20 Studies in Bible Prophecy

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Study 8 - The Great Tribulation

20 Studies in Bible Prophecy. Study 8 - The Great Tribulation. Having already concentrated on events in heaven following the rapture of the church, we now turn our attention to events on earth following that great day. This period of unprecedented judgment will immediately precede the arrival of Christ on earth, and will coincide with the reign of the Man of Sin, the Antichrist, This dreadful drama is referred to quite clearly in the Bible, and it is our task to relate this era of divine wrath to God's prophetic programme and discover something of God's design to be accomplished in the day when the earth is completely in the hands of the "devil's messiah".
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Study 7 - The Disclosure Of The Seventy Weeks

20 Studies in Bible Prophecy. Study 7 - The Disclosure Of The Seventy Weeks. Daniel 9 has been called "the backbone of prophecy". The understanding of this most important prophecy is essential to a correct appreciation of the divine programme for the ages. Here we have the key to the under-standing of all New Testament prophecy. It is an amazing prophecy, given to Daniel, who was not only a prophet, but a student of prophecy. In the first year of Darius (v1), a fact which shows that the final six chapters of this prophecy are not chronologically arranged, Daniel was studying the Old Testament Scriptures available to him, probably (Jer. 25:9-14 and 29:10-14), when he was stabbed awake by the discovery that the 70 years captivity had well-nigh run its course.
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Study 6 - The Marriage Of The Lamb

20 Studies in Bible Prophecy. Study 6 - The Marriage Of The Lamb. This is one of the prime features of eschatology, and it can be safely stated that it will be conducted in heaven, following the removal of the Church from earth and the review of the believer at the judgment seat of Christ. This shows that the period separating the Rapture and the Revelation is not a vacuum. Indeed the events which are to take place following the translation of the Church, i.e. the bema, the presentation of the Church to Christ, and the marriage of the Lamb, make an interval of time necessary.
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Study 5 - The Review Of The Believer

20 Studies in Bible Prophecy. Study 5 - The Review Of The Believer. The Lord in the closing chapter of the Bible stressed that the Rapture of the Church, the subject matter of Study 3, will be implicational, (Rev. 22:12). It is clearly implied in the New Testament that following the Church's removal from the earth there will follow the examination of the believer.
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Study 4 - The Resurrection

20 Studies in Bible Prophecy. Study 4 - The Resurrection. Thinking about the subject of resurrection we call into view belief in immortality. Our use of the word "immortality" suggests a belief in the survival of the soul after physical death. Indeed the Scriptural concept of immortality exceeds the mere existence of the soul, it involves the self-conscious existence of the whole person, in a state of felicity, resulting from the redemptive work of Christ.
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Study 3 - The Rapture: The Next Event In The Prophetic Programme

Study 3 - The Rapture: The Next Event In The Prophetic Programme. The next great event set before the Christian is the translation or Rapture of the Church. This event is the crowning and closing episode of this Christian dispensation, and entails what the Lord's return will mean for the Christian, dead or alive. It will be the next issue in the prophetic programme, but it will also be the first movement in the great drama of the end. As Dr. Skevington Wood puts it, "Christ's coming for His own touches off the chain reaction of startling consequences connected with the final age.
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Study 14 - The Rise and Fall of Babylon

In this study we will be forced to take a look into the distant past while at the same time we penetrate the future when, in a world without the church, an idolatrous system will appear upon the scene, linked with an apostate religious system with extensive influence. So modern Babylon in its wider applications, suggests Oliver Boyt, ". . . incorporates the whole of apostate Christendom, wherever her priestcraft, ritual and idolatry are practised or her superstitions penetrate."
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Study 2 - The Second Advent Explained

20 Studies in Bible Prophecy. Study 2 - The Second Advent Explained. We have seen that prophecy occupies a large place in the Scripture. To neglect its study, avers Dr. Rene Pache, is to deprive ourselves of "an essential vitamin" in our spiritual nourishment. Of all the subjects taught in the Bible, this is the greatest, and when the secular world speculates about tomorrow's world, we should be proclaiming the crowning article of our Christian creed, the Return of Jesus Christ, first to receive to Himself His Church, and then to appear on earth to reign for a millennium of years.
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Study 1 - The Importance of Prophecy

20 Studies in Bible Prophecy. Study 1 - The Importance of Prophecy. Some would contend that one has to be either mentally unbalanced, a religious crank, or heretic in doctrine, to show an interest in such a subject. Others fight shy of the subject because it is beset with so many difficulties, and is too controversial. There are those however, who feel they cannot afford to neglect any phase of Biblical teaching, and therefore give themselves to a study of the great truth of Christ's Second Coming.