To know the details of our one great hope, the return of Christ.

1. TheFuture
The Doctrine of
eschatology: (es´kuh-tol´uh-jee)
The doctrine of the last things
Week 2: The Return of Christ

2. TheFuture
ofChrist
The Return
Millennium
The
Judgment
The Final
TheNewEarth
The New Heavens &

3. ofChrist
The Return
1Thessalonians4:13-18

4. “I do not want you to be ignorant of the future, my
brethren. With all the death, sorrow and
discouragement that everyone feels, I don’t want
you to lose sight of a better place to come…
Comfort one another with the words of heaven.”
1 Thes.4:13
[Paraphrase]

5. Schedule
Week 1: Introduction and Overview (Bodie) Jun 23
Week 2: Jun 30The Second Coming (Tom)
Week 3: Jul 7What Happens When We Die? (Tom)
Break
Week 5:
Week 6:
Jul 14
Jul 21
Jul 28
*Picnic Sunday
Accountability and Rewards (Tom)
Heaven - Part 1 (Tom)

6. Schedule
Break *Guest Missionary: Todd Funk Aug 4
Week 7: Aug 11The Millennium (Bodie)
Week 8: Aug 18
Week 9:
Week 10:
Aug 25
Sep 1
New Heaven and New Earth (Tom)
Resume Acts - Part 2 (Tom)
Heaven - Part 2 (Tom)

7. TheReturnofChrist
And Not…
The rise of antichrist and the formation of a one-
world government
The persecution of Christians; the Great Falling
Away

8. TheReturnofChrist
And Not…
The catastrophic events leading to the end of the
world.
The Tribulation; the Rapture and Great Tribulation
Armageddon and the final showdown

9. TheReturn
ofHisReturn
The Purpose
ofHisReturn
The Nature
Readiness
Our
ResponseToday
Our

10. ofHisReturn
The Purpose
Matthew19:28-30
Paliggenisia:
“The New Genesis; The Restoration, or the
renewing of the whole creation.”
“TheRegeneration”:

11. “To reconcile all things (to restore all things to
their original form) in heaven and on earth.”
[Colossians1:20]

12. “The creation itself also will be delivered from the
bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of
the children of God.”
Romans 8:21

13. “Now I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the
first heaven and the first earth had passed away.
And there was no more sea.”
Revelation21:1:

14. "Therefore encourage one another with these
words." (1 Thessalonians 4:18) ESV
"Therefore comfort one another with these
words." (1 Thessalonians 4:18) NKJV

15. "Therefore encourage one another with these
words." (1 Thessalonians 4:18) ESV
"Therefore comfort one another with these
words." (1 Thessalonians 4:18) NKJV
“Now brethren, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus
Christ and our gathering together to Him, we ask you
not to be soon shaken in mind or troubled.”
2Thessalonians2:1-2:

16. TheReturn
ofHisReturn
The Purpose
ofHisReturn
The Nature
Readiness
Our
ResponseToday
Our

17. ofHisReturn
The Nature
Revelation19:11-21

18. TheReturn
ofHisReturn
The Purpose
ofHisReturn
The Nature
Readiness
Our
ResponseToday
Our

19. Readiness
Our
1Thessalonians5:2-6

20. “Behold, I am coming as a thief. Blessed is He
who watches.”
[Revelation16:15]

21. “But as the days of Noah were, so also will the
coming of the Son of Man be. For as in the days
before the flood, they were eating and drinking,
marrying and giving in marriage until the day that
Noah entered the ark… So also will the coming of
the Son of Man be… Watch therefore, for you do
not know what hour your Lord is coming.”
[Matthew24:37-42]

22. (The 10 Virgins) “Watch therefore, for you know
neither the day nor the hour in which the Son of
man is coming.”
[Matthew25:13]

23. TheReturn
ofHisReturn
The Purpose
ofHisReturn
The Nature
Readiness
Our
ResponseToday
Our

24. ResponseToday
Our
Matthew24:44-46
Whatis,“Doing”?

25. “From whom the whole body, joined and knit
together by what every joint supplies, according to
the effective working by which every part does its
share, causes growth in the body for the edifying
of itself in love.”
[Ephesians4:16]

26. TheFuture
The Doctrine of
eschatology: (es´kuh-tol´uh-jee)
The doctrine of the last things

27. “All your life an unattainable
ecstasy has hovered just
beyond the grasp of your
consciousness. The day is
coming when you will wake
to find, beyond all hope, that
you have attained it, or else,
that it was within your reach
and you have lost it forever.”
CS Lewis