Robert McLaughlin Bible Ministries
To the extent that you entertain any form of arrogance in your life, to that extent you can only learn truth the hard way.
Wednesday, December 3, 2003
1. The eschatology of the Devil’s desperation.
2. The eschatology of the Lord’s tactical victory.
Eschatology is the study of future things or the branch of theology concerning the final events of human history.
The eschatology of the Devil’s desperation begins with the expulsion of Satan from heaven, a disaster, Satan is kicked out of his home, REV 12:9-13.
The eschatology of our Lord begins when He comes to earth on His own, REV 19:11-16.
Satan wants to stay in heaven, and cannot. The Lord comes to the earth, because the Lord has control of His life.
The day of the Second Advent is the beginning of the Lord’s tactical victory, and it is a moment of great happiness and rejoicing, it is a moment of great blessing.
The eschatology of the Lord’s tactical victory ends at the Gog Revolution, REV 20:7-10,
This time He finds perfect environment on the earth under the rulership of the Last Adam, the Lord Jesus Christ.
When you are preoccupied with yourself you cannot learn anything that is worth while.
Only one life, twill soon be past.
Only what’s done for Christ will last.
He simply accelerates the use of his unchecked power to produce the greatest disaster in human history, the last three and a half years of the Tribulation period.
To the extent that you entertain any form of arrogance in your life, to that extent you can only learn truth the hard way.
Arrogance distorts but never applies correctly, because arrogance uses truth.
First, Satan is confined to the earth for the last three and a half years of the Tribulation period, REV 12:9-13.
Then Satan is seized and cast into prison, the Abyss, for one thousand years, further confinement and restriction, REV 20:1-3.
Then Satan begins another conspiracy at the end of the Millennium, a conspiracy against Christ, and the perfect rule of the Millennium, but the conspiracy results in the Gog and Magog revolution, REV 20:7-10.
Being in jail for a thousand years did not teach the devil a thing about his own responsibility to himself.
No creature, no matter how powerful, can ever successfully challenge the Creator.
The first great client nation to God, the nation of Israel, lost their freedom on three occasions, with the administration of the fifth cycle of discipline.
A client nation is a national entity under the support of God, assigned the responsibility for the formation, preservation, communication, and fulfillment of the canon of Scripture.
At the end of the great Holocaust they fought magnificently for their freedom, and TLJC honored their fighting, by His Second Advent, and delivering them from the great enemies which Satan had gathered against them.
The Jews made a decision from a position of weakness when they rejected the sign of the virgin birth – they rejected Jesus Christ as their personal Savior.
No person can ever reject TLJC as the Messiah and ever have eternal life, ROM 10:9-10, ACT 4:12.
When a maximum number of people make decisions from a position of weakness, it means loss of freedom to a national entity.