ENDTIME PRIMER 1: Starting Out (2024)

Join us in this 30 min. primer to get us thinking seriously about what Christ says on End Times:

ENDTIME PRIMER 1: Starting Out – OUTLINE

Rev. 1:1; 1-3; 19:10: Seeing of Jesus
“The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place.” (Rev. 1:1, ESV)
Rev. 1:20: Discern the Church
“As for the mystery of the seven stars that you saw in my right hand, and the seven golden lampstands, the seven stars are the angels of the seven churches, and the seven lampstands are the seven churches.” (Rev. 1:20, ESV)

Futurism – fulfilled in Israel, immediately preceding Christ’s return Premillenial. Church is a parentheses virtually ignored with this perspective. Implemented by jesuits Francisco Riberia (1537- 1591) and Manual Lacunza (1731-1801).
Preterism – fulfilled in AD 70 temple destruction. Again church is ignored; merely an afterthought after the closing of the canon of scripture. Founded by jesuit Luis de Alcasar (1554-1613)
Historicism – fulfilled in entirety of church age; “amillennial” Revelation interpreted as symbolic of historical periods and event from John’s day until the return of Christ.
Idealism/Spiritualism – gives general principles; not time-space

“for every animal of the forest is mine, and the cattle on a thousand hills” (Psalm 50:10, NIV)
Revelation though concerned with temporal events in this time is a symbolic book.
10 is a number used symbolically for a completed work or idea.
10 virgins the complete makeup of the church Mt. 25:1
the 10 commandments fulfilment of the law etc.
Millennium = fullness of time 10x10x10 long but finite time period.

Saints rule and reign during this time through Christ Jesus who has raised us up and placed use in heavenly places. Eph. 1:19-2:1-6
Devil is bound, at the end will be let out for a short period, causing the world to surround the camp of God’s people the church.
Campers live in tents (2 Cor. 5:1-5). Our body is now described as a tent perhaps indicating again that the millennium is taking place in the long interval between Christ’s first coming and His second where death is still an ongoing fact of life.
“24 Then the end will come, when he hands over the kingdom to God the Father after he has destroyed all dominion, 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 Cor. 15:24-26)
This is the only limited reign talked about in Scripture.