A Graphic New Look at the Second Coming and Armageddon:
•What are the conditions of the Earth before Jesus comes?
•How do the heavens pass away?
•What happens to the earth at Jesus’ fiery return?
•Where is the Battle of Armageddon?
•How will Jesus fight when he comes back?
Millennium:
If the earth is destroyed and the heavens pass away at the second coming of Jesus, then what will there be during the Millennium? What is the beloved city that Satan will attack after the thousand years? Why is the New Jerusalem called the bride of Christ? These and questions are answered in this teaching Power Point presentation!
Douglas examines the Scriptural clues of Satan’s final rebellion when the 1000 years have expired and he and the nations come up against the beloved city. Further clues considered to unlock this strange passage:
•The bodies and role of immortals
•How will high tech be low tech?
•How will the Millennial sacrifices act like a protective shield for the mortals?
•Will mortals have a one hundred year grace period?
•How will the river of life and the tree of life transform mortals?
•How long will Satan have to deceive the nations?
•Why will fire come from God?
Messianic Age: The Millennium and Beyond ($30 value – free)
Much of our eschatology rightly deals with the events that lead up to the Second Coming of Jesus. However, little attention is given to looking at the events that happen thereafter. This class explores from a very Bible-centric perspective the Messianic Age / Millennium. We begin by understanding how taking God’s Word literally reveals many exciting details of our glorious future. We also look at: the centrality of Israel, our future bodies, aspects of daily life, the size of the City, the decorations of the city, God’s dwelling with mankind, the role of the river of life and trees of life, what the Rabbis and Church Fathers thought about the Millennium, when the creation of the New Heavens and New Earth occurs. This 2 credit class was taught at Calvary Chapel bible College.
If the earth is destroyed and the heavens pass away at the second coming of Jesus, then what will there be during the Millennium? What is the beloved city that Satan will attack after the thousand years? Why is the New Jerusalem called the bride of Christ? When do the new heavens and earth come to be? The biblical evidence demonstrates the new heavens and earth come about at the beginning of the thousand year reign of Christ, not after as is commonly thought.
The placement of the new heavens and new earth traditionally comes after the Great white throne judgment. The trouble is there are too many verses that argue against that. In this short expose, we will consider some verses, that if taken literally, prohibit the above interpretation.
The first thing we need to consider is that the earth will be in such havoc that the Lord must recreate it at (or shortly after) the second coming because it will be uninhabitable; all the oceans will have been turned to blood and be full of rotting dead corpses of all the sea creatures — certainly not a nice place to live!
Therefore, we see that the heavens pass away and the earth is utterly devastated at the second coming and thus a new heavens and new earth are absolutely necessary. In Isaiah 65:17 God declares that He will make new heavens and a new earth which from reading the passage is occurring at the beginning of the millennium/messianic age.
The basic chronology therefore is as follows: The great tribulation The second coming The judgment of the nations (separation of the sheep and the goats) (Mat 25:31-41, Joel 3:2) The new heavens and and the new earth (possibly before the judgment of Joel 3:2) The millennium, Jesus ruling with a rod of iron (Isa 11, Rev 20:1-10) The Great White Throne Judgment The rethinking of when the new heavens and new earth occur takes time to accept. It took me a while because I kept thinking that no thinks that and therefore I shouldn’t believe it either. But then I just kept seeing it in Scripture. In the end, the plain interpretation of Scripture won.
After thousands of hours of research, part one of three videos from Doug’s new book is here!
Think you know where the battle of Armageddon is? What happens when the heavens pass away?
The Battle of Armageddon is often portrayed as taking place in the the north of Israel between nations. In this ground-breaking new study, Douglas shows that Armageddon is not in the traditional site in the plains of Megiddo but in the valley of Jehoshaphat next to the Mount of Olives. He also shows how the day of the Lord is the day that Jesus comes back to fight on behalf of the Jewish people and how he will trample his enemies literally like grapes until the blood flows as high as the horses bridle in a surprise attack. What’s more, this battle will be a re-enactment of the Red Sea crossing but this time the destruction will come from Jesus’ fiery presence after the heavens pass away. Your view of the second coming of Jesus will never be the same!
On this episode of According to the Scriptures, Josh Peck shares from his book, Disclosure. Topics of Nephilim, Fallen Angels, etc and how those “fringe” topics relate to basic things like salvation and the like.