We didn’t realize the end times, end of the world talk had so many different views until we studied Matthew 24. It took us on a 3 week + journey of studying some of the end time views.
We keep learning more and we stay open to all the sides, so we thought we would share all that we have previously used to study and will update it with more as we continue to learn.
So below you will first see what we used when we first studied end times. Then all the new resources we used when we studied Mark, and then at the bottom resources we haven’t read or watched yet but one day plan too.
Like we said, the first time we studied the end times was when we studied Matthew, chapters 24-25 in our Bible studies – below are the first round of resources we used to study it in 2021.
But to be honest it all becomes overwhelming with all the different names and views on it, and even within some of the views there is differences on what people believe.
Eschatology is the study of what the Bible says is going to happen in the end times. We personally feel this is an important area to study and know all the views on end times, but NOT something to fight over.
Overall everyone believes Christ will return – the how and other details are viewed differently.
We share this to remind you that no matter what you believe about the end times, we love you and respect your view. We are not claiming to know everything or that we are right. We just find this so interesting as we didn’t grow up hearing much about it, besides all we knew Christ would return.
We try our best in our studies to stick to what the Bible says and how the Jews in the 1st century would of understood it. We also try not to get stuck in way of thinking of it, but keep open to all end time views. We know many won’t agree with us and that is okay.
We do believe God wants us to understand what He said and He wants us to be ready for his return.
Also please note just because something is listed here doesn’t mean we 100% with the person or site. We simple are sharing any resource we came across. We are doing our best to get all sides of this topic and of course we continue to pray to God for wisdom and discernment.
Views of eschatology:
Dispensationalism premillennialism (main view is the rapture)
We are open to all the end times views. We don’t claim to be any of them, although some do make more sense to us that others.
Each one has things we agree with and things we aren’t sure about.
We are still learning, this will be a long journey.
So don’t think we have the answer, but just want you to think more about all sides.
Be open to hearing all sides.
We believe that Christ could return at any moment and we have been in the end times since Christ ascended over 2000 years ago.
Some things have been fulfilled and others to come. We do feel a lot has been fulfilled as way to show the truth of the Bible, that what it says is true! It is just more evidence of God.
We are living in the already but not yet.
Okay now to the resources we used last year when studying the end times for the first time through our Matthew study.
*things not mentioned below are from all the pastors we listened to while reading and studying Matthew – you can see all who we used here – as they too shared about Matthew 24 and end times – You can see all the resources we used to study Matthew here
Post-tribulation view:
FAI STUDIOS (They also have an App which have videos that are not on their youtube that we watched as well) Dalton Thomas, here are the videos we watched (as He has other videos that we did not watch):
Understanding the Rise of the Antichrist in the Years Before the Tribulation Begins
We Will be Radiant and Ready, Not Raptured and Removed
8 Reasons Matthew 24 Was Not Fulfilled in 70AD
4 Reasons We Don’t Believe in a Pretribulation Rapture—
4 Reasons Why “No One Knows The Day or the Hour” Doesn’t Mean
Dalton (and we believe his team at FAI) was the only person we could find during that time that had this view. We liked his views on this better than the pre-trib views.
Pre-tribulation view:
This is the end times view that had the most pastors here in America speaking about it.
Allen Parr, the videos we watched of his:
Should Christians Believe in a Pre-Tribulation Rapture?
What is the Millennial Reign of Christ
When EXACTLY is Jesus Going to Return According to the Bible?
The Second Coming of Jesus Christ EXPLAINED!
ARE WE LIVING IN THE LAST DAYS?
Chuck Missler, the vidoes we watched of his:
Matthew 24 – session 17 (video)
Matthew 24 – session 18
Matthew 25 – session 19
The Rapture – Chuck Missler – Session 1
The Rapture – Chuck Missler – Session 2
We do find of all the pre-trib/rapture pastors Chuck Missler’s sermons almost had us convinced with his display of the bridegroom. We will also admit the birth pains Jesus talked about and when you look out in the world, does make us wonder.
But again every generation has thought they were in the end times. This has been a debate over the years.
Others that have a rapture view – Dispensationalism
What are THE SIGNS of the END TIMES | Bible Prophecy
Jack Hibbs – we watched a few of his videos
What are your thoughts on Pre-Trib Rapture vs Mid-Trib or Post-Trib?
Also off the Blue Letter Bible app we listened to a sermon from Jon Courson – He has a rapture end of times view
What are your thoughts on Pre-Trib Rapture vs Mid-Trib or Post-Trib?
Videos from Apologia studios – Postmillennialism:
The great tribulation – when, where and why
Sun darkened and stars fell from heaven
The great tribulation and the elect
The abomination of desolation – did Jesus tell the truth?
Did the great tribulation happen?
Jesus and the end of the world
The great tribulation and end of the age
The end of the world and the truth
Sermon: Judas, Jesus, and God’s Sovereignty
Service: Judas, Jesus and the Sovereignty of God – Part 2
Now for other resources around the end of the world we used in 2021:
The Second Coming of Christ | Billy Graham Classic
Phylicia Masonheimer has done some Instagram highlights talking about this, plus she has a podcast episode on the main end time views. Her podcast is called Verity.
Does the Bible Predict the End of the World? – BibleProject Podcast on Apocalypse
Matthew24:3 Christ’s Prophecy of A.D. 70
What is the Millennial Reign of Christ in Revelation 20? Amil, Premil or Postmil?
Are We Living In The End Times?
The Millennium: The Last Days According to Jesus with R.C. Sproul
The Last Days According to Jesus with R.C. Sproul
The Rapture: The Last Days According to Jesus with R.C. Sproul
Crisis in Eschatology: The Last Days According to Jesus with R.C. Sproul
Does 1 Thessalonians 4:14017 say how Jesus is coming
At The End Of Time | Derek Prince
How to Face the Last Days Without Fear l Overcoming the end times – Derek Prince
Laying the foundation, part 8, at the end of time – Derek Prince
Explaining Jesus’ Controversial Olivet Discourse
Problem W/ End Times, Revelation
Voddie Baucham – Revelation 20, the Millennium, and Amillennialism
Jen Wilkins video – warnings of judgment
SOME END TIMES ARTICLES we read in 2021:
https://www.ligonier.org/learn/devotionals/abomination-temple/
https://www.jstor.org/stable/298454
https://www.pbs.org/empires/romans/empire/josephus.html
https://sbts-wordpress-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/equip/uploads/2013/06/SBJT-16.3-Stein.pdf
https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/what-is-the-abomination-of-desolation/
Like the definition from – https://lifehopeandtruth.com/prophecy/understanding-the-book-of-daniel/abomination-of-desolation/
https://www.padfield.com/1998/matthew-24-and-jerusalem.html – shows things we fulfilled that Jesus said
https://www.britannica.com/event/Siege-of-Jerusalem-70
https://www.biblegateway.com/resources/ivp-nt/End-Coming-Son-Man
The Bible Project has a PDF of how to read Apocalyptic literature – you can see all there resources here –
A closer look at the Olivet Discourse –
Making sense of the Olivet Discourse –
Understanding the Olivet Discourse –
AGAIN please remember we share all this to learn from each other not to cause division.
We know there are a lot more books, videos and articles on this topic as you will see below, our list keeps growing.
We all agree Christ will return and make all things new.
The more we study this and read through the Bible we are starting to see the Kingdom of God is reigning now and we are called to participate.
Jesus brought the kingdom (even though he has always been king, as he is the creator of all things, he is God) and he will return and the kingdom will be made perfect.
God is renewing is creation.
*One more resource:
We came across a new pastor teaching Matthew – we watched his video after we filmed our Matthew Bible studies. We can see his approach (as others had the same conclusion) that Jesus was talking about the destruction in 70 AD and a future day as well.
Here are this pastors sermons around this:
https://www.universityreformedchurch.org/sermons/the-beginning-of-the-end/
https://www.universityreformedchurch.org/sermons/the-abomination-of-desolation/
https://www.universityreformedchurch.org/sermons/he-shall-come/
*** OKAY – Now for the NEW resources we have looked at starting in March 22, 2022 to study more on the end times/end of the world topics
Make sure you see all the resources we used to study Mark here
Theology mom podcast – she has 4 part series on the end times – she believes the end started when Jesus came – Episodes: End of the story part 1, part 2, part 3 and handling differences about the end of the world
5 Signs That PROVE We Are Living in The Last Days and Jesus’ Return is Near!
Also with what is happing in Russia a lot of pastors are bringing up Ezekiel.
So we dug a little into Ezekiel, didn’t read everything mentioned here on it, as we will study in more when we get there.
EZEKIEL’S PROPHECY OF THE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM
Verses around clouds and son of man
The son of man in the clouds part 1
The son of man in the clouds part 2
A rebuilt temple in Jerusalem? A look at Ezekiel’s vision
Also read some things on Daniel:
Jesus and the Daniel code – goes over coming on the clouds, the darkening of the sun, moon and stars and the sounding of the trumpet
What are the seventy weeks of Daniel – Explains Daniel 9:24-27 (this shows it about Jesus, the article Lori mentioned in our end times video)
The Messianic Time Table according to Daniel the Prophet
Daniel and Bible prophecy – this was a lot of information, didn’t read it all but an overview
What you need to know about the book of Daniel
Daniel’s Prophecy of the Seventy Weeks
Other resources when we studied end times here in spring of 2022:
Rending to God not Ceasar – the Jewish Revolt
Another article on the great revolt
Not one stone left upon another – mentions how bad it was and false prophets
Visions of Apocalypse – what Jews, Christians, and Muslims believe about the end times
Return of Christ – How the creeds agree on the end times
The Jewish Revolts – shares some details of the years leading up to the destruction
The Roman Empire in the time of Jesus
7 year tribulation or not – very interesting
Transfiguration and Jesus’ Baptism – helps understand end times things and what Jesus did
Day if the Lord – *We have also listened to a lot of the Bible Project podcasts episodes – you can get download their APP for free. In there they have a series on the character of God with a few episodes about God’s wrath. So good and stuff we didn’t know. They also have a heaven and earth series we plan to listen too as well as the Day of the Lord series.
Bible timeline – 4 major time periods
Daniel 7:13; Matthew 26:64; Mark 14:62; Revelation 1:7; Revelation 14:14
disproving pre-tribulation rapture: With Dr. Craig Keener
The Millennium: The Last Days According to Jesus with R.C. Sproul
Mike Rogers website has ton of articles like that Adam guy (mentioned a bit further down in our additional Mark 13 resources) – even though we don’t agree with everything we learned a lot and made us expand our thinking and understanding on this, we plan to sit with some of this more and perhaps reread it:
Paul’s perspective: present life and life to come
Paul and the rapture part 3 and part 4
The great tribulation – a sign of the temples destruction
John Owen on the new heavens and earth
Pauls perspective: present life and life to come
Last days and the coming of the Lord in James
10 reasons Peter’s day of the Lord refers to the temple’s fall
The new heavens and earth Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4
More end times resources:
Who were gentiles in the Bible
Has Bible prophecy already been fulfilled
Does this refer to the destruction of the temple in AD 70?
What happened to the church after Jesus died
Matthew 24:15 study archive – makes note of past Christians views on this
Making sense of the millennium part 1
Matthew 24-14 – shall be preached in all the world
Additional resources we used to study Mark 13 and abomination:
The Gospel of Mark chapter 13 with Dr Craig Keener
Mark 13 and the Return of the Shepherd: The Narrative Logic of Zechariah in Mark – a book that I skimmed, plan to look into deeper
The end of the world – Bible study Mark 13:1-37
Matthew Henry Mark 13 Commentary off the Blueletter Bible
Mark 13 Commentary by David Brown on Blueletter Bible
Mark 13 Jon Courson – audio off Blueletter Bible APP
Daily Word Mark 13: 1-13 and Mark 13:14-37
How Could Jesus Not Know the Day or Hour of His Return?
MARK (13 of 16) – Chuck Missler
The abomination of desolation *
Of the War – Book VI – sound of a trumpet ** #7
The coming of Christ and the destruction of the temple
What is the abomination of desolation?
Dr. Michael Brown Vs Dr. Gary DeMar: Has Matthew Ch. 24 Been Fully Fulfilled? EP 216
This website from Adam has a lot of information – **we have read a few and will continue to read more articles of his over time as he has a lot, but here are some
- This or that generation and abomination of desolation did it happen – what Jesus said happened, early church fathers believed so
- Partial preterism explanation
- 70AD
- And we have lots more marked to read from his site on revelation to more on the abomination of desolation and new heavens and earth and man of lawlessness
Eschatology Round Table Discussion – we liked this one and plan to watch it again
Signs of the Times [Matthew] – Tim Mackie – we watched this when we studied Matthew and watched it again here
The Greek and Roman background of the New Testament
More resources we used in spring/summer of 2022 :
A survey of the doctrine of the return of Christ in the Ante-nicene fathers
Church history – the doctrinal beliefs of the early church
Heaven & Earth: A conversation with Tim Mackie & Jay Pathak
Blessing and Curse – Bible Project – we also watched a lot of their books of the Bible overview videos like Daniel, Ezekiel, Isaiah, Zechariah
A God of Love A World of Suffering “Job” Tim Mackie
The Error of Dispensationalism – 119 Ministries
A rebuilt temple in Jerusalem?
The Jewish Temples: the first temple – Solomon’s temple
Ancient Jewish History: the great revolt *mentions jews killing jews
Sites and places in Jerusalem: the Temple Mount * very interesting about the Temple Mount
The Abomination that Causes Desolation
Sam Storms on the Dispensational, Pre-Tribulational, Premillennial End Times View
Evening Message: Covenant Theology vs Dispensationalism – didn’t realize these two views existed, so very interesting
Responding to William Lane Craig criticism // Ask NT Wright Anything – about Jesus return
Revelation is about hope, not the end
The Siege of Jerusalem (70AD) – The Great Jewish Revolt – Documentary – watched just some of the beginning, one day will finish it
Historical Evidence that Jesus was LITERALLY SEEN in the Clouds in the First Century
Acts 2:19-20: A Preterist Commentary-The Blood Moon Prophecy
The Coming of Christ in A.D. 70–Like You’ve Never Heard it Before!
Podcast episodes on Remnant podcast – The abomination of desolation with Ken Fish – very interesting and – End times controversy with Dean Davis; also plan to listen to the episode when heaven invades earth lessons from the church fathers
Book – Covenant and God’s purpose for the world by Thomas R. Schreiner – *I am still reading this one
Podcast episode on Unashamed with Phil and Jase Roberston – episode 455
Podcast episode on The Gary Demar Podcast – pretty much all his episodes
Podcast episodes on After Class – episode 4.26 – Israel in the New Testament and episode 4.24 – A brief history of Modern Israel. They have a lot of other episodes we plan to listen like, the wrath of God
Podcast episode on The Denison Forum Podcast – episode 17 – How to think biblically about Israel
Podcast episode on Let’s read the Bible – episode 60 Day of the Lord
Podcast- Bema with Marty Solomon – the first 13 episodes of season 3 (we planned to probably listen to all of his past episodes and new ones)
Downloaded all the episodes from the podcast called, Rapture Drill – so far have listened to the first 5, do plan to listen to the rest of the episodes over time
The guy behind Rapture Drill has another podcast called Theology curator with Kurt Willems – downloaded a lot of the episodes, he has done a lot on Paul and end times topics – have listened to a few episodes so far, again plant to listen to more over time
The Parousia: Getting our Terms Right
June 2022 – Here are some new resources we came across after we filmed our Mark 13 Bible study workout and our end times chat video: (so please again remember there is a lot on this topic and we are being raw with our journey of understanding it, there is still a lot for us to study on it and understand)
MARK 13 – Bible Study with Notes
Mark 13:22 – Scripture Twisting 101
Russia vs. Ukraine – End Times Prophecy Update, Trump & More – with Al Fadi & Joel Richardson
Where Did Rapture Theology Come From? Ben Witherington III
Is the Rapture Doctrine Biblical?
37. Context – interesting and goes over some of Revelation
N.T. Wright: The book of Revelation & what we get wrong – good – God coming to earth
N. T. Wright on the Second Coming of Christ
End times probably not what you think
Orthodox Christianity – the second coming
What is the meaning of Israel in the Bible
ONE FOR ISRAEL Ministry – they have a podcast called Pod for Israel
This is the new resource Michelle mentioned in the video that helped us see the Jewish festivals and Jesus.
We have listened/watched:
- Pentecost -The Harvest of the Feast of Weeks
- Is Jesus the Messiah with Dr. Craig Keener
- Prophecy uncovered! Yum Kippur – Judgement day
- The appointed time of the King’s return in the mystery of the Feast of Trumpets
- The appointed times of the Messiah’s return found in ancient Jewish festivals
- And we have many more saved to listened too – we really enjoy their content, we are learning a lot
NEW things we have either watched, listened to or read in 2023
Future Living with Dr. Gerry Breshears
Replacement Theology? Steve Gregg Responds
REPLACEMENT THEOLOGY UNDONE BY ONE GREEK WORD IN GALATIANS 6:16
Bruce Gore – context of the fall of Jerusalem
What is the meaning of Israel in the Bible
We don’t need a third temple for the end times
How will we know when Jesus is coming back? | N.T. Wright
What is meant by “666” and “antichrist”?
The End of the World Pt. 1: The Coming of Christ
Dispensationalism Is Not A Christian Theology
Why the rapture in the Bible isn’t what you think
This View of The END TIMES Will Blow Your MIND
Rapture or No Rapture with Dr Michael Heiser
Dispensationalism: Wrongly dividing the word – what does scripture say
NEW things we have either watched, listened to or read in 2024
The danger and errors of “Replacement Theology”
Is the Rapture Going to Happen?
What Does the Bible Teach about the Rapture?
BELOW ARE ARTICLES/VIDEOS/PODCASTS we plan to check out, just haven’t yet.
We are using this blog posts as our notes you can say, where we are keeping track of all the resources we used to study this topic.
Different Christian Views of Revelation Explained
Four Views of the End Times Explained
Where Are We in Biblical Prophecy, Pt 4 – Israel in the End Times – Derek Prince
Where Are We In Biblical Prophecy Pt 5 – Will The Antichrist Arise In Europe? – Derek Prince
Laying the Foundation, Part 8, At The End Of Time – Derek Prince
Literal or Figurative?: The Last Days According to Jesus with R.C. Sproul
This Generation: The Last Days According to Jesus with R.C. Sproul
R.C. Sproul: The End & Purpose of the World
N. T. Wright on the Future of the World
Amillennialism with Dr. Sam Storms (Sam Storms has more sermons on his website more on end times we plan to look into as we downloaded a lot of his podcast, Exploring Word and Spirit)
The end time, the antichrist, and the rapture. Eschatology with Sam Storms
Postmillenialism: With Pastor Doug Wilson
Jonathan Cahn: God’s Hand on Israel Relates to the End Times
Is the Rapture Doctrine Biblical? (Ben Witherington)
Middle East- History of Israel
End times prophecy and why there is so much disagreement
Jesus’ Strange Prediction Part 1
The events of the 70AD – world history
Evil’s Last Days: What is the “Post-Tribulation” End Times Theory?
Evil’s Last Days: What is the “Pre-Tribulation” End Times Theory?
Evil’s Last Days: What is the “Mid-Tribulation” End Times Theory?
Book of Revelation & Eschatology: Rethinking Pretribulational Rapture Theology
How Does the Book of Revelation Relate to Us Today?
Left Behind? (A Conversation on Eschatology) | Theocast
2014 Fall Bible Conference With Dr. Bruce Ware – Doctrine of Last Things
Postmillennialism | Rejecting Dispensationalism | with Gary DeMar
The End Times and the Culture War | Doug Wilson and Gary DeMar
Progressive Covenantalism | Stephen Wellum | CFC
The backbone to the Bible’s storyline – Stephen Wellum
On covenants, kingdoms and flourishing with Craig Blaising and Stephen Wellum – there is a video of this Q and A here too
The middle ground between dispensationalism and covenant theology
What’s new about the revised edition of Kingdom through Covenant
Understanding amillennialism with Kim Riddlebarger (Kim Riddlebarger has more sermons and articles on end times we plan to one day look at)
Podcast episode on Remnant Podcast -Post Trib- Pre-wrath eschatology with Alan Kurschner
Podcast episode on Think Biblically Podcast -Why eschatology matters with Mark Saucy
Podcast episode one Cold Case Christianity Podcast – What is the essential truth about end times
Podcast episode on Reasonable Faith Podcast – End times paralysis
Podcast episode on Stand to Reason Podcast – Questions about the rapture
Interviews with a group of pastors discussing end times views:
Premillennial vs Amillennial on Christ’s return – Daniel Goepfrich & Chris Date
An Evening of Eschatology – Premillennialism, Amillennialism, Postmillennialism -*we started this one but didn’t finish yet
Eschatology Matters – What You Believe About the Future Determines How You Will Work in the present.
The millennial maze – a panel of the millennium
“End Times Made Simple”: Amillennialism w/ Dr. Sam Waldron
Q & A with Craig Blasing & Stephen Wellum | PhD
More resources we haven’t looked into yet:
Joe Rosenburg – He has a lot of videos and articles – believe has a rapture view
Dr. David Regan –Dr. David Reagan: The Rapture: Fact or Fiction? and Jack Hibbs Interviews Dr. David Reagan on His Prophetic Manifesto – has a rapture view
Eschatology – has a few articles
What is the mark of the beast Revelation 13
Eschatology – another source with a few articles including the different millennial views
Jesus and the six objectives of Daniel 9:24
Progressive Dispensationalism | Craig Blasing
We now live in the new heavens and new earth – we have read some articles off this site but still a lot to look at
What is the coming of the son of man
The events of 70AD and consequences for the world history
End times fiction with Gary Demar
The Rapture And Postmillennialism Explained | with Jeff Durbin
As in the days of Noah – Chuck Missler
Do Presbyterians Believe in the Rapture? Sermon on 1 Thess. 4:16-18
He Comes as a Thief in the Night!
The Reformed View: The Antichrist
The Reformed View: Covenant Theology
Jesus, Josephus, and the fall of Jerusalem: on doing history with Scripture
What is ‘the sign of the Son of man in heaven’ (Mt 24:30)?
Daniel 9: with David Wilcoxson
Responding to Brian Zahnd’s View of God’s Wrath
God’s wrath today: With Darren Hibbs
Eschatology: Study of the end times
Practical Eschatology: With Casey Doss
Pre tribulation rapture with Jimmy Evans
The Promise of the land to Israel
The theological context of premillennialism
The fall of Jerusalem – a story of Roman revenge
Final judgment – eternal life and wrath
Eschatology and prophecy playlists of 4 videos
Messianic Judaism 101 – Replacement theology
NEW things we came across in 2023 – haven’t watched yet:
Understanding Revelation with Dr. Gerry Breshears
Do Jewish Wedding Rituals Prove a Pretribulational Rapture?
Genesis of Dispensational Theology
N. T. Wright and Mark Kinzer: A Debate on the Meaning of Israel
N.T. Wright – History, Eschatology and New Creation
N. T. Wright on the Future of the World
The End Times – Orthodox Vs Evangelical Protestant Teachings – Presentation 1
Anti Christ – perspective from church fathers
The Rapture: An Invention of Man
Again, we are open to all the end times views – feel we are to learn from one another, not trying to prove your wrong and were right. We feel this is an area that has had different views since the early church.
We do have strong views toward some views more than others.
We would say that every day that passes we are closer to Jesus returning.
We don’t want to label us or try to fit into one of these views.
We believe some has been fulfilled and some things are to come.
Well that is what we have so far on studying end times – Bible prophecy – Eschatology
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