8. We believe the Bible foretells certain events which are yet future:
The Second Coming of Christ-We believe in the literal visible return of Jesus
Christ to this earth to institute His eternal reign. This is the hope of God's
people during this age, and should instill godly living in the lives of the
saints.
Revelation 20:4
4 And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them:
and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and
for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image,
neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they
lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.
1 Thessalonians 4:13
13 But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which
are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.
I Peter 1:3
3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to
his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection
of Jesus Christ from the dead
Additional Scriptures
2 Thessalonians 1:3-10;
Matthew 25:31-46;
Titus 2:11-14;
2 Peter 3:10-14;
1 John 3:2
Judgment of the Living and Dead-We believe that all judgment has been committed
to the Son of God, who will judge the living and dead at His coming and kingdom.
Those who are righteous shall enter into eternal bliss in heaven with Christ;
the wicked shall be cast into the lake of fire, forever banished from heaven.
John 5:27
27 And hath given him authority to execute judgment also, because he is the
Son of man.
2 Timothy 4:1
1 I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall
judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom;
Additional Scriptures
2 Corinthians 5:6-8;
Revelation 20:15
The Eternal State-We believe that the souls of those who have trusted in the
Lord Jesus Christ for salvation do, at death, immediately pass into His presence,
and there remain in conscious bliss until the rapture of the church when the
believer's soul and body shall be united and shall be associated with Him forever
in the glory; but the souls of the unbelievers remain after death in conscious
misery until the final judgment of the Great White Throne at the close of the
millennium, when soul and body reunited shall be cast into the Lake of Fire,
not to be annihilated, but to be punished with everlasting destruction from
the presence of the Lord and the glory of His power.
2 Corinthians 5:2
2 For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house
which is from heaven:
Philippians 1:23
23 For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with
Christ; which is far better:
Additional Scriptures
Luke 16:19-26;
Luke 23:43;
2 Thessalonians 1:7-9;
Jude 6;
Revelation 20:11-15.
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