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This morning we are starting a series on the end times.
Theologically speaking, we will be looking at the doctrine of eschatology.
Eschatology means the study of last things.
It is the study of the events that will accompany the return of Christ.
This morning we are starting a series on the end times.
Theologically speaking, we will be looking at the doctrine of eschatology.
Eschatology means the study of last things.
It is the study of the events that will accompany the return of Christ.
I don’t know what background you might have in this topic.
Some of you may have studied it from Scripture, read many books on the topic, and have a good handle on what you believe.
Others here may not really know what the Bible teaches or what they believe.
And even others may not care that much and think that there are a lot more important things we could be studying.
Is this an important topic?
Well, let’s see how important this topic is to God.
OK? Let me ask you a few questions:
How many chapters in the Bible do you think have the end times as their main subject?
150
How many times is Jesus’ return referred to in the New Testament?
300+
There are nine authors of the New Testament.
How many of them mention Christ’s Second Coming? 9
Of the 27 books of the New Testament, how many mention Christ’s return?
23
Consider these facts:
Salvation is the only doctrine given more space in the NT than that of Christ’s Second Coming.
In the Gospels, Jesus mentions His return more frequently than He speaks of His death.
The Second Coming of Christ is referenced eight times more often in the Bible than His first coming.
If it’s important enough for God to put this much space and give this much emphasis on this topic, then shouldn’t it be important to us? Shouldn’t we seek to understand it?
The final stage in God’s plan is often called the Consummation.
To consummate something means to finish it, to bring it to completion—it’s the ultimate end of something.
Another word used is Restoration, which means to return something back to its original condition.
Both of these words assume that there’s something to be completed, that there’s something to be restored to.
So, before we can start talking about the end of age—the consummation or the restoration in the future—we need to understand what has happened in the past, at the beginning of the age.
Biblical History in Fourteen C’s
Christianity is a historical faith—it is based on actual events in history.
It’s not just a belief system or a philosophy.
The Bible, God’s Word, is the history of His interaction with people—the outworking of God’s plan for the ages.
You may have heard of the Seven C’s of History—the Creation Museum uses this framework in their walk through biblical history.
Well, I’ve doubled them.
I want to quickly go over the Fourteen C’s of History.
Pay attention because there’ll be a test on this in a couple weeks—and I’m not kidding!
First is . . .
Creation
God, who exists from eternity, outside of time, created the universe from nothing.
He spoke all of creation into existence; there is nothing that exists that He did not call into existence.
God created a perfect environment on earth for the crown of His creation—man and woman.
After He was finished, God called His creation “very good.”
Man and woman enjoyed a perfect relationship with God and with one another in a perfect environment.
The world was not marred by any disease, suffering, sin, or death.
But this didn’t last very long.
Corruption
Satan came to Eve in the form of a serpent and tempted her to disobey God.
She succumbed, and Adam & Eve sinned and rebelled against their Creator by disobeying His command.
As a result, God cursed His creation.
It was now in bondage to corruption and disease; suffering and death entered God’s good creation.
We see the effects of increasing sin and wickedness in the book of Genesis as Cain kills his brother Abel.
As the descendants of Adam & Eve continue to multiply, we read of Lamech, in the sixth generation of Cain, who boasted of murdering others and is the first recorded polygamist in Scripture.
Evil and wickedness increased more and more.
And finally, things got so bad, that we read in .
The Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
Catastrophe
As judgment on man’s wickedness, God brought a watery catastrophe—a global flood upon the world, destroying every land-dwelling, air-breathing animal, and every person not on the Ark.
Safe onboard the Ark were representatives of the various animal kinds, and Noah’s family: Noah and his wife, and Noah’s three sons and their wives—eight people in all.
There was a new world after the Flood, and a new start for humanity.
As God had done with Adam & Eve, He commanded Noah’s family to be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.
Noah’s sons began to have children and repopulate the earth, but again the people were disobedient to God’s command.
Instead of filling the earth, they all gathered together and refused to disperse around the world.
Confusion
Instead they decided to build a mighty city and a tall tower in the plains of Shinar, modern-day Iraq.
They were prideful and arrogant; they wanted to make a name for themselves and be their own gods.
And so God, instead of wiping them out again as He had in the Flood, in His mercy judged them bringing confusion to their common language, miraculously creating dozens of languages by family groups.
And so, unable to communicate with one another, they stopped their building project and began to depart Babel, thus fulfilling God’s desire that they spread around the earth.
If you add up the genealogies in , you find that those chapters represent about 2,000 years of history—from Creation to the Tower of Babel.
Covenant
And then, in , a new story begins.
God calls a man named Abram, later renamed Abraham, and God makes an everlasting covenant with him.
Abraham would become the father of the Hebrew people, the Jewish nation.
God promised to bless Abraham.
God would give him a land; He would make of him a great nation; He would make his name great; and Abraham would have many descendants.
And God promised Abraham, that all the nations of the earth would be blessed through him, through his offspring—his Seed.
The rest of the Old Testament is the outworking of God’s plan, as He multiplies and blesses Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
He leads Jacob and his children to Egypt during a time of famine.
Chains
There they become enslaved, and are put in chains for hundreds of years.
They wondered if God had forgotten them, but He raised up Moses as their deliverer.
After God judged Egypt with ten plagues, He miraculously delivered His people through the sea.
Over 2 million people left Egypt and headed for the Promised Land.
Commandments
In the wilderness of Sinai, God gave His people His Law through Moses—the Ten Commandments.
But they continued to sin and rebel and complain, and they did not trust God.
So God consigned them to 40 years of wandering in the wilderness until all that rebellious generation had died.
Conquest
Following Moses’ leadership, Joshua takes the people into the Promised Land of Canaan.
The Lord gives them victory, and they extend their territory by conquest.
The land is divided among the twelve tribes of Israel.
Next comes the period of the judges.
During this time, God’s people become ensnared by the idolatry of the nations they have conquered.
Over and over, for a period of about 300 years, they repeat a cycle.
They fall into idolatry, God judges them by bringing a nation to subdue them, they cry out to God for help, God raises up a judge to deliver them, and they enjoy a time of peace.
And then the cycle of idolatry, judgment, repentance, and deliverance repeats.
Crown
Finally, the people demand a king as all the other nations have.
And so God appoints a king for them and Saul is crowned King.
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