Many Questions

“Men of Galilee, why do you stand gazing up into heaven? This same Jesus, who was taken up from you into heaven, will so come in like manner as you saw Him go into heaven.” Acts 1:11

Harold Camping

2 Peter 2:3

“But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.” Mark 13:32

“And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also.” Jn.14:3

“This same Jesus, who was taken up from you into heaven, will so come in like manner as you saw Him go into heaven.” Acts 1:11

Paul was confident - 1 Thes. 4:14-17

Our hope is centered in this promise 2 Tim.4:8

Some deny: 2 Pet.3:3,4 “scoffers” 60% of preachers 2 Tim.2:18 Hymenaeus and Philetus

Not to set up a kingdomAlready in existenceCol. 1:13

Not to provide a second chanceHeb. 9:27One sacrifice

To destroy death1 Cor. 15:26 - the last enemy

To judge the living and the dead2 Tim. 4:1Acts 17:31

Bring salvation for His people1 Pet. 1:4 “inheritance”

Matt. 24:3 “When shall these things be?”

As a thief in the night2 Pet. 3:10

Men have looked for signs

Mark 13:32 “But of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father.”

BePrepared

Matt. 24:1-14 - Mark 13 - Luke 17

No signs of next coming of Jesus

“Assuredly, I say to you, this generation will by no means pass away till all these things take place.” Matt. 24:34

Bible is silent on the subject

Bible is silent on the subject

Matt. 24:40-41 Two in field - one taken and one leftIs this the rapture ?v.34 “This generation shall not pass, till

all these things be fulfilled.”“watch” “run away from it”Fulfilled in destruction of A.D. 70

Isa. 2:1-4

Kingdom was to be built - Matt. 16:16-18

Citizens from all nations - Mark 16:16

This kingdom is already in existence

Christ will come again

Not step foot on earth

Judgment of all

“because He has appointed a day on which He will judge the world in righteousness by the Man whom He has ordained. He has given assurance of this to all by raising Him from the dead.” Acts 17:31

Sermon by Arthur Pigman

Evans Church of Christ

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Evans, Ga. 30809

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Sunday Morning May 22, 2011