Prooftexts - Eschatology

Question 1

ESCHATOLOGY

Answer 1

PHYSICAL DEATH
> As punishment for sin
> Believers victorious over death

INTERMEDIATE STATE
> Believers with Christ immediately after death
> Unbelievers continue to exist after death

SIGNS PRECEDING SECOND COMING OF CHRIST
> Calling of Gentiles
> Revelation of Antichrist

SECOND COMING ITSELF
> Will be a physical coming
> Will be a sudden coming

RESURRECTION
> Resurrection of believers & unbelievers
> Of the body

FINAL JUDGEMENT
> Christ as judge
> Eternal reward and punishment

THE NEW EARTH

Question 2

Physical Death

Answer 2

> As punishment for sin (Rom 5:12; 6:23)

> Believers victorious over death (John 11:26; 1 Cor 15:55-57)

Question 3

Physical death - As punishment

Answer 3

Rom 5:12 Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned—

Rom 6:23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord

Question 4

Physical death - Believers are victorious over death

Answer 4

John 11:26 - and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?

1 Cor 15:55-57 - O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?” The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the
law. But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

Question 5

Intermediate State

Answer 5

> Believers with Christ immediately after death (Luke 23:43; Phil 1:23)

> Unbelievers continue to exist after death (Rev 14:11)

Question 6

Intermediate State - Believers with Christ immediately after death

Answer 6

Luke 23:43 - And he said to him, “Truly, I say to you, today you will be with me in paradise.”

Philippians 1:23 -I am hard pressed between the two. My desire is to depart and be with Christ, for that is far better.

Question 7

Intermediate State - Unbelievers continue to exist after death

Answer 7

Revelation 14:11 - And the smoke of their torment goes up forever and ever, and they have no rest, day or night, these worshipers of the beast and its image, and whoever receives the mark of its name.”

Question 8

Signs preceding second coming of Christ

Answer 8

> Calling of Gentiles (Matt 24:14)

> Revelation of Antichrist (2 Thess 2:3; 1 John 2:18)

Question 9

Signs preceding second coming of Christ - Calling of Gentiles

Answer 9

Matt 24:14 - And this gospel of the kingdom will be proclaimed throughout the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.

Question 10

Signs preceding second coming of Christ - Revelation of Antichrist

Answer 10

2 Thess 2:3 - Let no one deceive you in any way. For that day will not come, unless the rebellion comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction

1 John 2:18 - Children, it is the last hour, and as you have heard that antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists have come. Therefore we know that it is the last hour.

Question 11

Second coming itself

Answer 11

> Will be a physical coming (Acts 1:11; Rev 1:7)

> Will be a sudden coming (1 Thess 5:2)

Question 12

Second coming itself - Will be a physical coming

Answer 12

Acts 1:11 - and said, “Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into heaven? This Jesus, who was taken up from you into heaven, will come in the same way as you saw him go into heaven.

Rev 1:7 - Behold, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, even those who pierced him, and all tribes of the earth will
wail on account of him. Even so. Amen.

Question 13

Second coming itself - Will be a sudden coming

Answer 13

1 Thess 5:2 - For you yourselves are aware that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.

Question 14

Resurrection

Answer 14

> Resurrection of believers and unbelievers (Dan 12:2; John 5:28-29)
Of the body (Job 19:26; 1 Cor 15:44)

Question 15

Resurrection - of believers and unbelievers

Answer 15

Dan 12:2 - And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.

John 5:28-29 - Do not marvel at this, for an hour is coming when all who are in the tombs will hear his voice and come out, those who have done good to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil to the resurrection of judgment.

Question 16

Resurrection - of the body

Answer 16

Job 19:26 - And after my skin has been thus destroyed, yet in my flesh I shall see God.

1 Cor 15:44 - It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body.

Question 17

Final Judgement

Answer 17

> Christ as Judge (John 5:22; 2 Cor 5:10)

> Eternal reward and punishment (Matt 25:46; 2 Thess 1:9)

Question 18

Final Judgement - Christ as judge

Answer 18

John 5:22 - For the Father judges no one, but has given all judgment to the Son,

2 Cor 5:10 - For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive what is due for what he has done in the body, whether good or evil.

Question 19

Final Judgement - Eternal reward and punishment

Answer 19

Matt 25:46 - And these will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.

2 Thess 1:9 - They will suffer the punishment of eternal destruction, away from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might,

Question 20

The new earth

Answer 20

2 Pet 3:10 - But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then the heavens will pass away with a roar, and the heavenly bodies will be burned up and dissolved, and the earth and the works that are done on it will be exposed.

2 Pet 3:13 - But according to his promise we are waiting for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells.

Rev 21:1 - Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more.