Last Study
|
BR Index
|
Next Study
Bible Readings
for the Home
Chapter
64
The
Millennium
*** How did the Saviour
say it would be in the days of the Son of man (or when the Son of man
would be revealed)?
“And as it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be also in the
days of the Son of man.” Luke 17:26. Read also verses 27-30, and
Matt. 24:37-39.
*** How was it in the
days of Noah?
“And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth,
and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil
continually.” Gen. 6:5.
*** How did Paul
characterize the last days?
“This know, also, that in the last days perilous times shall
come.” 2 Tim. 3:1.
*** What will make
those times perilous?
“For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters,
proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without
natural affection, truce-breakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce,
despisers of those that are good, traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of
pleasures more than lovers of God; having a form of godliness, but
denying the power thereof.” 2 Tim. 3:2-5.
*** But will not this
state of things grow better before the Lord comes?
“But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving,
and being deceived.” 2 Tim. 3:13.
*** Will it be easy for
those living at this time to serve the Lord?
“Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer
persecution.” 2 Tim. 3:12.
*** According to the
parable of the wheat and the tares, how long are the good and the bad to
remain together?
“The field is the
world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are
the children of the wicked one;” “the enemy that sowed them is
the Devil.” “Let both grow together until the harvest:
and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together
first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the
wheat into my barn.” Matt. 13:38, 39, 30.
*** When does the
harvest come?
“The enemy that sowed
them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the
reapers are the angels.” Matt. 13:39.
*** When shall the “man of sin” (2 Thess. 2:3), also called “that
Wicked,” cease his iniquity?
“And then shall that
Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of His
mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of His coming.” 2 Thess. 2:8.
*** How long is the
“little horn” (Dan. 7:25) to make war with the saints?
“I beheld, and the same horn made war with the saints, and prevailed against
them; until the Ancient of days came, and judgment was given to the
saints of the Most High; and the time came that the saints possessed
the kingdom.” Dan. 7:21, 22.
*** How many classes of
people will there be on the earth when the Lord comes?
“For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh
as a thief in the night. For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then
sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child;
and they shall not escape. But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that
that day should overtake you as a thief.” 1 Thess. 5:2-4.
*** What will those who
are in darkness say when they hear about the Lord’s coming?
“Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days
scoffers, walking after their own lusts, and saying, Where is the
promise of His coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things
continue as they were from the beginning of the creations.” 2 Peter 3:3, 4.
*** What will be
popularly taught in the last days?
“But in the last days... many nations shall come, and say, Come,
and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, and to the house of the God
of Jacob;... and He shall judge among many people, and rebuke strong
nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and
their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up a sword against
nation, neither shall they learn war any more.” Micah 4:1-3.
*** What does the Lord
say will be the actual condition of the world just before the end?
“Proclaim ye this among the Gentiles: Prepare war, wake up the
mighty men, let all the men of war draw near; let them come up: beat your
plowshares into swords, and your pruning hooks into spears: let the weak
say, I am strong.” Joel 3:9, 10.
*** But are not the
heathen to be given to the Lord for an inheritance?
“Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine
inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy
possession.” Ps. 2:8.
*** What will the Lord
do with them?
“Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash
them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.” Ps. 2:9.
*** When does the Lord
thus rule the wicked nations in wrath?
“And out of His mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it He should
smite the nations; and He shall rule them with a rod of iron: and He
treadeth the wine press of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God. And
He hath on His vesture and on His thigh a name written, King of Kings and
lord of lords.” Rev. 19:15, 16.
*** Then instead of
looking for the conversion of the world, what should be the hope of the
church?
“Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the
great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ.” Titus 2:13. See also 2 Tim.
4:6-8; 1 Thess. 4:14-18; 1 Peter 5:4.
Back To Top
Last Study
|
BR Index
|
Next Study
|