NOTE: In the preceding lesson we have learned that the Jewish people were scattered among the nations of the earth as God said they would be. This chastisement commenced in the year 606 B.C., under Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, and the prophet said it would last for a period of twenty-five hundred and twenty (2520) [...]
1. What great calamity befell the Jewish people? “For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve,” Amos 9:9. 2. During this time would there be a colony or government established by them? “Yet shall not the least grain fall [...]
1. In what way did Christ suffer for the unjust? “For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit,” I Peter 3:18. 2. By what was He quickened, or made alive? “Quickened [...]
1. Will Christ's people be in darkness regarding His coming, so that He will come upon them at an unexpected time as a thief in the night? “But ye brethren are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief. Ye are all the children of light and the children of the [...]
1. What conditions will be in the world near the second coming of Christ? “But as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be,” Matthew 24:37. 2. What were the conditions in the days of Noah? “For as in the days that were before the flood they [...]
1. What signs are given, of a social nature, indicating the soon coming of Christ? “This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affections, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of [...]
1. Is it possible for one to know the day and hour of Christ's coming? “But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but My Father only,” Matthew 24:36. 2. What words of admonition are given by Christ regarding His coming? “Watch therefore: for ye know not what [...]
1. When Christ comes will He be in secret lodging for a time, and the news of His coming be made known by messengers, by telegraph, or by newspapers? “Behold I have told you before. Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, He is in the desert, go not fourth; behold He is in [...]
1. After Christ's death, burial and resurrection from the dead, He ascended into heaven and a cloud received Him out of the sight of the apostles. Is there any evidence found in the scriptures that he will ever come back to the earth again? “And when He had spoken these things, while they beheld He [...]
1. During whose reign did Daniel receive the vision of Daniel 7th chapter? “In the first year of Belshazzar,” Daniel 7:1. 2. Over what empire was Belshazzar king? “In the first year of Belshazzar, king of Babylon, Daniel had a dream and visions of his head upon his bed: then he wrote the dream, and [...]