Bible Study Outline On The End Times Prophecy (ESCHATOLOGY)

THE END TIMES (THE LAST DAYS)
Bible Study Outline on Eschatology

by Venerable Dr I. U. Ibeme
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CONTENTS
MILLENNIALISM
END TIMES or LAST DAYS or LAST HOUR
The Book of Revelation: Simple Expository Outline
What Happens at Death since the Time of Christ’s Cross and Ascension?
END TIMES 1: Time of our WAITING for Christ
END TIMES 2: Time of Christ's Second PAROUSIA
END TIMES 3: Time of the FINAL JUDGMENT
The ETERNITY: The FINAL DESTINIES
ESCHATOLOGY
Eschatology (from Grk=eschatos which means 'last') is the study of last things as revealed
in the Scripture, which includes
➢ last things for the INDIVIDUAL soul (Intermediate State i.e. life-after-death, Final State
i.e. life after resurrection and Judgment),
➢ last things for the CHURCH (Great Tribulation, Christ’s Second Coming, Millennium),
➢ last things for the whole WORLD (the Judgement and Hell) and
➢ last things for the UNIVERSE at large (New Heaven and Earth).
The common trend and tendency today about Eschatological studies is to be distracted by
interests in sequences, dates calculations and predictions, instead of focusing on the possible
impact and implications of these coming LAST THINGS and events on our Christian worship and
witness and the relevant readiness and responsibilities required of us in order to remain with
Christ.
MILLENNIALISM
Millenarian truth as God’s way to “bring all things under Christ’s feet” before the end (1Cor 15:23-27) was
first revealed to John in Rev 20:1-7, who taught same in Asia Minor in AD 90s. The Ancient Church knew and
taught this Historic truth of single open “First Resurrection” as the only glorious resurrection for all the
Saints (Jewish and Gentile) at Premillennial Second Advent of Christ as it is plain in the Scriptures.
Later, some “wise” theories based on “what if” and “could it be”, “typologies” and “allegories” came up first with
carnal and speculative Chilliasm in the 3rd Century, then Amillennialism in the 4th Century, next was
Postmillennialism in the 18th Century, now in the 20th Century, we have several Dispensational “parenthesis”
theories of double Second Comings, separated “wall-partitioned” Jew and Gentile Churches and secret escape
rapture for the Gentile Church Bride to heaven while the Jewish Church Bride stays on earth. It is important to be
aware that some eschatological views popular in the Church today were never taught by Christ nor ever believed by
the Apostles and the Church Fathers. There are FOUR main views about the Millennium in the Church
today.
➢ Amillennialism is the 4th Century teaching that there will be no Millennial Reign when Christ returns
since it has already begun with the ascension of Christ, Who now reigns with the triumphant saints in
heaven and the militant saints on earth.
➢ Postmillennialism is the 18th Century teaching that the millennial reign will come through evangelisation
of all the world and the Church’s dominion all the earth which will lead to the return of Christ.
➢ Dispensational Premillennialism is the modern teaching that Christ will return to secretly rapture
the Gentile Church to close their new theoretical “parenthesis” of the Dispensation of Grace for Gentiles
before the Tribulation for Jews and thereafter return again for the Second Coming to establish the
Millennial Reign.
Dispensationalists recently postulate that the resurrection for the rapture of the Church
should antedate the Second Coming to TERMINATE their “Dispensation of Grace” or
“Church Age” and INAUGURATE the Tribulation.
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FOUR VIEWS OF THE END TIMES
Dispensational Historic
Amillennialism Postmillennialism
Premillennialism Premilliennialism
Will Jesus return
Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes.
physically?
Anytime; a detailed After a 7-year
When will Jesus After tribulation;
time frame is not After the millennium. tribulation; before the
return? before the millennium.
important. millennium.
Do the rapture as in
No; they are events
1Thes 4:15-17 and
separated by either 7
second coming of
years (pre-tribulation
Christ occur at the Yes. Yes. Yes.
rapture) or 3½ years
same time as in Matt
(mid-tribulation
24:25-31 and 2Thes
rapture).
2:1-3?
Tribulation is either the
Will there be a great Tribulation occurs
first century Jewish-
(Antichrist, worst, anytime Christians
Roman War or the on-
final) tribulation as are persecuted or Yes. Yes.
going conflict between
spoken in Matt 24:21- wars and disasters
good and evil prior to
25; 2Thes 2:1-12? occur.
millennium.
Christians are either
Yes, Christians will Yes, Christians will go
Yes, Christians are called raptured before the
suffer and endure through the tribulation
Will Christians suffer to share the gospel and tribulation (pre-
persecutions until but “sealed” to endure
during the tribulation will occur tribulation rapture) or
Jesus returns; suffering and
tribulation? when that gospel is 3½ years into the
persecutions will persecution for the
opposed. tribulation (mid-
increase in the end. cause of Christ.
tribulation rapture).
Will there be a literal No, the millennium is No, the millennium Yes, after the 7-year Yes, after the
1,000-year already the reign of refers to a period of tribulation, Christ will tribulation, Christ will
millennium as in Rev Christ with Church peace when the gospel return and reign for return and reign for
20:1-6? triumphant/militant. reaches all people. 1,000 years. 1,000 years.
Who is saved? Christians only. Christians only. Christians only. Christians only.
Is the modern state of
Israel relevant to the
No. No. Yes. No.
prophecies in
Revelation?
Did the 70 weeks of
Dan 9:24 end with the No; the 70th week or
desolation of the last half of the 70th
Jerusalem Temple as week was suspended
Yes. Yes. Yes.
spoken by Daniel in for latter fulfilment in
Dan 9:27 and by future modern
Christ in Matt 24:1-4, Jerusalem Temple.
15-18?
Became popular in the The earliest popular
Well known from the
Popular in the 18th 19th century view of the end times
AD 300s. It became
century missionary and Adventism circles. Has at the end of the first
When was this view widespread since the
colonisation Europe but increased in popularity century, through the
most held? AD 400s. Continues
lost popularity after the since after the two ministry of Apostle
to be accepted
two World Wars. World Wars and birth John. Still accepted
today.
of modern Israel. today.
Adapted by Ven Dr I. U. Ibeme www.scribd.com/ifeogo from Rose Guide to the End Time Prophecy; www.rose-publishing.com

➢ Historic Premillennialism is the ancient teaching that Christ will return only ONCE to terminate the
Tribulation, destroy the Antichrist and raise all the Saints (Jews and Gentiles) for the Millennial Reign.
The Historic doctrine of the early Church is that the resurrection for the rapture of the
Church will coincide with the Second Coming to TERMINATE the Tribulation and
INAUGURATE the Millennium.
It is best to follow the sequence that emerges straight from what Christ Himself plainly revealed, especially in
Matthew 24 (and its synoptic parallels) about times before His Coming, as well as in Revelation 20-21 about
times after His Coming. This is called Historic Premillennialism and agrees with the common historic
understanding taught by the Apostolic Fathers and ancient Church Fathers of the second and third centuries
Church, such as Papias, a close associate of St John (c. 70-155AD), Justin (c. 110-165AD), Irenaeus (c. 120-202AD),
Tertullian (c. 145-220AD), Cyprian (c. 200-258AD) and in the Church discipleship teaching manual called Didache
(c. 120AD). I uphold the ancient Historic Premillennial view, because it does no havoc whatsoever to
any portion of Scripture I know of, but AGREES SMOOTHLY WITH SCRIPTURES IN THEIR PLAIN
CONTEXTS.
There are various theories about sequence of eschatological events and reasons for such schemes. These ever
increasing eschatological theories, all of which tend to distract us from the Scripture, are Chiliasm, Amillennialism,
Pre-millennialism, Post-millennialism, Pre-tribulationism, Mid-tribulationism, Post-tribulationism,
Dispensationalism, Futurism, Preterism, Idealism, Historicism, etc. Many of these eschatological schemes
are actually not exegetical interpretation of the Scriptures but theoretical imagination of the mind.
It is advisable to take all the plain biblical aspects of the above views and disregards every of their conjectures and
theories that reengineer or discountenance parts of the Scripture (Joh 3:33; Rom 3:4; 2Co 4:1-6). In this way,
whatever is beclouded and confused by philosophical and preferential fancies and views, denominational polemics,
theological polishing by schools of thought becomes unveiled and straightforward through the simple acceptance of
God's plain testimony in the Scriptures.
Some key points to ponder on concerning — THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST:
1. Will there be resurrection and rapture without Christ Coming?

There cannot be gathering of any saint except at Christ's coming, according to the Scriptures.
Christ is returning to raise the Saints and reign with them.
2. Will Christ come without resurrection and rapture?

Christ would only come for gathering His saints to Himself according to the Scriptures.
3 Will Christ come once more or several times more?

He'll come only once more according to His Word in the Scriptures.
4. When will this/these be?

The gathering of the saints unto Christ will be only at the end of the Tribulation to terminate the Antichrist reign,
gather His saints and reign with them, according to Christ's Word in the Scriptures.
Above table shows FOUR main views of the END TIMES.

I uphold the ancient Historic Premillennial view, because it does no havoc whatsoever to any portion of Scripture I
know of, but AGREES SMOOTHLY WITH ALL SCRIPTURES IN THEIR PLAIN CONTEXTS.
(For more details visit http://www.scribd.com/doc/19347123/Covenants-in-the-Scripture

And http://priscaquila.6te.net/seminars/millennium.html).
TODAY, DISPENSATIONALISTS PRETEND TO BE TEACHING HISTORIC APOSTOLIC PREMILLENNIALISM.

The difference between ancient Historic Premillennialism and modern Dispensational Premillennialism is because
Dispensationalists deny or confuse the Spiritual ALL Remnant Israel (Rom 11:26) with Natural ENTIRE Political Israel
and muddle up the Spiritual FULL NUMBER Redeemed Gentiles (Rom 11:25) with Natural ENTIRE Gentile Population
(just as it is with Amillennialists and Postmillennialists). Dispensationalist eschatology of pretrubulational raptureof the
Church came from Jesuits and Jews in order to counter antisemitism and anticatholicism among Protestant and
Reformers who are beginning to label Rome as Antichrist and Jews as not having a homeland. Dispensationalists deny
the Apostolic Gospel that Christ has finally broken the partition wall (Eph 2:11-22) to unite the Spiritual Remnant Israel
and the Spiritual Redeemed Gentiles into One New Testament Church of Christ which is His ONE BRIDE.
Dispensationalists’ modern theory rejects the way the Apostles and the Early Church spiritually applied the Old
Testament Scriptures to the New Testament Church. To the Apostles, older covenants were graded preparations and
probations designed by God as schoolmasters (Gal 3:22-25) and foreshadows (Col 2:16-17; Heb 8:5) which progressively
build up to graduate God’s people and humanity to the perfect eternal salvation reserved in Christ’s New Covenant (Heb
8:6-13; 11:39-40). But the Dispensationalists have a different logic and concept for their theory – that covenants are
“dispensational”, “crash-reboot” and “partition” contingency or emergency devices which God innovates to reboot His
programme when humanity crashes an older covenant!
Another reason for difference between ancient Historic Premillennialism and modern Dispensational Premillennialism
is because Dispensationalists teach that their Christ’s open glorious Second Coming shall be WITH the Church not FOR
the Church. Therefore, their Christ must have to come first FOR the Church in a prior secret Rapture. Historic
Premillennialists from Apostolic times have taught that it is during Christ’s only Second and final trumpet Coming that
in open and visible glory, He will TAKE (Raise, Rapture, Catch up or Gather 1Thes 4:17; 2Thes 2:1) His believing saints
to Himself (John 14:1-3) to reign with them on the earth and in eternity. To Dispensationalists, the resurrection
rapture of the saints is not for welcoming Christ to earth at His Second Coming but for prior escape of the Gentile
Church to heaven so that the Israel Church would suffer Tribulation before Christ’s Second Coming. Therefore, they
reinterpret the word “keep” in Rev. 3:10 to mean “remove” or “rapture away” (of the Gentile Church with the Jewish
Apostles?) from the world (even adding “secretly”)! But the Scriptures clearly show that “keep” in Rev 3:10 as recorded
by John does NOT mean “removal from”, but rightly means “protection from” the tribulation. The Lord shall surely
preserve and sustain His faithful saints from falling as victims in the day of the worst adversity. Hallelujah!
What do Jesus’ saying and John’s (Greek) writing mean by the phrase: “KEEP FROM”?
Does it mean REMOVAL FROM the world or PROTECTION FROM the hour and the evil?
Revelation 3:10
(10) Because you have kept the word of my patience, I also will KEEP YOU FROM the hour of temptation,
which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.
Christ Himself had been clear His KEEP FROM should be understood that He will KEEP His own from the
evil of the evil hour, NOT TAKE them out of the world.
John 17:15
(15) I pray NOT THAT YOU SHOULD TAKE THEM OUT of the world, but that you should KEEP THEM
FROM the evil.
This same meaning of PRESERVATION or PROTECTION instead of RAPTURE actually applies to all other
verses of the Scripture that use KEEP FROM, DELIVER FROM, and SAVE FROM. It is therefore dangerous and
ludicrous to revise KEEP FROM in one verse by spurious private interpretation or modern curious logic or
theory and end up destroying every other plain teaching in the Scriptures.
In any case, even if the Church were to be resurrected before the wrath and evil of the Great Tribulation, which
still means that the Saints would already be in their glorious body and so could not be harmed by the wrath and
evil. So why take them away from the world? For safety? What safety? How could their glorious bodies be
endangered in the midst of unglorified mortals? This modern dispensational ESCAPIST and partitionist theory
does not just make sense, no wonder the Prophets, Christ and His Apostles neither taught nor preached it.
The big difficulty of Dispensationalism is their modern doctrine or theory about termination of Christ’s New
Testament reign on earth at the rapture, in order to make way for God to purportedly resume the Old Testament
to fulfil Christless (or even Davidless) promise for a post-Christian Israel! Giving Israel the redemptive place
which should be due only to Christ and making Christ irrelevant is a dangerously subtle apostasy – Israelianity
instead of Christianity. Yet the Scripture is unanimous that Christ the Son of David shall never cease His New
Testament reign on earth, both invisibly through His Church and the Holy Spirit and visibly in glory till the earth
passes away and till forever in eternity (Luk 1:33; Heb 1:8; Rev 11:15). Fact is that Dispensationalism is not really
contextual biblical interpretation but irregular Bible revisionism to make room for a modern theory.
It is important to note that at His Second Coming, Christ would descend from the third heaven,
shake the space constellations in the second heaven and come down to appear in the
atmospheric sky of the first heaven (Mat 24:29-30; Act 2:19-20). According to consistent
testimony of the Scriptures, at that time there shall be:
1. The LAST TRUMPET shall sound – by the Archangel.
2. The dead in Christ (Church Triumphant) shall first be RESURRECTED to immortality.
3. The living in Christ (Church Militant) shall then be CHANGED to immortality.

4. The raised Triumphant Saints and changed Militant Saints shall together be RAPTURED
and gathered to MEET and welcome the coming Lord in the atmospheric sky.
5. These raptured immortal Saints shall forever be with the Lord to REIGN with Him in the
Millennium and REST with Him in the Eternity.
Christ shall Come Again with His Holy Angels (2Thes 1:7) to gather His Elect Saints into glory
(2Thes 2:10) and destroy the Antichrist setup (2Thes 2:8-9).
2 Thessalonians 1:6-10
(6) Seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you;
(7) And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be REVEALED from heaven
WITH HIS MIGHTY ANGELS,
(8) In flaming fire TAKING VENGEANCE ON THEM THAT KNOW NOT GOD, and that obey not the
gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:
(9) Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the PRESENCE of the Lord, and from the
glory of his power;
(10) WHEN HE SHALL COME TO BE GLORIFIED IN HIS SAINTS, and to be admired in all them that
believe (because our testimony among you was believed) in that day.
The determining issue in all these is, whatever we believe that this Second Coming of Christ, the
last Trumpet, Resurrection, Rapture, etc would take place, WE MUST BE PREPARED FOR
WHATEVER IT WILL TAKE to ensure we partake of it. Regardless of our comprehension,
conjectures and convictions, remember that:
1. Christ said it WILL BE AT THE END OF THE GREAT TRIBULATION (Matt 24:29-31).
2. The Apostles wrote it WOULD NOT BE TILL AFTER THE ANTICHRIST LAWLESS
REIGN AND THE TRIBULATION (1Cor 15:20-26; 2Thes 2:1-4; Rev 20:4-6).
3. Some Christians in recent times think that it SHOULD BEGIN BEFORE THE
ANTICHRIST AND THE TRIBULATION (due to some recent Dispensationalist
Theoretical revisions, Cowardly Escapist considerations, political Jewish Separatist
speculations).
Matthew 24:29-31
(29) "IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE TRIBULATION OF THOSE DAYS the sun will be darkened, and the
moon will not give its light, and the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be
shaken.
(30) Then will appear in heaven the sign of the Son of Man, and then all the tribes of the earth will
mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
(31) AND HE WILL SEND OUT HIS ANGELS WITH A LOUD TRUMPET CALL, AND THEY WILL
GATHER HIS ELECT FROM THE FOUR WINDS, FROM ONE END OF HEAVEN TO THE OTHER.

1 Corinthians 15:20-26
(20) But in fact Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.
(21) For as by a man came death, by a man has come also the resurrection of the dead.
(22) For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive.
(23) BUT EACH IN HIS OWN ORDER: CHRIST THE FIRSTFRUITS, THEN AT HIS COMING THOSE
WHO BELONG TO CHRIST.
(24) Then comes the end, when he delivers the kingdom to God the Father after destroying every rule and
every authority and power.
(25) For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet.
(26) The last enemy to be destroyed is death.
(1) NOW CONCERNING THE COMING OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST AND OUR BEING GATHERED
TOGETHER TO HIM, WE ASK YOU, BROTHERS,
(2) not to be quickly shaken in mind or alarmed, either by a spirit or a spoken word, or a letter seeming
to be from us, to the effect that the day of the Lord has come.
(3) LET NO ONE DECEIVE YOU IN ANY WAY. FOR THAT DAY WILL NOT COME, UNLESS THE
REBELLION COMES FIRST, AND THE MAN OF LAWLESSNESS IS REVEALED, THE SON OF
DESTRUCTION,
(4) who opposes and exalts himself against every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his
seat in the temple of God, proclaiming himself to be God.
Revelation 20:4-6
(4) Then I saw thrones, and seated on them were those to whom the authority to judge was committed.
Also I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus and for the word of God,

and those who had not worshiped the beast or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads
or their hands. THEY CAME TO LIFE AND REIGNED WITH CHRIST FOR A THOUSAND YEARS.
(5) THE REST OF THE DEAD DID NOT COME TO LIFE UNTIL THE THOUSAND YEARS WERE
ENDED. THIS IS THE FIRST RESURRECTION.
(6) BLESSED AND HOLY IS THE ONE WHO SHARES IN THE FIRST RESURRECTION! Over such the
second death has no power, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and they will reign with him for
a thousand years.
The most important matter in all these is this:

WILL YOU STILL BE IN THE FAITH OF CHRIST WHEN HE COMES?
THE APPEARANCE OF CHRIST’S KINGDOM (Luke 19:11)

SHALL TERMINATE “THE TIMES OF THE GENTILES” (Luke 21:24)
The “TIMES OF THE GENTILES” refers to the time when Gentile nations shall have dominion over
Jerusalem and shall ultimately end when Christ comes to reign on earth for the Millennium. Since the fall
of humanity and the beginning of civilization, Gentile nations controlled by Satan have dominated the
earth. The Antichrist reign shall be the worst and last phase of the “Times of the Gentiles” (Luk 21:24;
Rev 11:2). Soon, when Christ comes again in glory to reign on the earth, the Times of the Gentile shall be
terminated and the whole earth taken over by Christ’s Kingdom (Dan 7:13-28). Then, all eyes of all
nations shall see the coming Christ appear to resurrect/rapture together as one undivided Church and
Bride, all His Elect Saints from among all nations and all generations (Mat 24:25-31; Rev 1:7; 14:14-16),
to reign from His heavenly New Jerusalem with them as His priests and kings over all the earth in the
Millennium (Rev 3:12; 5:10; 20:1-6), until Final Judgment and final rest in Eternal Felicity.
When Christ returns to ruin the Antichrist, raise His Saints and reign with them as His Priests and Princes
on the earth, the future glorious LARGER (1400 miles square circumference Rev 21:16) Millennial NEW
JERUSALEM which is being DIVINELY PREPARED in heaven (Gal 4:26; Heb 12:22; Rev 3:12; 20:9;
21:2, 10-27) shall rest over and its glory shall swallow up this present natural SMALLER (6 miles inner
city circumference Ezek 48:35 and 24 miles outer holy circumference Ezek 45:1) National OLD
JERUSALEM which shall be HUMANLY REPAIRED on earth.
Formerly, Amillennialists theorized their DELETE-AND-PASTE “Replacement Theology” which denies

Israel it nationality by replacing the natural national Israel with the visible Church of Christ, but they
forgot to also deny other nations their nationalities and that universally sovereign Spiritual and heavenly
“Israel” of Jesus (which includes the saints from Israel nation and all Gentile nations) does not replace the
locally sovereign Natural and national Israel of Jacob (Rom 9:6; Gal 3:29). Recently, Dispensationalists
have theorized their “crash-reboot” and CUT-AND-PASTE “Partition Theology” which denies the visible
Church its international unity by partitioning it into “pre-tribulation” Gentile Church to be raptured
separately apart from their often speculated “left-behind” tribulation Israel Church, but they forget that
Christ will do only one gathering for His One Church from all nations (Mat 24:29-31; 2Thes 2:1-7; 2Pet
3:11-17).
To be sure, every generation of Saints must have their own Tribulation to overcome so the Saints of the
Antichrist Tribulation are not “left-behind” by any imagined or postulated secret rapture or resurrection
prior to Christ’s Second Coming; rather, they are last batch remnant of faithful Church who would still be
alive at the time of the Antichrist to overcome during that final generation of the Times of the Gentiles
(Rev 12:11, 17).
The Dispensationalist theory was predicated on the argument that eschatological prophecies for
national Israel are difficult to coexist (by their perception) with eschatological prophecies for Christ’s
universal Church, so they speculate that the Church has to give way somehow, hence the secret rapture
theory. They forgot that the “Stone cut without hands” was revealed and surely interpreted to come and
grow into a mountain “in the days of these kings” of iron and clay era (Dan 2:33-34, 44-45). The danger
of these rationalized dispensationalist theories is that they doubt the Scriptures and do not allow any
Scriptural text to speak by itself in its context.
The truth as found in contextually plain Scriptures is that the visible Church of Christ is one Body without
partition (John 10:16; Rom 9:23-26; Eph 2:14) and does not replace any nation but unites all believers
from all nations who shall together be gathered only once as one Bride when Christ comes again in glory.
This coming again shall be only once more at the end of the worst Gentile reign which shall be under the
Antichrist. Then shall the one glorious universal Church reign with Christ in the Millennium over both
political Israelite nation (Ezek 37:24-27; Joel 3:16-31) and all political Gentile nations (1Cor 15:24-28).
Remember, the Scriptures are plainly consistent that there shall be only one second coming of Christ,
only one last trumpet call and only one first resurrection with rapture of only one unpartitioned
Church. Therefore, all modern popular Dispensationalist theories of twisted multiple second comings,
multiple last trumpets, multiple raptures and multiple first resurrections of multiple partitioned Churches
are humanly devised schemes which should be disregarded as unscriptural and be discarded. These
dangerous theoretical schemes are capable of weakening the Church in the day of the Lord so that many
would fall away to follow the Antichrist during the time of toughest trial of our faith.
True saints love the truth and believe only the truth and are determined to overcome unto the very last
end! Beware of the abominable deception that would cause the desolating apostasy (2Thes 2:7-12), when
civility and morality which has been holding lawlessness back are “taken out of the way” by the
licentious world and the verity of divine truth is rejected by the licentious Church (2Tim 3:1-13; Jude
4-5).
Take note of this prophetic admonition from the Apostles of Christ:

(1) NOW CONCERNING THE COMING OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST AND OUR BEING GATHERED
TOGETHER TO HIM, WE ASK YOU, BROTHERS,
(2) not to be quickly shaken in mind or alarmed, either by a spirit or a spoken word, or a letter seeming
to be from us, to the effect that the day of the Lord has come.
(3) LET NO ONE DECEIVE YOU IN ANY WAY. FOR THAT DAY WILL NOT COME, UNLESS THE
REBELLION COMES FIRST, AND THE MAN OF LAWLESSNESS IS REVEALED, THE SON OF
DESTRUCTION,
(4) who opposes and exalts himself against every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his
seat in the temple of God, proclaiming himself to be God.
(5) Do you not remember that when I was still with you I told you these things?
(6) And you know what is restraining him now so that he may be revealed in his time.
(7) For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work. Only he who now restrains it will do so until he is
out of the way.
(8) And then THE LAWLESS ONE WILL BE REVEALED, WHOM THE LORD JESUS WILL KILL with the
breath of his mouth AND BRING TO NOTHING BY THE APPEARANCE OF HIS COMING.
(9) The coming of the lawless one is by the activity of Satan with all power and false signs and wonders,
(10) and with all wicked deception for those who are perishing, BECAUSE THEY REFUSED TO LOVE
THE TRUTH AND SO BE SAVED.
(11) Therefore GOD SENDS THEM A STRONG DELUSION, SO THAT THEY MAY BELIEVE WHAT IS
FALSE,
(12) in order that ALL MAY BE CONDEMNED WHO DID NOT BELIEVE THE TRUTH but had
pleasure in unrighteousness.
(13) But we ought always to give thanks to God for you, brothers beloved by the Lord, because God chose
you as the firstfruits to be saved, through sanctification by the Spirit and BELIEF IN THE TRUTH.

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TRIBULATION SAINTS ARE NOT UNRAPTURED UNREADY SAINTS

BUT FAITHFUL REMNANT OF MILITANT LIVING SAINTS.
The Saints on earth during the Great Tribulation are not unraptured unready Saints but faithful
Militant Church of enduring or living Saints still occupying in Christ.
The Souls in heaven during the Great Tribulation are not faithful raptured Saints but faithful
Triumphant Church of departed or dead Souls already blessed in Christ.
2 Corinthians 5:8-9
(8) Yes, we are of good courage, and we would rather be away from the body and at home with the Lord.
(9) So whether we are at home or away, we make it our aim to please him.
Philippians 1:21-24
(21) For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.
(22) If I am to live in the flesh, that means fruitful labor for me. Yet which I shall choose I cannot tell.
(23) I am hard pressed between the two. My desire is to depart and be with Christ, for that is far better.
(24) But to remain in the flesh is more necessary on your account.
Revelation 6:9-11
(9) When he opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain for the word
of God and for the witness they had borne.
(10) They cried out with a loud voice, "O Sovereign Lord, holy and true, how long before you will judge
and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?"
(11) Then they were each given a white robe and told to rest a little longer, until the number of their
fellow servants and their brothers should be complete, who were to be killed as they themselves had been.
Dispensationalists speculate their MODERN THEORY of “rapture” before the Second Comings of
Christ, or ?double? or ?split?? Second Coming(s) first for a pretribulation Escapist “first flight” rapture of
the faithful mainly partitioned Gentile Church and secondly for the final “second chance” resurrection of
the unfaithful mainly partitioned Jewish Saints. This is conjectural hypothesis of human logic and not
contextual exegesis of the Divine Logos. A concept of Rapture without Second Coming of Christ for
Resurrection of the all His redeemed is strange to the Scriptures and the Church for 1900 years but
suddenly true to Dispensationalists since modern and postmodern times.
Dispensationalists theoretically presume that the Souls in heaven found in the Book of Revelation are
saints raptured before the Tribulation, but these souls are departed Triumphant Saints who would already
be dead in Christ but yet to resurrect meanwhile (Rev 6:9-11; 14:12-13). The modern explanation
speculated by Dispensationalists about the Tribulation Saints in the Book of Revelation is that they are
unready saints “left behind” to weather the Tribulation storm “with their own blood in absence of the
Holy Spirit”! They postulate that the Holy Spirit would have been taken out of the way during their
purported pretribulation rapture of some faithful saints of the mainly Gentile Church! This speculative
theory lacks any biblical basis because Christ and His Apostles are emphatically explicit that the
Coming of Christ and the First ever Resurrection of His Saints will never take place before the
Final Great Tribulation (Mat 24:29-31; 1Cor 15:20-26; 2Thes 2:1-4; Rev 20:4-6).
To substantiate their double Church and double Coming theory, Dispensationalists claim that the
grammatical usage “KEEP FROM” in Rev 3:10 means the TAKING AWAY of the Church from the
world but they forget that the same grammatical usage “KEEP FROM” in John 17:15 is clearly said by
Christ not to mean TAKING AWAY from the world! Dispensationalists also claim that the
“RESTRAINT” or “RESTRAINER” to be TAKEN OUT OF THE WAY before the REVELATION OF
THE MAN OF SIN in 2Thes 2:6-7 is the raptured Church and/or the withdrawn Holy Spirit, but they
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forget that the context shows that the Church is never to be gathered to Christ until after the revelation of
the Man of Sin mentioned in 2Thes 2:1-4, who would be destroyed when Christ comes to gather His
Church in 2Thes 2:8.
Therefore, it is not biblically true that Tribulation Saints are unfaithful Christians “left behind” by any
modern theorized or speculated pretribulation rapture (2Thes 2:1-3). The Historic Biblical position of the
Apostolic and Patriarchal Churches was rather that Tribulation Saints are simply those faithful Christians
who would still be living in Christ as the Militant Church by the time of antichristian lawlessness reign.
The persecution of the Church under the Antichrist shall precede the only ever FIRST RESURRECTION
of any Church saints (Rev 20:1-6); but this shall be more worldwide than similar persecutions found in
ancient pre-Constantine Roman Empire, or in former communist Soviet Union USSR and in today’s
terrorist Islamic State ISIS territory.
Disregarding every conjectured hypothesis and standing only on contextual biblical exegesis, the
sequence of eschatological programme of God for the Church and the world is thus:
OUR WAITING (Our occupying/His redeeming till we overcome at His coming) →→
HIS COMING (the First Resurrection and destruction of the Antichrist) →→
HIS REIGN (the Millennium Reign with the risen Saints) →→
THE END (the Final Conflagration and Judgment) →→
THE ETERNITY (the Eternal Destinies of torment or glory).
END TIMES or LAST DAYS or LAST HOUR or

ACCEPTABLE YEAR or DAY OF SALVATION
(Isa 2:2; Luk 4:19; Act 2:16-21; 2Cor 6:2; 1Ti 4:1; Heb 1:2; 2Pe 3:3; 1Jn 2:18):
2 Corinthians 6:2
(2) For he says, "I heard you at the acceptable time, and in the day of
salvation I helped you." Look, NOW is "the acceptable time"; look, NOW is "the
day of salvation"!
This is the period or era of PREACHING SALVATION (2Cor 6:2) that follows after
Christ's Natal FIRST COMING with GRACE for the LAST DAYS OF OUTPOURING for
UNIVERSAL REDEMPTION and SALVATION (Act 2:17, 21) until His Parousial SECOND
COMING with GLORY for the DREADFUL DAY OF THE LORD’S WRATH (Act 2:20) for
UNIVERSAL SUBJUGATION and RETRIBUTION. This FIRST COMING for redemption is
referred to as Christ’s:
ERCHOMAI (Coming Joh 1:14-16; 1Jn 4:2) in the flesh;
PHANEROS (made Manifest, made Known/Shown/Apparent 1Jn 1:2; Joh 1:31;
Rom 16:26; Col 1:26; 1Ti 3:16; 2Ti 1:10; 1Pe 1:20);
APOKALUPSIS (Revelation Luk 2:32; Rom 16:25; Eph 3:3-6) of grace.
END TIMES effectively span from the Out-Pouring of the Spirit for the “Last
DAYS of Salvation” (Act 2:17,21) till the Last Judgments of the “Dreadful
Last DAY of the Lord” (Act 2:20).
It refers to the days that follow AFTER Christ's earthly ministry and ascension to
heaven “till the end of the age” (Mat 28:20) and dissolution of this physical world
(2Pe 3:20). This is the period when God's righteousness and truth are revealed to all people
through the Gospel of Christ (2Th 1:1-12) in the form of God's grace/mercy and God's
wrath/severity (Rom 1:17-18; Rom 11:19-23; Tit 2:11), for the purpose of man's salvation
(2Co 6:2; 1Pe 1:5), then tribulation (2Th 1:6; 2Ti 3:1) and judgment finally (Joh 16:7-11).
• Notice that what was earlier referred to (together) as "The Last Day" by Christ (Joh 6:39,
Joh 6:40, Joh 6:44, Joh 6:54; Joh 11:24; Joh 12:48) and as though one aggregate final event
by the Prophets, Christ and the Apostles Dan 12:1-4; Mat 25:46; Joh 5:25-30; Act 24:15; 2Co
5:10),was latter detailed into an extended period in Rev 20:1-15 and even in 1Co 15:20-26,
made up of "First Resurrection-Millennium-Judgment-Second Death" sequentially.
• It is also worthy of note that the singular glorious FIRST RESURRECTION UNTO LIFE
or GATHERING/CATCHING UP OF THE ELECT Mat 24:31; 1Cor 15:23, 52; 1Thes
4:16-17; Rev 20:4-6; (for THE JUST Luk 14:14) was depicted as the first and separate event
from the RESURRECTION TO SHAME/CONTEMPT or DAMNATION OF SECOND
DEATH (for THE UNJUST Act 24:15), by both Christ and the Apostles (Dan 12:2; Mat
25:46; Joh 5:24-29; Rev 20:13-14).
• Eschatological "Last Day" or the great "Day of the Lord" does not seem to be exactly
the same with our 24 hour day since it is not humanly but divinely estimated (Psa 90:4; 2Pe
3:8); justifiably some think that what applies to the eschaton 'DAY' could have also
applied to the creation 'DAY' (Gen 2:4). We should not be dogmatic about this.
SEVENTY WEEKS OF DANIEL CHAPTER 9:

NOT for the Anti-Christ, BUT for the Anointed Christ.
Duration of the Seventy Weeks:
From Command to Zerubbabel (Sheshbazzar) for the Jerusalem Temple in 537 BC (Ezra 1 and 6)
or From Command to Nehemiah for the Jerusalem Wall in 444 BC (Neh 2) to Sack of Judah and
Destruction of Jerusalem by Romans in 70 AD.
Daniel 9:24
(24) Seventy weeks are DETERMINED upon YOUR PEOPLE and upon YOUR HOLY CITY, to finish the
transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in
everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to ANOINT THE MOST HOLY.
The Seventy Weeks of Daniel 9:24-27

a) IT’S PURPOSE: For Jerusalem and the Christ (NOT for Antichrist). Dan 9:24.
b) IT’S DETAILS: Rebuilding the City, Covenant Atonement by the Christ and Wars of
desolation against the City and Temple. Dan 9:25-27a.
c) IT’S TERMINUS: The Determined Desolation of Jerusalem and the Abominated Temple.
Dan 9:27b; as confirmed by Christ Mat 24:25-26; 33-34; Mark 13:14, 28-31; Luk
21:20-23.
NOTICE that in its clear and plain context (devoid of dispensationalist and other modern
theories), the 70 Weeks were NOT appointed for the end time coming of the Antichrist, BUT
for the first coming of the Anointed Christ to make the once-for-all atonement for sins (Dan

9:24). This was to occur within the period between the restoration of Jerusalem before Christ’s
birth and the desolation of the Temple after Christ’s ascension.
According to Christ (Mat 24:15-18), the Final 70th Week was to end with cessation of Jewish
sacrificial worship, the defilement of the Temple and determined desolation of both the Temple
and the City (Dan 9:27). NEITHER DANIEL NOR CHRIST MADE MENTION OF ANY
POSTPONEMENT. History also confirmed that this was not postponed but was unmistakably
fulfilled in 70AD as Christ predicted (Luk 21:5-9, 20-24).
Nevertheless, the desolation of the Temple could be repeated if the present Israeli Jews rebuild
the Temple. EVERY FORMERLY FULFILLED PROPHECY IS EXAMPLE FOR LATER SIMILAR
RECURRENCE. In fact, it is now a rule that whoever defiles God’s Temple shall be destroyed by
God (1Cor 3:17) and every abomination leads to sure desolation – under Antiochus of the Greek
(Leopard/He-Goat/Kings of the North-South) Empire with desolation of the defiler and
the cleansing of the Sanctuary in 171-165 BC (Dan 8:11-14; 11:31-35), under Titus son of
Vespasian of the Roman (Terrible Beast/Coming Prince) Empire without the desolation of
the defiler but the desolation of the Sanctuary in 70 AD (Dan 9:27; Mat 24:15), and
under the Antichrist of the Great Tribulation with sure desolation of the defiler and
possible desolation of the Sanctuary in the End Time (Dan 12:11; Rev 11:2).
The possible “seven years” or “seven seasons” (time, times and half-time Dan 7:25 and Dan 12:7)
and “extra years” (Dan 12:11-12) of the Great Tribulations (Mat 24:21-29) are times of the reign
of the Antichrist King (Dan 7:24-27; 11:36-45). In other parts of the Scripture, NOT IN DANIEL
CHAPTER 9, it is predicted that the Antichrist shall be destroyed by Christ at the same
time that He comes again to glorify His Saints (2Thes 1:5-10; Rev 19:19-20:5). Forcing
Christ’s second coming into Daniel 9 or extending and postponing part of it to the future is
neither warranted by the context of this Scripture nor by the facts of its known historical
fulfilment.
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The Book Of Revelation Demystified: Simple Expository Outline

The Book of Revelation should be understood to be in plain harmony with the whole Scripture. The
Book of Revelation was written for the Church Militant who are part of the one “companion in tribulation, and in
the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ” (Rev 1:9) to be encouraged to “Fear none of those things which thou
shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have
tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.” (Rev 2:10) so that they would
persevere and belong to the numbered of Israel and innumerable multitude of all nations who are “they which came
out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. Therefore
are they before the throne of God, and serve him day and night in his temple: and he that sitteth on the throne
shall dwell among them.” (Rev 7:14)
SUMMARY OF COMING SEVEN END TIME EVENTS

In Apostolic times and in the early Church the eschatological events of “great TRIBULATION and eternal GLORY”
were known and expected.
FROM THE GOSPELS TO THE EPISTLES, we see expectations of:
• 1. Perilous worsening of the present reprobation and tribulation till it reaches WHAT GOD CONSIDERS the
greatest antichristian lawlessness optimally bearable for His Saints (called Great Tribulation and Antichrist
Cultic Reign).
• 2. The Cataclysmic and Glorious Coming/Parousia/Appearing/Revelation of Christ to raise and GATHER
His just Saints rapturously (called First Resurrection/Rapture/Glorification).
• 3. The decimation of the antichristian syndicate of heathenish modernity and abysmal enchainment of
Satan (associated with Armageddon War)
FROM REVELATION 19-22 & 2PETER 3, we see these special additions:

• 4. The period of iron-sceptre subjugation of the whole world (called Millennial Reign or Marriage Supper)
under Christ and His redeemed overcoming Saints of the First Resurrection
• 5. The Final Conflict and destruction of all unbelievers (associated with Gog and Magog Revolt)
• 6. The Great Conflagration of the elemental/physiochemical universe with fervent heat and loud explosive
noise (2Peter 3)
FROM THE GOSPELS TO REVELATION, we generally see:

• 7. The Final Throne-Bema JUDGMENT/ROLL-CALL for eternal retribution of contempt and
torment to the Unjust (in the Lake of Sulphur and Brimstone) and eternal reward of glory and bliss
to the Just (in the New Heaven and New Earth).
It would seem like unbelief to go contrary to all these authentic Scriptures in favour of other modern rather
disjointed formulations and speculated theories synthesized by modern dispensationalist theorists which disregard
contextual Scriptures.
BIBLICAL CONTEXTUAL SEQUENCE OF END TIME EVENTS

The events of the End Times which are best sequenced together by Christ in Mat 24:1-31 and Rev
20:1-21:8 are contrary to disjointed cut-and-paste sequence of Dispensationalists, Escapist and
other theoretical eschatologists, which are popularised these days mainly by American
Christians. Also helpful in getting the right sequence of End Times events CONTEXTUALLY are
Dan 12:1-3; Acts 3:19-21; 1Cor 15:20-26, 2Thes 2:1-3, and Tit 2:11-13, as shown below:
• Dan 12:1-3. (Times of Trouble→ Resurrection of life→ Resurrection of contempt).
• Matt 24. (The Travail Tribulation Mat_24:3-14; [→ The Temple Desolation Mat_24:15-20;] → The Great
Tribulation-The Cataclysm Mat_24:21-29; → The Coming-The Resurrection Mat_24:30-31; Mat_24:36-44; →
The Reign [-The End of the Age-] → The Judgement Mat_24:45-51; Mat 25).
• Acts 3:19-21. (Times of Refreshing→ Second Coming of Christ→ Time of Restoration of all things).
• 1Co_15:20-26. (After Christ's Resurrection as the Firstfruits: NEXT is The Saints' Resurrection at Christ's
Second Coming→ then Christ's Reign for universal subjugation→ then The End→ then The Judgment of even
death itself→ and finally The Handover to the Father for eternal worship).
• 2Thes 2:1-3. (The Apostate Falling Away→ Revelation of the Man of Sin and Perdition→ The Day of the Lord‘s
Coming for our Gathering to be with Christ).
• Tit_2:11-13. (Grace HAS Appeared→ Godliness/Hope for the Present→ Glory WILL Appear).
• REVELATION 1-22.
Nowadays, out of “the things which you have seen, and the things which are, and the things
which shall be hereafter” of Rev 1:19, some have derived their basis for the modern theory of
dispensational futurism with its speculation about a secret Rapture of the Militant Church at a
preliminary Secret Coming of Christ before the visible Resurrection of Triumphant at Saints
Christ’s Second Coming! This is pushed even in stark contradiction to sequence emphatically
outlined by the Apostles in 1Thes 4:15-17 with assurances, that the Resurrection must precede
the Rapture. However, using Christ “Who was, and is, and is to come” of Rev 1:4 and 8, as
the best interpretative key to this verse, it seems to simply mean:
1. “The things which you have SEEN” (THE PAST EVENTS=till Christ's Finished Work and
Exaltation at His First Coming),
2. “The things which ARE” (THE PRESENT EVENTS=things happening then in the Asia
Minor Churches at the time of writing the Book),
3. “The things which shall be HEREAFTER” (THE FUTURE EVENTS=travails of the
occupying Militant Church in earth and translated Triumphant Church in heaven from after
writing the Book till Christ comes again to reign and till Eternity).
Our study here shall simply follow the book of Revelation plainly as it naturally unfolds
(Historic Premillennialism) which also agrees with Christ in Mat 24 and with St Peter in Acts
3:19-21 and St Paul in 1Cor 15:20-26, (JUST AS THE ANCIENT CHURCH FATHERS DID) in this
order:
OUR WAITING (Our occupying/His redeeming till we overcome at His coming) →→

HIS COMING (the First Resurrection and destruction of the Antichrist) →→
HIS REIGN (the Millennium Reign with the risen Saints) →→
THE END (the Final Conflagration and Judgment) →→
THE ETERNITY (the Eternal Destinies of torment or glory).
1. OUR WAITING: (Our Occupying/His Redeeming)

Rev 1-5. The Church Militant and Triumphant
• Rev 2-3 The Church Militant FULLY Exhorted (7 Admonitions and 7 Assurances) to overcome (by
witness, works, worship and waiting) unto the end to be sealed or kept from/in (i.e. protected from
BUT NOT removed from Joh 17:15) the "Hour of Temptation" or days of evil (Joh 17:15; Jas 5:7; Rev 2:10;
Rev 3:10; Rev 7:3), {AS THE PERSECUTED ISRAEL WAS SEALED/KEPT IN THE HOUR OF THE PLAGUES
IN EGYPT Exo 8:22; Exo 9:26; Exo 12:12-13}, till the Lord comes to glorify all His Saints and subjugate all
His enemies as footstool.
• Rev 4-5 The Church Triumphant before the Throne- Heavenly realm (Unresurrected redeemed
souls in Paradise, “absent from the body but present with Christ”) from the Church of both Old and
New Testaments (Rev 15:2-5), worshipping the Lord and waiting for the completion of the ingathering and the
singular glorious First Resurrection at the Second Coming of Christ (Rev 6:9-17).
• There is muddling of the Book of Revelation and multiple eschatological theories today because
despite clear indication in Rev 6:9-11, the Militant Church is now perceived as Left-behind
Saints while the Triumphant Church is now perceived as Raptured Saints.
Rev 6-18. God's REDEMPTIVE JUSTICE (Rev 16:5-6; 2Th 1:6) which brings victorious Dominion for the
Saints (Rev 5:9-10; 6:1-11) BUT brings wrathful Damnation (Rev 6:12-17) against Satan's spiritual and
temporal evil systems in the "Hour of Temptation" (Rev 3:10) which shall be in the form of Plagues on the
ungodly who seek to Persecute and Corrupt the Saints:
➢ God's Justice FULLY Revealed (7 Seals) - PAST (by unsealing the Scripture) - Rev 6-7;
➢ God's Justice FULLY Proclaimed (7 Trumps) - PRESENT (by trumpeted Preaching) - Rev 8-11 (Mat
10:34-39);
➢ God's Judgment Enforced - Spiritual realm (against Satan/The Beast/Antichrist) - Rev 12-14;
➢ God's Justice FULLY Executed (7 Bowls) - FUTURE (by poured out Plagues) - Rev 15-16;
➢ God's Judgment Exemplified - Physical realm (against The Prostitute=Rome, fulfilled in 5th century) -
Rev 17-18.
THE 5th–7th TRUMPETS AND THEIR LAST THREE WOES (Rev 9-11)
The 1st Woe of the 5th Trumpet (Rev 9:1-12) concerns the plague from the bottomless pit – both the
Locust tormentors and their Apollyon Angel king who were barred both from killing the tormented
sinners and from hurting the sealed saints.
The 2nd Woe of the 6th Trumpet (Rev 9:13-11:14) concerns the plagues from the Four Euphrates Angels
and the plague from the Two Moses-Elijah-like Witnesses who shall be killed by the bottomless-pit
Beast/Red Sea-Dragon (Rev 11:7; 17:8/Rev 12:3; 13:1; 17:3, 7) with seven heads and ten horns, but the
Lord assumes the Two Witnesses to heaven Rev 11:1-14. This bottomless-pit killer-Beast is the Dragon
but is not the Abaddon/Apollyon bottomless-pit tormentor-Angel barred from killing the tormented
sinners and barred from hurting the sealed saints under the 1st Woe of the 5th Trumpet (Rev 9:11).
The 3rd Woe of the 7th Trumpet (Rev 11:15-19) concerns plague from the subjugating (Millennial) reign
over all the pagan kingdoms of the earth by Christ and His Saints which serves as rewarding triumph for
His faithful (resurrected-dead and changed-living) Saints Rev 11:15-19. This is the finishing phase of
God’s mysteries for this creation (Rev 10:7).
Notice that while the Millennium is the triumph and REIGN of the Saints, the Eternity is their heritage
and REST.
2. HIS COMING: (the First Resurrection)

• Rev 19. The Coming of the Lord (WITH His Angels but FOR – not with – His Church (Mat 24:31;
25:31; Mar 13:26-27; Col 3:4; 1Th 4:16-17; 1Jn 3:2) and Conquest of the Antichrist (2Th 2:8).
• Rev 20:4-6. The Glorified Believers of the First Resurrection from the Church of both Old and New
Testaments (Rev 15:2-3), who victoriously died or were ready to die for the pure Gospel/Word, than be cajoled
or coerced into either initiation (with the mark) into the cult of, or adoration (to the image) of, the ever
metamorphosing, wonder-working, whore-ridden and seven-headed Evil Beast of past, present and future
ages (Rev 17:8).

3. HIS REIGN: (the Millennium Reign)
• Rev 20:1-10. The Kingdom Domination by Christ over evil (2Tim 4:1) through conquest, Millennium, and
eventual desolation.
4. THE END: (the Final Judgment)

• Rev 20:11-13. The great Conflagration of Old physiochemical Universe and exposure of sinners' souls/spirits.
• Rev 20:12-15. The Judgement of the Second Death and eternal designations.
5. THE ETERNITY: (the Eternal Destinies)

• Rev 21:1-8. The creation of New imperishable World for eternal destinies of souls/spirits.
• Rev 21:9-22:5. More details on Eternal Bliss of all the Saints as one Body in one City Rev 21:9-27; Rev 22:1-
14, and Eternal Doom (Mar 9:43-48; Rev 14:9-11) of all the Wicked in one Lake Rev 21:8; Rev 22:15.
Rev 22:6-15. Final eschatological warnings.

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What Happens at Death since the Time of Christ’s Cross and Ascension?
Before Christ’s resurrection and ascension all spirit-souls of the dead were all sent down to
Sheol-Hades below. After Christ’s resurrection and ascension, whenever someone dies, the
spirit-soul leaves the body for burial in the grave or other form of destruction and decay. The
disembodied spirit-soul returns to God but remain subconsciously aware:
➢ Either of DIVINE FAVOUR in paradise of comfort (i.e. SHEOL’S Abraham-bay or
bosom in the OT, but now at HEAVEN'S Altar-base in the NT) Luk 19:22a; 23:43; John
17:24; Phil 1:23; Rev 6:9-11. This is the pre-eternity Triumphant Church.
➢ Or of DIVINE DISFAVOUR in dungeon of torment (i.e. the OT shachath-sheol of
gloomy captivity or NT gehenna-hades of scotching torment) Job 3:17-20; Job 17:16; Ps
88:4-8; Luk 16:22b-23. This is the pre-eternity Hell.
This dreamlike awareness of comfort or torment continues till the comforted saints are first
awakened by resurrection when Christ comes again to destroy the Antichrist, terminate the
tribulation and establish His Millennium reign with His glorified saints (2Thes 1:6-10; 2Thes
2:1-8; Rev 20:4-6). Thereafter, the tormented infidels shall wake at the final judgment, only
to be cast again into severest torment and ruin in the everlasting furnace (Rev 20:13-14; Rev
21:8). As for demons of extreme evil, they are presently imprisoned in the tartarus or abyss of
darkness, pending the final judgement (2Pe 2:4; Jud 1:6). Even Satan shall be detained in this
abyss during the Millennium before the final judgement (Rev 20:1-12).
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FROM THE OUTLAY OF EVENTS IN THE FOREGOING SCRIPTURES,

THE END TIMES COULD BE DIVIDED INTO THREE STAGES
OR PHASES:
END TIMES Phase 1:

Time of our WAITING for Christ with assurance (Heb 3:6; Heb 6:11);
WAITING i.e. BEING ON THE LOOK-OUT hopefully (apek-/pros-dechomai 1Co 1:7;
Php 3:20; Tit 2:13; Heb 9:28);
WATCHING i.e. BEING VIGILANT carefully (gregoreuo Mat 24:42; Mat 26:41; Act
20:29-31; 1Pe 5:8);
OCCUPYING i.e. BEING BUSY actively (pragmateuomai Luk 19:13);
PREPARING i.e. BEING READY (Mat 24:44; Mat 25:10-13; 1Jn 2:28);
OVERCOMING i.e. BEING SUPER-CONQUERORS (Rom 8:37; 1Jn 5:4-5).

BEFORE THE DAY OF CHRIST'S COMING AGAIN TO RAISE (GATHER or
RAPTURE) ALL HIS FAITHFUL SAINTS (i.e. THE CHURCH) FOR HIS
MILLENNIAL REIGN WITH THEM (Rev 5:10).
According to Christ, details about the desolation of the Jerusalem and its Temple as well as the
antecedent signs of His Second Coming and the end of the age are these (These sign-events
began to be fulfilled immediately after Christ’s death, beginning with the martyrdom of
Stephen in 36 AD and the abomination and desolation of Jerusalem Temple in 70 AD):
• Worldwide religious deception, commotions, military conflicts, sorcery, famine (economic
recessions), pestilence (diseases), natural disasters Mat 24:4-5; Mat 24:7-8; Mat 24:24; 2Th
2:9;
• Worldwide militant apostasy, agnosticism, anti-morality, anti-values, anti-Christianity and
anti-Semitism Mat 24:9-13; 2Th 2:3-7;
• Worldwide evangelization and information network technology, Mat 24:6; Mat 24:13-14;
• DESOLATION of the Jerusalem (Herod’s) Temple and sacking of Judea by Romans Dan
9:27; Mat 24:15-20;
• Worldwide advances in transportation, knowledge, science and technology Dan 12:4; Dan
11:32-35;
• Worldwide apokalupsis or parousia of ANTICHRIST and his apostate rule with the worst
tribulation or trial in human history Mat 24:21-25; 2Th 2:3-4; 2Th 2:8-9; Rev 3:10; Joh
17:15.
• Worldwide SEALING of the saints (Rev 9:4) and manifestation of God's WRATH and the
greatest tribulation (against anti-Christian lawlessness for persistently rejecting Christ and
persecuting the saints) in the form of delusion to believe lies, plagues, cataclysms, sky-
wonders, leading to frantic despair among the wicked Mat 24:7b; Mat 24:12; Mat 24:29; 2Th
2:10-12; Rev 6:12-17.
Further to Mat 24 predictions of Christ, we could find other events or signs before Christ’s
Second Coming.
• The conservation of the restored remnant Israel against anti-Semitism and her final
conversion from unbelief, just before the coming of Christ Zec 12:7-12; Isa 59:18-21; Jer
31:9; Jer 50:4; Ezek 39-48; Rom 11:25-27.
• Notice the transition from the outpouring of the Spirit of grace and supplication (sealing
of the then living remnant and symbolic 144,000) for conversion of remnant Israel
BEFORE Christ’s parousial visible appearing of the pierced Saviour (Zec 12:10 a), unto
the subsequent despair and mourning of humiliation by all nations DURING Christ’s
parousia (Zec 12:10 b; Mat 24:30; Rev 1:7). Grace and supplication are neither the same
as, nor concurrent with mourning and despair. The specific Spirit outpouring on Israel
precedes the general Saviour's appearing to all. We should no longer muddle up what the
New Testament has clarified, just as we no longer muddle up Joe 2:28-32 as if the
outpouring of the Spirit (Joe 2:28-29, 32; Act 2:33) and the wonders in heaven (Joe 2:30-
31; Mat 24:29) occur the same time.
According to Christ and His Apostles, ever before Christ comes to gather any saints of His Church, there has to be
first (2Thes 2:1-3) the eventual worldwide domination by the Antichrist’s bestial-miraculous-cultic-government
syndicate. This perverse pagan-secular system of postmodern spirit of this age is already eroding and “TAKING
OUT OF THE WAY” all State governance, moral order and godly restraint internationally (2Thes
2:3-7) as being advocated for by the Hippie counterculture, the New Age movements and the Illuminati secret cults
(e.g. atheistic, occultist, abortionist, brigandage, hippie, promiscuous and homosexual resurgence “taking away”
moral values and godly restraint).
2Thessalonians 2:7-14

(7) For the MYSTERY OF INIQUITY does already work: only he who now restrains will do so, until he be
TAKEN OUT OF THE WAY.
(8) And then shall that Wicked One be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the breath of his
mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:
(9) Even him, whose coming is AFTER THE WORKING OF SATAN WITH ALL POWER AND SIGNS AND
LYING WONDERS,
(10) And with ALL DECEPTION OF UNRIGHTEOUSNESS in them that perish; because they received not
the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
(11) And for this cause GOD SHALL SEND THEM A STRONG DELUSION, THAT THEY SHOULD
BELIEVE A LIE:
(12) That they all might be condemned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
(13) But we are bound to give thanks always to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God
has from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:
(14) To which he called you by our gospel, to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.
This evil syndicate (beast, prophet, armies and dragon Rev 19:17-20:3) will be decimated when Christ comes in
glory with His Angelic armies (Mat 16:27; 25:31; Luk 9:26; 2Thes 1:6-8; Rev 19:11-16). Christ Comes again:
 to OPENLY resurrect (the dead elect saints), translate (the living elect saints), rapture ALL the saints unto
Himself, (modern Dispensationalists theorise that this will secretly occur before Christ’s second coming) and
 to OPENLY conquer all nations and reign on earth and then forever with His risen saints as His holy and only
Bride Church (1Cor 15:50-53; Rev 19:11-20:6).
Revelation 20:1-6
(1) And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in
his hand.
(2) And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, who is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a
thousand years,
(3) And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive
the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little
while.
(4) And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls
of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and who had not worshiped
the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and
THEY LIVED AND REIGNED WITH CHRIST A THOUSAND YEARS.
(5) But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. THIS IS THE FIRST
RESURRECTION.
(6) Blessed and holy is he that has part in the first resurrection: ON SUCH THE SECOND DEATH HAS
NO POWER, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.
To some Christians who are being put off-guard and are falling prey to deceptive Illuminati
manipulations, the “taken out of the way” of all system of legal and orderly restraint amongst
nations (2Thes 2:7) due to the Pax-Romana and State government is misunderstood to mean that the
Church’s restraint will be “taken up to heaven” or “caught away up to the air” or “caught up to
heaven” (1Thes 4:17). What the Apostle predicted will first occur before the Antichrist will be
revealed is the “FALLING AWAY” from the faith (2Thes 2:3) NOT any “caching away to the air” and
“gathering” to meet the coming Christ. Also THE DAY when the Saints shall meet the coming Christ
IN THE AIR is specifically said that it will not come until AFTER THE ANTICHRIST SON OF
PERDITION (2Thes 2:1-3). Besides, “out of the way” here is unlikely to mean “up to heaven” since
the same passage of Scripture insists that the taking away of the restraint and the revelation of the
Antichrist must first happen before the Church is gathered at the coming Lord (2Thes 2:3-4).
Contrary to Dispensationalist, Partitionist and Escapist pre-tribulation rapture theory, the Apostle insists that these
trends and events (anarchy, apostasy which will lead to the Antichrist tribulation) are clearly predicted in the
Scriptures as inevitable ANTECEDENTS before Christ comes or descends from the heavens with glorious clouds
and holy Angels to destroy the Antichrist and gather His saints unto Himself to reign with them:
2Thessalonians 2:1-6
(1) Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together
unto him,
(2) That you be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as
from us, that the day of the Lord is at hand.
(3) Let no man deceive you by any means: FOR THAT DAY SHALL NOT COME, EXCEPT THERE COME
THE FALLING AWAY FIRST, AND THAT MAN OF SIN BE REVEALED, THE SON OF PERDITION;

(4) Who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God, or that is worshiped; so that he as God
sits in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.
(5) Do you not remember, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things?
(6) And now you know what restrains that he might be revealed in his time.
Christ referred to this as the time of the FINAL AND GREATEST TRIBULATION in Matt 24:21. Notice that this is
contrary to the American, modern and escapist Dispensationalist theory of “secrete” rapture of the partitioned
Church popularly taught with confused casuistry in many Churches today.
Matthew 24:21-22
(21) For then shall be GREAT tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time,
no, NOR EVER SHALL BE.
(22) And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but FOR THE ELECT'S
SAKE those days shall be shortened.
Matthew 24:24-31
(24) For there shall arise FALSE CHRISTS, AND FALSE PROPHETS, AND SHALL SHOW GREAT SIGNS
AND WONDERS; so that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.
(25) Behold, I have told you before.
(26) Therefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the
secret chambers; believe it not.
(27) FOR AS THE LIGHTNING CAME OUT OF THE EAST, AND SHINES EVEN UNTO THE WEST; SO
SHALL ALSO THE COMING OF THE SON OF MAN BE.
(28) For wherever the carcass is, there will the vultures be gathered together.
(29) IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE TRIBULATION of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon
shall not give its light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:
(30) And THEN SHALL APPEAR THE SIGN OF THE SON OF MAN IN HEAVEN: and then shall all the
tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power
and great glory.
(31) And he shall send HIS ANGELS WITH A GREAT SOUND OF A TRUMPET, and they shall gather
together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
THE ANTICHRIST AND HIS “666” MARK/NUMBER.

All believers should know that many antichrists and false-christs, false prophets and false
teachers who deceive many with syncretistic false doctrines and yet demonstrate miraculous
powers (Mat 24:24-25), will always be there within and outside the Church, as they have been
from the time of the Apostles (Mat 24:5, 11, 24; Mar 13:22; 2Pet 2:1-3; Jude 1:4; 1John 2:18, 22;
4:1-3; 2John 1:3). Christians must beware of such merchants of the Gospel and commercial
corrupters of God’s Word (2Cor 2:17) who burn strange fires in God’s sanctuary (Lev 10:1-3).
2 Peter 2:17-20
(17) These men are waterless springs and mists driven by a storm, for whom the utter depths of darkness
have been reserved.
(18) For by speaking high-sounding but empty words they are able to entice, with fleshly desires and
with debauchery, people who have just escaped from those who reside in error.
(19) Although these false teachers promise such people freedom, they themselves are enslaved to
immorality. For whatever a person succumbs to, to that he is enslaved.
(20) For if after they have escaped the filthy things of the world through the rich knowledge of our Lord
and Savior Jesus Christ, they again get entangled in them and succumb to them, their last state has
become worse for them than their first.
Because of their corrupt minds and love of money, False Prophets, False Teachers and False
Brethren shall degrade grace and godliness to mean licentiousness and money (1Tim
6:3-12; Jude 1:4); they shall operate their spiritual power “simonically” for money and fame
mixed with gall bitterness and evil bondage (Act 8:9-24). The Scripture teaches that False
Prophets are either POWERFUL DECEIVERS or POWERLESS PRETENDERS. Through
these charlatans will come The Apostasy of GROWING COLD (Mat 24:12), FALLING AWAY
(2Thes 2:3), DEPARTURE FROM THE FAITH (1Tim 4:1) or TURNING AWAY (2Tim 4:4) to
usher in the Perilous Times for the manifestation of the Antichrist evil trinity (Rev 16:13; 20:10),
the Great Woes and Plagues detailed in Rev 11-16 during the Great Tribulation (shortened for
the saints’ sake Mat 24:21-22; Luk 21:25-28).
To prepare believers who will still be alive just before His Second Coming, CHRIST (our Horn
of salvation Luk 1:69, the Lamb of atonement John 1:29; Rev 5; 7:17 and the victorious Lion
Rev 5:5) together with His Apostles warned the Church about the coming reign of the
ANTICHRIST (1John 2:18, 22; 4:3). This Antichrist, also called Man of Sin, Son of
Perdition and Wicked One (2Thes 2:3, 8) and figuratively described as the Blasphemous
Horn (Dan 7; Rev 17) or Miraculous Lamb-Beast and “666” Marker-Dragon’s Agent
(Rev 13:11-18), will be preceded by PSEUDOCHRISTS and Pseudoprophets (Mat 24:23-24;
1John 2:18) The Antichrist shall rule during the Great Tribulation just before Christ comes to
raise and gather (rapture) the Saints to reign with them on earth (Rev 5:12; 17:18) from the
Beloved City or Saint’s Camp (Rev 20:9). According to the Scriptures (disregarding theories and
conjectures), it is only at Christ’s Second Coming (Mat 24:29-31; 2Thes 2:1-3) with His glorious
Angels (2Thes 1:7), that He will terminate the Great Tribulation with the resurrection and
gathering (rapture) of the Saints and overthrow of the Antichrist all at the same time (2Thes 1:6-
10; 2:8).
2Thessalonians 2:1-3, 8
(1) Now we beseech you, brethren, by THE COMING OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, and by
OUR GATHERING TOGETHER UNTO HIM,
(2) That you be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by
letter as from us, that the day of the Lord is at hand.
(3) Let no man deceive you by any means: FOR THAT DAY SHALL NOT COME, EXCEPT
THERE COME THE FALLING AWAY FIRST, AND THAT MAN OF SIN BE REVEALED, THE
SON OF PERDITION; .....
(8) And then shall that WICKED ONE be revealed, WHOM THE LORD SHALL CONSUME
WITH THE BREATH OF HIS MOUTH, AND SHALL DESTROY WITH THE BRIGHTNESS OF
HIS COMING:
Matthew 24:29-31
(29) IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE TRIBULATION of those days shall the sun be darkened, and
the moon shall not give its light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the
heavens shall be shaken:
(30) And THEN SHALL APPEAR THE SIGN OF THE SON OF MAN IN HEAVEN: and then shall
all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of
heaven with power and great glory.
(31) And he shall send HIS ANGELS WITH A GREAT SOUND OF A TRUMPET, and they shall
GATHER TOGETHER HIS ELECT FROM THE FOUR WINDS, FROM ONE END OF HEAVEN
TO THE OTHER.
Prophecy meant for times of Greek Empire before Christ (Dan 8:9-14; 21-22) but similar to
those of the End Time Antichrist had been revealed and explained to Daniel (Dan 8:15-27) and
been fulfilled in Judea in the past (171-169 BC) before the End Time (Dan 11:29-32). A Seleucid
(Greek) King of Syria (north of Israel) called Antiochus Epiphanes – during his struggle for
the control of the Holy Land with the Ptolemaic (Greek) Kings of Egypt (south of Israel) Dan
11:1-28 – defiled and looted Jerusalem Temple and killed many Jews till God helped the
Maccabaeans (priestly Jewish insurgents) to revolt, regain independence and cleanse the
Temple again in 168 BC (Dan 11:29-32). The Antioch metropolis in Syria (now Antakya in
Turkey) known for its Daphnis temple licentiousness but large Gentile Church (Act 11:19-26;
15:23, 35) and the smaller Antioch colony in Pisidia (Act 13:14) were built by the Seleucids.
These antecedent fulfilments help us appreciate prophecies about the future Tribulation and the
Antichrist.
The Temple remained under the Maccabaean High Priests until Christ came, but thereafter the
Roman Caesars came to abominate and utterly desolate the Temple again in 70 AD as
prophesied by Christ (Mat 24:15-20; Mar 13:14-18; Luk 21:20-24) to end the 70 weeks
prophesied earlier in Dan 9:24-27. The big Mediterranean port and capital city of the Roman
province of Judaea called Caesarea (Act 9:30; 18:22; 25:1-13) where the first Gentile Christian,
Cornelius was converted (Act 10, now Kaisariyeh, south of Haifa in Israel) and the smaller
inland Caesarea Philippi near the mouth of River Jordan (Mat 16:13) were built by the Herods to
honour the Roman Caesars. Since then, Jerusalem Temple has remained desolate and
trodden by Gentiles till today as Christ declared in Luk 21:24; meanwhile the gathering of
full number of REDEEMED Gentiles and all REMNANT Israel into Christ continues (Rom
11:25-27). The Time of the Gentiles who shall tread on Jerusalem after its 70 AD fall
will culminate in the final Antichrist reign, who will personally surely tread on Jerusalem as
Christ has spoken and as all eschatological prophecies indicate (Luk 21:24; Rev 11:2).
For now, because the end is yet to come, God’s people shall continue to experience revivals
and declensions (Dan 11:32-35) while the nations shall continue to experience “iron and clay”
alliances and conflicts (Dan 2:41-43) until Antichrist’s sole dominance comes with the
ultimate Tribulation prophesied by Daniel (Dan 11:36-45) and confirmed by Christ in Mat 24:21-
27 and Mar 13:19-24, as also reiterated by Paul in 2Thes 2:3-14 and revealed to John in Rev 11 to
16. Rev 17 and 18 predict in accurate details the first sack of Rome by Alaric the Visigoths in 410
AD until the final sack of Rome by the Vandals in 455 AD.
The Antichrist Beast has also been foreshadowed in the purple-dressed blood-drunken
Babylonish Prostitute (explained to mean the city of Rome in Rev 17:3-6, 16-18; NOT the
Roman Catholic Church) carried by the age-old Scarlet Beast that ever resurges from
the abyss to control the cultures of Gentile world-powers from ancient times. The
Rome-Prostitute rode on the Beast to destroy Jerusalem in 70 AD and sack the Jews from Judea
(which they renamed Palestine), and ruthlessly persecuted the Early Church until Constantine's
religious toleration Edict of Milan in 313 AD, but She was destroyed by the Beast on which She
rode as prophesied in Rev 17:16-18 and Rev 18. The city of Rome fell in the 5th century AD under
attacks by Germanic wondering and warring Visigoths and Vandals who, being Arian heretics
rejected the divine sonship of Christ (like Jehovah Witnesses of today), also persecuted
Christians who believed the Nicene Creed. The Roman Popes struggled to step into the shoes of
the Roman Empire in the belief that it was realising the Millennium of Rev 20:1-4, even though
there was neither resurrection nor parousia as indicated in Rev 20:5-6, but after 1000 years
(500-1500 AD) of dominating the Western world with unbiblical and worldly Christianity; God
truncated Papal dominance through the Protestant Reformation in the 16th century.
The postmodern Church with its worldly and unbiblical Christianity of commercialism, carnality
revisionism and syncretism heavily influenced by rave and hippie movements (with their
rebellious counterculture of dance-drug-sex-atheism), shows that the ancient demonic Beast still
that has always tormented God’s people with terror or tempted them with error still lives
today and works as the “mystery of iniquity/lawlessness” (2Th 2:7) or the “mysterious
Babylon Prostitute” (Rev 17:5). This Antichrist demonic Beast is resurging again in
our time not carrying Roman Empire on its back, but as multi-horned and hydra-
headed globalist ILLUMINATISM in the forms of Western PAGANISING
POSTMODERNISM and GLOBAL NEW AGE OCCULTISM. This evil Beast is fast
corrupting Biblical truth, values and morals, combined with MILITANCY and
GLOBAL TERRORISM attacking the Church’s structure, doctrine and

membership. These dominate today’s Mass Media, Market, Manners and Mores.
Will this be the ultimate phase when the age-old Beast will summate in one
blasphemous self-deifying Personage? Time will tell.
To escape being derailed by the Antichrist demon, true believers should insist on biblical values
and biblical faith. Believers must refuse to copy heathen “Christianity” of licentious
postmodern trends, resist occultist manipulations by false "prophets" and neither be deterred
by terrorist attacks nor give in to scorn and persecution. The Devil and all evil must be resisted
with steadfast faith.
The Antichrist will emerge with ANTICHRISTIAN NEW GLOBAL SYSTEM OF SOCIAL ORDER
which will have varieties of mandatory CULTIC MARKs/TATTOOs/SYMBOLs/CODEs or
Microchips bearing Antichrist’s CULTIC NAMEs (similar to the identity chips of today which
maybe precursors to Antichrist’s code). The Antichrist cultic mark/tattoo/code could be in the
form of ancient Greek alphabetical numerals whose total numerical value will be equal to
modern arithmetic Arabic numerals of 666 (Rev 13:15-18). With Satanist illuminatism, tattooing
and chip-tagging becoming the vogue today, people could already be carrying THE MARK OF
THE BEAST secretly or unknowingly.
The book of the Revelation was written in Greek. The Greeks had no number figures; they used
alphabets to represent numbers. The modern arithmetic number figures and number system
were developed from Hindu-Arabic numerals in early 13th century AD. In the old Greek number
system, a number like 666 could be written in a thousand different ways! Any or all of these
could be used by the Antichrist! Hence “Let him that has understanding count
(calculate/figure out) the number of the beast” (Rev 13:18). When
calculated/counted/figured in the Arabic numerals, the number is “666” but in the Roman
numeral system it is “DCLXVI”, which incidentally contains all but one (M) of the numeric
letters that make up the Roman numeral system, arranged in order from the maximum to the
minimum!

SEALED 144,000 SAINTS: LITERAL and SYMBOLIC.
Jacob's NATURAL ISRAEL is an Ethnic Nation excluding other nations but Jesus' SPIRITUAL ISRAEL
is the Universal Church including Israel and all nations. The Natural is the symbolic shadow and the
Spiritual is the substance and fulfilment.
Before Christ (PRE-MESSIANIC AGE), nationalities mattered but since the

coming of Christ (MESSIANIC AGE), God no longer deals with us according to the
nations we belong to, whether we are Israelites or Gentiles. What matters to God
eschatologically, is whether we are in Christ or against Christ. That is why the
Gospel and End Times prophecy are NOT about Nationalities (Israelites versus
Gentiles) BUT about global Personages – Christ versus Antichrist. Again the
reality and facts of history is that the full Twelve Tribes of Israel no longer exist
except the Jews who are from the southern Two Tribes of Israel, so also is ancient
political geography no more extant.
There are about 14 million Jews in the world today with half of these residing in the State of
Israel, and there may be more or less at the Tribulation when the 144,000 restored remnant
shall be sealed. The elect “144,000 of Israel” is NOT MERELY a “literal number” of “all the
Tribulation-Saints OF JACOB’S NATURAL ISRAEL” who may be alive during the final
tribulation just before Christ’s second coming (Rev 7:1-4), BUT ALSO the “symbolic
number” of “all the Redeemed-Saints OF JESUS’ SPIRITUAL ISRAEL=the Church” of both
Jacob and all Gentiles. The Church is non-partitioned and reconciled by One Spirit into the ONE
BODY IN CHRIST (Eph 2:13-18; Rev 7:14), who are being redeemed with Christ’s Blood and
sealed with the Holy Spirit since Calvary till the end of the Great Tribulation (2Cor 1:22; 5:5;
Eph 1:13-14).
Therefore, the sealed “144,000 Tribulation Saints of all Israel” (Rev 7:1-8) also
symbolically represents the REMNANT “all Israel that are children of promise” (Rom
11:26-28) i.e. ALL elect Israel who truly believe (Rom 9:6-9) as well as the “inwardly Jews of
heart and spirit” (Rom 2:28-29). Conversely “the innumerable Saints of every Nation”
(Rev 7:9-12; 14:2-3) represents the REDEEMED “complete number of the Gentiles” (Rom
11:25-26) i.e. complete number of ALL nations who truly believe (John 12:32; Rom 11:32) or
“cleansed and redeemed with Christ’s Blood from all Humanity” since the beginning
of creation till the end of the Great Tribulation (Rev 7:13-17; 14:1-4). ALL remnant Israel and
ALL redeemed People do not literarily mean EVERY SINGLE Israelite and EVERY SINGLE
Person. National Israel and National Gentiles are not replaced by Christ’s Spiritual Israel
(The Church); rather, Christ’s Spiritual Israel (The Church) is redeemed from National Israel
and National Gentiles.
Acts 15:15-18
(15) This agrees with the words of the prophets. As it is written,
(16) 'After this, I will come back and set up David's fallen tent again. I will restore its ruined
places and set it up again
(17) so that the rest of the people may search for the Lord, including all the gentiles who are
called by my name, declares the Lord. He is the one who has been doing these things
(18) that have always been known.'
Everyone knows (or should know) that pure blooded descendants of Ten out of the Twelve
Tribes of Israel can no longer be distinguished from the Middle Eastern peoples. The northern
Ten Tribes of Israel carried away by Assyria in 722 BC were scattered and got lost by
assimilation among the Middle Eastern nations and never returned nor retained their Israelite
identity. They were replaced by the Samaritans brought from other Middle Eastern nations by
the Assyrians (2Kings 17:21-24).
The JEWS are not the 12 Tribes of Israel but the southern Israelites from JUDEA (made up of
the southern Tribes of Judah, Benjamin, and Levi) who maintained their pure blood and
identity. These were mostly carried away to Babylon by Nebuchadnezzar in 582 BC (2Kings
25:8-12) while the rest of them took Prophet Jeremiah along and migrated to Egypt (2Kings
25:25-26). Some of those Jews (southern Israelites) carried to Babylon returned later to Judea
with Zerubbabel in 538 BC, with Ezra in 458 BC, and with Nehemiah in 444 BC.
After the time of Christ, the Jews were again sacked from Judea by the Romans and replaced by
the Palestinians in 70 AD as prophesied by Daniel and Christ in Dan 9:27b and Matt 24:2,15,16.
Since then, in fulfilment of Christ’s prophecy in Luke 21:24, Jews have suffered anti-Semitism as
sojourners in all nations while Jerusalem remained “trodden by the Gentiles”– ruled in turns by
Romans, Syrians, Arabs, Crusaders, Egyptians, Turks, and Britons, till the Jews returned
eventually to found the modern State of Israel (Medinat Yisrael) in 1948 after the Second World
War. Today, the Jews still share Jerusalem with the Palestinians (Rev 11:2).
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END TIMES Phase 2:

Time of Christ's Parousial SECOND COMING to raise all the Saints and subdue all
kingdoms;
ERCHOMAI (Coming Mat 24:30; 26:64; Luk 21:27; Joh 14:3) again, in the clouds
and glory;
PAROUSIA (Arrival, Coming, Presence 2Th 2:1) in glory;
EPIPHANEIA (Appearing to all, Brightness to all i.e. by Himself Col 3:4; 2Th 2:8;
1Ti 6:14);
APOKALUPSIS (Revelation Luk 17:30; 1Co 1:7) of glory.
Beginning From the Day of His Coming Again to RAISE (GATHER) AND
REIGN WITH all Believers (NOT raise and run away with some believers).
• The Universally Visible Sign of the Son of Man Zec 12:10b-12; Mat 24:25-28; Mat 26:64; Rev
1:7; Christ glory and sign shall envelop the whole earth;
• The Appearance of the Son of Man in glory WITH the Angels FOR the Church Mat 24:29-
30; 2Th 1:6-10;
• The Last Trumpet call of the Saints by the Archangel Mat 24:31; Joh 5:25; 1Co 15:52; 1Th
4:16;
• The visible and singular glorious First Resurrection of ALL dead Saints and Change of
ALL living Saints Mat 24:37-42; 1Co 15:50-53; 1Th 4:16-17; Rev 20:4-6;
There is no biblical reason to hold any view other than what the Scriptures clearly teaches; which is that "the first
resurrection" with our "catching away" or our "gathering" together of all the saints to Christ at His single
Glorious Coming:
(1) shall occur "immediately after the tribulation in those days" according to Christ (Mat 24:29),
(2) and that it "will not be, except the man of sin is revealed first" according to the Apostle (2Thes 2:3),
(3) and shall include "those who were killed for resisting the beast (tribulation) worship" according to
the Revelation (Rev 20:4-5).
• The open Rapture or spiritual ecstatic transport (similar to Eze 3:12-14; Eze 11:1; Act 8:39;
2Co 12:2-4; Rev 4:1-2; Rev 12:5; Rev 17:3) of resurrected/changed Saints GATHERED to
MEET the Lord in the air on His arrival to conquer and reign on the earth 1Th 4:16-17;
• The Rapture MEETING is NOT for SECRET escape/departure with Christ back to heaven
(Joh 17:15; Rev 3:10), BUT to OPENLY usher down the King coming to reign on the earth
(Mat 25:5-11; Joh 12:12-13; Act 28:15; 2Th 1:7-10); as He descends from His divine dwelling
in the Third (divine) Heaven, past the starry space firmament of the Second (astral)
Heaven, into the atmospheric First (ethereal) Heaven of the clouds and the air, about to
destroy the Antichrist and reign on Earth with the resurrected Saints (Dan 7:27; Rev 5:9-10;
Rev 20:4-6);
• The modern teaching on “secret Rapture” is not the same as the biblical singular glorious
First Resurrection but a cowardly, secret escape of a division/partition of the Church
before the Second Coming of Christ! This has no place in Christ's promise or in the
Apostolic Scriptures, but derives from the modern day divisive theories, and is capable of
weakening the Church to fall away due to despair (2Th 2:3; 2Tim 2:17-18; Mat 24:12; Mat
24:24) in turbulent times, as well as giving a false hope of second chance.
• The Mourning (Zec 12:10b-12; Mat 24:30; Rev 1:7) by all reprobates, who shall be
forbidden from the parousial rapture of the singular glorious First Resurrection gathering
Mat 25:11-12; Luk 13:24-28.
Christ will come again OPENLY and ONCE, not SECRETLY or TWICE.
No place in the Bible is there any thought or mention of Jesus appearing to go away with His
Church before any form of tribulation and coming again “again” with them thereafter. The
Scriptures are explicit that Christ’s second coming will be once and for all and shall NOT BE until
AFTER the Antichrist-Tribulation period (Mat 24:27-31; 2Thes 2:1-3). In fact, there is a specific apostolic
caution against such speculations (2Thes 2:1-3 and 8). The Bible NEVER indicates that Jesus will COME WITH His
Church to the earth rather that Christ will COME from heaven WITH the Angels (called Saints in Psa 68:17;
1Thes 3:13; 2Thes 1:7; Jude 1:14) to the earth FOR the Church. The Scriptures clearly indicated that it is the
Angels that Christ COMES WITH (Mat 25:31; Jude 14) and it is the Church that Christ COMES FOR (Mat 24:31).
Plain Scripture teaches that Christ will come one single second time in glory WITH His Angels
(visible Revelation/Appearing at His glorious Presence/Coming) to resurrect and gather (Rapture)
His Church and destroy the Antichrist, ALL AT THE SAME SINGLE EVENT (Mat 24:29-31; 25:31; 1Cor
15:20-24; 2Thes 1:6-10; 2:1-8; Rev 1:7). This single Second Coming to gather (raise and rapture) the Church
terminates the “Great Tribulation” of the Antichrist reign and begins the Glorious Subjugation of the
“Millennium” reign, which leads to the “Final Conflict” of Gog and Magog, then the “Great Conflagration” and
“Final Judgment”.
This is what the Church had always believed in Apostolic times till the 4 th Century when Amillennialists
allegorised things and recently in the 19th and 20th Centuries when the Dispensationalists conceptualised and
theorised their double Church and double second comings – first for secret escapist partitioned rapture and another
coming back “again-again” to reign.
Contrary to Dispensationalist theoretical splitting of Christ’s Coming and splitting of
Christ’s Church to different destinies, Christ’s coming or appearing and our singular glorious gathering
together (first resurrection and rapture) unto Him are always the same synchronous single event in the Scriptures
(Mat 24:27-31; 25:31; 1Thes 4:15-17; 2Thes 1:6-10; 2Thes 2:1-3 and 8; 1John 2:28; Jude 14).
NOTE that the "LAST DAY" Resurrection shall not occur concurrently for believers together with unbelievers at the
same single instance, but shall be separated into two (Dan 12:2; Joh 5:24-29; Rev 20:4-6):
(1) RESURRECTION TO ETERNAL LIFE or FIRST RESURRECTION: the premillennial rapturous, general
and glorious resurrection (for all dead Believers) cum transfiguration (for all living Believers) at Christ's COMING
to Subdue every kingdom on earth and
(2) RESURRECTION TO ETERNAL CONTEMPT or SECOND DEATH: the postmillennial contemptible,
general and dooming resurrection for all dead Unbelievers at Christ's SITTING to Judge every soul and spirit.
It is also important to note that:

(1) In the Millennial Kingdom (or the Regeneration/Restoration/Marriage Supper Mat 19:28; Act
3:19-21; Rev 19:7-8; Rev 21:2) on this earth before the universe is conflagrated, believers shall sit on their kingly
thrones in the Throne Camp of the Saints (the Beloved City) with Christ, to reign over (judge and rule)
unbelievers and demons on the earth (Dan_7:18; Dan_7:26-27; 1Co_6:2-3; Rev_3:21; Rev_20:4) with the
righteous sceptre of iron (Rev_2:25-27). Believers will NOT rule over subservient fellow believers as each
believer is equally a wreath-crowned king-priest (1Pe_2:9; Rev_1:6; Rev_5:10) directly under the one King of kings,
Who alone is crowned with many royal diadems (Rev_19:12).
(2) In the Eternal Bliss in heaven after earth's conflagration, believers shall have finished ruling over
unbelievers with their thrones or sceptres but sit on their priestly throne before Christ's Heavenly Sanctuary
throne for worship and lay down their wreath-crowns in worship at the feet of Christ (Rev_4:4-11), stand to wave
their worship palm-fronds to God not brandish sceptres of iron (Rev_7:9). The believer's crowns are not royal-
diadems (Grk=diadema), but champions’ prize-wreaths (Grk=stephanos) of glory.
• The destruction of the Antichrist apostate confederacy and the binding of Satan 2Th 1:6-10;
2Th 2:8; Rev 19:11-21, (i.e. military-battle mobilised by the Antichrist at Armageddon Rev
16:13-16; Rev 17:8-14; Rev 19:19-21),
It is important to note that the United Nations (UN) was not really formed for
peace in the world but to subtly mobilize and harmonize the international
community against Christian values and against the Church. While they say
peace and safety, sudden destruction comes (1Thes 5:3). This is evident from
proud claims made about the UN by Alice Ann Bailey’s theosophist Lucifer
Publishing Company which later disguised as Lucis Trust and its subsidiary
NGOs who are the main consultants and contractors mostly patronized and
sponsored by the UN.
• The "Millennial" Universal Subjugation (Marriage Supper Rev 19:7-8; Rev 21:2)
domination by the Lord and ALL His Redeemed Saints over the nations of the earth Rev
20:1-6, with iron sceptre Rev 2:25-27; Rev 19:15, [They shall reign on earth 1000 years
from their capital territory and the bridal Camp of the Saints or the "Beloved City" of
saints’ thrones (Rev 5:10; Psa 122:2-6), to be surpassed later by the eternal Jerusalem
descended from heaven (Heb 11:16; Rev 20:9), fully described in Rev 21:9-22:5],
• The final mass desolation of Satan and ALL living unbelievers at the Gog and Magog
mass-revolt instigated by bailed Satan against the saints in the Beloved City from heaven
(Rev 20:7-10).
ESCHATOLOGICAL PLACE OF
TEMPORAL ISRAELITE NATION
AND TEMPORAL GENTILE NATIONS.
The royal priesthood Church of Christ is a peculiar holy people of both Jews and Gentiles
(Exo 19:5-6; 1Pe 2:9) which is the NEW Spiritual Israel called from both Jews and Gentiles
(Rom 2:28-29; Rom 9:6; Gal 6:16; Eph 2:12-20; Php 3:3). This Jew-Gentile Church of Christ
NEITHER replaced temporal Israel nation (Joh 8:39-44) NOR temporal Gentile
nations, yet only in the Kingdom of Christ shall all messianic promises to Israel and Gentiles
(Isa 56:1-8; 66:18-23) be fulfilled when Christ comes to raise His overcoming saints and reign
with them in His Millennial Kingdom (Rev 20:6; 21:9-27). All theoretical hopes for temporal
domination (whether as postulated by Amillennialists and Postmillennialists for Gentile nations
or as speculated by Dispensationalists for Israel nation) are political schemes that shall
ultimately fail. Even anti-Christian globalists also have their universalist new-world-order hopes
of pagan domination, but which shall also fail when Christ comes in glory to glorify His saints
and subdue all temporal kingdoms and peoples of this world (Dan 7:11-28; 1Cor 15:19-24; Rev
11:15-17).
According to divine covenant in the Scriptures (Deut 4:24-31; Deut 28:63-68), temporal
Israel shall because of sin be repeatedly decimated by temporal Gentile nations, but
repeatedly restored by God’s help until the end (Dan 11:32-35). By the time of the end ALL the
remnant Israelites (Rom 11:26) shall have been converted (Zec 12:7-10a) and be united with
the FULL NUMBER of redeemed Gentiles (Rom 11:25) into the ONE BRIDE CHURCH OF
CHRIST (Rom 11:23-33). In the Scriptures, PRE-MESSIANIC Jacob’s Israel is the
exemplary symbol/TYPE or foreshadow of God’s People, whereas MESSIANIC
Christ’s Church (of both Israelites and Gentiles) is the expected
substance/ANTITYPE or fulfilment (1Cor 10:6, 11; Rom 5:14; Heb 9:24; 11:40; 1Pe 1:9-12;
3:21).
Notice the similarity between Ezekiel's and Daniel’s prophecies about the End Times
repeated defeat of every Anti-Semite alliance against the restored Israel (Ezek 38-39; Dan
11). This has been fulfilled in the past and shall be fulfilled at any time:
➢ the 167-164BC Antiochus-Maccabean war and
➢ the 1967 Arab-Israeli 7days' war, as well as
➢ any other repeat of looming Anti-Zionist mobilisation in the Middle East (Dan
11:29-36).
Similar conflicts apply ultimately to the Church of Christ as prophesied by Apostle John in
Revelation:
➢ the End Time decimation (Armageddon war Rev 16:12-22) of the Antichrist alliance by
the returning Christ (Rev 19) and finally
➢ the terminal crushing of the futile Gog-Magog mass revolt against the resurrected
Saints at the end of the Millennium (Rev 20:7-10).

This will finally be followed by the dissolution of the physical Universe in an explosive
conflagration, leaving only all spiritual beings (souls and demons) to face the White Throne
“Bema” judgment-roll call and eternal rewards (Dan 7:9-10; Rom 14:10; 2Cor 5:10; Rev
20:11-15).
Also the restored Jerusalem-Temple details in Ezek 40-42 and 47 shows some semblance
with the heavenly bridal Beloved City of Rev 21:9-22:5.
Despite the assurances and warning in Rev 21:5; Rev 22:6; Rev 22:18-19, and the fact that
John was himself a Jew who was fully aware of Ezekiel, some eschatologists today use OT
Ezekiel to do retrograde over-rule of NT Revelation! They paradoxically believe that Ezekiel is
literal despite its symbolic geography but maintain that Revelation is not literal because of its
symbolic imageries! However, it is more appropriate to see Ezekiel as a typological shadow
(figurative partial pattern) symbolised by Israel but pointing to Revelation as the antitype
substance (final fuller reality) to be fulfilled by Christ. This is always the general case with
other comparable Old and New Testament Scriptures (Gal 4:25-26; Col 2:16-17; Heb 8:5-7; Heb
9:9-12; Heb 9:22-24; Heb 10:1) e.g. (spiritual) Egyptian Bondage, Circumcision (without hands),
(spiritual/heavenly) Kingdom, (heavenly) Throne of Grace, (heavenly) Tabernacle, (heavenly)
Jerusalem, etc. Israel (or Jews) is always a physical, national and temporal figure
(SHADOW) for which the Church of Christ (both Jews and Gentiles) is the
spiritual, universal and eternal fulfilment (SUBSTANCE). AS LONG AS ISRAEL AND
THE NATIONS EXIST OR EVEN IF THEY GO EXTINCT, THEY SHALL REMAIN THE
SHADOW OF THE SUBSTANCE.
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END TIMES Phase 3:

Time of the FINAL JUDGMENT of all souls, spirits and elements by Christ (Act 17:31; 2Ti
4:1; 2Pe 3:7; 1Jn 4:17).
After the melting away of the Old Physiochemical Universe.
• The conflagration and vanishing of the Old physiochemical Universe (2Pe 3:7-12; Isa 34:4;
Rev 20:11). NOTE that non-physical creation like Souls, Hades, Death, the Fiery Lake and
the Heavenly City will not vanish but remain for judgment.
• The "exposure/resurrection of ALL unbelieving dead souls" (RESURRECTION OF
CONDEMNATION) for judgement Rev 20:13-14; Rev 21:8,
• The Final General Tribunal (at the White Throne-Bema Judgment Seat Dan 7:9-10; Rom
14:10; 2Co 5:10; Rev 20:11-15) for accountability (Mat 12:36-37; Rom 14:10-12; 1Pe 4:5-6),
vindication (Rev 3:4-5) and retribution Mat 13:40-43; 16:27; Joh 5:24; 2Co 5:10; 1Co
11:31-32; Jud 1:14-15; Rev 22:11-15,
Ruling high thrones of ancient authorities were same as their judgment seats and the
throne room was same as the audience room or court/tribune. This is the sense in which
Christ’s great glorious royal Throne (Mat 25:31; Rev 20:11) is same as Christ’s Judgment
Seat of the Great Day of reckoning (John 5:22-27; 2Cor 5:10; Rom 14:10; Rev 20:11).
• The designation to final destinies Mat 25:46 (eternal BLISS in the Glorious City and the
New imperishable World for the Saints of the only First Resurrection Heb 13:14; Rev 21:1-8
and eternal AGONY in the Fiery Lake for the Wicked of the Second Death Rev 20:10; Rev
20:14-15),
• The substitution of the Old physiochemical Universe with the New imperishable Universe of
crystal fountains and glory but no sea and sun Isa 65:17-19; 2Pe 3:13; Rev 21:1-6.
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The ETERNITY:
The FINAL DESTINIES for ETERNAL Rewards and Retributions.
After the Final “White Throne” Bema Judgment-Roll Call and Second Death
Condemnation.
Further details are given on:
1. Eternal Bliss of the one (1Co 12:13; Eph 4:4-6), holy and universal (Eph 2:17-22) Church of
all the Saints in the same one-and-only Bride City (Gal 4:26; Rev 21:9-27; Rev 22:1-14);
Here the Saints shall need nothing but have all things.
2. Eternal Doom of all the Wicked (Mar 9:43-48; Luk 13:24-28; Rev 14:9-11) who shall be
dumped into the same one Fiery Furnace (Rev 21:8; Rev 22:15), because their names are
missing from the Lamb's Book of Life (Rev 20:15). Here the wicked shall need all things but
have nothing.
A LITTLE GLIMPSE OF THE GLORIES OF HEAVEN

From what Christ revealed to His beloved Apostle John, we have this picture of Heaven.
AROUND Christ’s Throne in Heaven’s Throne or Worship Room we have: 35 Special Angelic
Beings which include:
• 4 six-winged many-eyed Throne Creatures and
• 24 enthroned Elders (Revelation 4), plus
• 7 special starry Executive Angels (Rev 8:2; 16:1).
The other Angels are innumerable ministering Spirits that worship God (Rev 5:11-12; 7:11) and
execute God’s commands for the good of the Saints (Heb 1:7, 14; 12:22).
The Throne Room also has Seven Fiery-Spirits golden Lamps (Rev 1:3-6; 4:5) and a golden
Incense Altar (Rev 6:9; 8:3-5)
BEFORE Christ’s Throne, there shall be resurrected Saints redeemed through Christ who
worship God blissfully. These who shall be raised and gathered/raptured unto Christ as One
Bride when Christ comes (1Thes 4:16-17; Rev 1:7) include:
• the 144,000 faithful Saints of the 12 Tribes of Israel (Rev 7:1-8; 14:1-5) and
• Innumerable overcoming Saints from Every Tribe and Tongue both great and small (Rev
7:9-17).
NOTE that for now (before Christ comes in glory to raise His Saints), all
unresurrected disembodied souls of triumphant sleeping Saints (spirits of just
men made perfect Heb 12:22-24) congregate under the golden altar before the
Throne (Rev 6:9) and join the Church in prayers of the Saints. The Angels burn
these prayers of the Saints with incense on the heavenly altar to give it great
power (Rev 8:3-5).
OUTSIDE the Throne Worship Room, is the nightless golden Heavenly City (Rev
21:9-27) with its River of Life issuing from Christ’s Throne (Rev 22:1-5) and many mansions
prepared for all redeemed believers (John 14:1-4) who have been registered in the Lamb’s book
of Life since the beginning of the world (Rev 21:27). These registered redeemed believers who
become indigenised in the celestial ornamental City include:
• the 12 Tribes of Israel as the City’s pearl Gates (Rev 21:9-13, Rev 21:21),
• the 12 Apostles as the City’s precious-stone wall foundations/pillars (Rev
21:14-20), and

• the Saved (i.e. Kings/Priests Rev 5:10; 20:6) of all Nations as contributors to
the City’s glory and honour and beneficiaries of the City’s illumination (Rev 21:24-
27).
During the 1000years reign of the Saints on earth (Rev 5:10) before the Great Conflagration and
Final Judgment, this celestial bridal City shall be foreshadowed as the “Camp of the Saints” or
Beloved City (Rev 20:9) sanctified by Christ’s presence (Rev 20:4) as the capital territory for the
Saints to sit on thrones to reign and judge (for the Great Subjugation of) the world (Rev 20:1-
10).
BEYOND the Heavenly City shall be the vast expanse of the “New Heaven and New Earth”
for the eternal heritage of the Saints who overcome in Christ unto the end (2Pet 3:13; Rev 21:1-
8).
Christ Is Coming Only ONCE More For His Only ONE Redeemed Body
Reserved for Christ's ONE undivided/indivisible Church of both Jews and Gentiles, as the only Bride of the
Lamb, is the one beloved Holy City: the bridal heavenly Jerusalem without Temple but the Glorious Throne of
God and the Lamb Who dwell in it as its Tabernacle and glorious illumination (Rev 21:3, Rev 21:22-
23). This one Bride City consists of ALL THE SAINTS EVER REDEEMED SINCE THE FOUNDATION OF THE
WORLD together, registered in the Lamb’s Book of Life (Rev 21:27), without any exclusion or division (Act 15:16-
17; Rom 11:11-33; Eph 2:10-22; Eph 3:3-6).
The Celestial City is clearly described as having NO walls of partition between any of the following groups of
people (Eph 2:11-22; Eph 3:4-6; Gal 3:26-29) with the
• 12 Apostles as its precious-stone wall foundations (Rev 21:14-20) AND BELIEVERS FROM the
• 12 Tribes of Israel as its pearl Gates (Rev 21:9-13, Rev 21:21), and the
• Saved (i.e. Kings/Priests Rev 5:10; 20:6) of all Nations as contributors to its glory and
honour and beneficiaries of its illumination (Rev 21:24-27).
This agrees perfectly with the indigenization of the Gentiles in the New Commonwealth of Israel
(Eze 47:22-23) and the New “Jehovah Shammah” Holy City (Isa 24:23; Isa 56:6-7; Jer 3:17; Eze 48:35) as
the Prophets had consistently indicated long time ago.
This composite ONE True Church shall be raised ONCE in open, visible glory (at the ONE blast of the
angelic LAST trumpet), as ONE Body (Eph 4:4-6) and ONE Bride, at the ONE glorious Second Coming and
ONE rapturous First Resurrection (1Co 15:22-26, 1Co 15:50-53; 1Th 4:14-18; Rev 1:7) – not two or more separate
second comings, not two separate first resurrections, and not two or more separate brides as if to a
polygamous Lord!
Some key points to ponder on concerning - THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST:

1. Will there be resurrection and rapture without Christ Coming?
There cannot be gathering of any saint except at Christ's coming, according to the Scriptures.
2. Will Christ come without resurrection and rapture?

Christ would only come for gathering His saints to Himself according to the Scriptures.
3 Will Christ come once more or several times more?

He'll come only once more according to His Word in the Scriptures.
4. When will this/these be?

The gathering of the saints unto Christ will be only at the end of the Tribulation to terminate the
Antichrist reign, gather His saints and reign with them, according to Christ's Word in the
Scriptures.
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Updated March 12, 2019
by Ven. Dr. I. U. Ibeme
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THE END TIMES (THE LAST DAYS)

Bible Study Outline on Eschatology

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Some key points to ponder on concerning — THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST:

1. Will there be resurrection and rapture without Christ Coming?

2. Will Christ come without resurrection and rapture?

3 Will Christ come once more or several times more?

4. When will this/these be?

Above table shows FOUR main views of the END TIMES.

(For more details visit http://www.scribd.com/doc/19347123/Covenants-in-the-Scripture

TODAY, DISPENSATIONALISTS PRETEND TO BE TEACHING HISTORIC APOSTOLIC PREMILLENNIALISM.

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The most important matter in all these is this:

THE APPEARANCE OF CHRIST’S KINGDOM (Luke 19:11)

Formerly, Amillennialists theorized their DELETE-AND-PASTE “Replacement Theology” which denies

Take note of this prophetic admonition from the Apostles of Christ:

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TRIBULATION SAINTS ARE NOT UNRAPTURED UNREADY SAINTS

END TIMES or LAST DAYS or LAST HOUR or

SEVENTY WEEKS OF DANIEL CHAPTER 9:

The Seventy Weeks of Daniel 9:24-27

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The Book Of Revelation Demystified: Simple Expository Outline

SUMMARY OF COMING SEVEN END TIME EVENTS

FROM REVELATION 19-22 & 2PETER 3, we see these special additions:

FROM THE GOSPELS TO REVELATION, we generally see:

BIBLICAL CONTEXTUAL SEQUENCE OF END TIME EVENTS

OUR WAITING (Our occupying/His redeeming till we overcome at His coming) →→

1. OUR WAITING: (Our Occupying/His Redeeming)

2. HIS COMING: (the First Resurrection)

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4. THE END: (the Final Judgment)

5. THE ETERNITY: (the Eternal Destinies)

Rev 22:6-15. Final eschatological warnings.

FROM THE OUTLAY OF EVENTS IN THE FOREGOING SCRIPTURES,

END TIMES Phase 1:

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THE ANTICHRIST AND HIS “666” MARK/NUMBER.

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Before Christ (PRE-MESSIANIC AGE), nationalities mattered but since the

END TIMES Phase 2:

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It is also important to note that:

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END TIMES Phase 3:

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A LITTLE GLIMPSE OF THE GLORIES OF HEAVEN

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Some key points to ponder on concerning - THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST:

2. Will Christ come without resurrection and rapture?

3 Will Christ come once more or several times more?

4. When will this/these be?

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