Study on the book of Revelation - the eschatological view

1. The Gospels
Acts of the Apostles
Letters
Revelation: The Final Frontier
A New Testament Journey
Lesson 29: End Times

2.  Timeline
 Times of the Gentiles
 Israel Regathered
 Signs of the end of the age
 Jacob’s trouble
 Millenium
 Judgment
 New Heaven and Earth

3. The7Churches
The Church
age (Rev 1-
3)
Worshipinheaven
God on the
Throne (Rev
4)
Whoisworthy
Only the
Lamb (Rev
5)

4. Last days (7 seals)- Rev
6,7
Start of Great Tribulation
(Jacob’s trouble)
First half of Great
Tribulation (7th seal – 6
trumpets) – Rev 8-11
Last half of Great
Tribulation– 7th seal, 7th
trumpet, 7 disasters –
Rev 11b-18
• Cosmic signs
• Martyr’s cry
• 144000 sealed
• Raptured (dead in Christ)
worship
• 1260 days (Rev 11,12,
Daniel)
• Trouble on earth
• 42 months- beast in
power
• 144K in Zion – new
song
• 7 disasters

5. Second Coming -
Jesus (rider in
white horse)
descends to rule
earth with a rod
of iron
Anitichrist (beast)
and armies (of
the earth)
destroyed
Battle of
Armageddon
Marriage Supper
of Lamb – Rev 19
Satan bound for 1000
years
Feast of Tabernacles
Israel 100% compliant
Israel evangelises
nations
Ruled by martyrs
Lion and lamb sleep
together
Dead rise
Judgment
Satan destroyed
Millenial Rule,
Judgment – Rev
20
Old heaven and
earth destroyed
Saints reign with
Christ
New Heaven and
Earth – Rev 21

6. 6
 Babylonian captivity – 600 BC ->
 Silent years – 445 BC ->
 Church age – AD 30 ->
 Rapture/Tribulation/Second Coming [4]
 Millennium
Church Age Great Tribulation Millennium Heaven
Cross Rapture
Second
Coming
Great White
Throne
Not to scale

7. Millenium and
Eternity – Rule
of Christ – The
Final Frontier
Global
Church
(till
Jesus’2nd
Coming)
Israelites
(till Jesus
1st
coming)-
30 AD
Patriarchs
(till
Moses) –
1525 BC
Individual
s (till
Noah) –
2500 BC
Each cycle reached complete
spiritual degeneration.
Can we assume the same
about the church?
Will that signal the end?
Past
Present
Future

8.  As the church continues to degenerate, God
brings out the final phase of his plan – to
regather Israel and rule from the Holy City,
Jerusalem.
 This will trigger the final series of events
leading to Christ’s second coming

9. 2 Timothy 3:1-4 ESV - in the last days..
people will be lovers of self, lovers of
money, proud, arrogant, abusive…,
…lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of
God,
Matthew 24:14 ESV - And this gospel of
the kingdom will be proclaimed
throughout the whole world as a
testimony to all nations, and then the
end will come.

10. 2 Thessalonians 2:3-4 ESV - Let no one deceive you
in any way. For that day will not come, unless the
rebellion comes first, and the man of lawlessness is
revealed..,, who opposes and exalts himself against
every so-called god..
proclaiming himself to be God.
Matthew 24:29-32 ESV - “Immediately after the
tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened,
and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will
fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will
be shaken. Then will appear in heaven the sign of the
Son of Man….,

11.  "He will raise a flag among the nations.. He will
gather the scattered people of Judah
from the ends of the earth." Isaiah 11:12 (NLT)
 “The time is coming when my people will take
root. Israel will bud and blossom and fill
the whole earth with her fruit!" Isaiah 27:6 (NLT)
 “.. Has a nation ever been born in a
single day?.. by the time Jerusalem's birth
pains begin, the baby will be born; the nation will
come forth." Isaiah 66:8 (NLT)

12.  "‘.. I will appoint responsible shepherds to care
for them, and they will never be afraid again. Not a
single one of them will be lost or missing,' says the
Lord….
 ‘..I will place a righteous Branch on King
David's throne. He will be a King who rules
with wisdom. He will do what is just and right
throughout the land. And this is his name: 'The
Lord Is Our Righteousness.' In that day Judah will
be saved, and Israel will live in safety.
 Jeremiah 23:3-6 (NLT)

13. Activity in heaven and earth in the last days:
 4 seals – The riders on horses
 5th seal – Martyrs souls
 6th seal:
◦ sun to darkness, moon to blood
◦ 144 K sealed - Israel
◦ Countless from every tribe every nation coming
from “Great tribulation” (biblical terminology) –
appears to be dead in christ

14. Also referred to as the great tribulation (first
half), the timeline is:
 1260 days (Rev 12:6)
 3.5 years – Rev 12:14 (time, times and half a
time)
 Forty two months – rev 13:5
During which time:
 There is destruction on earth
 Two witnesses die and rise

15. Also called the second half of the great
tribulation, it covers another 3.5 years approx:
 1290 days
11 And from the time that the regular burnt
offering is taken away and the abomination
that makes desolate is set up, there shall be
1,290 days. 12 Blessed is he who waits and
arrives at the 1,335 days. Daniel 12

16. The following also happens in heaven and
earth:
 144 K on mount Zion
 Saved singing on sea of glass
 Beast in control (for 42 months)
 Israel purified
 2nd coming of Christ

17. The worst part of the Great Tribulation is left to
the last from which the righteous appear to be
saved as rapture has occurred:
 7 disasters
 Fall of Babylon
 Assembling of kings for battle of
Armaggedon

18.  Celebration in heaven
 Jesus (rider in white horse) descends
to rule earth with a rod of iron
 Antichrist (beast) and armies (of the
earth) destroyed at the final battle of
Armageddon.

19. The millenial rule where Christ rules the earth with his
saints is kicked off with a grand celebration. The final
phase of the “first resurrection” occurs - Rev 20
and features:
 Marriage supper of lamb – Rev 20
 Satan bound for 1000 years – Rev 20
 Feast of tabernacles - Zechariah 14:16,17
 Israel 100% compliant - Jer 31:33
 Long lives – Isaiah 11
 Israel evangelizes nations – Isaiah 49:6, 42:6
 Ruled by martyrs and saints – Rev. 20:5
 Lion and lamb sleep together – Isaiah 11

20. The final judgment occurs. It is only then that God
declares who has eternal life and who, eternal
death.
 Satan destroyed forever in lake of fire
 Remaining (unsaved) dead rise (second
resurrection)
 Rewards given (according to deeds, but generous
and more than what the righteous deserve) -
Matthew 16:27; 25:31-46; Revelation 20:12
 Second death
 Permanently rotting and burning bodies of
unsaved (Isaiah 56)

21. The grand and final destination is opened up
only to those who’s names are not blotted
from the book of life:
 New heaven and earth
 Saints reign with Christ…

22. 1. Before He rides the victory horse,
Christ had to die on the cross.
What message do we get for our lives here?
2. Why do you think the great tribulation
targeted at the Jews (Jacob’s trouble)?
3. While Christ’s rule brings on the perfect
governance, what can we do to emulate that
environment in this world?

23. The Gospels
Acts of the Apostles
Letters
Revelation: The Final Frontier
A Walkthru’ of the New Testament
Lesson 30: Concepts and Terminology

24. Clarification of concepts, terms such as:
 The Great Tribulation
 New Jerusalem
 Blood Moon
 Antichrist
 Rapture
 The 144000
 Armegeddon
 Millenial Rule of Christ
 Feast for Believers
 Fate of Unbelievers
 Eternal Death

25. 25
 Babylonian captivity – 600 BC ->
 Silent years – 445 BC ->
 Church age – AD 30 ->
 Rapture/Tribulation/Second Coming [4]
 Millennium
Church Age 7 yr. Tribulation Millennium Heaven
Cross Rapture
Second
Coming
Great White
Throne
Not to scale

26.  The 7 year period of rapture, second
coming, destructive events on earth etc.
 Referred to by Jesus, John, the prophets/
apostles in different ways
 Jesus in Mt 24 uses “tribulation” in v 9
differently to “Great Tribulation” in v. 21
 The latter is the one under discussion

27.  In Revelation John refers to it (in some
translations) as:
◦ Wrath or
◦ Disaster
 In the prophetic books and apostolic letters:
◦ Trouble as never before
◦ Jacob’s trouble
◦ Day of wrath
◦ Day of the Lord

28.  For then there will be great tribulation, such
as has not been …and never will be. Matthew
24:21 ESV
 ..after that tribulation, the sun will be
darkened, and the moon will not give its light,
Mark 13:24 ESV
 “.. there shall be a time of trouble, such as
never has been .. at that time your people shall
be delivered, everyone whose name shall be
found written in the book. Daniel 12:1 ESV
Also ref Mark 13:19 ESV and Matthew 24:29 ESV

29. - ..behold, a great multitude ..from
every nation, from all tribes and
peoples and languages,…. 14 ..
“These are the ones coming out of the
great tribulation. They have washed
their robes and made them white in the
blood of the Lamb.
Revelation 7:9-17 ESV

30.  "How awful that day will be! None will be like
it. It will be a time of trouble for Jacob, but he
will be saved out of it.“ Jeremiah 30:7
 2/3 Israel will die – “In the whole land,"
declares the LORD, "two-thirds will be struck
down and perish; yet one-third will be left in
it”. Zechariah 13:8

31.  “Blood moons” are much talked about in
Christian circles in recent times as the
colorations resulting from eclipses, etc.
 These supposedly have occurred at certain
rare intervals
 The bible associates it NOT as STANDALONE
but with a number of other events like sun
dark, sky being folded up, stars falling from
sky, etc. - Mt 24

32. Referred to as[2]:
 Little Horn - Daniel 7:8 (NLT)
 Fierce King, Master of Intrigue - Daniel
8:23 (NLT)
 Prince who is to come - Daniel 9:26 (NLT)
 Worthless Shepherd - Zechariah 11:17 (NLT)
 Man of Lawlessness - 2 Thessalonians
2:3 (NLT)
 One Who Brings Destruction - 2
Thessalonians 2:3 (NLT)
 Beast - Revelation 13:11 (NLT)

33.  ..And the beast was given a mouth
uttering haughty and blasphemous
words, and it was allowed to
exercise authority for forty-two
months. Revelation 13:5 ESV
 ..so that he takes his seat in the
temple of God, proclaiming himself
to be God. Mark 13:1-37 ESV

34. The bible talks of three separate events [3] when
the righteous rise collectively called “The First
Resurrection”
1. At the time of Jesus’ death (Matt 27:51-520)
2. When saints (dead then living) are snatched up
in the twinkling of an eye (1 Cor 15:52, 1 Thess
4:16,17) –(towards the beginning of the “Great
Tribulation)
3. The remaining saints who have stuck through,
or came to Christ during tribulation (towards
end of the Great Tribulation) – Rev 20:4

35. I have referred to the second (of the first
resurrection) as rapture, though the term
may be differently used by some.
For the Lord Himself will descend from
heaven with a shout… And the dead in
Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive
and remain shall be caught up
together with them in the clouds
to meet the Lord in the air. I
Thessalonians 4:16-17

36. This occurs soon after (what I term) the Second
Coming (Rev 14:1), when Christ comes to win
and rule.
And I saw the souls of those who had been
beheaded… They had not worshiped the beast
or its image and had not received its mark on
their foreheads or their hands. They came to
life and reigned with Christ a thousand
years. Revelation 20:4

37. Clearly stated as from Israel and the tribes as
opposed to “people from every tribe an nation”
earlier.
.. ..saying, “Do not harm the earth or the sea or
the trees, until we have sealed the servants of
our God on their foreheads.” And I heard the
number of the sealed, 144,000, sealed from
every tribe of the sons of Israel…... Revelation
7:1-8 ESV

38. The place of the final battle between God and
Satan:
 And the armies of heaven, arrayed in fine linen,
white and pure, were following him on white
horses…. ... Revelation 19:11-21 ESV
 14 For they are demonic spirits, performing signs,
who go abroad to the kings of the whole
world, to assemble them for battle on the great
day of God the Almighty…. 16 And they
assembled them at the place that in Hebrew
is called Armageddon. Revelation 16:14-16 ESV

39. This rule occurs on the earth for a thousand
years.
……the same horn was making war against the
saints… and the time came for the saints to
possess the kingdom. (Dan. 7:21-22)
9 They will not hurt or destroy in all My holy
mountain,
For the earth will be full of the knowledge of
the LORD
As the waters cover the sea. Isaiah 11
.

40.  But the wicked shall perish, and the enemies of
the LORD shall be as the fat of lambs: they shall
consume; into smoke shall they consume
away. Psalms 37:20 - KJV
 People who have wealth but lack understanding
are like the beasts that perish. Psalm 49:20 –
NIV
 Fire and worm never dies of “bodies” - Isaiah 66

41.  “For ever and ever” in Rev 20:10 in Greek eis
tous aeonas ton aionon, 'to the ages of the
ages'.
 “And the devil who deceived them was cast
into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the
beast and false prophet were. And shall be
tormented day and night until the age
of ages.”
 Satan and his followers will not endure
everlasting punishing; he will have their
existence terminated; [1]

42. The Lake of Fire [1] is a :
 Physical place that burns with
 Physical fire (Matt.25:40-41; Rev.20:7-10)
and turned to
 Physical ashes that will be trodden under the
feet of the righteous (Mal.4:1-3),
41 “Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart
from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire
prepared for the devil and his angels. – Matt 25

43. Then I saw a heaven and a new earth; for the
first heaven and the first earth passed
away, and there is no longer any sea.
2 And I saw the holy city, new
Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from
God, made ready as a bride adorned for her
husband. Rev 21

44.  Why does the “new heaven” require to “heal
the nations”?
 Will there still be sin?
 Other open questions..

45. 1. http://www.bibleresearch.org/articles/a9pw
s.htm
2. http://www.end-times-bible-
prophecy.com/the-antichrist.html
3. Bible.org
4. @ Dr. Heinz Lycklama