Eschatology Study Series – Berean Bible Studies

Study Series 1: The Character of God

Study Series 1: The Character of God – Holy (I personally feel that the starting place for all Christians when wanting to study the Bible needs to start with where the Bible does – God. The better we are able to understand His character, the more accurately we will understand anything else the Bible goes on to discuss.)

Study Series 2: Character of God – Why do Tragedies Happen?

Study Series 2b: Character of God – Our Command to: “You shall be holy, for I am holy.”

These two Bible studies were built off of Study Series 1. While technically, these two lessons are not a part of the main “Redemptive History” Study Series, these two subjects are very interconnected to Study Series 1, and will be personally relevant and a blessing to each believer. Before moving on with our Redemptive History Study Series I feel these lessons will provide a vital aspect for growth and understanding in every believer’s spiritual walk.

Study Series 2: Character of God – Why do Tragedies Happen? (Very relevant study answering people’s questions into things such as why does God allow bad things to happen, tolerate evil, etc. (Theodicy))

Series 2b: Character of God – Our Command to: “You shall be holy, for I am holy.” (what does this really mean, and how are we as Christians able to live this in our day? (Holiness))

Study Series 3: What Happened in the Garden? What was the “Death” promised, and then how was it carried out? How does this pertain to Christ’s Death?

Study Series 3: What Happened in the Garden? (Critical pivotal point of the Bible, as it was the death promised and imposed in the Garden that Christ came to placate/remove – so an accurate and comprehensive understanding of this, and a comparison of the death that entered the world in the Garden with the substitutionary death of Christ, is fundamental in order to understand redemptive history, as well as eschatology.)

Gen 2:17 “but of the tree of knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day you eat of it you shall surely die.”

From this one verse, we need to answer both of the following questions:

What did God mean when He promised Adam and Eve that they would surely “die” “in the day” they ate?
And, what actually did happen “in the day” they ate?

** The answers to those two questions will dramatically affect the rest of our understanding of redemptive history, and the full purpose and meaning of the death and resurrection of Christ.

Study Series 4: The Bible: Two Covenants – the Old and the New – the earthly/temporary and the Spiritual/eternal

Study Series 4: The Bible: Two Covenants – the Old and the New – the earthly/temporary and the Spiritual/eternal (The Bible is one, and we must not do as some churches and say we are just “NT Christians.” In order to properly and comprehensively understand the NT – it is imperative that we understand the audience relevance of both the OT/NT and Old Covenant/New Covenant).

Study Series 5: Being a Hebrew: Audience Relevance in the Old Covenant

Study Series 5: Being a Hebrew: Audience Relevance in the Old Covenant (How often have we read the Bible for “what is it saying to me?” Are we correctly understanding the Bible this way? Are there things we are missing? Was this the way we were intended to study the Bible? The Bible opens up with deeper and fuller meaning when we read it as it was written. Learn to become the audience and think from their time, their worldview, their culture and circumstances. See how they would understand things…and then learn from a clearer perspective “what things are also there for me.”)

Study Series 6: The Old Covenant Hebrew in the New Testament

Study Series 6: The Old Covenant Hebrew in the New Testament Times (How many of us think that when we flip from the end of Malachi to the first pages of Matthew that somehow things have changed? I do not think we probably consciously think of anything, but I think just intrinsically it has just been engrained into us that we are in two different worlds. Have we stopped to ask ourselves “what has really changed?” Could it be that with us being from the 21^st century western worldview, and post cross, that we are looking back on history pertaining to the parts as we see as relevant to us, which most naturally is the cross? However, are we missing large chunks of understanding, which ultimately alter our view of almost everything to some degree or another? Was not Jesus a Hebrew, speaking to Hebrews, under the Old Covenant promises/curses? Was not His audience as much as an Old Covenant Hebrew as Moses, Isaiah, Jeremiah and the rest? When we ask these questions we now clearly see that these things were true, so why have we changed our minds to not think like we did when we studied the OT? This study takes us to the time, the audience, the OC relevance, and walks us through the teachings of John the Baptist and Jesus as it was written, and as it was heard. Brings us through to the end of Matthew 23).

Study Series 7 lesson 1: Transitional period: Prophesied OC Israel Ending/Judgment – and NC Church/Kingdom Beginning – the fulfillment period of Hebrews 8:13

Study Series 7 Lesson 1: Lays the context, background, time statements and indicators leading up to Matthew 24, Mark 13 and Luke 21. This study takes us through Matt. 24:1-14 and delves into the audience relevance and contextual applications of Jesus’ words and predictions, and expounds on how these scriptures interlink multiple passages throughout the rest of the NT, as well as connect and shed light on the fulfilment realities of OT shadows and types.

Study Series 7 lesson 2: Transitional period: Prophesied OC Israel Ending/Judgment – and NC Church/Kingdom Beginning – the fulfillment period of Hebrews 8:13

Study Series 7 Lesson 2: Matthew 24, Mark 13 and Luke 21. This study takes us through Matt. 24:15-28 and continues to delve into the audience relevance and contextual applications of Jesus’ words and predictions, and expounds on how these scriptures interlink multiple passages throughout the rest of the NT, as well as connect and shed light on the fulfilment realities of OT shadows and types.

Study Series 7 lesson 3a1, 3a2, 3a3 Matthew fulfillments and Josephus. Chronological arrangement of the 4 Gospels and Olivet Discourse

Study Series 7 Lesson 3a1, 2 and 3: Documents 3a1 and 3a2 will greatly assist, and amaze you, in comparing the predictions of Matthew 24 with the actual record of 1^st century history by Josephus (A Jewish historian. One of the most trusted historians in the world on ancient history). In addition, 3a3 will greatly assist you in arranging and comparing of the 4 Gospels and the Olivet Discourse.

Study Series 7 lesson 3b and add on: Transitional period: Prophesied OC Israel Ending/Judgment – and NC Church/Kingdom Beginning – the fulfillment period of Hebrews 8:13

Study Series 7 Lesson 3: Matt. 16: 27-28 A critical study into this passage of Scripture that has led to the strongest attacks against Jesus Christ being a true prophet, the Bible being inspired and inerrant, and Christianity being true. The critics, the Muslims and the liberal teachers have uses this passage more than any other passage to disprove Jesus Christ as being a true prophet, as “they quote the absolutely unchanging Deut. 18 test of a prophet passage” and then they go to this passage in Matt. 16 and say that Jesus Christ clearly promised to return before all of His disciples standing right there before Him would die – and He did not (so they say). This passage interlocks, and unlocks some of the most powerful and emphatic words of Jesus Christ. Revealing not only His meaning in this passage, and its parallel passages (Mark 8:38-9:1; Luke 9:26-27), but also the true meaning of the transfiguration, the understanding of “heaven and earth,” and many other NT passages, as well as their types and shadows from the OT.

Study Series 7 Lesson 4: Transitional period...Prophesied OC Israel End...and NC Church Begin (Fulfill Heb 8 13)

Study Series 7 Lesson 4: Matthew 24, Mark 13 and Luke 21. This study takes us through Matt. 24:29-31 and continues to delve into the audience relevance and contextual applications of Jesus’ words and predictions, and expounds on how these scriptures interlink multiple passages throughout the rest of the NT, as well as connect and shed light on the fulfilment realities of OT shadows and types.

Study Series 7 lesson 5: Transitional period: Prophesied OC Israel Ending/Judgment – and NC Church/Kingdom Beginning – the fulfillment period of Hebrews 8:13

Study Series 7 Lesson 5: Matthew 24, Mark 13 and Luke 21. This study takes us through Matt. 24:32-34 and continues to delve into the audience relevance and contextual applications of Jesus’ words and predictions, and expounds on how these scriptures interlink multiple passages throughout the rest of the NT, as well as connect and shed light on the fulfilment realities of OT shadows and types.

Study Series 7 lesson 6: Transitional period: Prophesied OC Israel Ending/Judgment – and NC Church/Kingdom Beginning – the fulfillment period of Hebrews 8:13

Study Series 7 Lesson 6: Matthew 24, Mark 13 and Luke 21. This study takes us through Matt. 24:45-51 and brings us to the end of this Study Series on Matthew 24. It continues to delve into the audience relevance and contextual applications of Jesus’ words and predictions, and expounds on how these scriptures interlink multiple passages throughout the rest of the NT, as well as connect and shed light on the fulfilment realities of OT shadows and types.

Study Series 8 Lesson 1: Leviticus 23 - God's Festal Calendar: prophesied Old Covenant Israel ending/judgement and the New Covenant church/kingdom beginning – the fulfillment period of Hebrews 8:13

Study Series 8 Lesson 1. This study takes us through the first 4 of God’s Festal calendar: Passover, Unleavened Bread, First Fruits and Weeks/Pentecost. The Festal calendar in Lev. 23 has such great significance in Redemptive history, and yet is all too often either misunderstood, or even neglected for any value, by much of our modern Christian world (especially when we come to the last 3 Feasts, which we will study in the next Study Series).

The full Seven Feasts depict the entire redemptive career of the Messiah. If you want to study redemption, you have to study the feasts. These feasts are a study of typology. Biblical typology takes the unity of both covenants, and sees in the Old Covenant (OC) “types,” or “shadows,” or “pictures,” which prefigure something in the New Covenant (NC). These types can be people, places, objects, or events. Typological language in the OC is called a “type” and the counterpart àthe reality or fulfillment is called the “antitype.” A type always prefigures something future.

These feasts are prophetic, as they were prophesying to Israel something that was to come in the future as God redeems them (True Israel: the believing Jew and Gentile Gal. 3:7, 28-29). They were to rehearse these year after year, thereby showing a picture of Yahweh and His completed redemptive plan. This process was similar in type to our wedding rehearsal. The rehearsal does not marry anyone, they are supposed to prepare everyone for the actual wedding day. Each Feast is an announcement to the end. As you understand the Feasts you will begin to see God's prophetic time-line unfolding, and you will grow deeper in your knowledge of the Messiah.

This study is full of “aha” moments which are sure to be a blessing to your faith and walk.

Study Series 8 Lesson 2: Leviticus 23 - God's Festal Calendar: prophesied Old Covenant Israel ending/judgement and the New Covenant church/kingdom beginning – the fulfillment period of Hebrews 8:13

Study Series 8 Lesson 2. This study takes us through the last 3 of God’s Festal calendar: Trumpets, Atonement and Tabernacles/Booths. The Festal calendar in Lev. 23 has such great significance in Redemptive history, and yet is all too often either misunderstood, or even neglected for any value, by much of our modern Christian world (especially when we come to these last 3 Feasts we now study.

This study is full of “aha” moments which are sure to be a blessing to your faith and walk.