Conditions on the Earth When Jesus Returns
I. The Fact of the rapture of the Saints. (The first part of Christ's return.)
A. I Thessalonians 4:15-18 - Return in the Rapture of the Saints.
1. Matthew 24:36 - Nobody knows when Christ will return.
B. II Peter 3:3,4 - Scoffers about the Rapture and Return of Christ.
II. The Fact of the Second Return.
A. Acts 1:9-11 - Scriptural proof that Christ will set his feet once again on this earth.
B. The majority of the people will "go away" from:
1. The principles of God's Word.
2. The People of God (his kind of churches).
3. The nation of God (Israel).
C. Scriptures that speak about this turning away.
1. I John 2:18,19 - Those of the Anti-Christ movement will go away from God's Word.
2. II Thessalonians 2:3 - There will be a great falling away from the truth.
3. II Timothy 3:1-7 - There will be perilous times in the last days.
4. II Timothhy 4:3,4 - Some that say they are believers will turn their ears from the truth.
5. Isaiah 32:5 - We are not living in a time when good is called evil and evil is called good.
6. Zechariah 14:1-3 - Every nation on the face of the earth will go against Israel in an attempt to completely annihilate them. God will intervene.