Comprehensive Bible Prophecy and Rapture Concepts for Students

Rapture

To catch up

Purpose of the rapture

Remove believers before God's Judgement on the wicked

First event at the rapture

The dead are raised from their graves

Last event at the rapture

Jesus shouts a command

Final occurrence at the rapture

Believers who are alive are caught up to meet Christ in the air

Post-Tribulation view

Believers are raptured at the time of the 2nd coming of Christ

Pre-Tribulation view

Believers are raptured before the Antichrist is revealed

Elijah's rapture

He was taken up in a whirlwind and a fiery chariot

Lawless one in 2 Thessalonians 2:7

The Antichrist

Difference between rapture and second coming

They do not appear to be the same event and are separated about 7 years

Book of Daniel

Says that in the end times, Michael the defender of Israel will rise to protect God's people

Indication of end times - Israel

Israel has been regathered into its homeland

Indication of end times - government

There is a strong push for a one world government

John 3:16 and Tim Tebow

Always on the eyeblack of Tim Tebow

Meaning of imminent regarding the rapture

Imminent means that the rapture could at any moment

Uniformitarianism

The view that all things continue as they were from the beginning

Scoffer

Someone who mocks the Bible

Seven churches in Revelation

They were actual churches in John's day

God's judgment by fire

God judged the earth once by fire; he will judge a second time by fire

Existence of the Church

The Church exists from the Day of Pentecost until the rapture

Three types of people in prophecy

Jews, Gentiles, the Church

Church's primary responsibility

Fulfilling or obeying Matthew 28:18-20, known as 'the Great Commission'

Parable of the Wheat and the Tares

Teaches that unbelievers will be allowed to coexist with believers throughout the church age

Pearl of Great Price

The pearl most likely symbolizes the Church

Mustard seed parable

Indicates that the church, though small at first, will grow to a very large size

Leaven and three lumps of dough

Indicates that false doctrine will cause the Church to grow enormously in size

Rocky ground in the parable of the sower

Symbolizes people who are excited about the Gospel at first, but quit when life goes difficult

Dragnet parable

Angels have the task of separating the good fish from the bad fish

Judgment seat of Christ

The event where the church (true believers) is judged at the end of the Church age

Church during the tribulation period

The church will be in Heaven during God's great time of judgement

Earth's wickedness as time progresses

The Epistles emphasize that as we get closer to the end time and tribulation period, the earth will grow more wicked