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Understanding The End Times
Lesson Twelve

Watch the video and correct your answers from Lesson Eleven.  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 Twelve, read Appendixes 4 to the end in your Textbook and do the questions below.  The questions are in chronological order.

Answers To Lesson Eleven Questions

Lesson Twelve Questions

For Lesson Twelve, read Appendixes 4-to the end.

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 at the bottom of this page 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.

Appendix 4
How Did We Get Here?

1. To understand a belief system, it is very helpful to start by researching the _______________ behind it.

2. From AD 30 to the 1500s, the majority of the Church had an _______________ view of the future.

The Historical Development

3. The Reformers, almost without exception, believed that the _______________ system was the antichrist.

4. In 1585 a Jesuit priest by the name of Francisco Ribera published a 500-page work that placed Daniel 9:24-27, Matthew 24, and Revelation 4-19 in the distant _______________.

5. A small group of ultra-conservatives, led by  _______________, began to take Ribera’s book seriously.

6. Their most important follower was _______________, who later published these concepts in his famed Scofield Reference Bible.

7. The 1948 Latter Rain movement disagreed with the Scofield Reference Bible’s claims that the spiritual gifts had _______________.  

The Timing Of The New Doctrine

8.  From the late 1700s to the late 1800s, a multiple of major _______________ teachings were released into the church.

9. Since C. I. Scofield published Darby’s beliefs in his Bible commentary notes, Darbyism has become the _______________ end times teaching of many modern teachers.

The Last One Hundred Years

10. Darbyism led to _______________ among the European churches when Hitler and Mussolini arose.

11. Dispensational pre-millennialism [Darbyism] advocated a “hands off” policy regarding Nazi _______________ of the Jews during World War II.

12. In such a fatalistic system, to oppose Hitler was to oppose _______________.

13. Millions of Christians believed and taught the rapture would occur in _______________.

14. At this point, some of the modern teachers have started to redefine what _______________ means.

15. The lasting fruit of this book has created a generation that believes more in Lindsay’s _______________ than understanding what the Bible and history actually teach.

16. Lindsay…warned Christians that they should not plan to still be living on earth by the year _______________.

17. Clearly none of these prophecies have come to pass…yet Lindsay is still lauded by many Christians as a great modern _______________.

18. If a teacher has been proclaiming that the end of the world is coming soon for over forty years, we should _______________ paying attention.

Angry Letters

19. Darbyism is theologically known as _______________.

20. As a system of biblical interpretational, dispensationalism holds little weight _______________.

Judge The Fruit

21. _______________ usually takes the back seat, while _______________ is emphasized.

22. All _______________ thinking becomes limited.

23. It creates a fear of _______________.

24. It harbours a fear of _______________.

25. It breeds an _______________ view.

26. It discourages people from pushing _______________ in health, medicine, the environment, or technology.

27. It has created a bizarre form of Christian _______________.

28. _______________ is narrowed down to a rapture escape.

29. This end time view is the _______________ of many cults and militias.

30. Many have turned to extended hours of fasting and prayer, to quick _______________, and looking for the rapture or the “signs of the times,” rather than studying and training for a _______________ of advancing the Kingdom.

31. This view doesn’t take the _______________ texts of Scripture seriously or literally.

32. It has birth many silly _______________.

Welton’s Wager

33. If you spend your life in fear, trying to figure out dates and guess who the antichrist is, you will be held accountable for all that _______________ living.

34. Jesus never said to preach the _______________.

35. Whenever doctrine is not formed out of _______________ study, considerable _______________, much _______________, and the leading of the _______________, it stands suspect.

36. The dominant end time view before the 1500s was that the majority of the prophecies in the New Testament had been _______________ by the AD 70 destruction.

Appendix 5
The Israel Of God

37. In the New Testament, we can see that the Old Testament foreshadowed _______________.

Examples Of Shadows

38. Jesus was _______________ all the Old Testament shadows that pointed to Him.

39. Jesus fulfilled all the things written about His _______________.

God’s Promises

40. Scripture foresaw that God would justify the _______________ by faith, and announced the gospel in advance to Abraham.

41. Jesus fulfilled the _______________ covenant as our great high priest.

42. Peter pointed to the fact that Jesus had fulfilled this promise to David and now sits on the promised _______________ throne.

The Land Promises

43. God completely fulfilled the _______________ promises.

A Conditional Promise

44. The land was not given to them _______________.

45. The land was never promised to Abraham and his descendants for an everlasting possession apart from their _______________.

46. This enabled God the Father to make a new covenant with Jesus as a _______________.

The New Covenant And The Israel Of God

47. All who have faith in Christ are the children of _______________.

48. Jesus went on to say their [Jewish leaders] father was the _______________.

49. Paul showed that in the New Testament God only honours His covenant with those who have been circumcised in their _______________.

50. God only honours covenant with those who are walking with Him by _______________.

51. In the Old Testament, people of other _______________ could become a part of Israel if they would be circumcised, which was to take on covenant with God.

52. It is _______________ to think that God is in covenant with unbelievers, whether Jew or Gentile.

53. There is no sharing of inheritance; only those born of the _______________, by faith, will receive an inheritance.

All Israel Will Be Saved

54. God has always had a _______________ of faithful ones.

55. Jews may be of national Israel, but if they are not of ______________, then they are under the sternness of God.

56. God has always made His covenants and related with His _______________ Israel, those who walk with Him by faith.

Who Is Israel?

57. From now forward “_______________” is made up of those who are saved through faith in Jesus.

Frequently Asked Questions

58. There is not even one New Testament promise or prophecy regarding Israel being _______________ as a nation.

59. There is not even one New Testament promise or prophecy regarding a rebuilt _______________.

60. Beyond AD 70, Israel as a nation plays no _______________ role.

61. There is no reason to _______________ for the nation of Israel more than any other nation.

Appendix 6
Statement Of Endtime Beliefs

62. I believe the Kingdom of God arrived with Jesus’ _______________ coming and will fill the whole earth in preparation for His FINAL return.

Note:  If this course has presented new ideas to you, you may need to review it - or sections of it - several times to master the concepts.  Study the Scriptures and see if these things be so.  Now would also be a great time to start another course.  Keep learning and applying God's Word.

Assignment
Lesson Twelve

1. Memorize Rom. 2:29.

2. Review the 12 fruits of dispensationalism and write, with at least one Scripture reference, why each one is wrong.  If you think that some of these fruits as Biblical, write your reason with a Scriptural reference.

Answers For Lesson Twelve Questions

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