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1 PREFACE 2 THE LAST WORDS OLD TESTAMENT PROPHECY THE BOOK OF MALACHI 3 BETWEEN MALACHI AND JOHN THE BAPTIST 4 PART ONE THE PAROUSIA IN THE GOSPELS THE PAROUSIA PREDICTED BY JOHN THE BAPTIST 5 THE LORDS TEACHING CONCERNING THE PAROUSIA IN THE SYNOPTICAL GOSPELS PREDICTION OF COMING WRATH UPON THAT GENERATION FURTHER ALLUSIONS TO THE COMING WRATH The Parable of the Barren Fig-tree Parables of the Tares, and of the Drag-net 6 THE PAROUSIA IN THE LIFETIME OF THE APOSTLES 7 THE PAROUSIA TO TAKE PLACE WITHIN THE LIFETIME OF SOME OF THE DISCIPLES THE COMING OF THE SON OF MAN CERTAIN AND SPEEDY THE REWARD OF THE DISCIPLES IN THE COMING AEON 8 PROPHETIC INTIMATIONS OF THE APPROACHING CONSUMMATION OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD I. - The Parable of the Pounds II.-Lamentation of Jesus over Jerusalem III. - Parable of the Wicked Husbandmen IV.-Parable of the Marriage of the King’s Son V- The Woes denounced on the Scribes and Pharisees VI. The (second) Lamentation of Jesus over Jerusalem VII.-The Prophecy on the Mount of Olives.9 THE COMING OF THE SON OF MAN [THE PAROUSIA] BEFORE THE PASSING AWAY OF THAT GENERATION ‘Signs, and the manifestation of the end of the world in general (a) The Destruction of Jerusalem.(b) Interval of partial and suppressed judgment.’The Actual End of the World’ (ver. 24-31).10 The Prophecy on the Mount examined:-I. - The Interrogatory of the Disciples II. -- Our Lord’s Answer to the Disciples (a) Events which more remotely were to precede the consummation.(b) Further indications of the approaching doom of Jerusalem (c) The disciples warned against false prophets (d) The arrival of the ‘end,’ or the catastrophe of Jerusalem (e) The Parousia to take place before the passing away of the existing generation.(f) Certainty of the consummation, yet uncertainty of its precise date (g) Suddenness of the Parousia, and calls to watchfulness (h) The disciples warned of the suddenness of the Parousia Parable of the Goodman of the House (i) The Parousia a time of judgment alike to the friends and the enemies of Christ. Parable of the Wise and Foolish Virgins.(k) The Parousia a time of judgment Parable of the Talents (1) The Parousia a time of judgment The Sheep and the Goats Our Lord’s declaration before the High Priest Prediction of the Woes coming on Jerusalem The Prayer of the Penitent Thief The Apostolic Commission 11 THE PAROUSIA IN THE GOSPEL OF ST. JOHN.The Parousia and the Resurrection of the Dead The Resurrection, the Judgment, and the Last Day The Judgment of this World, and of the Prince of this World CHRIST’S RETURN [THE PAROUSIA] SPEEDY 12 ST. JOHN TO LIVE TILL THE PAROUSIA 13 SUMMARY OF THE TEACHING OF THE GOSPELS RESPECTING THE PAROUSIA.14 APPENDIX TO PART I NOTE A. Page 56.On the Double-sense Theory of Interpretation On the Prophetic Element in the Gospels 15 THE PAROUSIA IN THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES THE ‘GOING AWAY’ AND THE ‘COMING AGAIN Part II THE LAST DAYS COME THE COMING DOOM OF THAT GENERATION THE PAROUSIA AND THE RESTITUTION OF ALL THINGS.CHRIST SOON TO JUDGE THE WORLD 16 THE PAROUSIA IN THE APOSTLOTIC EPISTLES INTRODUCTION 17 THE PAROUSIA IN THE EPISTLES TO THE THESSALONIANS. THE FIRST EPISTLE TO THE THESSALONIANS EXPECTATION OF THE SPEEDY COMING OF CHRIST ‘THE WRATH’ COMING UPON THE JEWISH PEOPLE. ‘ But the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost.’THE BEARING OF THE PAROUSIA ON THE DISCIPLES OF CHRIST. CHRIST TO COME WITH ALL HIS HOLY ONES EVENTS ACCOMPANYING THE PAROUSIA 1. The Resurrection of the Dead in Christ 2. The Rapture of the Living Saints to Heaven.EXHORTATIONS TO WATCHFULNESS IN PROSPECT OF THE PAROUSIA PRAYER THAT THE THESSALONIANS MIGHT SURVIVE UNTIL THE COMING OF CHRIST.18 THE PAROUSIA IN THE SECOND EPISTLE TO THE THESSALONIANS THE PAROUSIA A TIME OF JUDGMENT TO THE ENEMIES OF CHRIST, AND OF DELIVERANCE TO HIS PEOPLE EVENTS WHICH MUST PRECEDE THE PAROUSIA 1. The Apostasy 2. The Revelation of the Man of Sin The Apostasy The Man of Sin 19 THE PAROUSIA IN THE EPISTLES TO THE CORINTHIANS.ATTITUDE OF THE CHRISTIANS OF CORINTH IN RELATION TO THE PAROUSIA.THE JUDICIAL CHARACTER OF ‘THE DAY OF THE LORD.’THE JUDICIAL CHARACTER OF THE DAY OF THE LORD.NEARNESS OF THE APPROACHING CONSUMMATION.THE END OF THE AGES ALREADY ARRIVED.EVENTS ACOMPANYING THE PAROUSIA The Resurrection of the Dead; the Change of the Living; he Delivering up of the Kingdom THE LIVING (SAINTS) CHANGED AT THE PAROUSIA.THE PAROUSIA AND ‘THE LAST TRUMP.’THE APOSTOLIC WATCHWORD, MARAN-ATHA,THE LORD IS AT HAND.20 THE SECOND EPISTLE TO THE CORINTHIANS ANTICIPATION OF ‘THE END’ AND ‘THE DAY OF THE LORD.’THE DEAD IN CHRIST TO BE PRESENTED ALONG WITH THE LIVING AT THE PAROUSIA.EXPECTATION OF FUTURE BLESSEDNESS AT THE PAROUSIA 21 THE PAROUSIA IN THE EPISTLE TO THE GALATIANS ‘THIS PRESENT EVIL AGE, OR AEON.’THE TWO JERUSALEMS---THE OLD AND THE NEW 22 THE PAROUSIA IN THE EPISTLE TO THE ROMANS THE DAY OF WRATH THE ESCHATOLOGY OF ST. PAUL THE NEARNESS OF THE COMING SALVATION PROSPECT OF SPEEDY DELIVERANCE 23 THE PAROUSIA IN THE EPISTLE TO THE COLOSSIANS THE APPROACHING MANIFESTATION OF CHRIST THE COMING WRATH 24 THE PAROUSIA IN THE EPISTLE TO THE EPHESIANS THE ECONOMY OF THE FULNESS OF THE TIMES THE DAY OF REDEMPTION.‘The holy Spirit of promise, which is the earnest of our inheritance until [for] the redemption of the purchased possession.’THE PRESENT AEON AND THAT WHICH IS COMING ‘THE AGES [AEONS] TO COME.’THE DAY OF CHRIST THE EXPECTATION OF THE PAROUSIA NEARNESS OF THE PAROUSIA 25 THE PAROUSIA IN THE FIRST EPISTLE TO TIMOTHY THE APOSTASY OF THE LAST DAYS 26 ESCHATOLOGICAL TABLE, OR CONSPECTUS OF PASSAGES RELATING TO THE LAST TIMES.The End of the Age The End The Last Times, Days, etc.EQUIVALENT PHRASES REFERRING TO THE SAME PERIOD.The Day That Day The Day of the Lord The Day of Wrath The Day of Judgment The Day of Redemption The Last Day 27 DESCRIPTION OF THE APOSTASY CONSPECTUS OF PASSAGES RELATING TO THE APOSTASY OF THE LAST TIMES. 1. The Apostasy, predicted by our Lord.False Christs False Prophets. False Christs and Matt. 2. The Apostasy, predicted by St. Paul CONCLUSIONS RESPECTING THE APOSTASY.28 TIMOTHY AND THE PAROUSIA THE APOSTASY ALREADY MANIFESTING ITSELF 29 THE PAROUSIA IN THE SECOND EPISTLE TO TIMOTHY ‘THAT DAY’---VIZ. THE PAROUSIA---ANTICIPATED.THE APOSTASY OF THE ‘LAST DAYS’ IMMINENT ANTICIPATIONS OF THE APPROACHING END 30 THE PAROUSIA IN THE EPISTLE TO TITUS ANTICIPATION OF THE PAROUSIA.31 THE PAROUSIA IN THE EPISTLE TO THE HEBREWS THE LAST DAYS ALREADY COME THE AEONS, AGES, OR WORLD-PERIODS.THE WORLD TO COME, OR THE NEW ORDER THE END, i.e. OF THE AGE, OR AEON.THE PROMISE OF THE REST OF GOD THE END OF THE AGES EXPECTATION OF THE PAROUSIA THE PAROUSIA APPROACHING THE PAROUSIA IMMINENT THE PAROUSIA AND THE OLD TESTAMENT SAINTS THE GREAT CONSUMMATION NEAR.THE NEARNESS AND FINALITY OF THE CONSUMMATION EXPECTATION OF THE PAROUSIA 32 THE PAROUSIA IN THE EPISTLE OF JAMES THE LAST DAYS COME NEARNESS OF THE PAROUSIA.33 THE PAROUSIA IN THE FIRST EPISTLE OF ST. PETER SALVATION READY TO BE REVEALED IN THE LAST TIME THE APPROACHING REVELATION OF JESUS CHRIST THE RELATION OF THE REDEMPTION OF CHRIST TO THE ANTEDILUVIAN WORLD NEARNESS OF JUDGMENT AND OF THE END OF ALL THINGS.THE GOOD TIDINGS ANNOUNCED TO THE DEAD THE FIERY TRIAL AND THE COMING GLORY THE TIME OF JUDGMENT ARRIVED THE GLORY ABOUT TO BE REVEALED 34 THE PAROUSIA IN THE SECOND EPISTLE OF ST. PETER SCOFFERS IN ‘THE LAST DAYS.’ESCHATOLOGY OF ST. PETER THE CERTAINTY OF THE APPROACHING CONSUMMATION SUDDENNESS OF THE PAROUSIA ATTITUDE OF THE PRIMITIVE CHRISTIANS IN RELATION TO THE P AROUSIA THE NEW HEAVENS AND NEW EARTH.THE NEARNESS OF THE PAROUSIA A MOTIVE TO DILIGENCE.BELIEVERS NOT TO BE DISCOURAGED ON ACCOUNT OF THE SEEMING DELAY OF THE PAROUSIA.ALLUSION OF ST. PETER TO ST. PAUL’S TEACHING CONCERNING THE PAROUSIA 34 THE PAROUSIA IN THE FIRST EPISTLE OF JOHN THE WORLD PASSING AWAY: THE LAST HOUR COME THE ANTICHRIST COME, A PROOF OF ITS BEING THE LAST HOUR ANTICHRIST NOT A PERSON, BUT A PRINCIPLE MARKS OF THE ANTICHRIST 35 THE PAROUSIA IN THE EPISTLE OF ST. JUDE APPENDIX TO PART II.  NOTE A  The Kingdom of Heaven, or of God.  ‘THIS IS THE KING OF THE JEWS.’APPENDIX TO PART II NOTE B On the ‘Babylon’ of 1 Peter 5:13 APPENDIX TO PART II NOTE C APPENDIX TO PART II NOTE D NOTE E 36 PART III THE PAROUSIA IN THE APOCALIPS INTERPRETATION OF THE APOCALYPSE LIMITATION OF TIME IN THE APOCALYPSE DATE OF THE APOCALYPSE THE TRUE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE APOCALYPSE STRUCTURE AND PLAN OF THE APOCALYPSE THE NUMBER SEVEN IN THE APOCALYPSE THE THEME OF THE APOCALYPSE THE FIRST VISION THE MESSAGES TO THE SEVEN CHURCHES. THE SECOND VISION  THE SEVEN SEALS, CHAPS. IV. V. VI. VII. VIII. 1. OPENING OF THE FIRST SEAL OPENING OF THE SECOND SEAL THE OPENING OF THE THIRD SEAL OPENING OF THE FOURTH SEAL OPENING OF THE FIFTH SEAL.OPENING OF THE SIXTH SEAL THE SIXTH SEAL THE PROPHECY ON OLIVET EPISODE OF THE SEALING OF THE SERVANTS OF GOD THE THIRD VISION THE SEVEN TRUMPETS, CHAPS. VIII. IX. X. XI.OPENING OF THE SEVENTH SEAL.THE FIRST FOUR TRUMPETS THE FIFTH TRUMPET THE SIXTH TRUMPET Episode of the Angel and the Open Book.The Measurement of the Temple.Episode of the Two Witnesses.1. St. James 2. St. Peter THE SEVENTH TRUMPET Catastrophe of the Trumpet Vision THE FOURTH VISION VISION OF THE SEVEN MYSTIC FIGURES 1. The Woman clothed with the Sun.3. The Man Child. 4. The First Wild Beast The Number of the Beast.5. The Second Wild Beast 6. The Lamb on Mount Sion 7. The Son of Man on the Cloud.THE FIFTH VISION THE SEVEN VIALS, Chaps. xv. xvi.THE TRUMPETS THE VIALS THE SIXTH VISION THE HARLOT CITY, Chaps. xvii. xviii. xix xx.The New Jerusalem The Old Jerusalem EZEKIEL XVI.THE MYSTERY OF THE SCARLET BEAST THE SEVEN KINGS THE TEN HORNS OF THE BEAST 37 NOTE ON REVELATION XVII IDENTITY OF THE BEAST OF THE APOCALYPSE WITH THE MAN OF SIN IN 2 THESSALONIANS II.THE FALL OF BABYLON JUDGMENT OF THE BEAST AND HIS CONFEDERATE POWERS THE JUDGMENT OF THE DRAGON THE REIGN OF THE SAINTS AND MARTYRS THE LOOSING OF SATAN AFTER THE THOUSAND YEARS.THE SEVENTH VISION PROLOGUE TO THE VISION THE HOLY CITY DESCRIBED THE EPILOGUE APPENDIX TO PART III The Two witnesses. (Rev. xi.)SUPPLEMENTARY NOTE AFTERWORD DOLLINGER ON “The Man of Sin”THE BABYLON OF THE APOCALYPSE JERUSALEM A SEVEN-HILLED CITY THE CRUCIAL QUESTION THE TRUE SOLUTION Reviewed by: C.H. Spurgeon & R.C. Sproul 