Eschatology

The theological study of end times and God's ultimate purposes for creation and history. This category explores Christ's return, final judgment, resurrection, the millennium, heaven and hell, and the renewal of all things. Includes various interpretive frameworks for understanding prophetic Scripture, discussions of signs and seasons, and what biblical hope in Christ's return means for believers today.

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Eschatology

The New Heaven & New Earth

The Bible does not end with souls floating up to heaven; it ends with heaven coming down to a renewed earth. The story that opens with "God created the heavens and the earth" Genesis 1:1 closes with "a new heaven and a new earth" Revelation 21:1 — creation not discarded but reborn.

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6 Min
By: Dedrick Wright

The Final Judgment

The crucified and resurrected Son administers judgment, which either completes salvation or confirms a rejection previously chosen: the believer, judged in his Substitute, proceeds to reward evaluation; the rejecter meets his denied word as judge.

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6 Min
By: Dedrick Wright

What is the Millennium?

"Millennium" (Latin *mille* + *annus*, "thousand years") names the period of Revelation 20:1–7, where "a thousand years" occurs six times in seven verses: Satan bound, the martyrs raised to reign with Christ, and Satan released at the end for a final rebellion.

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7 Min
By: Dedrick Wright

Sheol, Hades, and the Intermediate State

The "intermediate state" is the condition of human beings between death and resurrection.

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7 Min
By: Dedrick Wright

Eternity

Eternity in Scripture reflects God's eternal nature, unbound by time, and addresses human destiny. He grants eternal life or consigns to loss, as seen in Ecclesiastes 3:11. This study examines the concept of eternity in both Testaments, God's eternality, and the believer's everlasting future.

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6 Min
By: Dedrick Wright
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The Return of Christ

No doctrine is more pervasively asserted in the New Testament than the personal, bodily, visible return of Jesus Christ — referenced hundreds of times across nearly every book.

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6 Min
By: Dedrick Wright

The Rapture

The "rapture" is the event in which living believers are suddenly transformed and caught up together with the resurrected dead in Christ to meet the Lord at His coming.

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9 Min
By: Dedrick Wright

The Tribulation

"The tribulation" designates the unparalleled period of distress Scripture places immediately before the return of Christ — Daniel's "time of distress such as never occurred" (Daniel 12:1), Jeremiah's "time of Jacob's distress" (Jeremiah 30:7), and Jesus' "great tribulation" (Matthew 24:21).

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6 Min
By: Dedrick Wright

The Resurrection of the Dead

The Bible's hope for the dead is not the soul's escape from the body but the body's resurrection from the grave.

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6 Min
By: Dedrick Wright

The Second Coming

The return of Christ is not the *end of creation* but its *glorification*. The new creation is the consummation of God's original creative intent — creation restored, humanity perfected, all things renewed.

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21 Min
By: Dedrick Wright

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