{"id":4181,"date":"2025-03-23T15:33:23","date_gmt":"2025-03-23T19:33:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.realbiblestudy.com\/?p=4181"},"modified":"2025-03-23T15:33:23","modified_gmt":"2025-03-23T19:33:23","slug":"some-help-for-understanding-bible-prophecy-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realbiblestudy.com\/?p=4181","title":{"rendered":"Some help for understanding Bible prophecy better"},"content":{"rendered":"<fb:like href='https:\/\/www.realbiblestudy.com\/?p=4181' send='true' layout='button_count' show_faces='true' width='450' height='65' action='like' colorscheme='light' font='lucida grande'><\/fb:like><p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>To properly understand Bible prophecy as it relates to the Second Coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, we must learn what the Bible teaches about a number of other related subjects.<\/p>\n<p>One of the most important subjects to learn thoroughly is the various provisions of the Covenants God made with Abraham (Genesis 12:3) and also with David (2 Samuel 7:10).<\/p>\n<p>Much of Bible prophecy discussed or presented in the Bible relates to the provisions of the Abrahamic and the Davidic Covenants.<\/p>\n<p>Another important subject to know about is the Kingdom of God.<\/p>\n<p>Almost all current well-known Bible scholars are very mistaken about just what is the Kingdom of God.<\/p>\n<p>(1) The Kingdom of God is NOT &#8220;within you.&#8221; (Luke 17:21)<\/p>\n<p>(2) The Kingdom of God is NOT present now but is entirely future. (Matthew 6:10)<\/p>\n<p>(3) The Kingdom of God is NOT in heaven; it takes place on this earth when Jesus returns at the Second Advent or Second Coming. (Revelation 5:10)<\/p>\n<p>(4) The Kingdom of God is NOT limited to a 1000 year long Millennial reign of Christ.<\/p>\n<p>(5) This earth will never be totally destroyed. This earth will abide forever (Ecclesiastes 1:4). Jesus will reign forever in His eternal Kingdom of God on this earth (Luke 1:33), NOT the third heaven.<\/p>\n<p>(6) When Jesus said in John 18:36 that &#8220;My kingdom is not of this world&#8221; He did not mean that His kingdom was &#8220;spiritual&#8221; or would not be established on this earth. Later in John 18:36 Jesus qualifies His statement with the words &#8220;But now is my kingdom not from hence.&#8221; The plain inference is that at some future time His servants would fight.<\/p>\n<p>(7) The Rapture takes place before the Day of the Lord (1 Thessalonians 4:16, 17 with 1 Thessalonians 5:2), before the Great Tribulation, NOT in the middle of the Great Tribulation or after the Great Tribulation.<\/p>\n<p>This is just the beginning of what is involved when the Bible is studied carefully to learn about the Second Coming of Christ.<\/p>\n<p>Each of the above 7 points can be studied much further by using\u00a0<em>The New Treasury of Scripture Knowledge<\/em> or the much more complete\u00a0<em>Ultimate Cross Reference Treasury<\/em> where I give many Bible cross references and explanatory notes.<\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/www.realbiblestudy.com\/?p=4181' send='true' layout='button_count' show_faces='true' width='450' height='65' action='like' colorscheme='light' font='lucida grande'><\/fb:like><span class=\"fb_share\"><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/www.realbiblestudy.com\/?p=4181\" layout=\"box_count\"><\/fb:like><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; To properly understand Bible prophecy as it relates to the Second Coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, we must learn what the Bible teaches about a number of other related subjects. One of the most important subjects to learn &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realbiblestudy.com\/?p=4181\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[188],"tags":[6431,6432,6433],"class_list":["post-4181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible-prophecy","tag-some-help-for-understanding-bible-prophecy-better","tag-the-kingdom-of-god","tag-the-second-coming-of-christ"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realbiblestudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realbiblestudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realbiblestudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realbiblestudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realbiblestudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.realbiblestudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realbiblestudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realbiblestudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realbiblestudy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}