FUTURE EVENTS

We believe that the following events, as predicted in Scripture will be fulfilled completely:
  • The next event in God’s prophetic time table is the  imminent (at any moment) Rapture of the Church, the Bride of Christ. It will be  visible,
    personal, pre-tribulational and pre-millennial.
  • Following the Rapture and the Judgment Seat of Christ, a seven year period called the 70th  Week of Daniel will occur on the earth. The Church will not be affected or  touched in any way by these events, since it will be with Christ in Heaven.
  • This seven year period will be followed by the literal 1000 year  reign of Jesus Christ over the earth, as the Church co-rules with Him. This will  coincide with the incarceration of Satan, who will be chained and unable to influence those in the Kingdom. However, he will be freed at the end of the 1000 years for a short time. He will lead one final rebellion against Christ but will  be defeated and consigned to the Lake of Fire
    forever.
We believe in the bodily resurrection of all men, the saved to eternal life, and the unsaved to  judgment and everlasting punishment. Specifically, concerning the church, we believe that the souls of the redeemed are, at death, absent from the body and  present with the Lord, where in conscious bliss they await the first  resurrection at the Rapture, when spirit, soul, and body are reunited to be  glorified forever with the  Lord.

We believe that the souls of unbelievers remain, after death, in conscious punishment and torment until the second  resurrection, when with soul and body reunited, they shall appear before the Lord Jesus Christ at the Great White  Throne Judgment, and shall be cast into the Lake of Fire,
not to be annihilated, but to suffer everlasting conscious  punishment and torment.

The existing heavens and earth will be destroyed, and a new heaven and a new earth will  be made to be inhabited by the redeemed of all ages, who will dwell with the triune God forever.

(Matt. 25:41-46; Luke 16:19-26; John 5:28, 29; 11:25-26; 1 Cor. 15; 2 Cor. 5:8; Phil. 1:23; 3:21; 1 Thess. 4:13-18; 5:1-11; 2 Thess. 1:7-9; Jude 6-7; Revelation 20)
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