THREE KEYS TO UNLOCK REVELATION (NOTES)
KEY #3: GOD DOES THINGS IN PHASES
HERE IS ALL OUR CONFUSION
LIKE TRYING TO PUT TOGETHER A PUZZLE WITHOUT ALL THE PIECES.
GOD DOES THINGS IN PHASES, IN STEPS.
EXAMPLES:
GOD PROMISED MESSIAH THE KING WILL COME:
PHASE ONE: CHRIST CAME AS SACRIFICE, SAVIOR, GENTLE, MEEK
PHASE TWO: CHRIST COMES AS CONQUERING KING OF KINGS
CREATION OF THE WORLD: HE DID IN PHASES, IN SIX DAYS
YOUR SALVATION: SPIRIT (WHEN YOU CALLED ON JESUS), SOUL (WHEN YOU DIE AND GO TO HEAVEN), BODY (ON YOUR RESURRECTION DAY)
GOD PROMISED THE RESTORATION OF ISRAEL AND ALL HIS PROMISES TO ABRAHAM (LAND, WORLD DOMINION, ETC)
1948 NATION OF ISRAEL RESTORED. STILL AWAITING THE MESSIAH. STILL HAS LITTLE LAND.
LET’S GET RIGHT TO IT:
WHAT ABOUT OUR RESURRECTION:
“CHRIST THE FIRSTFRUITS, THEN AT HIS COMING THOSE WHO BELONG TO CHRIST”
1 Cor 15:22-24 For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive. 23 But each in his own order: Christ the firstfruits, then at his coming those who belong to Christ. 24 Then comes the end, when he delivers the kingdom to God the Father after destroying every rule and every authority and power.
BUT IT HAS TO HAPPEN IN PHASES!
PHASE 1: RAPTURE OF THE CHURCH AT HIS APPEARING, END OF THE CHURCH AGE AND BEGINNNG OF 7 YR TRIBULATION. THIS IS WHAT WE ARE LOOKING AND LONGING FOR
NEXT THERE IS THE SEVEN YEAR TRIBULATION PERIOD WITH MILLIONS OF CHRISTIAN MARTYRS, THE 144,000 JEWS, A REMNANT OF GOD’S PEOPLE IN TROUBLE, LEADING TO CHRIST’S 2ND COMING TO EARTH.
THEN IS THE RESURRECTION OF ALL THE TRIBULATION SAINTS:
Revelation 20:4-6 And I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was committed to them. Then I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for their witness to Jesus and for the word of God, who had not worshiped the beast or his image, and had not received his mark on their foreheads or on their hands. And they lived and reigned with Christ for a thousand years. 5 But the rest of the dead did not live again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection. 6 Blessed and holy is he who has part in the first resurrection. Over such the second death has no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with Him a thousand years.
BTW: IS “FIRST RESURRECTION” FIRST IN TIME, OR FIRST IN IMPORTANCE? IT CAN’T BE FIRST IN TIME BECAUSE CHRIST HAS ALREADY BEEN RAISED.
ALSO, DURING THE TRIBULATION, THE TWO WITNESSES DIE, ARE RESURRECTED, AND RAPTURED OUT (RESURRECTION AND RAPTURE FOR ONLY TWO PEOPLE)
Revelation 11:3-12
DURING THE 1000 YEAR MILLENNIAL REIGN. PEOPLE WILL LIVE A LONG TIME, BUT STILL DIE A NATURAL DEATH.
DON’T THEY GET A RESURRECTION TOO?
YES! AT THE END OF THE 1000 YEARS WHEN GOD HAS HAD ENOUGH AND DESTROYS THE PHYSICAL UNIVERSE (REVELATION 20)
BURNS UP, ROLLS BACK SKY LIKE A SCROLL, EARTH AND SKY FLED FROM HIM…
(2 PETER 3:10-13; REV. 6:14; REV. 20:11)
THEN THE GREAT WHITE THRONE JUDGMENT WHEN ALL UNBELIEVERS HAVE THEIR RESURRECTION AND GET THEIR ETERNAL PUNISHMENT (REV. 20:11-15)
SO… YOU CAN SEE HOW CONFUSING AND FRUSTRATING IT IS TO TRY TO MAKE ONE RAPTURE/RESURRECTION FIT THE WHOLE END-TIMES PERIOD.
SO AGAIN, KEEP THESE THREE KEYS IN MIND:
* NOT WRITTEN IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER
* TO BE TAKEN LITERAL UNLESS TOLD OTHERWISE BY SCRIPTURE
* GOD DOES THINGS IN PHASES, INCLUDING RESURRECTION AND RAPTURE
REVELATION WILL MAKE A LOT MORE SENSE TO YOU
THE ONLY TIME-LINE SCENARIO THAT ACCOMMODATES ALL THE PARTS, ALL THE SCRIPTURES TO THE BEST OF MY UNDERSTANDING IS:
CHURCH AGE (NOW);; RAPTURE AND MARRIAGE OF THE LAMB;; TRIBULATION PERIOD;; 2ND COMING OF CHRIST TO EARTH;; MILLENNIAL KINGDOM;; END OF THE WORLD;; FINAL JUDGEMENT;; ETERNITY FOR ALL HUMANITY;; RESURRECTED HEAVENS AND EARTH, NEW JERUSALEM (REV. 21 AND 22)
AND THEN…?
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