Last Things
End-times prophecy, read dispensationally.
Comics in these studies
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The Judgment Seat of Christ · The Judgment Seat of Christ
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Ezekiel’s Commission · The Judgment Seat of Christ
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Two Garments · The Judgment Seat of Christ
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The Harlot and the Bride · The Harlot and the Bride
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The Dream and the Stone · The Image and the Kingdoms: Daniel 2 and 7 Through History
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They Were Given White Robes · They Were Given White Robes
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Their Lord's Story · The Two Witnesses
Drawn in these studies
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The Underworld, after Clarence Larkin · At Home with the Lord
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The souls go down to Paradise, and the righteous rise with Christ · At Home with the Lord
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The first fruits, then the harvest · At Home with the Lord
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Paradise and Hell, either side of the Great Gulf · At Home with the Lord
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Larkin's caption for the first fruits · At Home with the Lord
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Six days, three ages · A Day Is a Thousand Years
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The seven thousand years · A Day Is a Thousand Years
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The end of the ages · The End of the Age
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Daniel's seventy weeks · Immediately After: Daniel's Seventieth Week and the Olivet Discourse
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After the thousand years · A New Heaven and a New Earth
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The eighth day · A New Heaven and a New Earth
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The New Jerusalem, Revelation 21:10-22:2 · The New Jerusalem
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The size of the New Jerusalem on today's map · The New Jerusalem
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Church and saints in Revelation · The Rapture of the Church
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Two stages of His coming · The Rapture of the Church
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Taken before judgment · Taken Before Judgment: Enoch, Noah, Lot and Elijah
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Daniel's seventieth week · The Restrainer
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The week in days · The Tribulation: Daniel's Seventieth Week, Year by Year
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The judgments unfolded · The Tribulation: Daniel's Seventieth Week, Year by Year
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The sea turned to blood · The Tribulation: Daniel's Seventieth Week, Year by Year
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The four horsemen · The Tribulation: Daniel's Seventieth Week, Year by Year
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Sown and raised: the body God has promised · We Shall All Be Changed
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The seed: the same body, changed · We Shall All Be Changed
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Four contrasts: sown and raised · We Shall All Be Changed
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Two Adams: whose image you will bear · We Shall All Be Changed
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Changed in a moment, at the last trumpet · We Shall All Be Changed
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Death swallowed up · We Shall All Be Changed
The studies
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A Thousand Years in Your Sight
Psalm 90, Moses' prayer for a dying generation: the eternal God who is His people's home, a thousand years as yesterday, seventy years under wrath, and a prayer for steadfast love that Psalm 92 sings back as answered.
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At Home with the Lord
Where the believing dead are between death and the resurrection. A believer who dies goes at once to be with the Lord Jesus, conscious and without the body, and waits there for the body to be raised at His coming; the historic dispensational reading dates that arrangement from the ascension. A study of 2 Corinthians 5:1-8.
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A Day Is a Thousand Years
The creation week as the shape of history: what 2 Peter 3:8 says, what Second Temple Judaism and the early church already did with it, how each thousand-year day has run, and why 'the last days' means the last days of that week.
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The Day Is Near
Why the timing of Christ's return is deliberately hidden, and how to wait for it: with the patience God Himself shows (James 5:7; 2 Peter 3:9), awake and at work (Mark 13:32-37).
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The End of the Age
Matthew's five uses of 'the end of the age', the Greek word he shares with Daniel, and why Hebrews and Paul say the end of the ages has already come: it opened at the cross and closes at Christ's return, and Jesus is with you every day in between.
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The Fig Tree and This Generation
Matthew 24:32-35: the fig tree teaches reading the signs Jesus named, echoes the prophets' promise of Israel planted again in her land, and gives no year to count from; "this generation" is the generation that sees the signs begin.
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Heaven and Earth Will Pass Away
Matthew 24:35 and what Peter and Paul built on it: Jesus staked His words against the whole creation, and 2 Peter 3 and 1 Thessalonians 5 carry the Olivet Discourse's verbs and images -- parousia, the flood, the thief, labour pains -- into the same command to stay awake.
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Immediately After: Daniel's Seventieth Week and the Olivet Discourse
Matthew 24:29's "immediately" joins the Son of Man's coming to the end of the great distress; Daniel 9:24-27's own sequence puts the long interval earlier, between the cross and the seventieth week, where the church age runs.
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The Judgment Seat of Christ
Every believer will appear before the judgment seat of Christ to receive reward or loss for what was built on Him. What the Old and New Testaments say about reward, why it is never wages for salvation, how Ezekiel was given his work and held to account for it, how the white robe differs from the fine linen, and why this is a different judgment from the great white throne.
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A New Heaven and a New Earth
Revelation 20:7-21:8 after the thousand years and the great white throne: what Isaiah promised, what John saw, the eighth day of the Law as a type of the new creation, and where the New Testament's 'age to come' fits.
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The New Jerusalem
Revelation 21:9-22:5: the city God builds and brings down to the new earth. A real place or a figure for the church? Why a city is called the Bride, who lives in it, why it has no temple, and how Eden, Ezekiel and Isaiah come together in it.
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The Parables of the Olivet Discourse
Matthew's four parables of watchfulness -- the faithful and wicked servant, the ten virgins, the talents, and the sheep and the goats -- read against their wedding, household, and shepherding customs.
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The Olivet Discourse
Four men asked Jesus for a sign. He refused to give them a checklist, warned them four times about anyone who offered one, and named a single sign — his own return. A dispensational reading of Matthew 24, Mark 13 and Luke 21, from the disciples' question to the command to stay awake.
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One Taken, One Left
Matthew 24:40-41 and Luke 17:34-37: Noah was the one left when the flood took the rest, and Luke's vultures answer "taken where?" The one taken is removed in judgment at the Son of Man's return; the one left is kept for His kingdom.
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Charting End Times
Clarence Larkin's classic dispensational charts -- the seven thousand years of human history, the relation of Jew, Gentile, and Church, and the underworld -- with the seven thousand years redrawn on this site's chronology and the underworld redrawn with this site's verses.
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Bible Prophecy Essentials
A framework for reading biblical prophecy: why it matters, fulfilled prophecies checked against source, and the road still ahead -- Daniel's seventieth week, the rapture, and the millennial reign.
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Prophecy Events and Times
Anchoring Bible chronology to independently-dated history, pivoting forward and back from those anchors, and calculating Daniel's 70 weeks to the Triumphal Entry
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The Rapture of the Church
The blessed hope of the Church: a word study on harpazo, the sequence of end-times events, and the case for a pretribulational rapture
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Six Days of History
The creation week read as a framework for the millennia of history: light and darkness, the Flood, the seed and the land, the appointed times, the swarming sea, and the image and its counterfeit, with Jesus as the true image of God.
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Taken Before Judgment: Enoch, Noah, Lot and Elijah
Enoch, Lot and Elijah were taken out before judgment reached them, and Noah was kept through it. Read as types, they illustrate the pretribulational rapture that other texts teach directly.
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The Harlot and the Bride
Revelation 17-19 sets two women side by side: Babylon the great prostitute and the Bride, the wife of the Lamb. Scripture's pattern of the harlot, from Proverbs and the prophets to Jezebel and Babylon, the people who follow each woman, and the call to come out of her.
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The Image and the Kingdoms: Daniel 2 and 7 Through History
Nebuchadnezzar's image and Daniel's four beasts as one prophecy: Babylon, Media-Persia, Greece and Rome, the ten kings and the little horn, the stone cut out by no human hand, and where the seventy weeks of Daniel 9 sit inside it.
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The Restrainer
The restrainer of 2 Thessalonians 2:6-7 is the Holy Spirit dwelling in the church. While the church stands in the midst of the world, lawlessness is held back; when she is caught up, the lawless one is revealed.
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They Were Given White Robes
Every white garment God's people wear in Scripture, from the garments of skins in Eden to the robes washed in the Lamb's blood and the Bride's fine linen: who wears them, what makes them white, and why every one of them is God's gift.
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The Tribulation: Daniel's Seventieth Week, Year by Year
The seven years of Daniel 9:27 drawn out in four charts: what the week is for, the seals, trumpets and bowls in order, what happens at the midpoint, and where the church, Israel and the tribulation saints are while it runs.
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The Trumpet Call of God
What shofar and chatsotsrah meant in ancient Israel, the pattern of divine action a trumpet blast consistently signals across the Old Testament, and how Revelation's seven trumpets escalate that pattern toward the kingdom's arrival.
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The Two Witnesses
Revelation 11:1-14: two prophets who testify in Jerusalem for 1,260 days, drawn from Zechariah's olive trees and clothed in the powers of Moses and Elijah, killed where their Lord was crucified, raised and taken up. Who they are, when they come, and what their story shows about God.
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We Shall All Be Changed
The body God has promised believers. At the last trumpet He raises the body that was buried and changes it, and the living with it, into a body like the risen Jesus' own: imperishable, glorious, powerful and filled with the Holy Spirit. A study of 1 Corinthians 15:35-58.
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Your Kingdom Come: The Kingdom Already Here and Not Yet Complete
The second petition of the Lord's Prayer: what basileia means, from Daniel's everlasting kingdom to Jesus's ministry, and why the kingdom He brought is already here and still to come.