Various Theories Regarding the End Times

Historic Premillennialism Anti-Christ appearsSecond Coming Rapture Millennium Judgment Eternity Tribulation (seven years) Abomination that causes Desolation

Anti-Christ appears Second Coming Rapture Tribulation (seven years) Millennium Judgment Eternity Dispensational Premillennialism Pre-Tribulation Abomination that causes Desolation

Anti-Christ appears Second Coming Tribulation (seven years) Millennium Judgment Eternity Dispensational Premillennialism Post-Tribulation Abomination that causes Desolation Rapture

Anti-Christ appears Second Coming Rapture Tribulation (3 ½ years) Millennium Judgment Eternity Dispensational Premillennialism Mid-Tribulation Abomination that causes Desolation Great Tribulation (3 ½ years)

Anti-Christ appears Second Coming Tribulation (seven years) Millennium Judgment Eternity Dispensational Premillennialism Pre-Wrath Abomination that causes Desolation Wrath of SatanWrath of God Rapture

Anti-Christ appears Second Coming Rapture of believers Tribulation (seven years) Millennium Judgment Eternity Dispensational Premillennialism Partial Rapture Abomination that causes Desolation Rapture of new believers ?

Second Coming Rapture Millennium Judgment Eternity Postmillennialism Gradual move towards social perfection through revival, awakenings, education, etc. Branches are Spiritualistic (Holy Spirit given credit) and Humanistic (We achieve this perfection ourselves)

Second Coming Rapture Millennium / Church Age / Kingdom of God (Presence of Bible, Holy Spirit, and Church) Judgment Eternity Amillennialism Events of Matthew 24 and Revelation have already happened or are figurative/symbolic.

“And he ordered us to preach everywhere and to testify that Jesus is ordained of God to be the judge of all—the living and the dead.” Acts 10:42 (NLT)

Three Facts about the Judgment

The Judgment will be Fair

“The LORD doesn't make decisions the way you do! People judge by outward appearance, but the LORD looks at a person's thoughts and intentions.” 1 Samuel 16:7 (NLT)

For all have sinned; all fall short of God's glorious standard. Romans 3:23 (NLT)

“And he ordered us to preach everywhere and to testify that Jesus is ordained of God to be the judge of all—the living and the dead. He is the one all the prophets testified about, saying that everyone who believes in him will have their sins forgiven through his name.” Acts 10:42-43 (NLT)

The Judgment will be Fair

The Judgment will be Full

For everything that is hidden or secret will eventually be brought to light and made plain to all. Luke 8:17 (NLT)

For the word of God is full of living power. It is sharper than the sharpest knife, cutting deep into our innermost thoughts and desires. It exposes us for what we really are. Nothing in all creation can hide from him. Everything is naked and Hebrews 4:12-13 (NLT)

exposed before his eyes. This is the God to whom we must explain all that we have done. Hebrews 4:12-13 (NLT)

“Whether the achievement of a man’s life is great or small, significant or insignificant, he will one day stand before his eternal judge, and everything that he has done and performed will be no more than a mole hill, and then he will Karl Barth

have nothing better to do than hope for something he has not earned: not for a crown, but quite simply for gracious judgment which he has not deserved. That is the only thing that will count then, achievement or not.” Karl Barth

The Judgment will be Final

And just as it is destined that each person dies only once and after that comes judgment, so also Christ died only once as a sacrifice to take away the sins of many people. He will Hebrews 9:27-28 (NLT)

come again but not to deal with our sins again. This time he will bring salvation to all those who are eagerly waiting for him. Hebrews 9:27-28 (NLT)

The Judgment will be Final