Are we living lately? (October 1, 2015)

Are we living lately?

(October 1, 2015)

The Bible is a branch of theology called eschatology, which means "the study of last things."
In the Bible we find different phrases to refer to the recent past, as "last days, end of the world, end times".
All these phrases are interchangeable, although some have more technical definitions, see some of them:
1. The Last Days Are we really living in the last days? Is this time to which the Bible refers to as of late?
In other words, are we really living in the days before the Second Coming of Jesus Christ?
Because that much to explain about these "last days" is very important to understand what the Bible means when it refers to this period.
Talk of the "last days or times" is important to distinguish the "last days of the church" (in which we are now) and the "latter days for Israel" (which still belong to the future).
And in our life we ​​have many late as ... the weekend, the end of the month, the end of the year, the end of the day, the end of work, etc., the word "end" refers always to the same end.
Similarly, the phrase "end times" in the Bible is not always refers to the end of the church.
Thus, the phrase "end times" encompasses something broader, while the "last days" is more specific.
When we talk about the end times we are referring to all the events that will start with the rapture of the church (the Rapture) and end the last days of the church and the last day for Israel.
Under the Old Covenant, the last days refer to the last days of Israel, which includes the Tribulation (the seventieth week of Daniel), culminating with the second coming of Jesus Christ and the establishment of the millennial kingdom (Deuteronomy 4:30; Isaiah 2: 2; Jeremiah 30:24; Ezekiel 38: 8,16; Micah 4: 1).
This term refers to the last days of Israel and not the church, because the church age was hidden from the prophets of the Old Covenant and revealed to the Apostle Paul (Ephesians 3: 3-9) mystery.
Under the New Covenant, the last days refers to the last days of the church (I Timothy 4: 1; 2 Timothy 3: 1; James 5: 3; I Peter 1:20; 2 Peter 3: 3).
The Bible reveals that the first coming of Jesus Christ inaugurated the "last time" or the last day for the church (Hebrews 1: 2; I John 2:18).
In other words, the "last days" began with the first coming and Christ and will end with the rapture of the church.
This means that the rapture of the church is imminent, at any time, for no prophecy that have to be fulfilled before the rapture of the church.

Font:

Dr. Armando Alducin.
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