2 - Trade up: using candy and $, trade, barter to consider what you think will be the most valuable. Individual trading, no teams.

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1 GAMES 1 - Keep stuffed animal in the air (use sheep, need one more). No catching the animal, it must remain in the air. - Award fake $ and candy to teams 2 - Trade up: using candy and $, trade, barter to consider what you think will be the most valuable. Individual trading, no teams. (We are going to discuss the end-time today and as we do think about how valuable money or food (candy) will be then) LESSON INTRO Leave LA scene from movie 2012 Group questions 1) Do you believe there will be an end-times ; what will it look like? 2) What does the Bible say about the end-times Hand out Time-line Discuss timeline first and introduce the periods of time Split into groups to look up passages listed on the timeline Group 1: Rapture, Anti-Christ, and New heaven and earth Group 2: Battle, Christ return, and White Throne Bring everyone back together for discussion Discuss questions and comments from each group Application There are several things you can do with what you learned about the end-times tonight. - You can make a choice if you want to do anything - You can make sure you are ready for the Rapture - You can wait until the Rapture occurs to decide - If you wait until after the Rapture occurs, and you see the events we discussed tonight happening, you will understand what is happening and what will happen - You can share what you have learned with those you know

2 Present Day NOW Rapture Seven Year Tribulation begins - Luke 17: Thess 4:15-18 World Leader Emerges - Peace covenant with the whole world 144,000 Evangelists witnesses to the world Anti-Christ and Beast Revealed - Mark of the Beast: Rev 13:15-17 Battle of Armageddon - Satan cast into the abyss: Rev 20:1-3 Christ's Return to Earth to Reign for 1,000 years - Separation of sheep and goats (Matt 25:31-46) - Christ reigns for 1,000 years Satan released attempts to deceive Nations but is defeated and cast into the lake of fire 1,000 YEARS 7 YEAR TRIBULATION Great White Throne of Judgement - Judgment of all unbelievers: Rev 20:11-15 New Heavens and New Earth - Rev 21:4-5 ETERNITY

3 Luke 17:26-30 New King James Version (NKJV) 26 And as it was in the days of Noah, so it will be also in the days of the Son of Man: 27 They ate, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all. 28 Likewise as it was also in the days of Lot: They ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built; 29 but on the day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all. 30 Even so will it be in the day when the Son of Man is revealed. 1) Does the Bible say when the Rapture will occur? 2) What were people doing right up until the flood occurred? Why didn't they believe Noah? Will it be the same before the Rapture? 1 Thess 4: For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord will by no means precede those who are asleep. 16 For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. 17 Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord. 18 Therefore comfort one another with these words. 1) How will the Rapture start? 2) Who will be raptured? Who will be left on the earth? 3) What do you think it will be like on the earth after the Rapture? Rev 13: He was granted power to give breath to the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak and cause as many as would not worship the image of the beast to be killed. 16 He causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads, 17 and that no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark or[a] the name of the beast, or the number of his name. 1) Who will be killed during the Tribulation period? 2) Who will receive the mark 3) What is the purpose of the mark ; how valuable will money, food, friends be during the Tribulation? Rev 20: Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, having the key to the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. 2 He laid hold of the dragon, that serpent of old, who is the Devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years; 3 and he cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal on him, so that he should deceive the nations no more till the thousand years were finished. But after these things he must be released for a little while. 1) What happens to Satan at the end of the Tribulation period? 2) How long will Satan be bound? 3) When will Satan be released?

4 Matt 25: When the Son of Man comes in His glory, and all the holy[a] angels with Him, then He will sit on the throne of His glory. 32 All the nations will be gathered before Him, and He will separate them one from another, as a shepherd divides his sheep from the goats. 33 And He will set the sheep on His right hand, but the goats on the left. 34 Then the King will say to those on His right hand, Come, you blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: 35 for I was hungry and you gave Me food; I was thirsty and you gave Me drink; I was a stranger and you took Me in; 36 I was naked and you clothed Me; I was sick and you visited Me; I was in prison and you came to Me. 41 Then He will also say to those on the left hand, Depart from Me, you cursed, into the everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels: 42 for I was hungry and you gave Me no food; I was thirsty and you gave Me no drink; 43 I was a stranger and you did not take Me in, naked and you did not clothe Me, sick and in prison and you did not visit Me. 1) Who are the sheep and the goats 2) What happens to the sheep ; the goats? 3) What criteria does God use to separate the sheep/goats? Rev 20: Then I saw a great white throne and Him who sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away. And there was found no place for them. 12 And I saw the dead, small and great, standing before God,[a] and books were opened. And another book was opened, which is the Book of Life. And the dead were judged according to their works, by the things which were written in the books. 13 The sea gave up the dead who were in it, and Death and Hades delivered up the dead who were in them. And they were judged, each one according to his works. 14 Then Death and Hades were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. [b] 15 And anyone not found written in the Book of Life was cast into the lake of fire. 1) What happens at the Great White Throne? 2) What criteria does God use to judge? 3) Who is cast into the lake of fire? Rev 21:4-5 4 And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes; there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying. There shall be no more pain, for the former things have passed away. 5 Then He who sat on the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And He said to me,[a] Write, for these words are true and faithful. 1) What will eternity look like? 2) What are former things ; how can there be no pain, sorrow, crying, etc?

5 Present Day NOW Rapture Seven Year Tribulation begins - Luke 17: Thess 4:15-18 World Leader Emerges - Peace covenant with the whole world 144,000 Evangelists witnesses to the world Anti-Christ and Beast Revealed - Mark of the Beast: Rev 13:15-17 Battle of Armageddon - Satan cast into the abyss: Rev 20:1-3 Christ's Return to Earth to Reign for 1,000 years - Separation of sheep and goats (Matt 25:31-46) - Christ reigns for 1,000 years Satan released attempts to deceive Nations but is defeated and cast into the lake of fire 1,000 YEARS 7 YEAR TRIBULATION Great White Throne of Judgement - Judgment of all unbelievers: Rev 20:11-15 New Heavens and New Earth - Rev 21:4-5 ETERNITY