“The Day of the Lord - Phase 2 - The Return of Our Lord Jesus Christ - Dispensational Contrasts - Part 1”

The Day of the Lord has three phases, the 7 Year Tribulation Period, the return of our Lord Jesus Christ, and then the 1000 year Millennial reign of Christ in his Kingdom.  This second phase is usually called the "second coming" of Christ since our Lord had already come to this earth in his incarnation that led ultimately to his  preaching of the Gospel of the Kingdom to the Jews, and finally, to his crucifixion, burial, and after three days, to his glorious resurrection.  That preaching was dramatically different from what Paul preached to the Gentiles.  Specifically, because God was working so differently under the grace administration in which works for salvation were prohibited, under the gospel of the kingdom which Christ preached they were required in addition to faith.  Today's lesson focuses on the teaching of our Lord found in Matthew, chapters 24 & 25. There we find a four part teaching for the Tribulation Jews to which his teaching directly applied exhorting them to consider carefully requirements of the time just before the the flood along with three parables concerning the Lord's return to this earth. This was to prepare the elect of Israel "to endure until the end that they might be saved".  The teaching today will provide a foundation for our dispensational understanding of the differences between the Tribulation and the dispensation of the grace of God and how distinctive the working of God leading to the Second Coming is from God's working under grace today.