1. Jesus Today and Tomorrow © John Stevenson, 2011

2. What is Jesus doing today?

3. What did Jesus say He would do in the future?

4. Luke 17:22 And He said to the disciples, “The days will come when you will long to see one of the days of the Son of Man, and you will not see it.”

5. Luke 17:22 “They will say to you, ‘Look there! Look here!’ Do not go away, and do not run after them. 24 For just like the lightning, when it flashes out of one part of the sky, shines to the other part of the sky, so will the Son of Man be in His day. 25 But first He must suffer many things and be rejected by this generation.

6. Matthew 24:29 But immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken.

7. Matthew 24:30-31 And then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the sky, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming of the clouds of the sky with power and great glory. 31 And He will send forth His angels with a great trumpet and they will gather together His elect from the four winds, from one end of the sky to the other.

8. Church Age Rev. 1-3Rev. 4-19Rev. 20 “Rapture” Tribulation Millennium Eternal State Second Coming Judgment Artificially separates between different comings of ChristArtificially separates between different comings of Christ Tries to segregate Israel and churchTries to segregate Israel and church

9. Church Age Eternal State Revelation 20 literallyRevelation 20 literally Takes the language of “the last day” figurativelyTakes the language of “the last day” figuratively Rev. 1-3Rev. 4-19Rev. 20 Tribulation Millennium Second Coming (“Rapture”) Judgment

10. Church Age Rev. 1-20 (Millennium) Eternal State (Tribulation) Views Revelation 20 as symbolic languageViews Revelation 20 as symbolic language Takes the language of “the last day” literallyTakes the language of “the last day” literally Second Coming Judgment “Rapture”

11. Church Age Rev. 1-19Rev. 20 Millennium Eternal State “Rapture” Judgment Second Coming Envisions the gospel as being victoriousEnvisions the gospel as being victorious Takes the language of “the last day” literallyTakes the language of “the last day” literally

12. Short Millennium “Rapture” Judgment Second Coming Church (Eternal State) 70 A.D. Denies any future Second Coming of ChristDenies any future Second Coming of Christ All prophecy fulfilled in the year 70 A.D.All prophecy fulfilled in the year 70 A.D. Rev.

14. “Rapture” For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven... (1 Thess. 4:16). Second Coming They will see the Son of man coming... (Matthew 24:30). With the trumpet of God...(1 Thessalonians 4:16). He will send forth His angels with a great trumpet (Matt. 24:31). We... shall be caught up together with them in CLOUDS (1 Thessalonians 4:17). They will see the Son of Man coming on the CLOUDS of the sky... (Matthew 24:30).

15. “Rapture”Second Coming...if you will not wake up, I will come like a thief (Revelations 3:3). The Son of Man is coming at an hour when you do not think He will (Matthew 24:44; see also 1 Thessalonians 5:2-6 and 2 Peter 3:10)....the coming of our Lord Jesus WITH all His saints (1 Thessalonians 3:13)....the Lord came WITH many thousands of His holy ones (Jude 14).

16. How should we live in the light of Jesus’ future work?