SYNOPSIS OF PROPHETIC SUBJECTS
1. Tribulation (to follow Church Period).
(a) Israel: The time of Jacob's Trouble in relation to Israel (Jer. 30:1-11; Dan. 12:1,2).
(b) Christendom: The hour of temptation (trial) for "them that dwell on the earth" (Rev. 3:10-apostate Christendom).
(c) Gentiles: The Great Tribulation to the Gentiles (Rev. 7:14).
2. Daniel's Seventy Weeks (Dan. 9:24-27). Weeks of years (490) —see Gen. 29:27-28.
(a) 7 Weeks (49 years). The street and moat built in troublous times (vs. 25).
(b) 62 Weeks (434 years) additional to the coming of Messiah the Prince (vs. 25).
(c) AFTER these 69 weeks (483 years) Messiah is cut off and shall have nothing (vs. 26).
(d) The last week (7 years) still future, and will begin with the covenant of v. 27.
(e) The first three and a half years are peaceful, with Israel and its sacrifices protected by "the Prince that shall come", that is, the Beast of Rev. 13:1-8.
(f) The second three and a half years show the sacrifices taken away by the Beast. Idolatry is forced upon the people and the "abomination of desolation" set up (see Rev. 13:14-15; Matt. 24:15; Dan. 9:27).
(g) Scriptural Designations of the last three and a half years:
(1) Time and times and the dividing of time (Dan. 7:25;12:7; Rev. 12:14).
(2)1,260 days (Rev. 11:3; 12:6).
(3) 42 months (Rev. 11:2; 13:5).
(4) Thirty days added for possible cleansing of the temple-1, 290 days (Dan. 12:11).
(5) Another 45 days added to bring in full blessing and deliverance (possibly the destruction of Gog; Ezek. 38 and 39). (Dan. 12:12)
3. Persons.
(a) The Antichrist (1 John 2:18,22). Also known as the Man of Sin (2 Thess. 2:3); the False Prophet (Rev. 13:11-18 and 19:20); the Willful King (Dan. 11:36-39; Isa. 57:9).
(b) The Beast (Rev. 13:1-9;19:19). Also known as the Little Horn (Dan. 7:8); the King of Babylon (Isa. 14:1-23).
(c) The Assyrian (Isa. 7:17-20;8:7-10;10:5-15;14:24-27;23:13;30:27-33;31:8; and Mic. 5:1-6). Also known as the King of the North.
(d)The King of the North (north of Palestine)—(Dan. 8:8-10,21-27;11:40-45).
(e)Gog (from the uttermost north)—Russia (Isa. 33:1,14-24; Ezek. 38 and 39). Prince of Rosh (Ezek. 38:2). Total destruction (Ezek. 39:4-see JND translation).
4. Millennium-Kingdom.
(a)How brought in: (Psa. 46; Dan. 2:44,34-36; Zech. 14:1-9; Rev. 19:19-21).
(b)Its length—1,000 years (Rev. 20:1-10).
(c)Characteristics:
RIGHTEOUSNESS (Isa. 32:1-4; Psa. 72; Psa. 101:8). FEIGNED OBEDIENCE of strangers and enemies (Psa. 18:44 and 66:2).
CREATURE AND CREATION delivered (Isa. 11:1-10 and Rom. 8:19-21).
ISRAEL permanently blessed (Isa. 59:20-21; 60:20-22; 62:11-12; Ezek. 39:25-29).
LONGEVITY (Isa. 65:17-25).
5. Eternal State.
(a) Transition from Millennium to Eternal State (1 Cor. 15:24-28; Rev. 20:7-10; 22:3).
(b) Great White Throne set up as the last act of the Day of the Lord at the very threshold of the Day of
God (Rev. 20:11; 2 Peter 3:10-12).
(c) New Heavens and New Earth (Rev. 21:1-4; 2 Peter 3:13).
(d) The Church, the Bride (Rev. 21:2, 9-11).
(e) State of things on the New Earth (Rev. 21:3-4).
(f) Final Eternal Order (Rev. 21:5-8; 22:3-5).
— A. R.
January 1969
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