King is Coming

Dan Greenup

Description

Although the guy holding "the end is near" sign might be crazy, he's got the right idea: Jesus is coming soon. Before His return, a whole bunch of things have to go down. You know, wars, famines and global persecution of Christians by a crazy dictator known as the Antichrist. Who is the Antichrist? What is Armageddon, really, and how do we even begin to understand the Book of Revelation? What are the signs of Christ's coming? Read The King Is Coming to find out the answers to these questions, and more.

Sujets

• Philosophie et théologie
• Christian theology
• Christianity

Informations

• Publié par: First Edition Design Publishing
• Date de parution: 30 avril 2016
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781506901961
• Langue: English

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The King Is Coming
First Edition Design Publishing
Sarasota, Florida USA
The King Is Coming
Copyright © 2016 Dan Greenup

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April 2016

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The King Is Coming
Dan Greenup
Table of Contents

Redeeming the Time . 1
Seventy Sevens 3
The Beginning of Birth Pangs 13
The Great Tribulation . 18
The Beast Empire . 24
The Antichrist 34
The False Prophet 49
Walk in the Spirit 52
The Rapture . 69
The Day of the Lord . 75
Babylon Down . 93
45 Days Later 108
To the Millennium, and Beyond . 110
Every Knee Will Bow . 117
References 121
Redeeming the Time

“Thy kingdom come.” 1 This is the hope of every follower of Jesus, and the King is coming soon. After Christ died, was buried and rose again in power, conquering sin and death, He hung out with His closest followers. On one occasion, they asked Him if He was going to “restore the kingdom to Israel.” 2 Jesus told them not to worry about the timing, promising they would be filled with the Holy Spirit and be His witnesses throughout the world. Once Jesus told His followers what to expect, He was physically taken up into Heaven, rising through the clouds. 3 In the same way He will come again, “coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.” 4
For obvious reasons, followers of Christ eagerly anticipate the return of Jesus. After all, He is coming back to establish His Kingdom in its fullness, and He will set everything right. There will be no more war, death and suffering will be a thing of the past and the Lord will dwell with His people forever. 5 Of course, followers of Jesus have already tasted the goodness of the age to come, because Christ’s Kingdom is all about “righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.” 6 Christians have been transferred into the Kingdom and delivered from the power of darkness, and that’s not all. 7
Anyone who commits sin is a slave, 8 and all of us have sinned. 9 Fortunately, Jesus came to set the captives free. It was prophesied that Christ would save His people from sin, 10 and He accomplished His mission. 11 The Lord proclaimed “if the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed.” 12 Everyone who receives Jesus as the Lord of their lives and the Savior of their sins becomes a child of God. 13
As followers of Jesus, we have been freed from the penalty and power of sin. The Christian is a new creation. 14 No longer defined by ethnic, gender and cultural identities, 15 we’re children of God and co-heirs with Jesus. 16 Our old, sinful lifestyles have passed away, because we died with Christ, were buried with Him and were risen new creations in Him. 17 We’re dead to what people think, we’ve stopped chasing after worldly success and the lusts of this world just don’t fascinate us like they used to. 18 The world has no power over us, because our lives are dedicated to Christ and He empowers us daily to live for Him. 19 When we die, we get to be with Him forever. 20 What’s better than that? In fact, instead of weeping and gnashing our teeth in eternal fire, 21 we have eternal fellowship with our Creator. 22 That’s a serious upgrade, to put it mildly, and it’s all because of the King of kings and Lord of lords: Jesus.
Although we once lived in darkness, doing things we’d rather not talk about in public, the light of the Lord gave us sight. 23 In light of this, we should walk wisely, “Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.” 24 Put differently, we should make the most of our time, refusing to get caught up in the cares of this world. Christ died to rescue us from this present evil age. 25 He gave His life for us, so we could live for Him. 26 The time to live for Him is short, because the “coming of the Lord is drawing near.” 27
Jesus compared the time before His return to the days of Noah and the days of Lot. 28 In both cases, the world sinned without a care until judgment came, but those who trusted in the Lord were delivered from His wrath. For the world, the “day of the Lord will come just like a thief in the night”, 29 but Christ-followers will understand the signs of the times. 30 When it all starts to go down we can joyfully lift up our heads, because our redemption will be at hand. 31
God hasn’t given us a spirit of fear. 32 Quite the opposite, we have been given the Holy Spirit, and He fills us with power, discipline and love. Let’s remain firm in faith, examine His Word, and keep our eyes fixed on Christ. Stand fast, saints. The King is coming.
Seventy Sevens

The life of Daniel would make a great movie. Think about it. He interpreted other people’s dreams, 1 and he had some wild dreams and visions of his own. 2 He saw his friends thrown into a fiery furnace, but they walked out and didn’t even smell like smoke. 3 Can you imagine the President of the United States grazing on the White House lawn for a few years? Well, Daniel saw King Nebuchadnezzar, the most powerful leader of the world, act like a wild animal because he blasphemed God. 4 Speaking of wild animals, Daniel was thrown into a den of hungry lions and he was completely unharmed. 5
Without question, Daniel was a battle-tested soldier of God. He had plenty of haters, but even they knew making him choose between obeying the law and serving the Lord was the only way to get rid of him. 6 That’s a pretty big compliment. Naturally, when it became illegal to worship God, Daniel disobeyed. 7 Although King Darius didn’t want to do it, by law, he had to throw Daniel into a den of lions. 8 I mean, you know you’re doing things right when the guy who throws you into a den of lions says “Your God whom you serve continually, He will deliver you.” 9 Well, the Lord kept Daniel safe. 10 It may have had something to do with the fact that God considered Daniel one of the most righteous men who ever lived, along with Job and Noah. 11
Of course, God blessed Daniel’s faithfulness in more ways than one. For instance, Daniel was looking over a prophecy the Lord gave to Jeremiah. 12 This prophecy stated that the Jewish people would spend seventy years exiled in Babylon because of their sinful ways. 13 God kept His promise, and while hanging out in Babylon one day, Daniel realized that the other part of God’s promise was about to be fulfilled. The seventy years of captivity were almost up. Encouraged, he began to pray. He asked God to forgive his sins and the sins of his people. 14 In response, the angel Gabriel showed up. 15 He told Daniel some very important information about the future of the Jewish people, and the world:

24 Seventy weeks have been determined for your people and upon your holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make atonement for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the Most Holy Place . 25 Know therefore and understand that from the going forth of the command to restore and to rebuild Jerusalem until the Prince Messiah shall be seven weeks, and sixty-two weeks. It shall be built again, with plaza and moat, even in times of trouble. 26 After the sixty-two weeks Messiah shall be cut off and shall have nothing. And the troops of the prince who shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end of it shall come with a flood. And until the end of the war desolations are determined. 27 And he shall make a firm covenant with many for one week. But in the middle of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the offering to cease. And on the wing of abominations shall come one who makes desolate, until the decreed destruction is poured out on the desolator. 16

Let’s break this down. For starters, a more literal translation of “seventy weeks” is “seventy sevens.” With this in mind, are these “sevens” days, weeks or years? In several passages, the second half of the seventieth week is said to contain 3 ½ years. 17 So, there will be seventy “weeks” of years, or seventy seven-year periods. This 490-year period of time has “been determined for your people and upon your holy city.” 18 In other words, the focus of this prophecy is on the deliverance of the Jewish people and Jerusalem. Specifically, this includes finishing or filling up the transgression, putting an end to sin, making atonement for iniquity, establishing everlasting righteousness, sealing up vision and prophecy, and anointing the most holy place.
Now, the clock on this prophecy started ticking with the “command to restore and to rebuild Jerusalem.” 19 When was this decree issued? There are a few possibilities. The two most likely decrees were given by Artaxerxes to Ezra around 458 B.C. 20 and by Artaxerxes to Nehemiah around 444 B.C. 21 Whichever decree it was, by 444 B.C. t