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BIBLICAL ESCATOLOGĂ?A
BY A ESCATOLOGĂ?A IT COMPLETES
STUDY OF THE DOCTRINES OF THE PROPHETIC EVENTS OF THE END OF THE WORLD
 © By Carlos Padilla, January 2010
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The Biblical escatologĂa is the branch of the theology dedicated to the study of the doctrine of the last prophecies that will happen in reference to the end of the world in the plan of God, as much at personal level as general of all the humanity. EscatologĂa comes from Greek “the Ă©skhatosâ€? last and “treated logoâ€? (or verb, alive word, intelligence or education). For the Christianity, the Biblical escatologĂa could be translated like “education (of the Gentleman) on the latestâ€?. Juan 1:1 describes to Jesus like the Logo or Verb to us of God. Mr. speaks us to Jesus Christ of continuous of escatologĂa, is more, the same Gospel is pure escatologĂa, because he presents/displays a prophecy to us, the major of the prophecies that the man has been able to never hear, who God calls to Its eternal Kingdom through our individual salvation by the faith in the work of Its Son Jesus Christ in the Cross of the GĂłlgota, events that were prophesied by different prophets from the Bible at different previous times and that are been fulfilled agreed to the plan of God.
The same heart of the escatologĂa is the call “ParusĂaâ€? or second coming of Jesus Christ in glory like King of kings at the end of the prophesied times, next to the resurrection and ecstasy, and the day of the judgment, that precede to the establishment of Their eternal Kingdom. In the same way that was fulfilled the prophecies on His first coming will be fulfilled, without doubt, the prophecies on the ParusĂa.
One really is the most important news never heard by the man, because a new universal Kingdom comes, a new creation, a new order of things where we will receive a new body to live in new skies and new earth, under the blessing of God, the eternal Paradise of peace and happiness of the love of God. This eschatological prophetic announcement is within reach of all those people who trust God and they love to Him. All that it loves God in spirit and truth, at any time receives a new heart prepared to be born again from the Spirit of God through gift of the faith in the redeeming work of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, by us, paying by our sins in the Cross, calling to us we enjoy that it Him, who will come at the end of the times to judge all the humanity of all time, to destroy malignant and its army and to establish the Kingdom of God.
The Kingdom of God is the perfect state of life in the presence of God, peacefully, in joy, glory, love of God, where all those that we loved God and the fellow we will be able to live by the eternity,… new Skies and new earth in which justice dwells… 2Pedro 3:13. If you still do not know the Gentleman you can read this first “Knows the Gentlemanâ€? and soon to return to the study of the escatologĂa.
This study, in addition, gives access at the end of the same to all the Prophetic Studies of eschatological nature, that will be easily understandable after reading this basic guide of study of the same. The exhibition of the different doctrines that teach to the different denominations from the Christianity in their churches and seminaries, will help the reading student of the Bible that is hungry of knowledge of God to include/understand better the spiritual depth of the Biblical escatologĂa. With considered oration and being them, he will be the Gentleman who will take to him to true prophetic education in the light of the own Word of God, under the direct education of the Teacher alive Jesus Christ, being inspired by the Spirit Santo, to whom we must entrust our spirit and our mind, if of sincere heart we looked for the Truth, which us will make free.
ESCHATOLOGICAL BIBLICAL TEXTS OF GREATER RELEVANCE
Isaiah 11 and 66, Daniel 7 and 9, Mateo 24, the speech of Monte of the Olive trees, the Parabola of the ewes and the cabritos, Romans 11:25, 1Tesalonicenses 4:17, 2Pedro 3 and Apocalypses.
12 ESCHATOLOGICAL PROPHECIES OF REFERENCE
I set out twelve prophecies including in the escatologĂa, that throughout the study, will serve to identify what they expose envelope them different eschatological schools, so that serves as datum point of consultation when finishing reading each of them.
1. - ApostasĂa, 2Tesalonicenses 2:3. Time end of the Gentile ones, Lucas 21:24.
2. - The fall of Babylon, Apocalypse 18. Jerusalem, Rome, the society.
3. - The judgment of God on the humanity, 7 seals, the 7 trompetas and the 7 glasses of wrath of Apocalypse.
4. - The antichrist and its dominion, 1Juan 2:18. Iniquitous or the 2Tesalonicenses man of sin 2. Construction of III the Temple of Jerusalem, Ezequiel 40. The devastating abomination, Mateo 24:15. The Great Tribulation, Mateo 24:21.
5. - The battle of ArmagedĂłn, Apocalypse 16:16. All the nations against Jerusalem and the Jewish town in Israel. Destruction of Damascus, Isaiah 17:1.
6. - The conversion from Israel to Jesus Christ, the MesĂas Yahshua or YeshĂşa, (Jewish Messianic) the 144,000 seals, Romans 11 and Apocalypses 7 and 14. Seeing that they are going to be annihilated, Israel when seeing that Jesus Christ comes gives in Its hands, that will save having destroyed the armies that come against them.
7. - The second coming of Jesus Christ in glory like King of kings, in clouds, and all eye will see him. Apocalypse 1:7.
8. - The resurrection of deads, right and unjust, and the ecstasy of the alive Christians in the coming of the Gentleman in the air. 1Tesaloniceneses 4:17.
9. - The 1000 years. A literal millenium will exist. The enemy is tied and the saints reign with Christ. Apocalypse 20.
10. - The final judgment. Apocalypse 20:11. What will argue the seated ones in the bench, accused by the public prosecutor, before the Judge? They will have a Lawyer.
11. - New skies and new earth. Where it is the eternity, in the sky or the new Earth. Isaiah 65:17 and Apocalypse 21:1.
12. - The new Jerusalem. There is no Temple in her. The establishment of the Kingdom of God. Apocalypse 21:9 and Apocalypse 22.
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ESCHATOLOGICAL LINES
The Biblical escatologĂa is studied from four doctrinal positions: Historicismo, Preterismo, Futurismo, and Idealismo, each with its shadings. Basically, these interpretative lines set out the fulfillment of the prophecies of the day end, or last time, either in different historical times, or of symbolic form.
The Church in history has gone, in its different denominations, adhering from one or the other interpretative concept, but the Christian must study them to learn the truth besides remaining in his congregation, if this one is Biblical, and studying these subjects in seminaries or with the old ones of his congregation. The possibility of interpreting the Biblical doctrines, and in this case having these four established lines of interpretation are, once again, reason for division between the Christianity, but it is necessary that the Christian knows the Word well God. Next we will see the development of the four eschatological lines.
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ESCATOLOGĂ?A HISTORICISTA
The historicismo interprets that the prophecies of the last times, especially Daniel and Apocalipsis, have been fulfilled to a large extent at the time of the Protestant Reformation, that papado with the antichrist identified, and to the Catholic church with Babylon, great ramera of Apocalypse 17 and 18, that killed to the saints under the Catholic InquisiciĂłn, which has been reflected in the confession of faith of Westminster. The facts, as all we know, are historical; that they are eschatological or is not what we must study.
The historicismo understands the last time like the period of the Church, from the first coming of Jesus Christ to the second coming, instead of at the end of the times only and the events are understood like fulfilled throughout the history of the Church, except for the second coming, the judgment and the Kingdom of God, that are understood like futures.
It is, in his origin, the vision of the reformers, Lutero and Calvino, those who it would follow Edwards, and almost all the protestant and puritana church of centuries XVI and XVII until century XIX when the concept of the dispensacionalismo or radical futurismo took root in the Protestantism, although its origin, as we see soon is of the inquisidor catholicism.
At the moment it is when it is included in his education that these events are been fulfilled throughout history, identifying them with the present historical events or pasts, the present governments or pasts, present or passed churches, and not only in the days of the millenium, approximately, that the hegemony of the church of Rome lasted on the kings of Europe, although as we saw before it also does not exclude future events. For example the seven churches of Apocalypse 2 and 3 talk about thus to the period of the Church in history.
The historicismo would see the list of 12 events of the following form:
1. - ApostasĂa. Time end of the Gentile ones.
Papado that has apostatado of the Biblical faith and the sanctity having given scandals throughout its history, changing the doctrines, the orders and the times of the celebrations of the Gentleman.
2. - The fall of Babylon.
It would be the event after 1260 years in which the papal hegemony falls after the French revolution in 1798, and stops having to be able politician on the kingdoms of the old empire, until the point of which the letter of the European Union no longer mentions to the Christianity as it bases historical.
3. - The judgment of God on the humanity, 7 seals, the 7 trompetas and the 7 glasses of wrath of Apocalypse.
The judgments of God on the humanity throughout the history of the Christianity and as the Gentleman has preserved the supernatural work of the Great Commission, the Gospel have survived in their progress until all the Earth borders, while the natural and human events have been plagues, extreme hungers, wars, earthquakes, floods, disasters of all type throughout history.
4. - The antichrist and its dominion. Iniquitous or the man of sin. Construction of III the Temple of Jerusalem. The devastating abomination. The Great Tribulation.
The historical panorama of the Catholic inquisiciĂłn, the antichrist is papado, the devastating abomination is its usurpation of the place of Christ like vicar and the Great Tribulation the bonfire which put under the Christian saints. III the temple can interpret it like the Vatican.
5. - The battle of ArmagedĂłn, all the nations against Jerusalem and the Jewish town in Israel. Destruction of Damascus.
The crossed ones, the war santa. At our time also two world wars can be considered and holocausto. The destruction of Damascus is future.
6. - The conversion from Israel to Jesus Christ, the MesĂas Yahshua or YeshĂşa, (Jewish Messianic) the 144,000 seals. Seeing that they are going to be annihilated, Israel when seeing that Jesus Christ comes gives in Its hands, that will save having destroyed the armies that come against them.
Sights like future events.
7. - The second coming of Jesus Christ in glory like King of kings, in clouds, and all eye will see him. Apocalypse 1:7.
In the same way seen like future events.
8. - The resurrection of deads, right and unjust, and the ecstasy of the alive Christians in the coming of the Gentleman in the air.
Sights like future events.
9. - The 1000 years.
The period of dominion of papado on the Earth kings.
The rest is seen like futures.
10. - The final judgment.
11. - New skies and new earth.
12. - The new Jerusalem. The establishment of the Kingdom of God.
The historicismo has been because a position that allows to see the fulfillment of the prophecies in the specific events, but for of progressive form and not of final form. The problem comes when we already identified fulfilled historical events and we left the future prophecies without final historical event.
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ESCATOLOGĂ?A PRETERISTA
The preterismo standard that all the 12 indicated eschatological prophecies at the outset were fulfilled already in the 70 d.C in the case of the extreme preterismo known also like pantelismo. The extreme preterismo does not leave future to Israel, that has yes it in the Bible (Roman 11), and cannot explain the return from Israel to the Earth Promised like event in 1948 that it is prophetic fulfillment of an undeniable historical fact that cannot refute. The millenium interprets like the period between the victory of Christ in the Cross and the destruction of Jerusalem in 70d.C. The resurrection or took place according to this interpretation, which is a serious error that or battled Pablo in 2Timoteo 2:17 - 19, showing to us in this case that or existed east concept of which the resurrection or took place.Â
The preterismo includes a vision of the book of Apocalypse in which chapters 1 to the 11 represent the punishment and diáspora of the Jews after the Christianity with the result of the destruction of Jerusalem in the 70 d.C. Chapters 12 to 19 represent the persecution of pagan Rome (great ramera) against the Christianity and the final triumph of this one turning the empire the Christianity; chapter 20 is seen like the last persecutions of the antichrist in the person of Nerón Cesar and the judgment exceeds he, and chapters 21 to the 22 represent the triumph of papado when restored being after the fall of the Roman Empire in the 476 d.C seen like the new Jerusalem.
It does not have to surprise to us that the origin of the preterista interpretation and its exhibition in the previous paragraph Luis de Alcazar comes from a priest called Jesuit, who in century presented/displayed it to XVII for his distribution with the intention to offer an interpretation of the eschatological events that he did not identify to papado and the catholicism with the antichrist and the Babylon that kills the true Christians, as contemporarily to him it happened with “santa inquisición�. It would not be this unique Jesuit to that they would order to spread a doctrine that turned aside the attention on the historical facts committed by this inquisidora church, and that the reformed Christians protestant had spread already by everybody, in the light of the Biblical prophecy. Everything a Catholic project to try that the Catholic church was not identified with the Babylon of Apocalypse, neither by its described aspect there nor by its facts traced like the back of her hand of its behavior during the Inquisición. The half-full Bible remained prohibited to the catholic until of century XX, so that “it was not interpreted freely�, but under the “guide� of “santa mother church�, that protects its children of the “heresy�.
Nowadays, part of the preterista school standard that Apocalypse was written before 70d.C to be able to make see that it especially prophesied the events of the 70, which at the moment has been discredited by the amount of documents shortages by archeology, rolls of Qumran, that credit their dating in the island of Patmos in 95d.C. Therefore, the extreme preterismo does not have Biblical support as far as date of writing, and is at the expense of the mere interpretation of a minority. But we have another argument more, because according to Ireneo (130-202 d.C) Juan wrote Apocalypse at the end of the reign of Domiciano (81-96 d.C.). Ireneo was disciple of Policarpo (70-155 d.C.) that was it directly of Juan.
The preterismo can be defended symbolically, what is called idealismo, in the sense that Jesus Christ either has overcome in the believer having done to us disciples, or has come in Its Kingdom and reigns in our lives, or has revived to us solely because we will not die and it has freed or us of the judgment when believing in Him. But it is necessary to have much taken care of with applying this interpretation of historical form, because the Bible is well clear insofar as we waited for the coming of the Kingdom of God,… comes Your Kingdom… Lucas 11:2, the second coming of Jesus Christ of visible form and new skies and new earth, which not yet has happened, neither the resurrection, nor the ecstasy, nor the pending and futurist battle of Armagedón, nor so many prophecies that the preteristas create fulfilled. It is obvious that the Kingdom of God exists and that God reigns mainly and in all time, but in the Earth the final events are pending of fulfillment.
The preterismo would see the list of 12 events of the following form:
1. - ApostasĂa. Time end of the Gentile ones.
Those first Christians who left the faith. Aim of the Temple and being trod by Romans.
2. - The fall of Babylon.
The fall of Jerusalem that had been prostituido with the pagan nations, like judgment not to receive to the MesĂas.
3. - The judgment of God on the humanity, 7 seals, the 7 trompetas and the 7 glasses of wrath of Apocalypse.
When Christ came and the events that happened until the fall of Jerusalem. The judgment that brought Christ to all believer in His first coming; somewhat idealistic rather. The judgment on Templo and Israel in the 70 d.C.
4. - The antichrist and its dominion. Iniquitous or the man of sin. Construction of III the Temple of Jerusalem. The devastating abomination. The Great Tribulation.
Roman stopping covers cases both, its entrance in the Temple was the devastating abomination and its persecution was the Great Tribulation.
5. - The battle of ArmagedĂłn, all the nations against Jerusalem and the Jewish town in Israel. Destruction of Damascus.
The armies of Rome invading Jerusalem. Damascus under being able of Rome.
6. - The conversion from Israel to Jesus Christ, the MesĂas Yahshua or YeshĂşa, (Jewish Messianic) the 144,000 seals.
The Jews that gave themselves to Christ before the destruction of Jerusalem.
7. - The second coming of Jesus Christ in glory like King of kings, in clouds, and all eye will see him. Apocalypse 1:7.
First the 70 coming already took place between his and d.C and “all eye it must have seen�.
8. - The resurrection of deads, right and unjust, and the ecstasy of the alive Christians in the coming of the Gentleman in the air.
Another event fulfilled in the 70 d.C according to this prophetic vision, besides which already they revived in His resurrection when the tombs were abrieron.
9. - The 1000 years.
The time between the first coming of Christ and the 70 d.C lasting forty years, somewhat strange the calculation. Others less radicals decide on the postmilenialista vision: millenium now in the days of the Church that reigns in the Earth.
10. - The final judgment.
When Christ almost 2000 years ago came. Preterismo exposes the partial it of idealistic form, the judgment is constant.
11. - New skies and new earth.
A new world order under the Church of Rome.
12. - The new Jerusalem. The establishment of the Kingdom of God.
The first church in Rome, the predecessor of the Vatican and the Catholic Church, according to the Catholics who create this vision.
The preterismo annuls to the doctrine of the imminence of the ParusĂa or second coming of the Gentleman, and all the set of the Christian hope in the future Kingdom of God that will also settle down of visible form in the new earth and new sky, not only in the sky like now. On the other hand the partial preterismo, when seeing the incongruity of the radical position, excludes the final events it locates and them in his site, in the end.
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FUTURIST ESCATOLOGĂ?A
The futurismo locates the final events in the future of history, indeed at the end of the times. All the prophetic events including in the list of 12 as final events and all of them in the Bible of literal form are interpreted, although they are symbolic, which generates great problems exegéticos, because it cannot interpret them in its context nor in its Biblical meaning, that is not only literal, as all we know; for example Apocalypse, or better still, the parabolas of the Gentleman, the great Teacher of the spiritual symbolism. Daniel 9:27, the last week of the 70 weeks like the period of seven years that will begin with the dominion of the called personage antichrist, sight like a person who will rise at the end of the times receiving to be able of the devil and rising against the Church and the Law of God. The resurrection and the kidnapping, the second coming of the Gentleman in Their Kingdom and the millenium, are all events marked by this coming of Christ at the end of the time of the history of the humanity and the universe. It is possible to stand out that although nowadays the majority of evangelical churches, baptists and pentecostales teaches this eschatological doctrine in their two clearer versions with respect to the millenium, the historical premilenialista and the dispensacionalista premilenialista, the radical origin of this interpretation does not come from the Protestantism.
The priest Jesuit Francisco of Shore would publish his “Commentary of Apocalypse� in 1602 with a future interpretation of all the eschatological events and in this way she would avoid that papado and the catholicism was identified with the antichrist and the Babylon that kills the true Christians, as contemporarily to him it happened with “santa inquisición�. The passage of this doctrine to the Protestantism has two origins.
In history we found a transition of the Jewish milenarismo to the Christian in Justino martyr, and the mention of the seven stages in AgustĂn de Hipona and later to three Jesuits of the con reforms catholic: Shore, Bellarmino, and Lacunza and later to the protestant John Nelson Darby, in the century XIX that after on the inside getting to be minister of the episcopal church of England, seeing its operation, left her to fight against the established national church and integrated in the Assemblies of Brothers, movement that it would lead coining the called system of present dispensacionalista Biblical interpretation. These churches until today defend this eschatological interpretation that it supports a millenium of Israel without the Church, typically part of the escatologĂa of the last pentecostales charismatic fundamentalist churches or neon and some messianic or Christian Zionists.
Of this vision was added to the written down Bible of Scofield there that flooded EE.UU during principles of century XX. Its influence was like is the most well-known form of escatologĂa in many present evangelical churches, mainly between those Christians who never have studied theology and follow blindly their denomination. It does not happen thus in the reformed churches, the calvinistas, because they adhere to the amilenial idealistic vision or a partial preterismo.
The futurismo centers because the final events, just before and after the millenium of Apocalypse 20. The millenium in himself, as it can be seen in the specific study, is interpreted of different forms: like a symbolic period, (amilenial, idealistic), as they are it so many data of the Apocalypse of Juan, the symbolic book par excellence of the Bible. Those that see the millenium like a literal period of thousand years in which Christ will reign from Jerusalem and those understand that it like the period of the Church, or in the Earth or the sky. Following the position, the coming of our Mr. Jesus Christ is located before or after the millenium, and with Its coming the ecstasy. The futurist escatologĂa is basically premilenialismo, that can be historical or dispensacionalista, this last well-known also like extreme futurismo, doctrines that we will see next.
The dispensacional premilenialista escatologĂa or extreme futurismo also sees the millenium in the Earth after the second coming of Jesus Christ. Happening the kidnapping of the faithful Church before the Great Tribulation and after the reign of the antichrist by seven years (the last one of the 70 Weeks of Daniel) after the reconstruction of III the Temple of Jerusalem. The dispensacionalismo standard that Jesus Christ like MesĂas accepted by Israel at the end of the time, according to the prophecy, will reign from Jerusalem in III the Temple that will be reconstructed, and it will do for all the nations, thus fulfilling all the promises to Israel. The system of cult of the Torá would have then that to be modified when being present Yahshua like king, but the case is that this interpretation back accepts the return to the levĂticos cults and the animal sacrifices, things that have been fulfilled in Christ in the Cross. This interpretation is the proposal by many Messianic Jews, that normally defend the premilenialismo, either historical or dispensacionalista.
The historical premilenialista escatologĂa nevertheless sees the millenium after the tribulation at the end of the times of the Church and of the return from Israel to its earth once they become Jesus Christ, (Roman 11). The Church is protected of the coming wrath sent by God to the Earth before the judgment. The Church includes Israel and to Gentile but Israel it has a national paper when becoming like nation according to the prophecy of Romans 11. Premilenialsmo historical smooths out the radical position of the dispensacionalista having itself turned into the position defended to day of today by the majority of churches North American, European and world-wide baptists of the conference South (South Baptist Confession). In my opinion it is the position (of the established ones, without being modified) that more close is of the reality next to the amilenialista.
The amilenialismo understands the millenium from the ascent of Jesus in glory to the right hand of the Father to the second coming, meanwhile Father reigns in the Sky to the right hand of God. The second coming of Jesus Christ happens after the millenium of the Sky or was between the ascent and the second coming. It is by that the futurismo includes the amilenialismo normally, because it sees the eschatological events as at the end of the times although it sees it to the millenium of symbolic form and from the sky. The apostolic Creeds are all amileniales. Israel only receives the judgments and is replaced by the Church that receives the promises. Israel is left without national future against the Scripture and are annulled the evident prophecies like the fulfilled one in 1948 on Ezequiel 39. There will be no literal millenium in the Earth of the Kingdom of Christ but it is an eternal kingdom. The milenialismo in the council was excluded from Éfeso in 431d.C being as an old dream of the Judaism of the Old Testament, to the eyes of the church of then. It is understood like a spiritual period. AgustĂn de Hipona, Lutero, Calvin, all amilenialistas.
The postmilenialista escatologĂa sees the millenium like effective here and now from the first coming of Christ to the second coming; the Church reigns now and is the kingdom of God in the Earth that by means of the Great Commission will turn most of to the world, and will be able to make a world better and to bring world-wide La Paz, which is against prophetic apostasĂa final, it is not an evidence of how the world goes. It is considered that the Church has replaced Israel but the exposed thing in the Bible stays on the conversion of the Jews at the end of the time, as thus is happening between the Messianic ones. The postmilenial escatologĂa also sees the final events at the end of the times, is by which it is included in the futurismo, although understands the millenium of historicista form.
The futurismo would see the list of 12 events of the following form:
1. - ApostasĂa. Time end of the Gentile ones.
At the end of the times. During the dominion of the antichrist. III the Temple during the millenium.
2. - The fall of Babylon.
The Vatican will fall so at the end of the time… and as it anticipates Apocalypse 18.
3. - The judgment of God on the humanity, 7 seals, the 7 trompetas and the 7 glasses of wrath of Apocalypse.
During the 3.5 years of the dominion of the antichrist…
4. - The antichrist and its dominion. Iniquitous or the man of sin. Construction of III the Temple of Jerusalem. The devastating abomination. The Great Tribulation.
The personage who will rise like world-wide governor and who will make a deceptive pact with the Jews, will be constructed III the Temple and finally he will sit down in him being the abomination. The Great Tribulation will be the great persecution against the Church in its days.
5. - The battle of ArmagedĂłn, all the nations against Jerusalem and the Jewish town in Israel. Destruction of Damascus.
All the United Nations against Israel in the valley of Meguido will meet to the north of Jerusalem. Damascus will undergo an attack, possibly of Israel or a devastating earthquake.
6. - The conversion from Israel to Jesus Christ, the MesĂas Yahshua or YeshĂşa, (Jewish Messianic) the 144,000 seals. Seeing that they are going to be annihilated, Israel when seeing that Jesus Christ comes gives in Its hands, that will save having destroyed the armies that come against them.
7. - The second coming of Jesus Christ in glory like King of kings, in clouds, and all eye will see him. Apocalypse 1:7.
Of literal and premilenial fulfillment.
8. - The resurrection of deads, right and unjust, and the ecstasy of the alive Christians in the coming of the Gentleman in the air.
The pretribulacional and premilenial secret kidnapping. Soon he will return the Gentleman with the saints, after the antichrist.
9. - The 1000 years.
The enemy is tied and the Jews reign with Christ.
The rest is future events.
10. - The final judgment.
11. - New skies and new earth.
12. - The new Jerusalem. The establishment of the Kingdom of God.
The futurismo allows to locate the eschatological events at the end of the times like would have to be the correct thing, the problem is that it includes events that are not final and that already have been fulfilled on the one hand, and it locates on the other them after the coming of Jesus Christ in two times: a secret investigation for the kidnapping and another visible one after the antichrist, which adds three comings.
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IDEALISTIC ESCATOLOGĂ?A
The idealismo interprets the eschatological events of spiritual and symbolic form, throughout the time of the Church, like characteristics instead of historical personages or events. One concentrates in Jesus Christ instead of in the different prophetic visions of events and dates, etc, according to his defenders.
However, it agrees to explain that its study is of utility as far as the spiritual symbolism that includes all the history of the Church. Clear examples of the idealistic vision in events that are fulfilled during the history of the Church are the millenium (amilenialismo), the Great Tribulation like characteristic of the persecution against the Church of all time, the beast or the antichrist like everything what it is against to Christ instead of specific personages, or the seals, trompetas and glasses of Apocalypse like the war between side angels both, in the celestial places. All this panorama eliminates the historicidad of the Biblical prophecy. How one will explain the coming of the Gentleman in person, the return from Israel to his earth, the resurrection, etc.?
The idealismo would see the list of 12 events of the following form:
1. - ApostasĂa. Time end of the Gentile ones.
ApostasĂa is a characteristic of which during the Christianity they leave the faith.
2. - The fall of Babylon.
Symbol of the fall of a materialistic, sexual and antichristian society in the new believer who receives Christ, throughout history. The relativismo.
3. - The judgment of God on the humanity, 7 seals, the 7 trompetas and the 7 glasses of wrath of Apocalypse.
The judgment of God is continuous on all those that punish during history for being enemy people of the love of God and people impĂa, without mercy and faith. All the events of history without mentioning none in particular.
4. - The antichrist and its dominion. Iniquitous or the man of sin. Construction of III the Temple of Jerusalem. The devastating abomination. The Great Tribulation.
The antichrist is everything what it is against Christ like the iniquitous one, is not a person but a power. The Great Tribulation is the Christian persecution throughout the history of the Church without specifying no event in particular, but a characteristic of the position promised to the Church that lives in the world apostate, dominion of the enemy of God.
5. - The battle of ArmagedĂłn, all the nations against Jerusalem and the Jewish town in Israel. Destruction of Damascus.
Again we see the symbolic vision in the fight between Los Angeles of both sides and against the Jews and of the Church during history, as it is seen day of today. Damascus is seen like its abandonment of city Christian, although at the outset outside receiving of the faith.
6. - The conversion from Israel to Jesus Christ, the MesĂas Yahshua or YeshĂşa, (Jewish Messianic) the 144,000 seals. Seeing that they are going to be annihilated, Israel when seeing that Jesus Christ comes gives in Its hands, that will save having destroyed the armies that come against them.
The idealistic position tends to the supersesionismo, Israel now is the Church.
7. - The second coming of Jesus Christ in glory like King of kings, in clouds, and all eye will see him. Apocalypse 1:7.
Christ comes in the believer and all that it has sees it to faith.
8. - The resurrection of deads, right and unjust, and the ecstasy of the alive Christians in the coming of the Gentleman in the air.
… With Christ we have revived…
9. - The 1000 years.
The enemy is tied in the celestial regions as far as the evangelĂstica work of the Great Commission and the saints reign with Christ in the Church throughout history until the second coming of Christ. The amilenialismo.
10. - The final judgment.
Del is the event that is freed those that is safe by the faith and situation in which are those that rejects the grace of God.
11. - New skies and new earth.
In the Christian a new vision takes place of which they are established in his heart for the eternity.
12. - The new Jerusalem. The establishment of the Kingdom of God.
In skies it is the city santa and in the Christian the Kingdom of God.
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The idealismo has the problem of annulling to the prophetic vision of events and specific personages during history, like it is the clear example that the first coming of the MesĂas cannot be idealizar Jesus Christ who was an historical event and Its resurrection, like also it have been all the prophecies of the Old Testament, thus are also it to be the future ones of the New Testament of the terminal times that we are trying here. We have in San AgustĂn and San Cirilo the sources well-known clearer and old of the idealistic Christianity of Alexandria influenced by the platonism.
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the Jewish escatologĂa and the escatologĂa of Jesus
Jesus announced, first the Jews and soon to the Gentile ones, the Kingdom of God that is the aim of the eschatological message, and that Kingdom had approached, that was between the disciples, in present (the Kingdom of God in the Earth was He himself whom one first time came to win to the sin and the death in the Cross and that would come the second time “ParusĂaâ€? like King from glory).
According to the escatologĂa of Israel, rabbinical Bean or, we found that so that the kingdom was recovered to him to Israel they had to happen certain prophesied events.
First of the previous events to the Kingdom of God it was the arrival of the MesĂas, and Jesus or Yahshua is the MesĂas de Isaiah 11. Another one of that S-events repentance, (Isaiah 44:22 or Baruc 2:32), so that there was reunification from the dispersion between the nations (Isaiah 11:11), and this is indeed what Juan Baptist announced, because he was the precursor of the MesĂas that reunited in PentecostĂ©s to all the nations in a first step, to give rise to the time of the Gentile ones that once has returned Israel to its earth in 1948 has a time of repentance (70 years, 2018) after which the Earth will be full of the knowledge of the Gentleman (Isaiah 11:12) and is fulfilled a miracle just as the conversion of Ciro king of Persia, (the equivalent today to the Iranian, enemy leader staunch of Israel as we constantly see in the news) that in its first year of reign its heart was touched by to YHWH abriendo and issuing order to make house to the universal God in Monte of the Temple, because It is the true God (Esdras 1), and the miracle is that the Earth kings will give themselves to the King of kings voluntarily, Jesus Christ. Isaiah 66.
Another one of the events that the Judaism waited for the fulfillment of “éschaton� or terminal time, was that same God would be the one that would construct the new Temple, which is very known by the rabbis and thus it is taught in the synagogs to the town of Israel, he is by which is much opposition on the part of a certain group of orthodox Jews to the construction by human hands of III the Temple. Jesus was that new Temple that raised God to the third day in the resurrection, and with Him, ours in our soul. In the same way and in coherence with this affirmation that we could well describe as idealist, we will find prophetic Biblical base in the context of éschaton in Apocalypse 21 with reference to the new Jerusalem: … And I did not see in her Temple, because Mr. All-powerful God is the Temple of her and the Lamb. Also the eschatological idea that is in rolls of Qumran it is the same God that constructs a new and final Temple, so there was the idea that there would not be any before the time of the aim, or that the one that was would be replaced. The purpose of the Temple was the offer of sacrifices by the town sins spilling the expiatoria blood instead of of ours, but once the Son of God has given His blood by us in one go for always, the Temple no longer is necessary.
As we know, the Temple was destroyed in the 70 d.C by the Roman troops of the Caesar, having fulfilled the prophecy of Jesus: … of certain it will not be stone on stone that is not demolished… And this was the contrast to Its announcement on Its body that yes would be raised, in two meaning, Its resurrection and Their Church, both was raised until today and for always. The confirmation would not take in arriving when dying Jesus Christ in the Cross, the veil of the SantĂsimo Place was divided itself from top to bottom in two, thus being clear for the levĂticos priests who God broke the sanctity of the place. It would be from then, and once revived Jesus, who the new Temple walked between the primitive Church, which became, after Its ascent in a new concept of Temple, formed by souls full of the Spirit Santo, the new Place Santo where it inhabits God. On the other hand the Gentile ones we would be admitted like town santo by the faith in him and if we kept its Orders (if we loved to him), something that in Christ and by the faith already is fulfilled thanks to the preaching of the Gospel to Jews and Gentile. When the fullness of the Gentile ones entered (Roman 11:25) all Israel would be safe.
The Jewish nationalism and its milenarista idea that it impregnates the premilenialismo, are because a doctrine that has its hopes in a physical and literal kingdom recovered of Israel, with famous (at the moment) III the Temple and its sacrifices. The same kingdom that waited for celotes (contemporary of Jesus), and the same that once lived with David and Salomón. Surely the Gentleman will leave build it so that they include/understand that the one is not the physicist but the one of the soul that God looks for to live, the soul ours in which dwells the Spirit Santo. Again: … And I did not see in her Temple; because Mr. All-powerful God is the Temple of her, and the Lamb. Apocalypse 21:22.
The eschatological prophecies of ZacarĂas 14, Isaiah 60, 65:17 - 25 and 66 or could be fulfilled in new skies and the new earth, in the new Jerusalem, not in the millenium (or not only in the millenium) that can as well be seen like “a day of Godâ€? the day of the preparation of the final judgment: … And the nations that will have been safe will walk in the light of her; and the Earth kings will bring their glory and honor to her… Apocalypse 21:24. This it is the eternal panorama. And it leaves from them in the past, because on the reconstruction of the wall of Jerusalem and on the Temple already there was part of the prophecy of Isaiah who wrote there by the 750 a.C and that in the days of Ciro and Artajerjes Esdras and NehemĂas would later execute on the 450 a.C. The rest can have also been fulfilled the Temple of Herodes.
Most excellent and conclusive, as much for Jews as for Gentile in the eschatological panorama it is when we see whichever interest and hope had between the Jews because estatus came new from the kingdom recovered, in the question of the disciples to the Gentleman after Its resurrection, at the same previous moment to Its ascent, the latest that asks to him, is on the great hope of Israel:
… you will recover the kingdom to Israel in this time…? and Its answer was: … It is not called on to know to the times or the seasons to you that the Father put in His single power; 8pero you will receive to be able, when you have come envelope the Spirit Santo, and you will be to me witnesses in Jerusalem, all Judea, Samaria, and until the latest of the Earth. 9Y having said to these things, seeing it they, was raised, and it received a cloud to him that hid to him of its eyes. 10Y being they with the eyes put in the sky, meanwhile that he went away, have put next to them two men with white clothes here, 11los as also they said to them: Galileos men, why you are watching the sky? This same Jesus, who has been taken from you to the sky, thus will come since you have seen him go to the sky… Facts 1:6 - 11.
Thus he is that the disciples had the hope of which already the Kingdom of God would settle down, that in the Jewish vision is the restoration of the kingdom, but the Gentleman instead of to respond to them what they hoped responds to them now that who He has fulfilled everything what lack did according to the prophecies, so that the Kingdom could be constructed to the Kingdom sends, them to the world to preach the Gospel of the salvation for the Kingdom of God in a future time, until now two thousand years. If it had been in His first coming, where it would be the hope of the Gentile ones? where the plan of God, perfect, in which one demonstrates that the Gentleman makes a new creation, a new town formed by Gentile Jews and of all the Earth nations by means of the premise of a prepared heart and that he loves God, that receives the gift of the faith in Its redeeming work in the Cross of the Calvary.
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THE ESCATOLOGĂ?A IN ITS TWO APPLICATIONS
After to have studied the different forms to see the escatologĂa agrees, before making the summary final, knowing how to focus the escatologĂa to its two applications: towards the individual and the humanity.
PERSONAL ESCATOLOGĂ?A
The personal escatologĂa concentrates in the second coming of Jesus Christ and our personal meeting with Him. The death, the resurrection, the ecstasy. Where it goes the soul, and the spirit. The anti-Biblical lie of purgatorio. How it is the new body. To where the deads go. Sky and Hell. The Kingdom of God.
The effect that produces in the believer its theological doctrinal position on escatologĂa determines as its life like Christian lives, as much in the church as in the society. The daily efforts that will make concerning the fulfillment of the Great Commission preach the Gospel like part of the Church of Christ, the emanation of the love of God from their heart by the intervention of the Spirit Santo, the hope in their heart and the force to live a total life in Christ imitating to the Gentleman. Its efforts in making good works by love to the fellow, its continuous praise, its joyful life. Its obedience and confidence in God. The fulfillment of Its orders, does not stop to justify itself, but by love of Christ, because therefore it requests it to us in His Word: … If you love to me you keep my orders… Its position on physical Israel and the faith in the surplus of Israel (regardless of its position on the millenium). And its preparation to fortify itself, to be brave and to be guarding, with respect to the Great Tribulation taking its cross every day before the signals of the time end and their sense of expectancy on the coming of Jesus Christ. All this affects its form to present/display the Gospel and how it reads and what it waits for of the Bible when Lee, besides affecting its orations: why it thanks, what requests and by those who.
GENERAL ESCATOLOGĂ?A
The general escatologĂa concentrates generally in the second coming of Jesus Christ for all the Church, like body of Jesus Christ and who will see all the humanity: Apocalypse 1:7.
The Time ApostasĂa, End of the Gentile ones, the Great Tribulation, the Ecstasy, the Wrath of God (seals, trompetas and glasses), the Battle of ArmagedĂłn, the Salvation of Israel, the Harvest, the Fall of Babylon (system of the society and the religions and the false churches), the Weddings of the Lamb, the Millenium and the theological positions, the final Judgment, New Skies and New Earth, the New Jerusalem, the Coming of Jesus Christ. We will live the eternity in the sky or the Earth.
It is because a clear vision of the future prophetic, or escatologĂa, cradle in the Bible the one that will make that the Christian and the Church, any congregation, independent of the size, will maintain the hope and the confidence in the plan of God, along with a theology based on famous “the Healthy Doctrineâ€? that will constitute the solid food that comes from the love of God, which is the source of our spiritual life, will maintain which us in Its way until the eschatological prophecy with the second coming of the Gentleman in glory and establishment of Its Kingdom is fulfilled, for the centuries of the centuries, amen.
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THE 12 ESCHATOLOGICAL PROPHECIES FROM josephmorrisministries.org
In josephmorrisministries.org always I have defended a complete vision of the Bible in four dimensions reflected in the description of this ministry as also it sets out Pablo in Efesios 3:18 - 19: … you are totally able to include/understand with all the saints which is the width, the length, the depth and the height, and to know the love Christ, who exceeds to all knowledge, so that you are full of all the fullness of God.
An example practical envelope how to see in a same document, different plane or hieroglyphic messages being the same, we see it in the famous multifocal glasses that have been have been given like to invention to Franklin Youngest child, president of the United States and inventor, (whom in fact invented the bifocal ones), with which a message of several dimensions and with inks of different colors in a map could be read, which at first they were nonexistent to the common reader, but that with the glasses, with crystals of diverse colors, and not only with them, but knowing how to use them all the message could be seen, that soon it was necessary to know how to interpret. For that they know history I have mixed something real historical with something imaginary.
In the same way Scripture shows us four fields of exégesis, width, length, depth and height, that we could well see in allegory in the historicismo, the preterismo, the futurismo and the idealismo and that generally the Bible shows to us through the linear history that shows of the humanity and the cosmos to us, which has literally been verified on the history of Israel and the Church, the prophetic thing, as much fulfilled as to be fulfilled and the spiritual meaning for the Christian in its personal relation with God in the inner temple of the soul, and in the heart in Spirit.
1. - ApostasĂa. Time end of the Gentile ones.
ApostasĂa of course is a characteristic of a time in which the Christianity and the society generally apostatan of the faith, it sounds to him? , besides being a state in which it falls a brother whom the attemped faith by the enemy of the Church and the world leaves, but del who can return like the prodigal son, besides a corrupt society as far as the moral of God, to the model of Sodoma and Gomorra, of that we remembered the judgment that received from God. It is perhaps because a future event, already presents/displays besides an event at personal level. Here we would see two valued positions: futurist and the idealist. The time end of the Gentile ones is an event that clearly is related whereupon Monte of the Temple stops being stepped on by the nonJewish ones which it can be historicista and preterista in the 70 d.C but that soon can see realized like futurist if they begin the construction of III the Temple according to we see in the news in Israel. The idealismo takes east event to the mind, to the aim of the dominion of the world on a Christian who has been born again.
2. - The fall of Babylon.
Its description is the one of a city seated on 7 hills, and is two that satisfy the requirement: Jerusalem and the Vatican. Indeed the two have fallen, one in the 70 d.C and another one in their power on the kingdoms of the world, of preterista and historicista way. But there is one third that must to us fall in the soul (by our feeling) and in the mind (in our thought), that are all the religions that put in front the traditions of men instead of the Word of God. If the man trusts traditions and customs of the opposite nations to the Word of God, its life will be founded on the seven pillars of the confidence of the world, the seven demons whom the Mr. removed from Maria Magdalena, an allegory of we ourself at the same time as a real woman, so that the city of God is born in us that all we took inside when we are born again, as it exposes AgustĂn de Hipona in “the City of Godâ€?, to trust Jesus Christ that brings to our soul the new Jerusalem, which also of futurist form will come at the end of the times like eschatological event, our eternal dwelling next to God.
3. - The judgment of God on the humanity, 7 seals, the 7 trompetas and the 7 glasses of wrath of Apocalypse.
God is the right judge who judges of continuous to the men in his lives and that in addition every day sends Its judgments, but in addition there will be a period of prophetic signals that they will be precursory of the second coming of the Gentleman, and which already we are seeing in action. This section can be seen of the four forms and we will see in the end it with clarity.
4. - The antichrist and its dominion. Iniquitous or the man of sin. Construction of III the Temple of Jerusalem. The devastating abomination. The Great Tribulation.
According to Juan gospeller speaks that us of the antichrist it describes, it like a spiritual power in the celestial regions, contemporary to which it prevails in the world and that is against Christ, 1Juan 2:18. It has had also in certain you will stop the same attitude besides the desecration of the Temple there were since it before Rome. But the event of III the Temple can return to put the situation in futurismo if it enters him profaning it and proclaiming God, since you will stop they did them like so many personages of history. The Great Tribulation has partly been undergone by the first church in the circuses, by the saints under the inquisiciĂłn, holocausto and the fact that apostasĂa exists one final, it implies that there will be persecution against the Church, since there is every day more in all the countries at the same time by the new laicistas laws and antichrist. Historicista, preterista, futurist and again idealistic a panorama, because the Christian is always persecuted because of His Name, until Its coming.
5. - The battle of ArmagedĂłn, all the nations against Jerusalem and the Jewish town in Israel. Destruction of Damascus.
Damascus has been still city still, reason why it only can be futurist. ArmagedĂłn has two possible events, but fodder that the futurist one is the correct one.
6. - The conversion from Israel to Jesus Christ, the MesĂas Yahshua or YeshĂşa, (Jewish Messianic) the 144,000 seals.
Seeing that they are going to be annihilated, Israel when seeing that Jesus Christ comes gives in Its hands, that will save having destroyed the armies that come against them. According to Pablo in Romans 11:25 - 36 are absolutely futurist we partly see and it in the Messianic ones and their fast growth since Israel returned to its earth in 1948.
7. - The second coming of Jesus Christ in glory like King of kings, in clouds, and all eye will see him. Apocalypse 1:7.
Under my point of view he is futurist without doubt, and the hope of the Christianity, another vision, in my opinion would be anti Biblical.
8. - The resurrection of deads, right and unjust, and the ecstasy of the alive Christians in the coming of the Gentleman in the air.
Without forgetting the resurrection many deads when Christ revived, of general and universal way it is also a futurist event but it is necessary to clarify if he is amilenialista, premilenialista or postmilinialista, which I leave in particular to each or in its church.
9. - The 1000 years.
The enemy is tied and the saints reign with Christ. This event can be futurist premilenial, literal or no, historicista, and idealist, then: … a day is like thousand years and thousand years like a day… 2 Pedro. The question is that a literal kingdom of the MesĂas with the reestablishment of the sacrifices for the pardon of the sins is not part of the healthy doctrine, because Christ already gave His blood to pay by the sins. Therefore the millenium is seen like here and now by the postmilenialistas being its church the Kingdom of God. Sight by the amilenialistas like the Kingdom of God here and now but being the King in the sky and governing it everything thence, “… hágase Your will, like in the sky thus in the Earth…â€? Mateo 6:10.
10. - The final judgment.
Futurismo for which they will revive that they are enemy of God. Those that has believed and lived a life santa have access to the Kingdom of God.
11. - New skies and new earth.
Futurist when everything is fulfilled.
12. - The new Jerusalem. The establishment of the Kingdom of God.
In the same way it is the final event of the futurismo, but also in the Christian it is alive idealismo.
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This exhibition explains that valid points in the four eschatological lines exist but that they are not possible to be applied to the eschatological panorama separately, but each contributes parts necessary to form the education that the Bible contributes to us, eliminating the doctrinal, denominational and seminaristas divisions that the escatologĂa since so it has experimented throughout the history of the Christianity, without a doubt the attack of the enemy to confuse and to divide.
My exhibition tries that what I have called Complete EscatologĂa not turns into doctrinal new line but into a effort that I invite all Christian to make to let itself teach by the Spirit of the Gentleman in the light of the Bible, far from the influence of the established thing, the traditional thing and thus avoid discussions that do not produce fruits of the Spirit.
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CONCLUSION
The escatologĂa is not the center of the theology, but same Jesus Christ, and His work of salvation to take us by the faith to the Kingdom of God, but in these times the escatologĂa floods to us by evident reasons, is by which the Gentleman wants we know that it, besides because comprises of the Gospel, the hope of the second coming of Jesus Christ in Its Eternal Kingdom.
It will in the end find an index of Eschatological Studies of josephmorrisministries.org with the intention of that are used as formation and affirmation of the faith and as argumentation to be able “to discussâ€? of brotherly and constructive form with the brothers in the faith, and never to divide the congregation nor to form new denominations, my exhortation is of good faith. The Church, I talk about here each one of the Christians in particular, we have the obligation to deliver an attack to avoid the divisions, because we will not be better brothers by our prophetic interpretation. The one is the love of God that will maintain the Christians always united, not its forms to interpret the escatologĂa.
I create appropriate the goodbye of Apocalypse for being the eschatological book par excellence of the last times, and to include esperaza eschatological: … The one that gives testimony of these things says: Certainly I come shortly. Amen; yes, they see Mr. Jesus. The grace of our Mr. Jesus Christ is with all you. Amen.
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