The Rise and Fall of Babylon (Part 1) The Rise and Fall of Babylon So I asked the angel who was speaking with me, “Where are they taking the basket?” “To build a shrine for it in the land of Shinar,” he told me. “When that is ready, the basket will be placed there on its…
What Now? An Eternal Perspective This verse points out that we all have a vested interest in the topic of prophecy, since the personal future of every person is part of it. Ecclesiastes 3:11 says, He has made everything appropriate in its time. He has also put eternity in their hearts, but no one can discover…
The Eternal State (Part 5) The Final Future of the Unbeliever Unlike the believer, the unbeliever will be in a place where they will experience suffering and loss. The Lord had a great deal to say about hell and often warned people about this place of judgment: Don’t fear those who kill the body…
The Eternal State (Part 4) The Citizens of the New Heaven and New Earth Hebrews 12:22–24 gives a description of the inhabitants of God’s new world: Instead, you have come to Mount Zion, to the city of the living God (the heavenly Jerusalem), to myriads of angels, a festive gathering, to the assembly of the…
The Eternal State (Part 3) There Will Be A Beautiful City Called the New Jerusalem After the new heavens and earth, John says that the beautiful holy city, the New Jerusalem, will descend from heaven to earth (Revelation 21:1). It is not only beautiful, like a bride adorned for her husband (21:2), but it…
The Eternal State (Part 2) The Eternal Kingdom of God We learn from Revelation 21 and 22 that the eternal state will start at the end of the millennium. In the prophetic timetable, the next event will be the rapture of the church, followed by the seven-year tribulation, the second coming of Christ, the…
The Eternal State (Part 1) The Promise of An Eternal House Paul unfolds in 2 Corinthians the great truth that our present earthly bodies will be replaced by bodies that will last forever. For we know that if our earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, an eternal dwelling…
The Millennium (Part 4) The Characteristics of the Millennium Spiritual It will be a spiritual time because Satan is bound in “the abyss.” (Revelation 20:1-3). Satan and the demonic forces will no longer be controlling the world system. Though it is “earthly,” it will also be “spiritual.” Earthly and spiritual are not necessarily…
The Millennium (Part 3) The Government of the Millennium The Type of Government It will be a theocracy (the same type of government God used for Israel in Old Testament times), where Christ will personally and visibly reign. He was given dominion and glory and a kingdom, so that those of every people, nation,…
The Millennium (Part 2) Why Believe in a Literal Millennium? A literal millennium is needed to: Reward the faithful by giving them authority to reign over the earth with Christ. But the holy ones of the Most High will receive the kingdom and possess it forever, yes, forever and ever… until the Ancient of…