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Five Things You Fight when You Think About the End

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  • Michael Kelley

Every Christian should be thinking about the end times, because thinking about the return of Christ impacts one's life today. It helps us fight five things: anxiety, despondency, materialism, fear, and apathy.

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Making Sense of End Times Prophecy in the Bible

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  • David Snoke

What does the Bible teach about the end times? Using key biblical texts, this article examines the teachings of preterism, dispensationalism, premillenialism, postmillenialism, and amillenialism. What does the Bible say about the return of Christ?

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The Inaugurated Eschatological Indicative and Imperative in relation to Christian Living and Preaching

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  • Gregory K. Beale

The popular understanding that "latter-days" refers only to the end of the world needs radical adjustment. Beale demonstrates how “inaugurated eschatology” sheds light on a Christian understanding of the end times. The theological idea of the relation of the indicative to the imperative in the New Testament is used to enhance such an understanding.

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The Inaugurated End-Time Tribulation and Its Bearing on the Church Office of Elder and on Christian Living in General

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  • Gregory K. Beale

Eschatology is a present reality that should shape the life of the church. Beale argues that the origin of the office of elder is partly related to the inauguration of the latter-day tribulation. This article discusses this inauguration of the tribulation in some detail, and also takes a look at the motivation for godly living during these end times.

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Chapter Three: The Millennium (3)

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  • David J. Engelsma

This trilogy of articles builds off of a previous series entitled The Intermediate State, looking at the topic of end times. This series looks at the text of Revelation 20:1-10, discussing the amillennialism perspective on this scripture passage.

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The Millennium (3)

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  • David J. Engelsma

This trilogy of articles builds off of a previous series entitled The Intermediate State, looking at the topic of end times. This series looks at the text of Revelation 20:1-10, discussing the amillennialism perspective on this scripture passage. One must understand the sybolic nature of the book of Revelation. Revelation 20 is a description of the present gospel age. This understanding has significant implications for the daily life of the Christian and the hope he has in Christ.

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The Millennium (1)

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  • David J. Engelsma

This trilogy of articles builds off of a previous series entitled The Intermediate State, looking at the topic of end times. This series looks at the text of Revelation 20:1-10, discussing the premillennialism and postmillennialism perspectives on this scripture passage. The author maintains that interpreting this text wrongly puts the unity of scripture at stake and threatens the Christian hope.

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The End of the World

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  • O. Palmer Robertson

This article focuses on the reality of the end of the world (end times). Christian's should expect Christ's return, the resurrection of the dead, the destruction of this world, the coming of an eternal world, and judgement.

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Eschatology – What's in a Word?

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  • Richard B. Gaffin Jr.

This article is about Jesus Christ and the last things/end times. The author discusses the already and not yet of the Kingdom of God.

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The Lawless Generation

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  • Barrett L. Gritters

This article is about lawlessness in the end times. The author looks at 2 Thessalonians 2:3, Matthew 24:11-13 and obedience in the church.

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Preaching to All Nations, Then the End

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  • Barrett L. Gritters

This article is about the preaching of the gospel to all the nations as a sign of the end times. The author also discusses Matthew 24:14, the coming of the kingdom of God, the health and wealth gospel, and the effectiveness and purpose of preaching.

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The Great Persecution

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  • Barrett L. Gritters

This article about the great persecution (the persecution of the church) in end times, is about the great tribulation and the antichrist. The perseverance of the believers is also discussed, as well as the text Matthew 24:15-35.

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The Sign of Divorcing the Truth

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  • Barrett L. Gritters

This article is about the signs of the times, and specifically about apostasy in the end times. The author also discusses truth and deception, and heretics in the church.

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The Antichrist and the Man of Lawlessness

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  • Jack de Jong

This article about the antichrist and the man of lawlessness is about a totalitarian state in the end times, the antithesis between church and world, and the form of the antichrist.

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The Future

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  • Peter Y. De Jong

This is a basic article on the future and end times.

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Eschatology: Wrongly Dividing the Church of God

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  • David E. Longacre

This article is on the last things and church unity; the differences and similarities in our view of the end times and millennialism.

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A Present or Future Millennium?

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  • Kim Riddlebarger

Is the millennium present or future? This article is about the millennial age and works with a two-age model ("this age" and "the age to come" - amillennialism). The author focuses the end times discussions on the person of Jesus Christ.

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We shall rest and we shall see, we shall see and we shall love, we shall love and we shall pray, in the end – which is no end. Augustine
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