DOCTRINE OF LAST THINGS (Eschatology)
THE BLESSED HOPE
A. We believe that, according to the word of God, the next great event in the fulfillment of prophecy will be the coming of the Lord in the air to receive to Himself into heaven both His own who are alive and remain unto His coming and also all who have fallen asleep in Jesus, and that this event is the blessed hope set before us in the Scripture, and for this we should be constantly looking.
John 14:1-3; 1 Cor. 15:51-52; Phil. 3:20; 1 Thess. 4:13-18; Titus 2:11-14.
THE TRIBULATION
A. We believe that the translation of the church will be followed by the fulfillment of Israel’s seventieth week during which the Church, the body of Christ, will be in heaven. The whole period of Israel’s seventieth week will be a time of judgment on the whole earth, at the end of which the times of the Gentiles will be brought to a close. The latter half of this period will be the time of Jacob’s trouble, which our Lord called the great tribulation. We believe that universal righteousness will not be realized previous to the second coming of Christ, but that the world is day by day ripening for judgment and that the age will end with a fearful apostasy. We hold tenaciously to the Dispensational Pre-tribulational Rapture view of Scriptures and their interpretation.
Dan. 9:27; Rev. 6:1-19:21; Matt. 24: 15-21; Jer. 30:7.
THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST
A. We believe that the period of great tribulation in the earth will be climaxed by the pre-millennial, visible, bodily, and personal return of the Lord Jesus Christ to the earth as He went, in person on the clouds of heaven, and with power and great glory to introduce the millennial age, to bind Satan and place him in the abyss, to lift the curse which now rests upon the whole creation, to restore Israel to her own land and to give her the realization of God’s covenant promises, and to bring the whole world to the knowledge of God.
Deut. 30:1-10; Isa. 11:9; Ezek. 37:21-28; Matt. 24:15-25,46; Acts 15:16-17; Rom. 8:19-23; 11: 25-27; 1 Tim. 4:1-3; 2 Tim. 3:1-5; Rev. 20:1-3.
THE ETERNAL STATE
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We reject as heresy and hold as Pagan the doctrine of soul sleep, which teaches that at death man’s conscious immaterial aspects are placed in a state of unconsciousness. We also reject as heresy and hold as Pagan the doctrine of annihilationism, which teaches that all men damned will be annihilated and that there will be no eternal conscious punishment in Hell, and as such the damned escape eternal conscious punishment and torment as described by our Lord Jesus Christ and His apostles. The doctrine of Hell and the concept of eternal conscious punishment is held by orthodoxy as a main tenant of Christian doctrine. We hold that the denial of eternal punishment is damnable heresy and reflects the present condition of apostasy, immorality and/or idolatry.
Luke 16:19-26; 23:42; 2 Cor. 5:8; Phil. 1:23; 2 Thess. 1:7-9; Jude 6-7; Rev. 14:9-13; Rev. 20:11-15.
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