The Event

Not believing what we

read

Why is

so hard to unscramble?

Not rightly dividing the

truth

Why is

so hard to unscramble?

•2 Timothy 2:15 Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be

ashamed, rightly dividing the word of

truth.

The RAPTURE

Jesus comes IN

the clouds FOR His saints.

The Second Coming Jesus comes

THROUGH the clouds WITH His saints.

“hast seen”-PAST

“which are”-PRESENT

“shall be”- FUTURE

3 Divisions:

“hast seen”-PAST-

Church Age to the Rapture

3 Divisions:

Rev 1-3

3 Divisions:

Rev 6-19

“which are”-PRESENT

Tribulation to the Second

Coming

“shall be”-FUTURE-

Millennium on into Eternity

3 Divisions:

Rev 20-22

1 Thessalonians 4:16-17 “For

the Lord Himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the

voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and

remain shall be caught up

together with them in the

clouds, to meet the Lord in the

air: and so shall we ever be with the

Lord.”

Revelation 4:1

“After this I looked, and,

behold, a door was opened in

heaven: and the first

voice which I heard was as it were of a

trumpet talking with me; which said, Come up hither, and I will shew thee

things which must be

hereafter.”

Chapters 1-3Chapters 4-19Chapters 20-22

3 Divisions:

•Matthew 24:21 For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world

to this time, no, nor ever shall be.

Tribulation

TRIBULATION

6… 7 SEALS7-11… 7 TRUMPETS

12-14… 7 PERSONAGES

15-19… 7VIALS

The SORROWFUL SEARCHThe Goal of the Search

•Not “who is willing?”•But “who is worthy?”

Revelation 5:2

I. The SEALED SCROLL vs. 1

II. The SORROWFUL SEARCH vs. 2-4

III. The STANDING SAVIOUR vs. 5-7

Revelation

5

The Event

To Which All of God’s word is Pointing

The Event

• 1 Corinthians 2:14 But the natural man receiveth not

the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness

unto him: neither can he know them, because they

are spiritually discerned.

Laodicea- (1900- Rapture)

“The Rights of the People”

(“Civil Rights”)

•The name “Laodicea”

• 2 Timothy 3:1-5 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For

men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud,

blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, Without natural affection,

trucebreakers, 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: from such turn away.

•2 Corinthians 5:21 For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be

made the righteousness of God in him.

•2 Peter 3:8 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day

is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one

day.

To Which All of God’s word is Pointing

The Event

•Matthew 24:37 But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.

To Which All of God’s word is Pointing

The Event

• Luke 17:28-30 Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they

sold, they planted, they builded; But the same day that Lot went out of

Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all. Even thus shall it be in the day

when the Son of man is revealed.

To Which All of God’s word is Pointing

The Event

Isaiah 89 specific

references to :

Application :•Historical

•Devotional/Practical (Inspirational)

•Doctrinal (Prophetical)

Zephaniah

Only 53 verses in Book

At least 20 specific

references to :

Quoted almost 40 times in NT

In chapters 12-15 alone there are

15 specific

references to :

Zechariah

Genesis 2:3 – “And God blessed the

seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it He had

rested from all His work which God

created and made.”

2 Peter 3:8 – “But,

beloved, be not

ignorant of this one

thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand

years as one day.”

To Which All of God’s word is Pointing

The Event

To Which All of God’s word is Pointing

The EventTo Which All of God’s

people are Praying

• John 8:44 Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your

father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and

abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his

own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.

•2 Corinthians 6:18 And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall

be my sons and daughters, saith the

Lord Almighty.

To Which All of God’s word is Pointing

The EventTo Which All of God’s

people are Praying

• Mark 8:34 And when he had called the people unto him

with his disciples also, he said unto them, Whosoever will

come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

Ephesians 2:2-3 Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit

that now worketh in the children of disobedience: Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of

our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of

wrath, even as others. Isaiah 53:6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.

• Mark 8:34 And when he had called the people unto him with his disciples also, he

said unto them, Whosoever will come after me, let him deny himself, and take

up his cross, and follow me. • John 16:8 And when he is come, he will

reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment

• Romans 10:13 For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be

saved.

To Which All of God’s word is Pointing

The EventTo Which All of God’s

people are Praying

•2 Corinthians 5:15 And that he died for all, that

they which live should not henceforth live unto

themselves, but unto him which died for them, and

rose again.

ON THAT DAY: Satan will be a defeated

foe!Jesus will reign on earth in

His manifest presence in the fullness of His glory!

Jesus’ will WILL be done in earth as it is in heaven!

The earth SHALL BE FILLED with the knowledge of His

glory!

• Satan IS a defeated foe!• Jesus desires to reign in

me in His manifest presence!

• Jesus desires that His WILL BE DONE in ME, as

it is in heaven!• Jesus desires that we be

filled with the knowledge of His glory!

ON THIS DAY:

•Colossians 1:13 Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us

into the kingdom of his dear Son

•2 Corinthians 5:15 And that he died for all, that

they which live should not henceforth live unto

themselves, but unto him which died for them, and

rose again.

• 1 Peter 1:18-19 Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver

and gold, from your vain conversation received by

tradition from your fathers; But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and

without spot:

To Which All of God’s word is Pointing

The EventTo Which All of God’s

people are Praying

Will you let THIS Day be THAT Day

in YOU?

To Which All of God’s word is Pointing

The EventTo Which All of God’s

people are PrayingTo Which All of God’s host will be Praising

•2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are

passed away; behold, all things are become new.

•2 Corinthians 5:8 We are confident, I say, and

willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with

the Lord.

•1 Corinthians 15:50 Now this I say, brethren,

that flesh and blood cannot inherit the

kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit

incorruption.

• John 1:12 But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of

God, even to them that believe on his name: • Philippians 2:15-16 That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked

and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world

• 1 John 3:2 Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall

appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.

To Which All of God’s word is Pointing

The EventTo Which All of God’s

people are PrayingTo Which All of God’s host will be Praising