Key Thought: The second coming is one of the central themes of Scripture. This lesson will look at the manner, time, and place of the second coming and the time of judgment before He comes.
May 18, 2024

1. Have a volunteer read Acts 1:9-11, Matthew 24:27,30,36.

1. Ask class members to share a short thought on what the most important point is in this passage.
2. What do these verses tell us about the manner of Jesus’ coming?
3. Personal Application: How does the second coming bring hope to your religious and cultural thinking and life? Share your thoughts.
4. Case Study: One of you relatives states, “I thought Jesus’ coming was a secret and silent event. When the rapture takes place, people will be disappearing and many will be left behind wondering what happened.”” How would you respond to your relative?
   (Note: I Thessalonians 5:2-5, Hebrews 9:28, 2 Peter 3:10-12, Isaiah 65:15-17)

2. Have a volunteer read Daniel 9:25-27; Ezra 7:7-13.

1. Ask class members to share a thought on what the most important point in this text is.
2. When would this prophetic period begin?
   (Note: The commandment to restore and rebuild Jerusalem was in the seventh year of Artaxexes in 457BC. This decree came with a promise of soldiers, writs of passage, building supplies, food, money)
3. Personal Application: When Christ came, what was He supposed to do? Share your thoughts
   (Note: To cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, confirm the covenant, be cut off but not for Himself)
4. Case Study: One of your friends states, “I thought the 70th week was after the church age and rapture when antichrist would destroy the temple after the Jews started sacrificing animals again.?” How would you respond to your friend?
   (Note: See Rev 12:5,6,14,15; Rev 11:2; Daniel 7:25.)

3. Have a volunteer read Daniel 8:14.

1. Ask class members to share a short thought on what the most important point in this text is.
2. What was to happen at the end of the 2300 days?.
3. Personal Application: How do you feel about living during the judgment? Is there more required of us now than those who lived before the judgment? Share your thoughts.
4. Case Study: One of your neighbors states: “How do you connect the 70 weeks of Daniel 9 to Daniel 8’s 2300 days?” How would you respond to your neighbor? (Note: The 70 weeks was determined (chathak – cut off, amputated) from the 2300 days. The 70-week prophecy of Jesus’ fiirst coming was to seal up the 2300 day prophecy. To seal it up means to make it sure.)

4. Have a volunteer read Mark 1:15; Galatians 4:4, Romans 5:6.

1. Ask class members to share a thought on what the most important point in this text is.
2. What do these verses tell us about God’s timetable for the first Advent?
3. Personal Application: Why is a correct understanding of prophetic symbolism so important to our faith? Share your thoughts.
4. Case Study: Think of one person who needs to hear a message from this week’s lesson. Tell the class what you plan to do this week to share with them.

(Truth that is not lived, that is not imparted, loses its life-giving power, its healing virtue. Its blessings can be retained only as it is shared.”Ministry of Healing, p. 148).

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