0 Opening Remarks About This Study
Years ago, the Lord showed us to put together lessons about the Trinity, Father, Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit.
Their relationship to Each Other, Their Kingdom, and Their desire to bring as many people out of the world system/Satan’s kingdom as want to live a life of peace amid the destruction of the world. Using mostly scriptures we are putting these studies up on the sight for everyone. We prayerfully dedicate these studies to God the Father, Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit.
Our prayer to God is that many of you will find the Lord Jesus, Father and the Holy Spirit for the first time or that you will renew your life in God through Jesus and the power of His Indwelling Holy Spirit. May you be blessed as you take these lessons to heart and give your whole life over to Jesus Christ. Amen and Amen. Be ready to make notes and keep them together in a notebook or whatever system you have. If you are not used to taking notes have a marker ready to underline/highlight material. If you are born again and have been baptized in the name of Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit lives in you as a gift from God the Father and Jesus. Read John 14.
“The Heavens Declare the Glory of God”
Psalms 11
This introduction to Lesson 1 is taken from a newsletter that this ministry published earlier. To get the most out of this and every study, take the time to read all scriptures.
At no time will this scripture be truer than when Jesus Christ, Son of Man, Son of God, returns to earth.
Preface
One of the most important facts to know and believe deeply and completely is that when Jesus Christ returns He comes as the King of kings and the Lord of lords. 1 Timothy 6:15.
He comes in Glory, Power and Honor befitting who He really is: The Only Begotten Son of God. The Son of Man and the Lord and Savior of all.
There will be two great signs right before the Second Coming of God’s Son, Jesus Christ. The first sign spoken of in Joel 2:31 is when God Almighty, Creator of heaven and earth and everything therein shall cause “…the sun shall be turned into darkness and the moon into blood before the coming of the great and awesome Day of the Lord….” Young’s Literal Translation says: “Before the coming of the Day of Jehovah, the moon will literally turn to blood.” “And the stars of heaven fell to the earth, as a fig tree drops its late figs when it is shaken by a mighty wind.” Revelation. 6:13
The great and terrible Day of the Lord is God’s wrath on the unrighteous who have given themselves over to satan and his antichrist. The people who have taken his mark on their head or hand and have worshipped them. Revelation 13:4 It is also God’s judgment against all inhabitants of the earth that have not accepted in their heart the salvation and forgiveness of their sin through the death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ and according to Zephaniah 1:6 ”And those who have turned back from following the Lord, And those who have not sought the Lord [as their most important need] or inquired of Him”. Please take the time to read Zephaniah and it’s 3 chapters. It will be a powerful experience remembering God’s Judgment is right and pure and His Mercy through His Grace saves us.
The reason that this sign comes before the Sign of Christ’s coming is that God wants the entire earth in complete darkness. God has caused all the natural lights that He gave His Creation to go out, so the announcement to all mankind of the coming of His Son will not be missed by anyone. God’s Holy Splendor, Glory and Honor is seen in the Radiance of the Son of Man, the Glorified Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior!
We at thetimesofthesigns.net believe that the great light that flashes from east to west and is seen by everyone including satan and the antichrist, will be the Shekinah Glory of God. Read the following scriptures. Isaiah 13:10, 34:4; Zephaniah 1:15; and John tells us in Revelation 1:7, 8 “Behold, He is coming with the clouds and every eye will see Him, even those who pierced Him.” The Glory of God filled the temple that Solomon built, “So that the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud, for the glory of the Lord filled the house of God”. 2 Chronicles 5:14 www.biblegateway.com Amplified Bible, Classic Edition (AMPC) Copyright © 1954, 1958, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1987 by The Lockman Foundation
Jesus’ return is to “Ingather” His true church, bring Israel unto Salvation as the Jewish people come to know who He truly is, and to destroy all unrighteousness and enemies of the Kingdom of God, give out judgments and set up His throne for the thousand year’s reign. Read Acts 1:9-11. Notice that the angels tell the disciples that “…this same Jesus, who was taken up from you into heaven, will so come in like manner as you saw Him go into heaven.” Jesus left in the clouds and will return the same way. This is another sign and fulfillment of scripture that God has given to those who study His word and listen and allow Him to tie everything about the end times together. There will be many people who are true believers of Jesus Christ who have gone into hiding, protected by His hand and many Jewish men and women who also are in hiding, in Israel and all around the earth. Not everyone will know the signs to look for and many of them will be tricked into coming out of hiding because they have not been taught. Read Matthew 24: 23-28. This is Jesus’ personal warning to His people, His children, Jew and Gentile: all of us who love Him and are awaiting His return. When the ones of us who are alive see all the natural lights go out, we will know this sign, the coming of the Day of the Lord and see the appearing of the Son of Man when He comes in the clouds for us. We will know that the supernatural Shekinah Glory of God will fill all the heavens. Read Luke 21:25-28. God wants all His children to know what to look for. He wants us to know what is truly from Him. Jesus gives so many warnings to His disciples, in the first century and now through God’s word for us. When the time comes, we, His disciples, will be ready and waiting for His return joining with the Host of heaven with songs and great rejoicing.
The Millennial Reign of Jesus Christ
Lesson 1
Always pray before you study asking the Holy Spirit to guide you and show you God’s wisdom and grace to all people. Be ready to makes notes and keep them together in a notebook or whatever system you have. If you are not use to taking notes have a marker ready to underline/highlight material. If you are born again and have been baptized in the name of Jesus Christ the Holy Spirit lives in you as a gift from God the Father and Jesus. Read John 14:
The word millennium refers to one thousand years. It describes the specific thousand years that Jesus Christ shall reign after He has returned to earth. This will be the time of “…the new heavens and a new earth…” Rev.21:1 and God’s Holy City “the New Jerusalem” coming down from heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. Revelation 21: 2
Reading Revelation 21:3-7 Write down the other promises from God that we have?
More promises from God are found in Revelation 22:1-5. The first two are:
1. “a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal.” 2. “Where the Tree of Life bears eternal fruit and its leaves are for the healing of the nations.” There are more, please list them. These are only the beginning of God’s promises. As our study goes forward we will see many, many more. Remember, God’s promises are an absolute if we, His children, do what is taught to us by Him.
The true church of Christ has been waiting for His return ever since He left the earth and went to be with His Father, and to sit at His right hand. Acts 1:2-11; Luke 22:69.
The chosen and created nation of Israel has also been waiting for their Messiah. Some have accepted Jesus as Messiah, but most are still waiting for His coming.
Everything of God’s purpose and plans will be completely fulfilled just as every prophecy and word of God has taken place since He spoke Creation into being and pronounced it good. Genesis 1-1-31. “Good is that which is of God, whereas evil is a corruption of what was once good. And ultimately God will preserve everything that is His (the good) and defeat everything that is not (the devil). All good in the universe is of the Kingdom of God, and all evil in the universe is of the kingdom of satan. Those are the only two spiritual realms that exist, and every spirit being, including man, belongs to one realm or the other. Those who belong to the realm of goodness (the Kingdom of God) are those who are under willing submission to God. Those who belong to the realm of evil (the kingdom of satan) are those who are under submission to satan. This is true whether we are conscious of it or not. The one realm, or kingdom, is righteous; the other is unrighteous. The one is found in Truth; the other is founded in falsehood. The one is light, the other darkness. The one is infinite; the other is finite. The one is eternal; the other will one day cease to exist.” “The Sign,” Robert Van Kampen, Pg. 53
God set in motion at Creation all that would take place. “God chose when Christ (Messiah) would step back into the earthly realm.” The following comes from a song and we cannot remember the name. When we find it, we will put it in at the end of the quote: “He (Jesus) stepped out of Eternity and into Time.” “God fixed the time when Christ would rule over all the earth as King. “The Sign” Robert Van Kampen, pg. 58.
As I read the last sentence I realized that Jesus actually “Stepped out of Eternity and into Time twice in His Life. When the Holy Spirit planted Him as a seed of life in Miriam’s womb and when He returns to earth to fulfill all of the End Time prophecies.
In Daniel 7:13, 14 we see one of the Old Testament references of Jesus the Messiah being presented before the Ancient of Days. As you read these verses, look deep inside yourself and see the majesty and greatness of God the Father and His Glorified Son.
The kingdom of God on earth is made up of the Natural Line of Abraham, (Israel) and men and women who, through the last 2000 years, have come to know, accept and follow Jesus Christ. This is the true church, the spiritual descendants of Abraham and Israel.
God has always had a plan of Salvation, His own Son, Jesus Christ.
Christ’s first coming to earth was through the virgin birth of a young Jewish girl. Read Luke 1:26-38; Matthew 1:18-25; Isaiah 7:14. Mary was the chosen vessel of God to conceive through the power of the Holy Spirit and bring forth the Son of God. Why do you think God planned His Son’s entrance into the earth’s realm through a virgin? Remember, when God expelled Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden, they were under the curse of their rebellion (sin) against God. Genesis 3:12-17 gives the details of what happened after they sinned and ate of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Keep this in mind as you think about why God deliberately brought Jesus into the world through a virgin birth. At this point, man is separated from his creator in a state of spiritual death. They were driven out of the Garden of Eden by a loving God who makes sure that His plan of Redemption will be fulfilled. If God had not sent them away from the Garden and if they had eaten of the Tree of Life, (that was in the garden) in their sinful state, there would have been no redemption. God’s sons and daughters would have been lost to Him. We would have stayed in the state of separation with no hope and satan would continue to rule the earth. 1Corinthians 15:21, 22, 23 explains this and gives the promise “…those who are dead in Adam are made alive by their union in Jesus Christ...” No more separation from God. The spiritual death has been handled through Christ’s gift of a sinless Life, His death on the cross and His resurrection 3 days later for the sin of man’s rebellion. We who belong to God in and through the Lord Jesus will be resurrected at His Second Coming unless we are still alive. Read the following scriptures, put them in your own words and keep your notes: Romans 5:14-17; Galatians 4:4-7; Colossians 1:15-20; John 3:13-18
So, we see that through God the Father, Jesus, Father’s Christ (Messiah), and the full power of the Holy Spirit, men and women who have chosen to believe in and on the Name of Jesus Christ and all that His Life means, will be with Him during His Millennial Reign on the earth and on into eternity. Thousands of the natural line of Abraham will come to see, know and accept that Jesus is the True Messiah, sent to the House of Israel by The God of Israel and all of us will be one in Him.
The first Adam
God called everything into being in six (6) days. Every word, all people, animals, prophecies, teachings, the chosen people of Israel, the Bible, the church and all called to it through Jesus. Jesus’ birth, His Life, death and resurrection, families, marriages, wars, absolutely everything He knew would happen on the earth before His return to defeat satan and gather all of His people , both Jew and Gentile. The Father, Jesus and the Holy Spirit did all things before the act of rebellion took place. The first prophecy concerning Jesus and satan is given in Genesis 3:15. Redemption was declared by God out of His mouth. “And I will put enmity between you (satan) and the woman, And between your seed and her Seed; He (Jesus) shall bruise your head, and you (satan) will bruise His heel...”
Immediately as sin entered, Adam and Eve knew a different condition existed and they hid from God as He walked in the garden. Nothing was the same and they knew it. Everything they were never supposed to know, and experience came to them through their act of disobedience. Like a hurricane, waves of fear, misunderstanding, confusion, feelings of panic, lying, suffering and the knowledge of their nakedness was their new life.
God came to them in full knowledge of what happened. Adam and Eve had to confess everything to Father and learn from Him the consequences of their disobedience and how different their lives were going to be.
They left the garden to sow and reap spiritually and naturally, when God had intended them and all born from them, to never know or experience their lives apart from Him or have any knowledge of evil. In Genesis 1:26 God gave them dominion over the animals, fish, birds, everything in the garden. In Genesis 2:17, Adam is commanded by God not to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
This state of spiritual separation from God remained in place until the birth, life, death and resurrection and ascension of Jesus Christ. After that moment in time, all who would acknowledge Jesus as the Only Begotten Son of God and Son of Man, repent of all their sins against Him and others, follow Him, trust Him in everything received the greatest Gift in this world: A brand new birth through what Jesus did and a complete reconciliation into God the Father and the Holy Spirit. This is the re-Creation of the garden relationship. Everything in our lives can be as God intended it to be and His covering is over all who know that without The Son of God and the payment/sacrifice He gave to pay man’s debt; no man or woman could have ever paid. Jesus did it all and will continue to do all in our lives if we surrender to Him.
In Genesis 1:26 God gave Adam dominion over the animals, fish, birds, everything in the garden. In Genesis 2:17, Adam is commanded by God not to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. God told Adam that if He did eat of that tree he would die.
This state of spiritual separation from God remained in place until the birth, life, death and resurrection and ascension of Jesus Christ. After that moment in time, all who would acknowledge Jesus as the Only Begotten Son of God and Son of Man, repent of all their sins against Him and others, follow Him, trust Him in everything received the greatest Gift in this world: A brand new birth through what Jesus did and a complete reconciliation into God and the Holy Spirit. This is the re-Creation of the garden relationship. Everything in our lives can be as God intended it to be and His covering is over all who know that without The Son of God and the payment/sacrifice He gave to pay a debt; no man or woman could have ever paid. Jesus did it all and will continue to do all in our lives if we surrender to Him.
The Last Adam: Jesus Christ, Son of God and Son of Man
1. Jesus is called the Last Adam” in 1 Corinthians 15:45. (See this #2). Through His birth, life, ministry, death, time in hell, and His Glorious Resurrection, Jesus completely restored mankind to Father; and through His Life in us by the Power of the Holy Spirit, the relationship that was taken away has been restored.
2. Everything that was lost in the Garden of Eden is found in Jesus Christ, the Last Adam. Everything that satan brought to the Garden, his deception of Eve, the rebellion to God, all sin, has been absolutely eradicate through the selfless sacrifice Jesus made in the shedding of His Precious Blood. Read the following: Romans 5:12-14, 1 Corinthians 15:20- 22,
1 Corinthians 15:45 And so it is written, the first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit. Please continue reading verses 46-50.
As we continue our study we will learn what Father gave Jesus while on the earth about the hard and turbulent times ahead. We will see God’s great love for all His Creation, most especially all His children, Israel and His Church, as Papa uses Jesus to warn all of us of coming events. We will study where man is right now in his culture, general thoughts of man, and the condition of the church. We will go deeper into the signs that are given in the Bible of the rise of the antichrist and his being used by God to sift the church and Israel to make us pure and spotless ready to live in God’s Presence for all of eternity. We will spend a great deal of time comparing scriptures, Old and New Testaments. and lining them up next to each other and comparing what we find. We will study the events that have already taken place that are leading us closer to the time of the end of the age. Also, we will learn the events that MUST take place before the Lord’s return. Including the ones that are already in place. The end times and prophecy has been a deep passion of mine for almost 35 years or more. Betty has this passion too. She is more knowledgeable about Israel and how Israel, the people and the land fit into Fathers plans, and the place that God has reserved for her and her alone. We have both had many questions over the years and Jesus has answered many of them. We believe before we are all done with this study we will be alert, awake, knowledgeable of world events, and keeping our eyes to the East. We await full disclosure of what all who truly love Him, and even those who don’t, need to know in their hearts about what is coming.
This is the end of the Millennial Reign study. The following information is very important so we hope you will take the time to read it all.
You may want to use a binder to keep the studies in and of course your answers and notes. If you want to run off this study it is free. We ask that you never miss quote it or abuse Gods word.
Please read all the scriptures in each study. It’s important that you see and know God’s word for yourself and not to take it at face value because we say so or anyone else that you are studying with. You need to understand what He is teaching in His Word. This is a large part of building your daily relationship with Father, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit.
These are extra scriptures you may want to look up when you have time to learn about God’s Honor, Glory and Power:
Honor: 1 Corinthians 6:20; 1 Timothy 1:17; 1 Timothy 6:16; Revelation 4:9, 11; Revelation 5:13; 2 Peter 1:17; 2 Timothy 2:21.
Glory: Matthew 25:31; Revelation 5:12, 13; Revelation 7:12; Hebrews 2:9; Colossians 1:11, 12; Ephesians 1:17-23.
Power: Romans 3:23, 24; Exodus 9:16; Exodus 13:3; Exodus 15:6; Psalms 62:11; Psalm 68:35; Daniel 2:29; Matt. 26:64; Luke 1:17; Luke 6:19; 2 Timothy 1:7; Revelation 21: 22-27.The entire book of Zephaniah, 3 Chapters, is a powerful read on God’s coming judgment on the earth and her inhabitants.
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