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Bible Study For Busy People :: Understand Prophecy and the Second Coming
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Introduction and Prophecy Time Line: Time of Sealing Soon Over
Order of Events: Summary of Bible Prophecy Described in More Detail on Advanced Studies page
As Described in "Early Writings" and "The Great Controversy" by Ellen WhiteLook-up > http://egwdatabase.whiteestate.org/nxt/gateway.dll?f=templates$fn=default.htm$vid=default
1) 1844 Commencement of Investigative Judgment and Third Angel's Message. Last exact date established by Bible Prophecy.
2) Shaking No Second Chance Youth and Drug Syndrome
3) The Test - Sunday Law Sunday Laws are Coming! Sunday Laws in the News Church State Connection
a) Image to Beast (Sunday Law Enforced) and Latter Rain The Sealing and the Latter Rain
b) Sign to leave large cities and Church Purified
Seven Last Plagues, The Time of Trouble Peace and Safety God Overturns Nature Who Receives the Seal of God
4) Close of Probation and Seven Last Plagues begin to fall No Second Chance No Martyrs After Probation Closes When Too Late To Be Saved
5) Death Decree to those keep the Saturday Sabbath and Sign to leave cities God Intervenes On Behalf Of His People
6) The Voice of God and the Opening of Seventh Plague
a) Deliverance of Living Saints
b) Special resurrection of Daniel 12:2 Both groups of righteous glorified but not yet immortal
7) Ten Commandments Appear in the Heavens God's Law Appears In The Heavens
8) God Announces Day and Hour of Christ's Coming
9) Sign of the Son of Man - Jesus
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Second Coming Of Christ
a) General Resurrection of Righteous
Guardian Angels
b) Destruction of the Wicked
The Millennium, Desolation of the Earth (The 1,000 Years)
11) End of 1,000 Years
a) Christ and Saints Return to Earth
b) General Resurrection of the Wicked Every Work Judged Surprises When we Get To Heaven
12) New Jerusalem Descents
14) Coronation of Christ
15) Destruction of Wicked
16) New Earth
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He who overcomes (is victorious), I will grant him to sit beside Me on My throne, as I Myself overcame (was victorious) and sat down beside My Father on His throne. He who is able to hear, let him listen to and heed what the [Holy] Spirit says to the assemblies (churches).
Revelation 3:21-22 The Amplified Bible
The Overwhelming Surprise by W. D. Frazee (Audio) > http://www.wdfrazeesermons.com/wdfrazeesermons/2007/01/index.html
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Description of the Church Just Before Jesus Returns In Person
Order of Last Day Events Prophecy Chart - Expanded > Source: http://www.lightministries.com/id9.htm
Time When Too Late To Be Saved : The Door of Salvation Closed (After Probation Closes)
No Martyrs After Probation Closes
Popular Culture Can Not Explain God's Plan!
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Mans' Predictions Of Events Just Before The Seven Last Plagues Fall on Earth - Popular Understanding In Society from Leaders and the News is that everything is OK. No need to panic! Everything is under control! Do Nothing.
Don't question the words of the priests!
Read the following series for another perspective and how you CAN prepare for future events that will be an overwhelming surprise for most inhabitants of the earth. This is the first of a series of studies on the overwhelming surprise that is about to overtake the people of the world; what we can do about it, and how to get ready for it. Peace and Security The "Price" of "Peace" The Light Preparation Finally, The Trap
my people are destroyed from lack of
knowledge.
"Because you have rejected knowledge,
I also reject you as my priests;
because you have ignored the law of your God,
I also will ignore your children.
I don't think, friends, that I need to deal with the question of when all this is going to happen. You know as well as I that the day of the Master's coming can't be posted on our calendars. He won't call ahead and make an appointment any more than a burglar would. About the time everybody's walking around complacently, congratulating each other—"We've sure got it made! Now we can take it easy!"—suddenly everything will fall apart. It's going to come as suddenly and inescapably as birth pangs to a pregnant woman.
3When people are saying, All is well and secure, and, There is peace and safety, then in a moment unforeseen destruction (ruin and death) will come upon them as suddenly as labor pains come upon a woman with child; and they shall by no means escape, for there will be no escape.
Source: BibleGateway.com
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An understanding of the hope of Christ's second coming
Time When Too Late To Be Saved
Human Probation Closes
He who is unrighteous (unjust, wicked), let him be unrighteous still; and he who is filthy (vile, impure), let him be filthy still; and he who is righteous (just, upright, in right standing with God), let him do right still; and he who is holy, let him be holy still.
Revelation 22:11
When the work of the investigative judgment closes, the destiny of all will have been decided for life or death. Probation is ended a short time before the appearance of the Lord in the clouds of heaven.
Scoffers pointed to the things of nature - to the unvarying succession of the seasons, to the blue skies that had never poured out rain, to the green fields refreshed by the soft dews of night - and they cried out: "Does he not speak parables?" In contempt they declared the preacher of righteousness to be a wild enthusiast; and they went on, more eager in their pursuit of pleasure, more intent upon their evil ways than before. But their unbelief did not hinder the predicted event. God bore long with their wickedness, giving them ample opportunity for repentance; but at the appointed time His judgments were visited upon the rejecters of His mercy.
Christ declares that there will exist similar unbelief concerning His second coming. As the people of Noah's day, "And they did not know or understand until the flood came and swept them all away--so will be the coming of the Son of Man." Matthew 24:39
When the professed people of God are uniting with the world, living as they live, and joining with them in forbidden pleasures; when the luxury of the world becomes the luxury of the church; when the marriage bells are chiming, and all are looking forward to many years of worldly prosperity - then, suddenly as the lightning flashes from the heavens, will come the end of their bright visions and delusive hopes.
The events connected with the close of probation and the work of preparation for the time of trouble, are clearly presented. But multitudes have no more understanding of these important truths than if they had never been revealed. Satan watches to catch away every impression that would make them wise unto salvation and the time of trouble will find them unready.
Maranatha The Lord Is Coming, page 263, by Ellen White, Review and Herald Publishing Association, Washington, DC, USA 20012 The Amplified Bible Source: BibleGateway.com
"No Second Chance" In The Morning: Daily Meditations On Christ and his Truth, page 111, Review and Herald, Washington DC, USA, 1951
Close of Probation Passes Unnoticed For you yourselves know perfectly well that the day of the [return of the] Lord will come [as unexpectedly and suddenly] as a thief in the night. I Thess. 5:2
The righteous and the wicked will still be living upon the earth in their mortal state - men will be planting and building, eating and drinking, all unconscious that the final, irrevocable decision has been pronounced in the sanctuary above. Before the flood, after Noah entered the ark, God shut him in, and shut the ungodly out; but for seven days the people, knowing not that their doom was fixed, continuing their careless, pleasure-loving life, and mocked the warnings of impending judgment. "So," says the Savior, "shall also the coming of the Son of man be." Silently, unnoticed as the midnight thief, will come the decisive hour which marks the fixing of every man's destiny, the final withdrawal of mercy's offer of guilty men.
The people are fast being lulled to a fatal security, to be awakened only by the outpouring of the wrath of God.
The Lord in judgment will at the close of time walk through the earth, the fearful plagues will begin to fall. Then those who have despised God's word, those who have lightly esteemed it, shall wander from sea to sea, and from north even to the east; they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the Lord and shall not find it....
The ministers of God will have done their last work, offering their last prayers, shed their last bitter tear for a rebellious church and an ungodly people.
The eye of Jesus, looking down the ages, was fixed upon our time when He said, "...Would that you had known personally, even at least in this your day, the things that make for peace (for freedom from all the distresses that are experienced as the result of sin and upon which your peace--your security, safety, prosperity, and happiness--depends)! But now they are hidden from your eyes" Luke 19:42.
Maranatha The Lord Is Coming, page 264, by Ellen White, Review and Herald Publishing Association, Washington, DC, USA 20012 The Amplified Bible Source: BibleGateway.com
Luke 13 23-30 Amplified Bible And someone asked Him, Lord, will only a few be saved (rescued, delivered from the penalties of the last judgment, and made partakers of the salvation by Christ)? And He said to them, Strive to enter by the narrow door [force yourselves through it],for many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able. When once the Master of the house gets up and closes the door*, and you begin to stand outside and to knock at the door [again and again], saying, Lord, open to us! He will answer you, I do not know where [what household--certainly not Mine] you come from. Then you will begin to say, We ate and drank in Your presence, and You taught in our streets. 27But He will say, I tell you, I do not know where [what household--certainly not Mine] you come from; depart from Me, all you wrongdoers! There will be weeping and grinding of teeth when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, but you yourselves being cast forth (banished, driven away). And [people] will come from east and west, and from north and south, and sit down (feast at table) in the kingdom of God. And behold, there are some [now] last who will be first [then], and there are some [now] first who will be last [then]. Luke 13 23-30 Amplified Bible Source: BibleGateway.com
* When Jesus closes the door of salvation, probation closes and after that time salvation will Not Be Available to Humanity, even if you pray and ask God to forgive your sins. Too late!
And he [further] told me, Do Not seal up the words of this prophecy of this book and make no secret of them, for the time when things are brought to a crisis and the period of their fulfillment is near. He who is unrighteousness (unjust, wicked), let him be unrighteousness still; and he who is filthy (vile, impure), let him be filthy still; and he who is righteous (just, upright, in right standing with God), let him do right still; and he who is holy, let him be holy still. Behold, I am coming soon, and I shall bring My wages and rewards with Me, to repay and render to each one just what his own actions and his own work merit. Revelation 22:10-12 Amplified Bible
Revelation 16:17 Then the seventh [angel] emptied out his bowl into the air, and a mighty voice came out of the sanctuary of heaven from the throne [of God], saying. It is done! [It is all over, it is all accomplished, it has come!] Revelation 16:17
"It is all over, it is all accomplished, it has come" refers to all of the eternal destinies of all people who ever lived on earth. The dead of ages past and those currently alive. Final decisions. No appeal. Then the voice is actually heard by the people of earth and throughout the universe: "It Is Done1"
The plan to save humanity is over. God's plan of salvation is done! Watching the news will NOT prepare you for these events!
Everyone will have been assigned a resurrection (before Jesus appears in the sky): the first resurrection for eternal life, or the second resurrection to death. No appeal of this decision.
The decisions will have been made before the last seven plagues begin when life appears to be going along as normal.
No Martyrs After Probation Closes: Protection Explained
He shall call upon Me, and I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble, I will deliver him and honor him. Psalms 91: 15
The people of God will not be free from suffering; but while persecuted and distressed, while they endure privation and suffer for want of food they will not be left to perish.
Yet to human sight it will appear that the people of God must soon seal their testimony with their blood as they did the martyrs before them. They themselves begin to fear that the Lord has left them to fall by the hand of their enemies. It is a time of fearful agony. Day and night they cry unto God for deliverance...
And they shall be Mine, says the Lord of hosts, in that day when I publicly recognize and openly declare them to be My jewels (My special possession, My peculiar treasure). And I will spare them, as a man spares his own son who serves him.
Malachi 3:17.
If the blood of Christ's faithful witnesses were shed at this time, it would not, like the blood of the martyrs, be as a seed sown to yield a harvest for God. Their fidelity would not be a testimony to convince others of the truth; for the obdurate* (unmoved by persuasion, pity, or tender feelings; stubborn; unyielding; stubbornly resistant to moral influence; persistently impenitent: an obdurate sinner) heart has beaten back the waves of mercy until they return no more.
If the righteous were now left to fall a prey to their enemies, it would be a triumph for the prince of darkness.
Says the psalmist: For in the day of trouble He will hide me in His shelter; in the secret place of His tent will He hide me; He will set me high upon a rock. Psalm 27:5.
Christ has spoken:
Glorious will be the deliverance of those who have patiently waited for His coming and whose names are written
in the book of life.
* Source of Definition: Dictionary.com
Maranatha The Lord Is Coming, page 277, by Ellen White, Review and Herald Publishing Association, Washington, DC, USA 20012 The Amplified Bible Source: BibleGateway.com
Popular Culture Can Not Explain God's Plan!
Popular Culture, or Pop Culture, is the vernacular (people's) culture that prevails in any given society.
Source: Wikipedia.org
The content of popular culture is determined by the daily interactions, needs and desires, and cultural 'moments' that make up the everyday lives of the mainstream. It can include any number of practices, including those pertaining to cooking, clothing, mass media and the many facets of entertainment such as sports and literature.
Source: WikiPedia.org May not reflect later edits to articles.
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