TIME LASTS BUT 7000 YEARS!

TWO THOUSAND YEARS OF ONLY GENTILES!

According to the calculations of Archbishop James Ussher (1581-1656), Primate of Ireland, our world was created in 4004 B.C.  Using the ages given in the Book of Genesis, he determined that from the creation of Adam, to Abram (Abraham), was two thousand years.  That meant all those names listed in the genealogy of Jesus, prior to Abraham were Gentiles.  Adam, Seth, Enoch, Noah, etc., were all Gentiles!

TWO THOUSAND YEARS OF ONLY GENTILES AND JEWS!

With the calling of Abraham to be the father of a great nation (Gen. 12:1-5), and his circumcision (Gen. 17:9-13), God established a covenant people who would become known as Israel.  In 5 B.C., Jesus was born a Jew, and though He offered Himself as Israel's Messiah, He was rejected, crucified, and buried.  But as the Scriptures predicted, Jesus was resurrected!  His First Coming did not lead to His coronation; instead of becoming Israel's king, He was God's Passover Lamb, sent to take away the sins of the world (John 1:29, 36; 1 Cor. 5:7; 15:1-4)!

TWO THOUSAND YEARS OF GENTILES, JEWS, AND THE CHURCH!

Following the Lord's Resurrection, He commissioned His disciples to proclaim His sacrificial death on behalf of humanity, and His victory over the grave (Mt. 28:19-20; Acts 1:8; 1 Cor. 15:1-4; etc.)!  On the Day of Pentecost (Acts 2:1), Peter reached the Gospel message to the very crowd that had yelled "crucify Him" just fifty-three days earlier.  Notice that Peter preached the death (Acts 2:22-23) and resurrection (Acts 2:24, 32) to the Jews, and when some believed, asking what they should do (Acts 2:38), Peter told them "Repent (have a change of mind - turn from a life of religious works to one of faith in Christ - (Acts 14:15; Eph. 2:8-9 ), and be baptized (make a public confession of your faith in the Lord Jesus - Rom. 10:9-13) every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for (because of) the remission of sins, and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost (be saved, be born of the Spirit and sealed unto God - Jn. 3:5-8, 16-17; Eph. 1:13; 4:30)."   

ONE THOUSAND YEARS OF CHRIST'S EARTHLY KINGDOM! 

At the end of the Church Age, Jesus will return in the clouds to gather His Church (Jn. 14:1-3; 1 Cor. 15:50-54; 1 Th. 4:13-18)!  Once again, the world will be populated by Gentiles and Jews.  For seven years (Dan. 9:27; Mt. 24:3-29; Rev. Ch. 6-19), God will pour out His wrath in an effort to bring mankind to repentance.  He said He did not want any to perish, but that all would come to repentance (2 Pet. 3:9)!  Following the seven year period, known as the Tribulation (a.k.a. Daniel's Seventieth Week and The Time of Jacob's Trouble), Jesus will return to earth with the armies of heaven, and He will establish the Kingdom of God.  His kingdom will last exactly one thousand years (Rev. 20:1-7)!  At the end of His reign on earth, He will sit on the Great White Throne (Rev. 20:11-15), and judge mankind.  Those whose names are in His Book of Life, will spend eternity with Him; those whose names are not there will spend eternity in the Lake of Fire!

ONE SHOULD EITHER LONG FOR CHRIST TO COME FOR HIM;

OR HE SHOULD TREMBLE AT THE THOUGHT OF FACING HIM!

JESUS SAID WE ARE EITHER WITH HIM, OR AGAINST HIM!

THE TIME TO DECIDE IS TODAY; THERE MAY BE NO TOMORROW!