In View

of the End
Study WorkBook
What DOES the Bible say
about the return of Christ
and the end of the age?
© 2003-2017 Elbert D. Charpie
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 Session 1: The Millennium
Amillennial View
That the millennial reign of Christ is as
is most of the book of Revelation in most of its

The Millennium is symbolic of –

the world will get progressively until Christ

comes.

Post-millennial View

Most of the book of Revelation is and

culminated at the fall of Jerusalem in 70 A.D.

We are now the millennial reign of Christ and will evolve

into a “new heaven and a new earth.”

Things will continually get until Christ comes to

reign personally. The thousand years is a

analogy and not necessarily a literal 1000 years.

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 Post-Millennial View
Session 1: The Millennium

YOU ARE HERE!

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 Session 1: The Millennium

Pre-millennial View
That there a literal 1000 years reign when Christ will

this earth. It is a event

that will be preceded by a seven year period, known as the

, where God will pour out

His upon this world.

7 Year Period—Dan. :

Millennium—Rev. : -

7 Year Period =
Tribulation Period
Daniel’s
(Dan 9:27 NIV) He will confirm a covenant with many for one 'seven.' In
the middle of the 'seven' he will put an end to sacrifice and offering. And on
a wing of the temple he will set up an abomination that causes desolation,
until the end that is decreed is poured out on him."

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 Pre-Millennial View
Session 1: The Millennium

YOU ARE
HERE!

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 Session 1: The Millennium

Revelation 20:1-10 (NIV)

And I saw an angel coming down out of heaven, having the key to the Abyss and holding in his
hand a great chain. 2 He seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the devil, or Satan, and
bound him for a thousand years. 3 He threw him into the Abyss, and locked and sealed it over
him, to keep him from deceiving the nations anymore until the thousand years were ended. Af-
ter that, he must be set free for a short time. 4 I saw thrones on which were seated those who
had been given authority to judge. And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded be-
cause of their testimony for Jesus and because of the word of God. They had not worshiped the
beast or his image and had not received his mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came
to life and reigned with Christ a thousand years. 5 (The rest of the dead did not come to life un-
til the thousand years were ended.) This is the first resurrection. 6 Blessed and holy are those
who have part in the first resurrection. The second death has no power over them, but they will
be priests of God and of Christ and will reign with him for a thousand years. 7 When the thou-
sand years are over, Satan will be released from his prison 8 and will go out to deceive the
nations in the four corners of the earth--Gog and Magog--to gather them for battle. In number
they are like the sand on the seashore. 9 They marched across the breadth of the earth and sur-
rounded the camp of God's people, the city he loves. But fire came down from heaven and de-
voured them. 10 And the devil, who deceived them, was thrown into the lake of burning sulfur,
where the beast and the false prophet had been thrown. They will be tormented day and night
for ever and ever.

Hermeneutics?
- Scripture

Two Methods:
1. Method
Reader determines what scriptures teach.

2. Method
Reader discovers what scriptures teach.

“2 Cor 1:13 (NIV) For we do not write you anything you cannot read or understand... ”

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Session 1: The Millennium

Notes

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 Session 2: The 70th Week
Hermeneutics?
- Scripture

Two Methods:
1. Method
Reader determines what scriptures teach.

2. Method
Reader discovers what scriptures teach.

“2 Cor 1:13 (NIV) For we do not write you anything you cannot read or understand... ”

Five Keys to a Face Value

Hermeneutic
1. Accept the meaning of scripture in its most ,

, customary sense.

2. Take scripture in .

3. Compare scripture with .

4. Before truth is realized, all seeming scriptural

must be harmonized.

5. Watch for Near / Far

applications in scripture.

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Session 2: The 70th Week

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 Session 2: The 70th Week

Daniel’s 70th Week

(Dan 9:24 NIV) “Seventy 'sevens' are decreed for your people and your holy city
to finish transgression, to put an end to sin, to atone for wickedness, to bring in
everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy and to anoint the most
holy.

Purpose of the 70 Weeks

}
1. Your

2. And Your For

3. To
Who?
4. To Put an to

5. To for

6. To Bring in

7. To Seal Up and

8. To Anoint the

Daniel 9:25 (NIV) "Know and understand this: From the issuing of the
decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until the Anointed One, the ruler,
comes, there will be seven `sevens,' and sixty-two `sevens.' It will be rebuilt
with streets and a trench, but in times of trouble.
‘Sevens’ + ‘Sevens’ = ‘Sevens’

69 X ‘Seven’ = Years = Period of time from 445 B.C.

(Artaxerxes Longimanus issued a decree to rebuild Jerusalem cf. Neh 2:5)
until the Triumphal Entry into Jerusalem.

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 Daniel’s 70th Week
“The Tribulation Period”
Session 2: The 70th Week

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 Session 2: The 70th Week

Notes

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Session 3 & 4: 70th Week and After
Mid-Point of Tribulation

• Antichrist
– Demands

• Woman to

BROKEN AT • 144,000 Are

MIDPOINT
• Two
Prophesy for 1260 Days

• Judgments
Begin

3½ 3½ YEARS
Years 1260 DAYS
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 Session 3 & 4: The 70th Week and After

75 Days
30 Days = Period

45 Days = Period

• Salvation of the

•
of

The Final
30
of God DAYS
• The Bema-Seat

• Restoration of Mt.

• Restoration of 45
•
•
Restoration of the

Christ to over the

DAYS
earth

30 DAYS
Ministry of the Two :

 Cannot be killed until the of days

 Between the 6th and 7th

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Session 3 & 4: The 70th Week and After

DAY 5+
DAY 4

30 DAYS
DAY 3
DAY 2
DAY 1

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 Session 3 & 4: The 70th Week and After

Bowl Judgments
• They will happen (25 days?)

• All things (rather than 1/3)

• Read Bowls – Rev. 16

• Seventh Bowl = Total

• Followed by

Notes

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 Session 5: The Rapture
3 Views of the Rapture

1.

2.

3.

1 2 3
3 ½ YEARS—1260 Days 3 ½ YEARS—1260 Days

7 YEAR PERIOD
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 Session 5: The Rapture

Post-Tribulational View
Problems:
 Rom 5:9  1 Thess 5:9  Luke 21:36  1 Thess 3:13
 1 Thess 1:10  Rev 3:10  Mark 13:32

1. God’s endure His .

2. Predictability about the and the .

3. No basis for of
Rapture.

4. Conflict in of:

a)

b)

c)
(see 1 Thess 3:13)

Mid-Tribulational View

Still has these problems:

2. Predictability about the and the .

3. No basis for of
Rapture.

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 Pre-Tribulational View
Session 5: The Rapture

MIDPOINT
BROKEN AT

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ARMAGEDDON
MILLENNIUM

3½ YEARS 1260 DAYS

30 45
7 YEAR PERIOD DAYS DAYS
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Pre-Tribulational View
Events Happening During the Tribulation Period
 , ,

 144,000

 Greatest in History (Rev. 7:9,13-14)

God’s Wrath vs. Our Deliverance

Scriptural Balance

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Pre-Tribulation View Problems

1. The Unmistakable of Christ
Matt 24:26-27; Luke 17:23-24; Rev 1:7

2. Absence of Holy Spirit vs. Saved

2 Thess 2:7;10-12; Rev. 9:20

3. Rapture in End Time Passages

Matt 24; Mark 13; Luke 17 & 21

4. Matthew 24 Only for ?

5. Two ?
Matt. 24:29-31

6. What Comes ?
2 Thess 2:3

7. No Basis for Evangelists

8. No Scriptural Basis for Greatest in History

9. No Scriptural Basis for timing of

cf. Rev 4:1

Rev. 4:1 (NIV) After this I looked, and there before me was a door stand-
ing open in heaven. And the voice I had first heard speaking to me like a
trumpet said, "Come up here, and I will show you what must take place
after this."

The !
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 Session 5: The Rapture

Pre-Tribulation Rapture Assumptions

 Assumption = A belief or doctrine that is explicitly stated in
scripture.

1. The 70th Week is only for the .

2. Matthew 24 written specifically for the .

3. Rev. : signifies the Rapture.

4. The Holy Spirit is the cf. 2 Thess. 2:7.

5. 144,000 Jewish .

6. A Great takes place.

 All of the Pre-Tribulation problem points can be …

 But the entire picture is still one where all the pieces seem to be
to together!

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 Session 6: The Day of the Lord
Is there not a way to understand
end-time prophecy where
all the pieces just
fall into place?

!
To Understand:

We Must Understand:

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 Session 6: The Day of the Lord

The Day of the Lord

 Day of Wrath and Judgment on the
Isa. 13:6-9, 11, 13

 of the religious vs. those who “truly rely on the Lord”

Amos 8:3-5

 Day of Judgment on
Isa. 30:11; Zep. 1:11-12

 Israel will the Holy One and be joined by

as God’s people
Isa. 10:20; 14:1

 God Israel
Zep. 1:17-18; Amos 5:18-19; Jer. 4:10

 God His people

Zep. 2:1-3; 3:8-9

 A day when He comes to among His people

Zec. 2:10-12

 Day of like never before or ever again

Joel 2:1-2

 Last to return to the Lord

Joel 2:11-13

 Day of for “everyone who calls

on the name of the Lord” Joel 2:32

 of the Day of the Lord: Sun and stars darkened,

moon darkened/ turned to blood Joel 2:10,31; 3:14-15; Amos 8:9

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Session 6: The Day of the Lord

The Day of the Lord

New Testament Scriptures referring to the Day of the Lord:

Matt 24:29-31 Mark 13:24-27

Luke 21:25-28 Acts 2:20-21

3 Themes in the New Testament

1. Sign of , , and
just before...

2. Jesus comes in and great

3. / :
“gather His elect,” “Redemption is drawing near,” “everyone who calls…
will be saved.”

Revelation 6:12 (NIV)

I watched as he opened the sixth seal. There was a great earthquake. The sun
turned black like sackcloth made of goat hair, the whole moon turned blood
red, 13 and the stars in the sky fell to earth, as late figs drop from a fig tree
when shaken by a strong wind. 14 The sky r eceded like a scr oll, r olling up,
and every mountain and island was removed from its place. 15 Then the kings of
the earth, the princes, the generals, the rich, the mighty, and every slave and every
free man hid in caves and among the rocks of the mountains. 16 They called to the
mountains and the rocks, "Fall on us and hide us from the face of him who sits on
the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb! 17 For the great day of their
wrath has come, and who can stand?"

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The Day of the Lord

Revelation 7:3-4, 9-10, 13-14 (NIV)

"Do not harm the land or the sea or the trees until we put a seal on the foreheads of
the servants of our God." 4 Then I heard the number of those who were sealed:
144,000 from all the tribes of Israel. ...9 After this I looked and there before me
was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and
language, standing before the throne and in front of the Lamb. They were wearing
white robes and were holding palm branches in their hands. 10 And they cried out
in a loud voice: "Salvation belongs to our God, who sits on the throne, and to the
Lamb." ...13 Then one of the elder s asked me, " These in white r obes--who are
they, and where did they come from?" 14 I answered, "Sir, you know." And he
said, "These are they who have come out of the great tribulation; they have washed
their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

The Rapture
2 Thessalonians 2:1,3 (NIV)

1 Concerning the of our Lord Jesus Christ

and our to him,
we ask you, brothers, 2 not to become easily unsettled or alarmed by some prophe-
cy, report or letter supposed to have come from us, saying that the day of the Lord
has already come.
...3 Don't let anyone deceive you in any way, for will
not come until the rebellion occurs and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the man
doomed to destruction.

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The Rapture
1 Thessalonians 4:17-18 (NIV)

17 After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with
them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord for-
ever. 18 Therefore encourage each other with these words...

Chapter …

1 Thessalonians 5:1-2 (NIV)

1 Now, brothers, about times and dates we do not need to write to you, 2 for you
know very well that the of the will
come like a thief in the night.

Have we missed the fact that the

Day of the Lord

And the

Rapture
Are the

?
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If that is true, then...

1. All Prophecies will fit

2. All Prophecies will

3. All with other views will be answered

4. There will be no contradictions

Notes

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 Session 7: The Pre-Wrath Rapture
Major NT Prophetic Passages
• Matthew • Luke
• Mark • 1 & 2 Thessalonians
• Luke • Revelation

All Prophecies Harmonize

• of Sun/Moon/Stars
Matt. 24:29; Mark 13:24-25; Luke 21:25-26; Acts 2:20; Rev. 6:12-13
• Jesus in power and glory
Matt. 24:30; Mark 13:26; Luke 21:27; Rev. 6:16
• / Deliverance
Matt. 24:31; Mark 13:27; Luke 21:28; Acts 2:21; Rev. 7:9-10

The Day of the Lord in

Thessalonians
(2 Th 2:1,3 NIV) Concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being
gathered to him, we ask you, brothers {3} Don't let anyone deceive you in any way,
for that day will not come until the rebellion occurs and the man of lawlessness is
revealed, the man doomed to destruction.

The Rapture and the Day of the Lord

in First Thessalonians 4:13 ff
This passage ends...
(1 Th 4:17-18 NIV) After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up
together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with
the Lord forever. {18} Therefore encourage each other with these words.
Chapter 5 begins…
(1 Th 5:1-2 NIV) Now, brothers, about times and dates we do not need to write to
you, {2} for you know very well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in
the night.
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 Session 7: The Pre-Wrath Rapture

The Days of Noah / Lot

On a day:

1. Noah and his family were

2. God’s was poured out in the form of the flood

3. Lot Sodom

4. God’s rained down in fire and sulphur

(Luke 17:30 NIV) “It will be just like this on the

the Son of Man is revealed.”

On the of the :

1. God’s people will be to Heaven

2. God’s will be poured out upon the earth

The - View
(2 Pet 2:5-9 NIV) ...if this is so, then the Lord knows how to rescue godly men
from trials and to hold the unrighteous for the day of judgment, while
continuing their punishment.

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As In the Days of Noah

(Mat 24:39-41 NIV) and they knew nothing about what would happen until the
flood came and [ ] them all
away. That is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. {40} Two men will
be in the field; one will be [ ]
and the other left. {41} Two women will be grinding with a hand mill; one will be
[ ] and the other left.

Dictionary entry: ai[rw (airō) take, take up; take away, set
aside Col 2:14); carry; sweep away (of a flood); raise (of one’s voice); take over,
conquer (Jn 11:48); kill (Jn 19:15); keep in suspense (Jn 10:24)

Dictionary entry: paralambavnw (paralambanō) take, take along;

, accept (often of a tradition); learn (1 Th 4:1); take
charge of (Jn 19:16b)

 Comparison is not the ones

 flood = taken to
 rapture = taken to be
 Comparison is of unexpected judgment and redemption at the
!

(Mat 24:36-39 NIV) "No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in
heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father. {37} As it was in the days of Noah, so it
will be at the coming of the Son of Man. {39} …and they knew nothing about
what would happen until the flood came and took them all away. That is how it
will be at the coming of the Son of Man.

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Suffering and Judgment

2 Thess 1:4 (NIV) Therefore, among God's churches we boast about your persever-
ance and faith in all the persecutions and trials you are enduring. 5 All this is evi-
dence that God's judgment is right, and as a result you will be counted worthy of
the kingdom of God, for which you ar e suffer ing. 6 God is just: He will pay
back trouble to those who trouble you 7 and give relief to you who are troubled,
and to us as well. This will happen when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven in
blazing fire with his powerful angels. 8 He will punish those who do not know God
and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus. 9 They will be punished with ever-
lasting destruction and shut out from the presence of the Lord and from the majesty
of his power 10 on the day he comes to be glorified in his holy people and to be
marveled at among all those who have believed. This includes you, because you
believed our testimony to you.

Notes

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 Session 8: Rapture Timing

3 Events Happen Together:

1. of Sun / Moon / Stars
2. in power and glory
3. (Salvation/Deliverance)

Timing: for these events!

In Rev. 6:12-13 the sign is found upon opening the seal.

There is a scroll with seven seals. In Rev 5:1-2 ...“Who is
worthy to the seals and the scroll?”

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 Session 8: Rapture Timing

Matt 24: Matt 24:

Matt 24:

Matt 24:

Matt 24:

Matt 24:
Matt 24:

(Mark 13:32 NIV) "No one knows about that day or hour, not even the an-
gels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.

2 Clues as to when the Rapture will happen:

1.

2.

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 Timing of Rapture
Session 8: Rapture Timing

Broken at Midpoint

Great Tribulation
Birth

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Pains 44 55 66 77

S ig n
1
-
13
-
3

D e a th
M a r ty r s
3½ 3½ YEARS
Years 1260 DAYS
 Session 9: Rapture Problems Answered
Perspective of This Study
• “Prove Me Wrong?”
• Theological
– Prophecies
– Proper Perspective
– Reason for Theology
• Could the Pre-Wrath View Be ?
– !
– vs.
• Basis =

Post & Mid Tribulation

Rapture Problems
4. Conflict in timing of:

• Bema Seat Judgment

• Marriage Supper of the Lamb
• Saints in God’s Presence - cf: 1 Thess 3:13

Judgment & Reward happens after the th trumpet.

1 Thess 3:13 Jesus returns with His “Holy Ones”

• Matt 13:40-42 - “send out His ”
• 2 Thess 1:7-8 - “Lord Jesus is revealed with His
”

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Post & Mid Tribulation

Rapture Problems
3. No Scriptural Basis for Timing of Rapture

Rapture Timing

1. of the Day of the Lord reveals timing – esp. Matt 24

& Revelation 6

2. 2 Thess 2 it will come Antichrist is

3. Jesus said to for the Abomination of Desolation

Matt 24:15

2. Predictability about the day and the hour

Jesus warned…

These would not know the day or the hour:

• “not even the ”
• “nor the ”
• “ do not know…”
But Jesus said…

• “So when you …”

• “you know that it is ”
• “right at the “ ”
• Paul said that the day should not surprise you

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Post & Mid Tribulation

Rapture Problems
2. Predictability about the day and the hour

So...

• We may the day or the hour, BUT…

• We may know that it is “even at the door!”
• Those NOT living in darkness will NOT be like
a thief in the night
• We do not know the rapture will occur but we will
know the that it is very

1. God’s people endure His wrath

(Rev 6:16-17 NIV) They called to the mountains and the rocks, "Fall on us and
hide us from the face of him who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the
Lamb! {17} For the great day of their wrath has come, and who can stand?"

• Mention of ’s Wrath!
• After th Seal & the
• Is it Wrath this?
Rev. 12:7-9,12

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 • We will suffer (Mt. 24)
• We will NOT suffer
Session 9: Rapture Problems Answered

Broken at
Midpoint

Birth

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Pains Rapture
Rapture

3½ 3½ YEARS
Years 1260 DAYS
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Pre-Tribulation Rapture Problems

2. Absence of Holy Spirit vs. Multitude Saved
• The One Who Holds Back = “The Restrainer” = Holy Spirit
• At the Rapture, the Holy Spirit is removed from the world with the church
allowing the Antichrist the freedom to reveal himself to the world

Balance of 2 Thessalonians 2

2 Thess 2:3 2 Thess 2:7-8

Scriptural Balance
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Session 9: Rapture Problems Answered

Pre-Tribulation Rapture Problems

Another Possibility?

(Dan 12:1 NIV) " Michael,

the great prince who protects your people, .
There will be a time of distress such as has not happened from the beginning of na-
tions until then. But at that time your people--everyone whose name is found writ-
ten in the book-- .

The Restrainer

1. The Scripture identify the restrainer

2. There is indication that the Holy Spirit is
removed during this time
3. 2 Thessalonians 2 makes identifying the as
the Holy Spirit

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Imminency
“...If something else must take place before an event can happen, that event is not
imminent...”
Key Elements

• The certainty that the Lord may at any moment

• The uncertainty of the of His arrival

• The fact that no stands between

the believer and that hour

Arguments

• The Lord is – they were expecting Him

at any !
• They were waiting – “Come, O Lord!” – if
persecution or wrath were involved why “eagerly wait?”

Answers

The Lord is near:

• Jesus coming is in the same way the prophets pro-

claimed the Day of the Lord is near
• There are prophecies that have to take place the
Day of the Lord and so the Day of the Lord is NOT imminent
They were eagerly waiting:

• We don’t eagerly await

• We DO eagerly await !

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Session 9: Rapture Problems Answered

Imminency
Two Questions

1. Is there anything that has to happen before Jesus comes?

2. Could Jesus come now?

Notes

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 Session 10: The Wrath of God

Events Completed By Large Scroll

• Daniel’s 70th Week is (Dan 9:24)

• Israel’s will be completed

• Israel’s sin will be

• Israel’s iniquity will be for

• The Times of the will be fulfilled (Luke 21:24)

• The of the Gentiles will have come in (Rom 11:25)

• The first is completed (Rev. 9:12)

• The th Judgment is finished (Rev. 11:13-19)

• The year ministry of the witnesses will be

(Rev 11:7)

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Rapture

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1 2 3 4 5 6 7
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Sometime during
Second half of 70th Week 30 Days
Day of the Lord
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Events Initiated by the Small Scroll

• The 30 day period begins (Dan 12:11)

• Everlasting will be brought in to Israel

(Dan 9:24)

• vision and prophecy (Dan 9:24)

• Death and resurrection of two (Rev 11:7,11-12)

• The second is completed (Rev 11:14)

• The th is sounded (Rev 11:15)

• Almighty God begins His over earth (Rev 11:17)

• The last of God’s wrath (Rev 11:18, 15:1)

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Notes

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 Dr. Elbert Charpie lives in Citronelle, Alabama
and is the Pastor of Shiloh Baptist Church in Deer
Park, Alabama. He is the Founder of
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understanding of end times and his popular study,
“In View of the End.” Dr. Charpie received his Doctor of
Ministry from New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary.
Since 1976 his passion has been to share Christ’s love and
to make biblical truths the way they should be… simple to
understand and applicable to daily life. Dr. Charpie lives
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