Now

Not Yet

How are you How are you living in the living in the shadow of shadow of the second the second coming?coming?

Preterism

Historicism

Futurism

What Biblical Tool should we use?

Dispensationalism

1. The Church does not figure in prophecy2. The Church does not go through tribulation3. Christ’s return is imminent

1. All end-time prophecies find fulfillment only at the end

2. The year-day principle is not valid

3. The Pope is not antichrist

The The Adventist Adventist

Tension . . .Tension . . .Imminent

Vs.Soon Coming

Now as to the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ, and our meeting with him, it is our desire, my brothers, That you may not be moved in mind or troubled by a spirit, or by a word, or by a letter as from us, with the suggestion that the day of the Lord is even now come; Give no belief to false words: because there will first be a falling away from the faith, and the revelation of the man of sin, the son of destruction, Who puts himself against all authority, lifting himself up over all which is named God or is given worship; so that he takes his seat in the Temple of God, putting himself forward as God. 1 Thess 2:1-4

Church Age

Rapture of

Church

2nd Coming

Crucifixion

LAW GRACE

During this time, the Rapture is imminent

7 yrs

Israel

1844 2nd Coming

Imminent for short time after Oct. 22nd

The Adventist on the S.C.

1844 2nd Coming

Imminent for short time after Oct. 22nd

The Adventist on the S.C.

The Third Angel

The False System of Revelation 13-

antichrist

Restoration of Sabbath

A People with a Mission and a Message

1.Preach the Gospel in an end-time setting…“the hour of His judgment is come”2.To Call the world back to Yah’wah worship and away from Ba’al worship.

Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the

commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.

It’s not It’s not about about endings, endings, but about but about new new beginningsbeginnings

How are you How are you living in the living in the shadow of shadow of the second the second coming?coming?