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Understanding The End Times
Lesson Nine

Part Three:  The Future
When Heaven Fills Earth

Watch the video and correct your answers from Lesson Eight.  Don't hesitate to review or re-read the chapter if anything is unclear to you.  Take your time to understand the material.

For Lesson Nine, read Chapters Nine [The Persecution Mindset] and Ten [The Kingdom Advancing] in your Textbook and do the questions below.  The questions are in chronological order.

Answers To Lesson Eight Questions

Lesson Nine Questions

For Lesson Nine, read Chapters Nine and Ten.

Answer these questions as you read through the textbook.  You may either print off the lesson or simply write your answers in a document or notebook with the lesson and question number.  The video in Lesson Ten will take up the answers to these questions and add additional comments.  May the peace and grace of our Lord Jesus be with you.

If you prefer to print the questions out, you can download them in PDF here.

The Persecution Mindset

1. “The blood of the martyrs is the ______________ of the church,” Tertullian

2. It is true that persecution cannot stop the Church, but the Church does not require persecution to be ______________.

3. These verses were written regarding only the ______________ period of Church history.

4. We should not take from these verses a universal ______________ of persecution for all time.

5. We learn that we must ______________ all people, even those who would be enemies. 

6. We learn that we should be willing to follow the early Church’s example and suffer persecution if the ______________ arises.

7. Even the early Church suffered persecution primarily at the hands of the ______________ ______________ leaders until AD 64.

Proof Texting

8. Instead, when Jesus spoke of the “self” in this passage and the parallel passages…He was referring to what we might call a person’s ______________.

9. In the first century, following Jesus meant facing more hardship and being labeled as a ______________.

On Earth As In Heaven

10. Logically, if the ______________ ______________ is being progressively answered, the outcome should be that earth becomes more and more like Heaven.

11. Where God’s will is in full effect, _______________ does not exist.

12. The outcome of this _______________ of the Kingdom of God will include a squelching of all persecution.

Chapter Ten
The Kingdom Advancing

13. The Kingdom arrived with the King in _______________.

The Ever-Increasing Kingdom

14. The _______________ of the Kingdom of God is ever progressing—always expanding, never retreating, and continually growing.

15. According to these verses, we can accurately say the Church is currently walking in the _______________ brightness, grace, strength, faith, and glory it ever has.

16. Jesus completely fulfilled _______________ in the first century,

What Of The “Remnant”?

17. The _______________ concept is reversed in the Kingdom of God.

A Historial Perspective

18. But if we look closer at history, we see that God’s Kingdom has, in fact, been steadily _______________ forward.

The Early 1800s

19. Abortion was legal during most of the nineteenth century, and according to the records, one _______________ of all pregnancies were aborted

20.  In many states, the age of sexual consent was as low as _______________ _______________ years old.

21. Throughout the West, _______________ was so common that most people carried a gun for protection.

22. Tens of thousands of American Indians were murdered or forced from their lands, and thousands of Chinese people were imported on the western coast as _______________.

The Time Of Jesus’ Childhood

23. In Rome about _______________ percent of the population was in slavery.

24. _______________ was also the norm.

25. Temple prostitution and ritual _______________ sacrifice were a regular part of this religious system.

Today

26. _______________ is, in fact, the largest, most influential force of humanity in the world today.

27. We must be watchful and hard at work, for we still have much to accomplish before Christ’s return, but we must do this with the understanding that we are gaining _______________, not losing it.

28. 3,000 people get saved, somewhere in the world, every _______________ minutes!

29. _______________ and _______________ are the fastest–growing group of Christians in the two millennia of Christian history.

What’s Left?

30. To realize that Matthew 24 has occurred does not mean that we lose Scripture; it means that we can affirm how amazing of a _______________ Jesus is!

31. Discovering the _______________ view of the end times is one of the most exciting and wonderful bits of news the modern Christian can hear.

The Kingdom And The Church

32. I define the Kingdom of God as His _______________.

33. The primary way the Kingdom grows is through God’s representatives in the earth, His _______________.

The Kingdom

34. To occupy is to _______________ expand.

35. We are to occupy until He comes, not be _______________ with His coming.

36. This is the end goal—the complete filling of the earth with the _______________ and _______________ of God.

37. We are part of a _______________ destruction of the demonic kingdom, which will continue until death, the final enemy, is destroyed.

38. The true signs we can be looking for in these days are the evidence of the _______________ of His Kingdom within the earth.

The Church

39. One of the largest hindrances to arriving at the unity of the faith is an expectancy of the “last days _______________.”

40. If a church believes the one–world ruler will come and take over a one–world government and a one–world religion, then all progress toward _______________ is seen as a supposed “sign of the end.”

41. The _______________ of Christ will continue to grow and mature, to become healthy and strong, and then Jesus will have a body that is capable of carrying His head.

42. The term _______________ of God applies to all who are God’s children, both male and female.

43. Someday in the future, the heart of the Church will be filled with glorious _______________, and this will impact the entire planet!

Assignment
Lesson Nine

1. Memorize 2 Cor. 3:17-18.

2. Analyze Mark 4:26-29 and Mark 4:30-32.  [If you need a refresher in analyzing verses, refer to your Feed Yourself course lessons.]

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