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Importance of 1 Thessalonians?
It contains Scripture’s most important and extended passage on the Rapture.
What three passages promise that we will escape the wrath to come?
1 Thess. 1:9-10 ♦1 Thess. 5:9 ♦Romans 5:9
This passage speaks of the implications concerning a Pre-trib Rapture:
1 Thess 1:10♦At the Rapture, Christ will Rescue from wrath. - “Even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come.”♦This “wrath to come” speaks specifically about the coming 7 year period commonly known as the Great Tribulation.
What is the meaning of the word, “prevent”?
Go before or precede
What is the meaning of the word, rapture?
Caught up
Recite Galatians 2:21
I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.
7 Things from 1 Thessalonians 4 that are God’s Will For Us:
♦Live in sexual purity♦♦Do not defraud others (cheat or take advantage of another) ♦♦Do not despise others - To despise Man is to despise God♦♦Love the brethren♦♦Do not talk too much♦♦Stay out of other people’s business.♦♦Supply our own needs by honest work.
How can we live in sexual purity?
♦By controlling our bodies♦♦By controlling our desires♦We accomplish this by the second step in God’s Will from 1 Thessalonians 4
We may defraud someone sexually by …
stirring desires which cannot be righteously fulfilled - by seductively clothing, words, or actions.
We are not to sit on a hill awaiting …
Christ’s return. We are to be busy serving the Master and providing for our families and the Lord’s work
How does the doctrine of Christ’s Imminent Return affect the Rapture?
If Christ were not to Rapture the saints until the middle or the end of the 7 year Tribulation then His coming would not be imminent (any moment).
Subtitle of 2 Thessalonians?
The Coming of Christ and Anti-Christ
Author of 2 Thessalonians?
The Apostle Paul
Background and Occasion of Writing of 2 Thessalonians:♦Paul wrote 1 Thessalonians to straighten the Thessalonians out on the __________.
Rapture
Background and Occasion of Writing of 2 Thessalonians:♦Paul wrote 2 Thessalonians to straighten the Thessalonians out on the __________.
2nd Coming
Word hadn’t reached Paul that the Thessalonians were experiencing these three problems.
♦They were continuing to suffer persecution.♦♦They were being Misled into believing that they were now enduring the Tribulation and had somehow missed out on the Rapture. A false letter, purportedly from Paul, claimed that the Day of the Lord had begun.♦♦They were becoming idle because they believed Christ would return at any moment and they were simply waiting until He arrived.
Content of 2 Thessalonians: ♦2 Thessalonians…
Encourages Suffering Saints. Explains the day of the Lord and Exhorts Sinning Saints
Content of 2 Thessalonians:♦Warren Wiersbe writes
The purpose of Bible Prophecy is not for us to make a calendar, but to build character. Paul emphasized this fact in both of this Thessalonians letters…Someone had deceived the believers into thinking they were already living in the Day of the Lord (the Tribulations). The teaching probably first came through a prophetic utterance…and then…by a letter claiming to come from Paul himself…To calm their hearts and stabilize their faith, Paul explained himself…To calm their hears and stabilize their faith, Paul explained that they were not in the Day of the Lord….that day could not arrive till certain other events had taken place. Paul then stated for them the prophetic events that make up God’s time table.
Content of 2 Thessalonians: ♦J. Vernon McGee writes
There was circulating in the Thessalonian church a letter or report, purported to have come from Paul…This false report claimed that Christ had already come…These people were being persecuted…they were suffering…it was easy for them to believe that they had entered the Great Tribulation…
Key Word of 2 Thessalonians?
The Day of Christ
Theme of 2 Thessalonians?
A Proper Understanding of the Day of Christ
Date and Place of Writing of 2 Thessalonians?
AD 51. It was written a few months after 1 Thessalonians from the city of Corinth.
Importance of 2 Thessalonians?
♦It contains one of the New Testament’s 2 most extended and important descriptions of the Anti-Christ♦♦It contains one of the most important pre-tribulational Rapture passages in Scripture.
In the Rapture Christ comes in the AIR while in the Second Coming Christ comes …
to the ground
In the Rapture Jesus comes FOR His Saints while in the Second Coming Jesus comes …
WITH His Saints
The Rapture is a Mystery (unrevealed in the Old Testament) while the Second Coming is …
revealed throughout the Old Testament
The Rapture has no signs in Heaven while the Second Coming
has signs in Heaven
The Rapture is a BLESSING of Rescue for the Saints while the Second Coming is …
JUDGMENT on the Lost
The Rapture occurs Instantly and thus INVISIBLY while the Second Coming is …
VISIBLE Worldwide
The Rapture involve the CHURCH while the Second Coming involves …
Israel
The Rapture occurs BEFORE the Tribulation while the Second Coming occurs …
AFTER the Tribulation
What two events must precede the Tribulation?
A falling away/departure and the revealing of the Antichrist.
What must precede the revealing of the Antichrist?
The removal of the Restrainer (the Holy Spirit) and therefore also the removal of believers at the Rapture.
The Antichrist must be revealed before the …
Tribulation
Since believers must be removed before the Antichrist is revealed, then believers must be …
removed before the Tribulation
The Revelation of the Antichrist is
the starting point of the Tribulation
What three events must occur before the Tribulation can begin?
- “Falling Away” or literally a “Departure”♦2. The Revelation of the Antichrist ♦3. The Removal of the Restrainer
The 7 year clock of the Tribulation officially begins with the …
signing or confirming of a Peace Treaty between Israel and the Antichrist. It is at this point, not before, that he is revealed and can first be identified
If the Antichrist has not been revealed then …
You are not in the Tribulation
Who is the Restrainer of evil in this world today?
The Holy Spirit
The Spirit of God cannot be removed until believers are …
taken out at the Rapture because He is joined to them eternally.
The Holy Spirit will still be present on Earth during the Tribulation …
as His omnipresence and the fact that individuals are saved during the Tribulation both demand
At the Rapture, the Holy Spirits restraining influence on evil will be …
removed. God will allow the spirit of lawlessness to rule. Evil will flourish like never before.
The Holy Spirit will leave at the Rapture in the same sense that He …
came at Pentecost. He will simply return to His pre-Pentecost Old Testament roles and ministries.
What is the meaning of the Old English word, “let/letteth” in 2 Thess?
To restrain or hold back
What passage is the Restrainer and the Antichrist on?
2 Thessalonians 2
Subtitle of Romans?
The Righteousness of God
Author of Romans?
The Apostle Paul
Recipients & Occasion of Writing of Romans?
Having heard of a growing body of believers with no Apostolic leadership in the capital of the Roman empire, Paul desired to visit this influential city to instruct this new Church in the foundational truths of the Christian faith. Unable to visit them as planned, Paul sends this epistle for the purpose of grounding them in the faith until he can make an actual visit to Rome.
Content of Romans?
It is the most complete and systematic presentation of God’s plan of salvation for sinners, sanctification for saints, and sovereignty over Israel in all of Scripture.
Willmington has called the book of Romans …
The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights of the Christian faith…The Fort Knox of Bible Doctrine! Basic Theology in its purest form! The most profound discussion about the most profound subjects in all of Scripture - God’s plan and purpose for saving sinners.
Martin Luther called Romans …
The true masterpiece of the New Testament and the very purest gospel, which is well worth and deserving that a Christian man should not only learn it by heart, word for word, but also that he should daily deal with it as the daily bread of men’s souls. It can never be too much or too well read or studied, and the more it is handled, the more precious it becomes, and the better it tastes.
Galatians 5:22-23
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.
1 Thess. 4:16-17
For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
Romans 10:9-10
That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
Romans 10:13
For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.
Romans Road
Romans 3:23♦Romans 6:23♦Romans 10:9-10♦Romans 10:13
Romans 4:5
But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.
Romans 5:12
Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:
Romans 11:16
For if the firstfruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root be holy, so are the branches.
Romans 12:1-2
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
Subtitle of Psalms is…
The Hymn Book of Israel
Main Content of Psalms: ♦What are the Psalms for the nation of Israel?
The hymn book, the worship and devotional guide
Main Content of Psalms: ♦The English title, “Psalms”, refers to…?
songs of praise or “music” accompanied by stringed instruments
What is the Hebrew title of Psalms?
Book of Praises
Main Content of Psalms: ♦The Psalms are the inspired responses of..?
human hearts to God’s revelation of Himself
Main Content of Psalms: ♦The Psalms record deep devotion, intense feeling, exalted emotion, and dark dejection… It is the ______ book which contains every experience of a __________ ________. The Psalms run the psychological gamut. Every thought, every impulse, every emotion that sweeps over the soul is recorded in this book.
only ; human being
Theme of the book of Psalms
The adoration of Israel
What is the key word of Psalms?
Praise
The Great Psalm of the Sufferings of Christ
Psalm 22
The Great Psalm of the Lord my Shepherd
Psalm 23
The Great Psalm of David’s Repentance
Psalm 51
The Great Psalm of Universal Millennial Kingdom Praise
Psalm 100
The Great Psalm of Praise to the Word of God
Psalm 119
The Great Psalm of Praise
Psalm 150
The authorship of Psalms?
The Majority of the Psalms were written by David.
Who is believed to have complied the Psalms into their final order?
Ezra the Scribe
Date and Chronology of Psalms:♦Although most of the Psalms were written during the ______________ _____________, they span a total time period of ________ years, from the __________ (YEAR?) to the _______________ (YEAR?).
United/Single Kingdom ; 1,000 years ; Exodus (1450 BC) ; Restoration/Return (450 BC)
The book of Psalms pictures…?
Worship in the Christian Life
Importance & Distinctives in the book of Psalms: ♦Psalms is the most ___________ Old Testament book, being filled with prophecies of the King and His Kingdom.
Messianic
Importance & Distinctives in the book of Psalms: ♦The book of Psalms is _________ more in the New Testament than all the other Old Testament books combined.
quoted
Who were the other authors of the book of Psalms?
Korah, Asaph, Heman, Ethan, Solomon, Moses, King Hezekiah and some are anonymous
David
Author of at least 77 books of Psalms, including the Shepherd Psalms, The Sinner Psalms, The Suffering Psalms, and the Satisfied Psalms.
Korah
Author of some Psalms. The “sons of Korah” were Levite decedents of Kohath through Korah who served in the Temple as Musicians.
Asaph
Author of some Psalms. Levitical Choirmaster appointed by King David was of the Sons of Gershom, one of the three families of non-priestly Levites who served in the Tabernacle. At the time of David, these Levites were organized for the Musical worship of God in the Temple.
Herman
Author of some Psalms. A leading Levitical Singer of the family of Kohath & Korah.
Ethan
Author of some Psalms. This Counselor of Solomon was a Levite of the Sons if Merrari.
Solomon
Author of some Psalms.
Moses
Author of some Psalms.
King Hezekiah
Author of some Psalms. This godly 13th King of the Southern Kingdom of Judah repaired the Temple, organized an orchestra, and re organized the Levitical Singers. He authored 10 Psalms and added a total of 15 to the Book. He also helped prepare the book of Proverbs.
What are Penitential Psalms?
Psalms that are confessional hymns of repentance over sin
What are the two best known Penitential Psalms and what do each of those describe?
Psalm 32 describes David’s awful feelings before confessing and repenting of his sin with Bathsheba.♦Psalm 51 describes David’s confession and the emotions he experienced during it.
What are Imprecatory Psalms?
Prayers of Judgment upon the enemies of God
The Degree or Ascent Psalms: ♦The possible authorship of these 10 books of Psalms?♦Ps 120-121, 123, 125-126, 128-130, and 132.
Hezekiah
The Degree or Ascent Psalms: ♦What is the context?
It is believed that most were written and all 15 were probably complied by king Hezekiah, of Judah after God spared and added 15 years to his life. One Psalm is included for each year.
The Degree or Ascent Psalms: ♦How were they sung?
They were sung at various stages of the three annual pilgrimages to Jerusalem. This is the most widely held view.
What is an Acrostic Psalm?
When each line begins with a successive letter of the Hebrew Alphabet and is also called Alphabetic Psalms.
Four facts about Psalm 119
♦The longest “chapter” of the Word of God♦♦The Center “chapter” of the Word of God♦♦Every verse exalts the Word of God (2 possible exceptions)♦♦8 successive verses start with each of the 22 letters of the Hebrew alphabet for a total of 176 verses.
What are some Prophetic Messianic Themes in the Psalms?
♦Christ’s Obedience♦♦Christ’s Zeal♦♦Christ’s Rejection - His Mockers at the Cross♦♦Christ’s Betrayal♦♦Christ’s Sufferings♦♦Christ’s False Witnesses♦♦Christ’s Prayer for His Enemies♦♦Christ’s Resurrection♦♦Christ’s Ascension♦♦Christ’s Triumphant Entry into Heaven♦♦Christ’s Eternal Sonship and Reign
In the Messianic Psalms, what does it say about Christ’s Sufferings?
- His Trial & False Accusers♦- His Scourging♦- His Torturers♦- His Crucifixion & the Wounds in His hands, feet, and side♦- His Bones wrenched out of joint♦- His Garments parted and gambled for♦- His thirst♦- His bones not broken