles as the Antichrist. He is called antichrist because he opposes God and Jesus. This man will be totally possessed by Satan.

a. Rev. 13; Dan. 7:24-25; 2 Thess. 2:3-8; 1 John 2:18.

b. He will receive help from the beast and the false prophet - Rev. 13:12-18.

3. He will cause people to take a mark upon their hand or their forehead (666). Without this mark, one will not be able to buy or sell. Those who receive this mark will spend eternity in hell.

a. Rev. 14:9-10.

4. There will be people who are saved during the tribulation.

a. Rev. 7:9-15; 14:1-7.

II. The second coming of Jesus

1. The marriage supper of the Lamb will take place with the saints in heaven during the tribulation.

a. Rev. 19:1-10; Matt. 22:2; 25:10

2. At the end of the seven year tribulation Christ will come back with an army and destroy the antichrist, the false prophet, and their followers.

a. Rev. 19:11-21; Jude 14.

III. The One Thousand year (Latin - millenium) reign of Christ upon the earth.

1. Satan will be thrown into the bottomless pit for a thousand years.

a. Rev. 20:1-3

2. Christ will usher in His millenial reign.

a. Zech. 14:9; Rev. 20:4-6

IV. The White Thrown Judgement

1. When the thousand years are finished, Satan will be released from the bottomless pit. He will then try to deceive the nations.

a. 20:7-10.

2. After Satan’s last rebellion is put down, God will judge those who have rejected Christ as their saviour.

a. Rev. 20:11-15

b. The judgement seat of Christ is for those who are saved and are being judged for their service for Christ on the earth. Those who have rejected Christ will face the white thrown judgement. Their destiny is settled but at this judgement they will find out why.

CONCLUSION: God reveals the end to His children to show us one thing: in the end-we win! Although Satan may believe that he is controlling things now he will soon meet his doom. With all of the misery in torment that is in this world, knowing the outcome of all of this gives God’s people something to look forward to. It brings hope and not despair. It also reveals many things conecrning the nature of our God as well as our enemy.

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