---
title: "End Times Fundamentals"
category: "prophecy"
description: "Seven weeks on what God has said about the end: how to read prophecy, the kingdom, Daniel's outline of history, the rapture, the resurrection body, the judgment seat of Christ, and how to wait."
tags: ["eschatology", "rapture", "dispensationalism", "audience/teaching", "small-groups"]
draft: false
primary_passage: "Luke 24:27"
series:
  cut: foundations
  sessions:
    - study: last-things/prophecy-essentials.md
      why: "How to read prophecy at all: the prophecies God has already kept, checked against the record, and the road the same God says is still ahead."
    - study: last-things/your-kingdom-come.md
      why: "The kingdom Jesus brought, already here and still to come: the frame the rest of the series fits inside."
    - study: last-things/the-image-and-the-kingdoms.md
      why: "Daniel 2 and 7: the course of Gentile power from Babylon to the stone cut out by no human hand, and where Daniel's seventy weeks sit in it."
    - study: last-things/rapture.md
      why: "The blessed hope of the Church: harpazō, the order of events, and the case for a pretribulational rapture."
    - study: last-things/we-shall-all-be-changed.md
      why: "The body God has promised: what is raised and changed at the last trumpet."
    - study: last-things/judgment-seat-of-christ.md
      why: "Every believer before the judgment seat of Christ, for reward or loss, never for wages."
    - study: last-things/day-is-near.md
      why: "Why the day is hidden and how to wait for it: patient, awake and at work."
date_created: 2026-10-22
date_modified: 2026-10-22
ai_provider_models:
  - anthropic/claude-opus-5.5
---

# End Times Fundamentals

**In one sentence:** God has already kept prophecies anyone can check, and the same God has told you
how history ends, with His Son Jesus coming for His Church and reigning as King, so you can wait for
Him with comfort and spend the waiting at work.

The order runs from method to hope to practice. Week one sets out how prophecy is read; weeks two and
three give the frame of the kingdom and of Daniel's history; weeks four to six take the promises made
to the Church; week seven turns them into how to live while you wait.

## The weeks

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