STRANGER THINGS – YOU BELIEVE WHAT!!!
DANIEL 8:16-27; I THES.4:13-18;
THE PURPOSE OF PROPHECY:
PROPHECY PROVIDES PROOF OF THE INSPIRATION, INERRANCY, AND AUTHORITY OF GOD’S WORD …
PROPHECY PRODUCES HOPE IN THE LIFE OF THE CHRIST FOLLOWER …
PROPHECY CREATES A SENSE OF URGENCY …
IN HIS COMMENTARY OF I THES 4, JOHN CALVIN SAID THAT PAUL, “MEANS BY THIS TO AROUSE THE THESSALONIANS TO WAIT FOR IT, NAY MORE, TO HOLD ALL BELIEVERS IN SUSPENSE, THAT THEY MAY NOT PROMISE THEMSELVES SOME PARTICULAR TIME … THAT BELIEVERS MIGHT BE PREPARED AT ALL TIMES.”
DANIEL’S VISION INTERPRETED, DANIEL 8:15-27
AN ANGEL, 16-19
ANTIOCUS IV A FORERUNNER OF ANTICHRIST, 23-25
RIVERSTONE’S THOUGHTS ON FUTURE EVENTS,
RAPTURE,
“TO CATCH UP” “TO SNATCH AWAY”
“IF I READ THE WORD ARIGHT, AND IT IS HONEST TO ADMIT THAT THERE IS MUCH FOR DIFFERENCE OF OPINION HERE, THE DAY WILL COME WHEN THE LORD JESUS WILL DESCEND FROM HEAVEN WITH A SHOUT, WITH THE TRUMP OF ARCHANGEL AND THE VOICE OF GOD. SOME THINK THE DESCENT OF THE LORD WILL BE POST-MILLENNIAL THAT IS, ‘AFTER A THOUSAND YEARS OF HIS REIGN. I CANNOT THINK SO. I CONCEIVE THAT THE EVENT WILL BE PRE-MILLENNIAL, THAT HE WILL COME FIRST; AND THEN WILL COME THE MILLENNIAL AS THE RESULT OF HIS PERSONAL REIGN ON EARTH.”
CHARLES SPURGEON
A CERTAINTY,
OLD TESTAMENT FORESHADOWING;
ENOCH, GEN 5
ELIJAH, 2 KINGS 2
LOT, GEN 19:
NEW TESTAMENT MUSINGS;
RAPTURE BEFORE THE DAY OF THE LORD …
I THES 5:9 TEACHES THAT BELIEVERS ARE NOT DESTINED TO THE DAY OF WRATH …
2 THES 2:6-8, THE “RESTRAINER” (THE HOLY SPIRIT) WILL BE REMOVED BEFORE “THAT WICKED WILL BE REVEALED” …
REV 3:10, THE CHURCH WILL BE KEPT FROM THE HOUR OF TRIAL WHICH WILL COME UPON THE WHOLE WORLD …
“BE PREPARED TO EXPECT HIM EVERY DAY, OR RATHER EVERY MOMENT … AS HE PROMISED TO RETURN TO US, WE OUGHT TO HOLD OURSELVES PREPARED AT EVERY MOMENT TO RECEIVE HIM … TODAY WE MUST BE ALERT TO GRASP THE IMMINENT RETURN OF CHRIST.”
JOHN CALVIN
A COMFORT, I THES 4:13-18
RETURN, 2 THES 1:7-9: 2:1-12
APPLICATION