LESSON 1 Eschatology PT 1 Introduction
THE STUDY OF “LAST THINGS”
LESSON 1
Part 1
WHY IT’S IMPORTANT TO STUDY ESCHATOLOGY
Basic stuff:
ESCHATOLOGY:
The study of the LAST THINGS or LAST DAYS
We will not be discussing…
“Newspaper Exegesis” (Chasing Headline News),
Cartoon Eschatology (Endless Charts) and
Crazy Interpretations like the locusts of Revelation 9 being helicopters, etc.
Talking about the Last Things can be deeply stirring and heart rending…
FIRST, because it has to do with our HOPE …
“HOPE IS AN ANCHORE TO OUR SOUL…” (Heb 6.19) Don’t mess with our HOPE!!!
Talking about the Last Things can be deeply stirring and heart rending… not just because of “HOPE”, but...
SECOND, because it has to do with our PURITY…
1 Jn 3.2:
"Beloved…now are we the children of God, it has not appeared as yet what we shall be. We know that when He appears… (Second Coming) ...we shall be like Him because we shall see Him just as He is and everyone who has this hope fixed on Him purifies himself just as He is pure."
Talking about the Last Things can be deeply stirring and heart rending… not just because of “HOPE”, and “PURITY”, but…
THIRD, because it has to do with our STEADFASTNESS AND IMMOVABILITY…
1 Cor 15.58:
"Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast immovable.”
I am unmoved. I know where history is going.
Talking about the Last Things can be deeply stirring and heart rending… not just because of “HOPE”, “PURITY”, “STEADFASTNESS”, but...
FOURTH, because it has to do with our COMFORT…
1 Thess 4.16-18:
"The Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, the trumpet of God. The dead in Christ shall rise first. We who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, thus shall we always be with the Lord …Therefore comfort one another with these words.”
Talking about the Last Things can be deeply stirring and heart rending… not just because of “HOPE”, “PURITY”, “STEADFASTNESS”, “COMFORT”, but...
FIFTH, because it has to do with God’s PLEASURE with us, OUR REWARD FROM HIM and JUDGEMENT of the World…
2 Cor 5.9-10:
9 So whether we are at home or away, we make it our aim to please him.
10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive what is due for what he has done in the body, whether good or evil.
We have nothing to fear, nothing to worry about. The Lord's coming back. We want to live in Blessing, purity, stability, and comfort, and, for Him to give us a passion for evangelism in light of the final judgment of the world.
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