Eschatology, An Outline

Prophecy, Its Place and Importance

A. Attitudes toward Prophecy

1. Its Neglect

a. The causes

(1) Date setting – Millerites and Russelites

(2) Fanciful theories – Theories of the Man of Sin and Spiritual fulfillments

(3) Preconceived ideas – Allegorical interpretations and emphasis on symbolism

(4) Unregenerate opposition – (scoffers)

So then, dear friends, since you are looking forward to this, make every effort to be found spotless, blameless and at peace with him. (2 Peter 3:14)

b. The Opposition

(1) Liberalism – They hold many false conclusions including universalism, annihilationism, denial of heaven and hell, and the denial of the inspiration and authority of the Scriptures.

(2) Neo-theological Groups – They show a lack of interest in prophecy combined with the spiritualizing of difficult or unacceptable passages.

(3) Critical Views – a denial of the supernatural leads to the denial of the miraculous and prophetic.

(4) Roman Catholicism – They have confused theories even as to the future judgment.

(5) Totalitarian Ideologies – They claim to be ushering in the perfect age and therefore forbid Christians to talk of a yet future millennium.

c. Its Friends

The present silence among conservatives amazes everyone. Compare this with the neglect in most theological systems and important works on theology.

2. Its Importance

a. The space given to prophecy in the Bible. About one quarter of the Books, and one fifth of the material was predictive when written.

b. The teaching of the Holy Spirit – John 16:13, “what is yet to come.”

But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all truth. He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come. (John 16:13)

c. The effect of prophetic study.

(1) God’s power, wisdom and perfect plan set forth

(2) The testimony of prophecy to the inspiration of the Scriptures

(3) Other theological concepts find their completion here

d. The key to the understanding of the Scriptures

e. The nature of this present day – rapid changes and the great increase in knowledge

B. Interpretation of Prophecy

1. The Question of method

a. Opposition to literalism

b. The allegorical method – Ignoring the literal sense for one that avoids theological difficulties

(1) Its early use by Origen and others

(2) Its deadly dangers – fancy, caprice, perversion

(a) It does not interpret the Scriptures

(b) The basic authority is taken from the Scriptures and given to the interpreter

c. New Testament use of allegory and typology – Galatians 4:21-31

Tell me, you who want to be under the law, are you not aware of what the law says? For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave woman and the other by the free woman. His son by the slave woman was born in the ordinary way; but his son by the free woman was born as the result of a promise. These things may be taken figuratively, for the women represent two covenants. One covenant is from Mount Sinai and bears children who are to be slaves: This is Hagar. Now Hagar stands for Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to the present city of Jerusalem, because she is in slavery with her children. But the Jerusalem that is above is free, and she is our mother. For it is written: “Be glad, O barren woman, who bears no children; break forth and cry aloud, you who have no labor pains; because more are the children of the desolate woman than of her who has a husband.” Now you, brothers, like Isaac, are children of promise. At that time the son born in the ordinary way persecuted the son born by the power of the Spirit. It is the same now. But what does the Scripture say? “Get rid of the slave woman and her son, for the slave woman’s son will never share in the inheritance with the free woman’s son.” Therefore, brothers, we are not children of the slave woman, but of the free woman. (Galatians 4:21-31)

2. The Literal Method – normal, usual designations

a. This is the normal manner of approach, even of secular writings

b. Spiritual applications are dependent on literal meanings

c. Most of the Bible makes sense when taken literally

d. A literal interpretation does not exclude a spiritual application

e. This is the method that is in accord with the inspiration and authority of the Bible.

f. Its usefulness.

(1) Factual – objective; all others are subjective

(2) Controllable – it is a check to nonobjective concepts

(3) Promotional – a deeper understanding and study of God’s word is necessary

(4) Authoritative – all others are rationalistic

3. Alexandrian Allegorism

a. Various schools of interpretation among the church fathers

b. Origen’s use of Greek philosophy – Philo, the Jewish theologian and philosopher

c. The mutual dependence between allegory and ecclesiasticism

d. Resulting theological concepts and the dark ages

e. The literal method and its result, the reformation

4. Proper Interpretation

a. Verbal usage

b. Immediate and remote context

c. Historical setting and grammatical construction

d. Figurative language and its factual interpretation

5. Prophetic Considerations

a. Use of the present or preterit tenses

b. Use of double reference

c. Conditions implied and ethically necessitated -Deuteronomy 7:9, Jeremiah 18:8-10, and Psalm 110:4

Know therefore that the LORD your God is God; he is the faithful God, keeping his covenant of love to a thousand generations of those who love him and keep his commands. (Deuteronomy 7:9)

and if that nation I warned repents of its evil, then I will relent and not inflict on it the disaster I had planned. And if at another time I announce that a nation or kingdom is to be built up and planted, and if it does evil in my sight and does not obey me, then I will reconsider the good I had intended to do for it. (Jeremiah 18:8-10)

The LORD has sworn and will not change his mind: “You are a priest forever, in the order of Melchizedek.” (Psalms 110:4)

d. Special rules must be observed

C. Conclusions Concerning Prophecy

1. The importance of Prophecy

a. Our interest in it

b. Our investigation of it

2. The influence of Prophecy

a. Understanding of the Bible and doctrine

b. Understanding of times and conditions – the law of double reference

c. Understanding of will and work of God

d Understanding of the imperatives of Christian living and service (Mandates and commands)

3. Biblical concepts of Prophecy

a. The Old Testament prophet

(1) His person

(a) The school of the prophets

(b) The prophet’s position

(2) His Message ⁱⁱⁱ

(a) Forthtelling – condemnation or comfort

(b) Foretelling – tests of a prophet

(3) His Place or Ministry

(a) Compared with the priesthood

(b) Counseled with kings

b. The New Testament Prophet

(1) His person

(a) Apostles and prophets

(b) Foundation of the Church

(2) His Message – 1 Corinthians 14:3

But everyone who prophesies speaks to men for their strengthening, encouragement and comfort. (1 Corinthians 14:3)

(a) Forthtelling

(b) Foretelling

(3) His place

(a) In the early Church

(b) In the later Church

Old Testament Prophecy

A. Major Biblical Covenants

1. Differentiate from the Theological Covenants

2. Determinative Covenants of Scripture

a. Five major covenants

b. Four unconditional covenants (Literal and Eternal) – Genesis 12:1-3, Deuteronomy 3:1-10, 2 Samuel 7:10-16, and Jeremiah 31:31-40

The LORD had said to Abram, “Leave your country, your people and your father’s household and go to the land I will show you. “I will make you into a great nation and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you.” (Genesis 12:1-3)

Next we turned and went up along the road toward Bashan, and Og king of Bashan with his whole army marched out to meet us in battle at Edrei. The LORD said to me, “Do not be afraid of him, for I have handed him over to you with his whole army and his land. Do to him what you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon.” So the LORD our God also gave into our hands Og king of Bashan and all his army. We struck them down, leaving no survivors. At that time we took all his cities. There was not one of the sixty cities that we did not take from them–the whole region of Argob, Og’s kingdom in Bashan. All these cities were fortified with high walls and with gates and bars, and there were also a great many unwalled villages. We completely destroyed them, as we had done with Sihon king of Heshbon, destroying every city–men, women and children. But all the livestock and the plunder from their cities we carried off for ourselves. So at that time we took from these two kings of the Amorites the territory east of the Jordan, from the Arnon Gorge as far as Mount Hermon. (Hermon is called Sirion by the Sidonians; the Amorites call it Senir.) We took all the towns on the plateau, and all Gilead, and all Bashan as far as Salecah and Edrei, towns of Og’s kingdom in Bashan. (Deuteronomy 3:1-10)

And I will provide a place for my people Israel and will plant them so that they can have a home of their own and no longer be disturbed. Wicked people will not oppress them anymore, as they did at the beginning and have done ever since the time I appointed leaders over my people Israel. I will also give you rest from all your enemies. “‘The LORD declares to you that the LORD himself will establish a house for you: When your days are over and you rest with your fathers, I will raise up your offspring to succeed you, who will come from your own body, and I will establish his kingdom. He is the one who will build a house for my Name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever. I will be his father, and he will be my son. When he does wrong, I will punish him with the rod of men, with floggings inflicted by men. But my love will never be taken away from him, as I took it away from Saul, whom I removed from before you. Your house and your kingdom will endure forever before me ; your throne will be established forever.’” (2 Samuel 7:10-16)

“The time is coming,” declares the LORD, “when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah. It will not be like the covenant I made with their forefathers when I took them by the hand to lead them out of Egypt, because they broke my covenant, though I was a husband to them, ” declares the LORD. “This is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after that time,” declares the LORD. “I will put my law in their minds and write it on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people. No longer will a man teach his neighbor, or a man his brother, saying, ‘Know the LORD,’ because they will all know me, from the least of them to the greatest,” declares the LORD. “For I will forgive their wickedness and will remember their sins no more.” This is what the LORD says, he who appoints the sun to shine by day, who decrees the moon and stars to shine by night, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar– the LORD Almighty is his name: “Only if these decrees vanish from my sight,” declares the LORD, “will the descendants of Israel ever cease to be a nation before me.” This is what the LORD says: “Only if the heavens above can be measured and the foundations of the earth below be searched out will I reject all the descendants of Israel because of all they have done,” declares the LORD. “The days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when this city will be rebuilt for me from the Tower of Hananel to the Corner Gate. The measuring line will stretch from there straight to the hill of Gareb and then turn to Goah. The whole valley where dead bodies and ashes are thrown, and all the terraces out to the Kidron Valley on the east as far as the corner of the Horse Gate, will be holy to the LORD. The city will never again be uprooted or demolished.” (Jeremiah 31:31-40)

c. One conditional covenant – Temporary – Exodus 19:5 and Deuteronomy 28:1-68

Now if you obey me fully and keep my covenant, then out of all nations you will be my treasured possession. Although the whole earth is mine, (Exodus 19:5)

3. Abrahamic Covenant – Genesis 12:1-3, Genesis 15:17, and Genesis 22:16-18

When the sun had set and darkness had fallen, a smoking firepot with a blazing torch appeared and passed between the pieces. (Genesis 15:17)

and said, “I swear by myself, declares the LORD, that because you have done this and have not withheld your son, your only son, I will surely bless you and make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will take possession of the cities of their enemies, and through your offspring all nations on earth will be blessed, because you have obeyed me.” (Genesis 22:16-18)

a. Unconditional – Literal and Eternal

b. Provisions

(1) Personal – blessing, name

(2) National – land, people, wealth

(3) Universal – blessings on others, special provision

c. Significance

4. The Palestinian Covenant – Deuteronomy 30:1-9 and Jeremiah 32:36-44

When all these blessings and curses I have set before you come upon you and you take them to heart wherever the LORD your God disperses you among the nations, and when you and your children return to the LORD your God and obey him with all your heart and with all your soul according to everything I command you today, then the LORD your God will restore your fortunes and have compassion on you and gather you again from all the nations where he scattered you. Even if you have been banished to the most distant land under the heavens, from there the LORD your God will gather you and bring you back. He will bring you to the land that belonged to your fathers, and you will take possession of it. He will make you more prosperous and numerous than your fathers. The LORD your God will circumcise your hearts and the hearts of your descendants, so that you may love him with all your heart and with all your soul, and live. The LORD your God will put all these curses on your enemies who hate and persecute you. You will again obey the LORD and follow all his commands I am giving you today. Then the LORD your God will make you most prosperous in all the work of your hands and in the fruit of your womb, the young of your livestock and the crops of your land. The LORD will again delight in you and make you prosperous, just as he delighted in your fathers, (Deuteronomy 30:1-9)

“You are saying about this city, ‘By the sword, famine and plague it will be handed over to the king of Babylon’; but this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: I will surely gather them from all the lands where I banish them in my furious anger and great wrath; I will bring them back to this place and let them live in safety. They will be my people, and I will be their God. I will give them singleness of heart and action, so that they will always fear me for their own good and the good of their children after them. I will make an everlasting covenant with them: I will never stop doing good to them, and I will inspire them to fear me, so that they will never turn away from me. I will rejoice in doing them good and will assuredly plant them in this land with all my heart and soul. “This is what the LORD says: As I have brought all this great calamity on this people, so I will give them all the prosperity I have promised them. Once more fields will be bought in this land of which you say, ‘It is a desolate waste, without men or animals, for it has been handed over to the Babylonians.’ Fields will be bought for silver, and deeds will be signed, sealed and witnessed in the territory of Benjamin, in the villages around Jerusalem, in the towns of Judah and in the towns of the hill country, of the western foothills and of the Negev, because I will restore their fortunes, declares the LORD.” (Jeremiah 32:36-44)

a. Unconditional – Literal and Eternal (Ezekiel 16:60-62)

Yet I will remember the covenant I made with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish an everlasting covenant with you. Then you will remember your ways and be ashamed when you receive your sisters, both those who are older than you and those who are younger. I will give them to you as daughters, but not on the basis of my covenant with you. So I will establish my covenant with you, and you will know that I am the LORD. (Ezekiel 16:60-62)

b. Provisions

(1) Israel rejected – Deuteronomy 30:1

When all these blessings and curses I have set before you come upon you and you take them to heart wherever the LORD your God disperses you among the nations, (Deuteronomy 30:1)

(2) Israel repentant – Deuteronomy 30:2

and when you and your children return to the LORD your God and obey him with all your heart and with all your soul according to everything I command you today, (Deuteronomy 30:2)

(3) Israel regathered – Deuteronomy 30:3-4

then the LORD your God will restore your fortunes and have compassion on you and gather you again from all the nations where he scattered you. Even if you have been banished to the most distant land under the heavens, from there the LORD your God will gather you and bring you back. (Deuteronomy 30:3-4)

(4) Israel restored – Deuteronomy 30:5

He will bring you to the land that belonged to your fathers, and you will take possession of it. He will make you more prosperous and numerous than your fathers. (Deuteronomy 30:5)

(5) Israel regenerated – Deuteronomy 30:6

The LORD your God will circumcise your hearts and the hearts of your descendants, so that you may love him with all your heart and with all your soul, and live. (Deuteronomy 30:6)

(6) Israel revenged – Deuteronomy 30:7-8

The LORD your God will put all these curses on your enemies who hate and persecute you. You will again obey the LORD and follow all his commands I am giving you today. (Deuteronomy 30:7-8)

(7) Israel rejoicing – Deuteronomy 30:9

Then the LORD your God will make you most prosperous in all the work of your hands and in the fruit of your womb, the young of your livestock and the crops of your land. The LORD will again delight in you and make you prosperous, just as he delighted in your fathers, (Deuteronomy 30:9)

c. Significance and reaffirmation of the Abrahamic covenant

5. The Davidic Covenant – 1 Samuel 16:13 and 2 Samuel 7:8-17

So Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him in the presence of his brothers, and from that day on the Spirit of the LORD came upon David in power. Samuel then went to Ramah. (1 Samuel 16:13)

“Now then, tell my servant David, ‘This is what the LORD Almighty says: I took you from the pasture and from following the flock to be ruler over my people Israel. I have been with you wherever you have gone, and I have cut off all your enemies from before you. Now I will make your name great, like the names of the greatest men of the earth. And I will provide a place for my people Israel and will plant them so that they can have a home of their own and no longer be disturbed. Wicked people will not oppress them anymore, as they did at the beginning and have done ever since the time I appointed leaders over my people Israel. I will also give you rest from all your enemies. “‘The LORD declares to you that the LORD himself will establish a house for you: When your days are over and you rest with your fathers, I will raise up your offspring to succeed you, who will come from your own body, and I will establish his kingdom. He is the one who will build a house for my Name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever. I will be his father, and he will be my son. When he does wrong, I will punish him with the rod of men, with floggings inflicted by men. But my love will never be taken away from him, as I took it away from Saul, whom I removed from before you. Your house and your kingdom will endure forever before me ; your throne will be established forever.’” Nathan reported to David all the words of this entire revelation. (2 Samuel 7:8-17)

a. Unconditional – Literal and Eternal (Psalm 89:3-4, Psalm 89:34-36, and Ezekiel 16:62

b. Provisions

(1) Unending dynasty – 2 Samuel 7:10

(2) Everlasting kingdom – 2 Samuel 7:13-16

(3) Enduring throne – 2 Samuel 7:16

c. Significance – 2 Samuel 7:17

6. The New Covenant – Jeremiah 31:31-40 and Ezekiel 16:62-63

a. Unconditional – Literal and eternal (Jeremiah 31:31-37)

b. Provisions – Jeremiah 31:27-40

(1) Regeneration – Jeremiah 31:33

(2) Restoration – Jeremiah 31:33

(3) Revivification – Jeremiah 31:34

(4) Justification – Jeremiah 31:34

B. Major Themes of Old Testament Prophecy

1. Concerning the Gentiles

a. Judgment on the Gentile Nations

b. The times of the Gentiles – Luke 21:24

c. The Gentile world powers – Daniel 2:31-35 and Daniel 7:1-28

d. The future of the Gentiles

(1) The nations judged

(2) In the Millennial Kingdom

(3) Final judgment

2. Israel’s History

a. Early history – Genesis 15:13-14, Genesis 49:1-28, and Deuteronomy 28:1-62

b. National history – Genesis 12:1 and Malachi 4:6

c. Dispersions and regathering – Leviticus 26:32-29, Deuteronomy 28:63-68, Psalm 44:11, Nehemiah 1:8, Jeremiah 9:16, Jeremiah 18:15-17, Ezekiel 12:14-15

3. Messiah’s Advent – Isaiah 61:1-2, Isaiah 53:1-12, Isaiah 11:1-2, and Isaiah 23:5-6

4. The Great Tribulation – Deuteronomy 4:29-30, Psalm 2:5, Isaiah 26:16-20, Jeremiah 30:4-7, and Daniel 12:1

5. The Messianic Kingdom – This, perhaps the outstanding subject of Old Testament prophecy, is related to and sums up all of the others, but its fulfillment was the chief hope of the Jewish people in our Lord’s day.

The Major Highways of Prophecy

Dr. Chafer enumerates seven major highways that run through the Bible from Genesis to Revelation. These really are manifestations of the working out of God’s purposes carrying us from the beginning of mankind to the final consummation in the coming eternal state.

A. Concerning Christ

1. The first promise – Genesis 3:15 and Genesis 12:1

2. The first advent – This is a highway in itself through the Old Testament, since so many minute details are prophetically given and then fulfilled during His life on earth among men.

3. Christ’s Three Offices

a. Prophet – Deuteronomy 18:15,18,19

b. Priest – Psalm 110:4

c. King – Jeremiah 23:5-6

4. The Second Advent

a. Its relation to the Church

b. Its relation to the Gentile nations

c. Its relation to Israel

5. Christ in the eternal state – 1 Corinthians 15:24-28

B. Concerning the Covenants

1. The five major covenants

a. Abrahamic covenants – a land and a seed

b. Palestinian covenant – restored to the land

c. Mosaic covenant – God’s people

d. Davidic covenant – a king and a kingdom

e. The new covenant – a renewed people

2. The seven major features

a. a nation

b. a land

c. a king

d. a throne

e. a kingdom

f. a covenant

g. a blessing

C. Concerning the Gentiles

1. The three divisions of humanity

2. The times of the Gentiles

3. The Kingdom of the Gentiles

4. The course of Gentile history

5. The conclusion of Gentile history

D. Concerning Evil

1. Satan

a. His commencement – Ezekiel 28:15

b. His career – Isaiah 14:16-17 and Ezekiel 28:17

c. His consummation – Revelation 12:7-12, Revelation 20:2-3, Revelation 20:7 and Revelation 20:10

2. Evil

a. The divine permission of sin

b. The divine provision for sin

c. The divine punishment of sin

3. Anti-Christ – Ezekiel 28:1-10, Daniel 9:27, Matthew 24:15, 2 Thessalonians 2:4-10, and Revelation 13:18

a. The principle

b. The person

c. The power

E. Concerning Apostasy

1. Its meaning (e.g., leaven, formalism, unbelief, worldliness)

2. New Testament Scripture – 1 Timothy 4:1, 2 Timothy 3:15, 2 Timothy 4:3-4, and 2 Peter 3:3-4

3. Final apostasy – Revelation 17, Revelation 18, Isaiah 13:19-22, Jeremiah 51:25-26, Jeremiah 51:62-64

a. Commercial Babylon – Revelation 18

b. Ecclesiastical Babylon – Revelation 17

F. Concerning the Great Tribulation

1. The fact of the period – Matthew 24:21,29,30, Mark 13:24, and Revelation 7:14

2. The nature of the period – Psalm 2, Isaiah 24, Daniel 2, Daniel 7, Daniel 9, Daniel 11, and Revelation 6:19

a. Federated revival of the Roman Empire

b. Great wealth and controlled economies

c. Emperor worship and the condition of life

d. Seals, trumpets, and vials of Revelation

3. Israel in this period

a. Covenant made – Ezekiel 37:7-14 and Daniel 9:27

b. Covenant broken – Daniel 9:27

(1) Day of Jacob’s trouble – Jeremiah 30:7

(2) Day of fierce persecution – Revelation 12:13-17

4. The Church and this period – Revelation 3:10

a. The nature of the tribulation

b. The nature of the Church

c. The return of Christ

d. The partial Rapture theory

e. The post-Tribulation Rapture theory

G. Concerning the Church – Prediction and establishment of the Church

1. The course of the Church – Revelation 2 and Revelation 3

2. The last days of the Church – 2 Timothy 3:1-5

3. The gathering of believers – 2 Thessalonians 2:1

a. The resurrection of the saints – 1 Corinthians 15:42-50,52 and 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18

b. The translation of the saints – 1 Corinthians 15:51 and 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18

4. The judgment seat of Christ – 1 Corinthians 3:5-10 and 2 Corinthians 5:10

5. The Marriage of the Lamb – Revelation 19:7-8

6. The return of the Church with Christ

7 The reign of the Church with Christ

The Major Themes of New Testament Prophecy

A. The New Age

1. The dispensation of grace

2. The mystery form of the kingdom

3. The called out Church – Ephesians 3:1-6

a. Jews

b. Gentiles

B. The Divine Purpose for this Age

1. A new people

2. A new destiny

C. The Nation Israel

1. Old Testament Disposure

a. Dispossessed (in the land but not independent)

b. Dispersed

c. Disorganized

2. New Testament Disposal

a. Blind

b. Hid

c. Broken off

3. New Testament Restoration

a. Tribulation

b. Triumph

D. The Gentiles

1. The times of the Gentiles

2. Man’s day

3. Mystery of iniquity

E. The Great Tribulation

1. The extent of revelation

2. The extent of suffering

F. Satan and Evil

1. Satan’s Day

2. Satan’s Defeat

G. The Future Estates of Men

1. The Saints

2. The Sinners

3. The Eternal State

Eschatological Problems

A. The Rapture – John 14:1-3, 1 Corinthians 15:51-52, 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18, and 2 Thessalonians 2:1

1. The time

a. Relation to the present age

b. Signs of the end of the age

2. The events

a. Resurrection

b. Translation

c. The Day of Christ

3. The persons

a. Christ

b. The Saints

4. The prospects

a. The place of the Rapture

b. The purpose of the Rapture

c. The purifying effect of this hope

B. The Tribulation – Revelation 3:10, Deuteronomy 4:30, Isaiah 2:19, Isaiah 24:1,3,6, Isaiah 24:19-21, Isaiah 26:20-21, Jeremiah 30:7, Daniel 9:27, Daniel 12:1, Joel 2:1-2, Amos 5:18,20, Zephaniah 1:14,18, Matthew 24:21-22, Luke 21:25-26, 1 Thessalonians 5:3, and Revelation 6:15-17

1. Conditions

a. The position of the Holy Spirit

b. The place of evil

c. The power of Satan

2. Comparisons

a. Days of Noah

b. Treading the winepress

3. Conclusions

a. The Jewish problems

b. The nations gathered

c. The nations judged

C. The Revelation – Matthew 24:27-30, 2 Thessalonians 1:7-10, and Revelation 19:11-21

1. The person revealed

2. The power revealed

3. The purpose revealed

D. Millennial problems

1. Divergent views concerning the millennial kingdom

2. The character of the millennial kingdom

3. The conclusion to the millennial kingdom

E. The Resurrections

1. The stages of resurrections

2. The subjects of the resurrections

3. The sequences of the resurrections

F. The Judgments

1. Early judgments

2. The final judgment

G. The Eternal State

1. Hell

a. Its reality

b. Its realm

2. Heaven

a. Its description – habitations

b. Its delights – happiness

c. Its denizens – inhabitants

References

L. S. Chafer, Systematic Theology, Vol. IV, “Eschatology,” p 256.

J. Dwight Pentecost, Things to Come.

Scofield Reference Bible, pp 711-712 – Preaching

L. S. Chafer, Systematic Theology, Vol. IV, “Eschatology.”

The following additional reference works were used for this study of Eschatology:

H. C. Thiessen, Introductory Lectures to Systematic Theology

George N. H. Peters, The Theocratic Kingdom