Eschatology
[Thanks to Edal Anton Lefterov]
Verse Observations: Rv 15:1
*all in all - Eph 1:10, 4:6
*all will glorify God - I Pt 2:12
*the Second Coming & the First Resurrection/rapture - Dn 9:21-22, Mal 3:1,2, Col 3:4, II Thes 2:8, Rv 12:10, 12, 14:15, 16:14-16, 20:8-9
*New Heavens & Earth in the OT - Is 65:17-25, Jer 33:18
*we are in the last times - I Pt 1:20
*hastening the Day of the Lord - II Pt 3:12
*we will suffer through the Tribulation - Is 26:20, Mk 13:20
What does it mean “that he might fill all things”? (Eph 4:10)
What is the nature of this subjection of everything to Jesus? (Phil 3:21) What exactly does it mean “God will be all in all”? (I Cor 15:28) Eph 1:7-10 First, what is the mystery of his will? Second, what is this union to God of all things, things in heaven and things on earth?
Why will even knowledge pass away? (I Cor 13:8)
Jn 9:4 What's this night that's coming?
Why does the bible say “perhaps you may be hidden”? God knows what he will and will not do. (Zeph 2:3)
Big problem. On one hand you have the new heavens and new earth, also the new Jerusalem (Is 65:17, 18-20, 22-23), but then why is there death, sin and reproduction? Also how can there not be crying (v 19) if there's still death and sin (v 20)? This (Jewish) new heavens, earth and Jerusalem is quite different from the Christian one, which has none of these things (Rv 21:1-4, Mt 22:30). Furthermore, both the OT and NT say that there will no longer be any sun or moon (Is 60:19-20, Rv 21:23), but in Is 66:22-23 it says there will be new moons and sabbaths. However, in the end, there must be some consensus between Jewish and Christian eschatology, since they both believe in the resurrection of the dead (so though the above OT passage referencing the new heavens and new earth mentions death, there must still be some ultimate resurrection). (Is 26:19, Dn 12:2)
Why should there be any poor and meek during this one's reign? (Is 11:4) Then will there still be inequality, both of wealth and power?
What’s the difference between a season and a time? (Dn 7:12)
What comes at the 1,335th day? (Dn 12:12) What happens at the end of the 1,290 days?
Wasn’t Jesus contradicting himself when he said that we could know the time of his coming just as we know that summer will soon be here by the appearance of the fig tree, and when he said that he would come as a thief in the night? (Mt 24:32-33, Rv 16:15)
If after all these terrible things have happened, how will people be able to say, "There is peace and security" before the immanent coming of Jesus? How could Jesus say it'll be like the days of Noah, since only Noah was building for the flood and nobody else cared, since nothing was happening? (I Thes 5:3, Mt 24:37-39) Isn't it a contradiction to say you can know when the time is near, but that you do not know when the master will return? (Mt 24:42-50) And doesn't this also contradict the severity of the tribulation? How can people be carrying on with their lives as normal if it's the end of the world? Or how could the merchants get rich off Babylon and enjoy their wealth? (Mk 13:28-29, 32-37, Rv 18)
Mt 24:17-18 Is Jesus literally serious? (running from the Abomination of Desolation without packing) (Gn 19:17, 26) (Lot’s wife turns back)
Why did Jesus say that "t/his" generation wouldn’t pass away until all had been fulfilled, when it obviously hadn’t? How could he say this when he said that he didn’t know the day or hour of his coming? (Mt 24:34, 36)
Why doesn't Jesus just stay in heaven and call us up to where he is? The air is a bad meeting place. One of us has to go to the other. (I Thes 4:16-17)
Why did Jesus direct his message to the angels of the churches? Is it their fault if their churches are screwed up (or doing well for that matter)? (Rv 2:1)
What are the ten days of tribulation for those in Smyrna? (Rv 2:10)
What will be Jesus’ new name? (Rv 3:12)
Who are the 24 elders? (Rv 4:10)
Why would the saints not be protected (sealed) until before the opening of the 7th seal (the 7th judgment)? (Rv 7:3-8, 8:11, 5)
Why is Dan excluded altogether? (Rv 7:5-8)
Why would there be silence in heaven for ½ an hour? (Rv 8:1)
Why's the sky still there if it vanished like a scroll that is rolled up? (Rv 6:14, 8:12)
Why women's hair? (Rv 9:8)
What do these 4 angels have to do with the army of 200 million? (Rv 9:15-16)
Who or what are the 7 thunders? (Rv 10:3-4)
What is this temple? Why are the heathen there in the outer court? If they are allowed at all there, why only the outer court? (Rv 11:1-2)
Why should Satan have 7 heads and crowns, which is God's number? (Rv 12:3)
I don't get it. Short time to do what? I thought all things had been made Christ's. (Rv 12:12, 10, 11:15-18)
Why does the dragon stand on the sand of the sea? (Rv 12:17)
Why does one beast come from the sea and one from the earth? (Rv 13:11, 1)
Rv 14:20 Why such a specific number?
What’s the significance of nobody being able to enter the temple of God until the seven bowl judgments are finished? (Rv 15:8)
What’s the significance of the parallel between the trumpet and bowl judgments? (Rv 8:2, 6-9:19, 11:15-19, 15:1, chp 16)
Why are the spirits frogs? (Rv 16:13-14)
Why is the name written on the forehead of the whore of Babylon called a mystery? (Rv 17:5)
What is this hour during which the ten kings rule with the antichrist? (Rv 17:12)
How can the tree of life be on both banks of the river? (Rv 22:2)
The book of Ezekiel talks about a temple. What’s that all about? (Ezk 40-48)
Why would there be different sacrifices (procedures) for the Passover and Feast of Booths in Ezekiel from what was mandated in Numbers? (Ezk 45:21-25, Nm 28:17-25, 29:12-38)
Why would the Passover be eaten in the kingdom of God? (Lk 22:15-16)
What does it matter that Jesus will never drink of the fruit of the vine again until the coming of God’s kingdom? (Mt 26:29)
*all in all - Eph 1:10, 4:6
*all will glorify God - I Pt 2:12
*the Second Coming & the First Resurrection/rapture - Dn 9:21-22, Mal 3:1,2, Col 3:4, II Thes 2:8, Rv 12:10, 12, 14:15, 16:14-16, 20:8-9
*New Heavens & Earth in the OT - Is 65:17-25, Jer 33:18
*we are in the last times - I Pt 1:20
*hastening the Day of the Lord - II Pt 3:12
*we will suffer through the Tribulation - Is 26:20, Mk 13:20
What does it mean “that he might fill all things”? (Eph 4:10)
What is the nature of this subjection of everything to Jesus? (Phil 3:21) What exactly does it mean “God will be all in all”? (I Cor 15:28) Eph 1:7-10 First, what is the mystery of his will? Second, what is this union to God of all things, things in heaven and things on earth?
Why will even knowledge pass away? (I Cor 13:8)
Jn 9:4 What's this night that's coming?
Why does the bible say “perhaps you may be hidden”? God knows what he will and will not do. (Zeph 2:3)
Big problem. On one hand you have the new heavens and new earth, also the new Jerusalem (Is 65:17, 18-20, 22-23), but then why is there death, sin and reproduction? Also how can there not be crying (v 19) if there's still death and sin (v 20)? This (Jewish) new heavens, earth and Jerusalem is quite different from the Christian one, which has none of these things (Rv 21:1-4, Mt 22:30). Furthermore, both the OT and NT say that there will no longer be any sun or moon (Is 60:19-20, Rv 21:23), but in Is 66:22-23 it says there will be new moons and sabbaths. However, in the end, there must be some consensus between Jewish and Christian eschatology, since they both believe in the resurrection of the dead (so though the above OT passage referencing the new heavens and new earth mentions death, there must still be some ultimate resurrection). (Is 26:19, Dn 12:2)
Why should there be any poor and meek during this one's reign? (Is 11:4) Then will there still be inequality, both of wealth and power?
What’s the difference between a season and a time? (Dn 7:12)
What comes at the 1,335th day? (Dn 12:12) What happens at the end of the 1,290 days?
Wasn’t Jesus contradicting himself when he said that we could know the time of his coming just as we know that summer will soon be here by the appearance of the fig tree, and when he said that he would come as a thief in the night? (Mt 24:32-33, Rv 16:15)
If after all these terrible things have happened, how will people be able to say, "There is peace and security" before the immanent coming of Jesus? How could Jesus say it'll be like the days of Noah, since only Noah was building for the flood and nobody else cared, since nothing was happening? (I Thes 5:3, Mt 24:37-39) Isn't it a contradiction to say you can know when the time is near, but that you do not know when the master will return? (Mt 24:42-50) And doesn't this also contradict the severity of the tribulation? How can people be carrying on with their lives as normal if it's the end of the world? Or how could the merchants get rich off Babylon and enjoy their wealth? (Mk 13:28-29, 32-37, Rv 18)
Mt 24:17-18 Is Jesus literally serious? (running from the Abomination of Desolation without packing) (Gn 19:17, 26) (Lot’s wife turns back)
Why did Jesus say that "t/his" generation wouldn’t pass away until all had been fulfilled, when it obviously hadn’t? How could he say this when he said that he didn’t know the day or hour of his coming? (Mt 24:34, 36)
Why doesn't Jesus just stay in heaven and call us up to where he is? The air is a bad meeting place. One of us has to go to the other. (I Thes 4:16-17)
Why did Jesus direct his message to the angels of the churches? Is it their fault if their churches are screwed up (or doing well for that matter)? (Rv 2:1)
What are the ten days of tribulation for those in Smyrna? (Rv 2:10)
What will be Jesus’ new name? (Rv 3:12)
Who are the 24 elders? (Rv 4:10)
Why would the saints not be protected (sealed) until before the opening of the 7th seal (the 7th judgment)? (Rv 7:3-8, 8:11, 5)
Why is Dan excluded altogether? (Rv 7:5-8)
Why would there be silence in heaven for ½ an hour? (Rv 8:1)
Why's the sky still there if it vanished like a scroll that is rolled up? (Rv 6:14, 8:12)
Why women's hair? (Rv 9:8)
What do these 4 angels have to do with the army of 200 million? (Rv 9:15-16)
Who or what are the 7 thunders? (Rv 10:3-4)
What is this temple? Why are the heathen there in the outer court? If they are allowed at all there, why only the outer court? (Rv 11:1-2)
Why should Satan have 7 heads and crowns, which is God's number? (Rv 12:3)
I don't get it. Short time to do what? I thought all things had been made Christ's. (Rv 12:12, 10, 11:15-18)
Why does the dragon stand on the sand of the sea? (Rv 12:17)
Why does one beast come from the sea and one from the earth? (Rv 13:11, 1)
Rv 14:20 Why such a specific number?
What’s the significance of nobody being able to enter the temple of God until the seven bowl judgments are finished? (Rv 15:8)
What’s the significance of the parallel between the trumpet and bowl judgments? (Rv 8:2, 6-9:19, 11:15-19, 15:1, chp 16)
Why are the spirits frogs? (Rv 16:13-14)
Why is the name written on the forehead of the whore of Babylon called a mystery? (Rv 17:5)
What is this hour during which the ten kings rule with the antichrist? (Rv 17:12)
How can the tree of life be on both banks of the river? (Rv 22:2)
The book of Ezekiel talks about a temple. What’s that all about? (Ezk 40-48)
Why would there be different sacrifices (procedures) for the Passover and Feast of Booths in Ezekiel from what was mandated in Numbers? (Ezk 45:21-25, Nm 28:17-25, 29:12-38)
Why would the Passover be eaten in the kingdom of God? (Lk 22:15-16)
What does it matter that Jesus will never drink of the fruit of the vine again until the coming of God’s kingdom? (Mt 26:29)
