BIBLE, PROPHECY & COVID-19 WHAT IS THE CHURCH AGE? • The Church age is the current period we are living in. It is also referred to as the age of grace RAPTURE ETERNITY MILLENIAL CHURCH AGE ETERNAL STATE PAST KINGDOM CREATION PENTECOST TRIBULATION WHAT IS THE RAPTURE? • When Believers will be instantaneously taken up to heaven. Rapture is the Latin translation of the New Testament Greek word harpazo found in 1Thess 4:13-18. RAPTURE ETERNITY MILLENIAL CHURCH AGE ETERNAL STATE PAST KINGDOM CREATION PENTECOST TRIBULATION WHAT IS THE TRIBULATION • The Tribulation is a future seven-year period when God’s wrath finally comes to judge evil in the world after a long period of grace. • This is distinct from the trials and tribulations that we all face in a fallen world. WHAT IS THE MILLENNIUM? • The millennium is a future 1,000 year period that begins after Christ’s return to Earth at the end of the tribulation. WHAT IS ETERNAL STATE? • This is the state of the final condition of the universe that results from the creation of a new heaven and a new earth with absolute perfection lasting for eternity. WHO IS THE ANTICHRIST? • The antichrist is a future world ruler who will rise to power during the tribulation • The false prophet is a world religious leaders who will unite the people of the earth and cause them to worship the antichrist. WHAT IS THE APOCALYPSE? • In scripture, it means the revealing or unveiling. • The Book of Revelation is the unveiling of God’s future plans WHAT IS ARMAGEDDON? • This refers to the hills of Megiddo. • The battle of Armageddon is referring to a huge war that will culminate in Christ’s return at which time He will defeat the antichrist and his armies. THE OLIVET DISCOURSE • Matthew 24 • Mark 13 • Luke 21 THE OLIVET DISCOURSE • 24 And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple: and his disciples came to him for to shew him the buildings of the temple. • 2 And Jesus said unto them, See ye not all these things? verily I say unto you, There shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down. • 3 And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world? THE OLIVET DISCOURSE 1. What is the sign that Jerusalem and the temple are about to be destroyed? 2. What is the sign of your return at the very end? 3. What is the sign that this age is coming to a close? THE OLIVET DISCOURSE • 4 And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you. • 5 For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many. • 6 And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. • 7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. • 8 All these are the beginning of sorrows. THE OLIVET DISCOURSE • Jesus answers the third question first: • What is the sign that this current era the church age is coming to a close? THE OLIVET DISCOURSE • 4 And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you. • 5 For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many. • 6 And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. • 7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. • 8 All these are the beginning of sorrows. TAKE THE POLL • ARE YOU READY FOR THE RAPTURE? THE OLIVET DISCOURSE • Jesus answers the first question second: • What is the sign that Jerusalem and the temple are about to be destroyed LUKE 21 • 20 And when ye shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that the desolation thereof is nigh. • 21 Then let them which are in Judaea flee to the mountains; and let them which are in the midst of it depart out; and let not them that are in the countries enter thereinto. • 22 For these be the days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled. MATTHEW 24 • 15 When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:) • 16 Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains: • 17 Let him which is on the housetop not come down to take any thing out of his house: • 18 Neither let him which is in the field return back to take his clothes. • 19 And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days! • 20 But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day: • 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. OLIVET DISCOURSE • Jesus answers the second question last: • What is the sign of your return at the very end? MATTHEW 24 • 29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her 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. .