If you read back in the Bible, the letter of the apostle Paul to the church of Thessalonia, he said that in the latter days before the end of the age that the Earth would be caught up in what he called the birth pangs of a new order.
Christians will not be here to experience the great tribulation under the Antichrist.
All Christian language about the future is a set of signposts pointing into a mist.
Well, what was called the blessed hope of the Bible is that one day Jesus Christ would come back again, start a whole new era, that this world order that we know it would change into something that would be wonderful that we'd call the millennium.
Even though it has been nearly 2,000 years since Christ's first coming, His second coming is certain.
[To Timothy LaHaye:] So, Mr. LaHaye, when the Rapture happens, can I have your stuff?
To me it seems as plain as can be that the Bible declares that all the wicked will God destroy; again, that those who, during the Millennial age when brought to a knowledge of the truth, shall prove willful sinners will be punished with everlasting destruction.
Nothing is more prominently brought forward in the New Testament than the second coming of the Lord Jesus Christ.
The book of Revelation says that we no longer need the sun or the moon, for Christ is the light of the world.
We are very near the final climactic events that end with the Second Coming of Christ.
Every day that goes by puts us closer to the day when Christ will return.
The end of all things is at hand; that Satan's kingdom will be destroyed, and Satan chained down for a thousand years, and Christ's kingdom established upon earth.
The Book of Revelation is such a dream landscape that you can plug any major conflict in it.
If we have to sum up the Book of Revelation in one phrase, it would be, 'Jesus wins.'
For the first time ever, everything is in place for the Battle of Armageddon and the Second Coming of Christ.
We do not know the precise time of the Second Coming of the Savior, but we do know that we are living in the latter days and are closer to the Second Coming than when the Savior lived his mortal life in the meridian of time.
The Lord Jesus will be revealed mightily, and will make bare his holy Arm, as well in the confusion of Antichrist, as in the conversion of the Jews, before the last judgment, and the end of all things.
