Uploaded January 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Gavin Ortlund offers a big-picture guide to the end times, explaining what all Christians agree on, where faithful disagreements remain, and why future hope should fuel present faithfulness rather than fear.

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Gavin Ortlund (PhD, Fuller Theological Seminary) is President of Truth Unites, Visiting Professor of Historical Theology at Phoenix Seminary, and Theologian-in-Residence at Immanuel Nashville.

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00:00 - Introduction
04:31 - Chapter 1: Four Dangers
04:36 - 1) Majoring on the Minors
07:13 - 2) Hype
09:15 - 3) Speculation
11:42 - 4) Historical Ignorance
15:21 - Chapter 2: Essential Doctrines
15:25 - 1) The Second Coming
15:35 - (1) The Second Coming Is Personal
16:49 - (2) The Second Coming Is Bodily
19:39 - (3) The Second Coming Will Be Sudden
20:43 - (4) The Second Coming Will Be Consummating
24:09 - 2) Final Resurrection
26:13 - 3) Final Judgement
29:22 - 4) The Final State
33:30 - Chapter 3: Disagreements
34:56 - 1) The Millennium
46:29 - 2) The Rapture
50:05 - 3) The Anti-Christ
53:45 - 4) The Great Tribulation
57:45 - Conclusion