This lesson for teenagers talks about Christ's return and the new heavens and new earth.

1. 1 & 2 Thessalonians
The end of the world is here !!!!

2. 1 & 2 Thessalonians
 A Wonderful Testimony – 1 Thess 1:3
 Steadfast Faith – 1 Thess 3:7-8
 A Call For Integrity – 1 Thess 4:!
 Anticipate Christ’s Coming – 1 Thess 4:16
 The Coming Judgement – 2 Thess 1:1-12
 Concerning Christ’s Second Coming – Matt 24:44
 Living Confident in Christ – 2 Thess 3:3
 Commanded to Live Wisely – Eph 5:17

3. Concerning Christ’s
Second Coming
Matthew 24:44

4. Central Truth
We live with the
assurance that Christ will
be coming back for us!

5. Focus
Learning Objectives
 Christ’s second coming is a reassuring
truth
 Know that there will be false teachers
and false teachings
 Stay alert!
 New heavens and new earth

6. The Timeline

7. Group Dynamics
Re-create the timeline in your own
style
Include some drawings
Take a photo of it
Post the photo immediately into
the Z3 Facebook Group
15 Mins

8. 2 Thessalonians 2:1-10
Do not be troubled
Do not be deceived
false teachers and false
teachings will come along
(Matt 24:24)

9. Matt 24:36,42,44
Unknown, but not
unexpected!

10. New Heavens and New
Earth!

11. Christ holds all things
together
 New International Version (©2011)
 He is before all things, and in him all things hold together.
 New Living Translation (©2007)
 He existed before anything else, and he holds all creation
together.
 English Standard Version (©2001)
 And he is before all things, and in him all things hold
together.

12. Old heavens and earth will
pass away
2 Peter 3:10,12 – reserved for fire,
everything will dissolve at Christ’s
command, heat is involved!

13. New heavens, new earth,
new Jerusalem
Revelations 21:1-2
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