END TIMES POINTS OF UNITY ON ALL VIEWS

END TIMES POINTS OF UNITY ON ALL VIEWS

Bottom line points of unity of all views and approaches to the end times.

The purpose of the Bible’s message about the end times is to provide hope and encouragement for Christians of all times, especially in times of persecution and suffering, that Jesus Christ will return to the earth for those who love, trust, and follow him.

God is in control over history.

Jesus will return to earth. Free Bible Images.

Jesus will return to earth and defeat Satan, his beasts, the false prophet, and demons, and banish them to hell (Revelation 17-21).

Jesus will return and transform the earth into a new heaven on new earth (Revelation 21).

Jesus will return to judge everyone. Christians will go to the new heaven and new earth to have an eternal relationship with God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit. God will banish non-Christians from his presence in hell for eternity, where they will be punished and suffer torment (Revelation 20-21).

The new heaven and new earth will be a place of spiritual perfection and glorified physical perfection (Revelation 21-22).

No one knows the day or the hour of Jesus’ second coming on the day of the Lord. Therefore, Jesus calls Christians to be ready at all times for his return to earth at his second coming. (Matthew 24:42-44, 25:13; Mark 13:32-37; Luke 21:34-36).

Resources on the end times and Revelation

Timothy Paul Jones, Rose Guide to End-Times Prophecy (Peabody, MS: Rose Publishing, 2011)

Steve Gregg, Revelation: Four Views, Revised & Updated, a Parallel Commentary (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson, 2013)

Kenneth D. Boa and Robert Bowman Jr., Sense and Nonsense about Heaven and Hell (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2007)

Timothy Paul Jones, Rose Pamphlet: Four Views of the End Times: Christian’s Views on Jesus’ Second Coming (Peabody, MS: Rose Publishing, 2010)

William Brent Ashby and Benjamin Galan, Rose Pamphlet: Understanding the Book of Revelation  (Peabody, MS: Rose Publishing, 2009)