A Prelude to the
End of the World

A Prelude to the End of the World

A Biblical Survey of Prophecy from Genesis to Revelation

By Brandon Wallis

A Prelude to the End of the World
A Biblical Survey of Prophecy from Genesis to Revelation
“Declaring the endfrom the beginning…”Isaiah 46:10
Brandon Wallis
  • 22 chaptersThree parts of seven, then the gospel
  • King James VersionQuoted throughout, old words explained
  • Questions for studyAt the end of every chapter
  • Other views answeredStated fairly, then answered from the text
  • Six appendicesOrder of events, hard questions, tables
  • Scripture indexFind where any passage is treated

God has never been silent about the future.

One verse in four in the Bible is prophecy, and all of it points to one Person. Yet most believers have never seen the whole road laid out, from the promise in the garden to the city where God dwells with men. Most books on the subject either hand them a chart without the texts or the texts without the road.

A Prelude to the End of the World is that road, in order, with a King James Bible open beside it. It follows seven timelines that converge on the return of Christ. It walks through the rapture, Daniel’s seventy weeks, the seals, trumpets, and bowls, the Antichrist, Armageddon, the kingdom, and the new creation, and at every step it quotes the text and shows the reader where to check it.

It is written for the Christian who wants to know what the Bible actually says about the end, who is willing to read it slowly with a Bible open beside it, and who wants to see the case made from the texts and tested against the other views. It is also written to be used, not only read. A pastor, a study leader, or a believer working through Revelation for the first time will find the chapters self-contained enough to consult on their own, and the questions at the end of each chapter are meant for a group as much as for a single reader.

It is a long book, because the texts are in it. The reader with limited time is given a short route through it in the Prologue: six chapters, in order, that carry the whole argument.

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What is in it

Twenty-two chapters in three parts, then the gospel. The first seven follow the seven timelines through the age we live in, one line to a chapter. The second seven follow the same seven lines through the seven years of the tribulation. The last seven run from the return of Christ to the new creation. Each chapter below is linked to its place on the chart.

Part I: The Season Is Late

  1. The Author and Subject of Prophecy Heaven’s line
  2. God Is Not Done with Israel Israel’s
  3. What Is Sown in Dishonor Is Raised in Glory the believer’s
  4. This Is Where All of Human History Is Heading the prophetic read it free
  5. The Instability in Nature Is Not Random the earth’s
  6. People Will Call Good Evil and Evil Good fallen man’s
  7. A Defeated Enemy Operating on Borrowed Time Satan’s

Part II: Hell’s Dress Rehearsal on Earth

  1. While Judgment Falls on Earth, Heaven Erupts in Celebration Heaven’s
  2. In Their Distress, They Will Finally Seek His Face Israel’s
  3. God Never Leaves the Earth Without a Witness the believer’s
  4. The Creation Is Being Undone the earth’s
  5. What Began at Babel Goes Back to Babel fallen man’s
  6. Comply or Be Erased the prophetic
  7. His Power Is Not His Own Satan’s

Part III: The Story That Began in a Garden Ends in a City

  1. There Is One King, One Lord, One Name
  2. History’s Final Battle Is Nothing More Than a Footnote
  3. The City of God Becomes a City of Peace at Last
  4. The Problem Is the Heart
  5. Everything You Thought Would Protect You Is Gone
  6. Always Being Consumed but Never Consumed Entirely
  7. The Tabernacle of God Is with Men

The Gospel

  1. Salvation Is Not a Reward for the Worthy. It Is a Gift for the Willing. read it free

Then A Final Word; six appendices: A, The Order of Events; B, A Note on Method; C, Tables for Reference; D, Hard Questions; E, Where Each Passage Is Treated; F, Seven Marks of a False Teacher; a glossary of terms and a glossary of King James words; a Scripture index of about 1,250 references; and a bibliography. The appendices and glossaries are free to read here.

Read some of it now

  • Chapter 4, in full: Nebuchadnezzar’s statue, the four empires, and the seventy weeks of Daniel, counted to the day.
  • Chapter 22, the gospel, on a page of its own.
  • The hard questions of Appendix D: children at the rapture, those who never heard, salvation after the rapture, the mark of the beast.
  • Every appendix and both glossaries, to read or to print.

How it reads the Bible

Every conclusion in the book rests on how it reads Scripture, so the Prologue states the method before anything is built on it: each passage is read for what its words plainly say, in the grammar the writer used and the setting he wrote into, and the rest of Scripture is allowed to interpret it before any outside idea is brought in. Literal does not mean wooden; a figure is taken as a figure. What the method refuses is the further step of deciding that a plain statement means something other than it says because the plain sense is unwelcome or hard. Where the book goes beyond what the text states, it labels the step an inference, and where the author only pictures what a text describes, it says so.

No book on prophecy is neutral, and this one does not pretend to be. It holds that the church will be caught up before the seven-year tribulation, that Christ will return bodily to reign on this earth for a thousand years, and that God’s promises to Israel remain Israel’s. Every opposing view it names is stated in its own strongest form, with its own verses, and then answered. It sets no date and names no candidate for the Antichrist. See where the book stands and what the author believes.

The book and the chart

The chart came first. It was begun in January 2019 and drawn one box at a time, and the book grew out of it years later. Writing the book meant testing every box against the text, and some things changed: a few dates, and how firmly some things are said. The chart is being revised to match, and where the two differ today, the book is the author’s settled view. Every chapter is linked to its place on the chart, and the printed book carries the chart’s address, so a reader can put the two side by side.

A shorter companion, A Prelude to the End of the World: The King Is Coming!, is being written from this book for the churchgoer and the Wednesday-night group: the same road with the detours removed. It states the positions this book defends and moves on, and when a reader wants the full case and the other views, it sends him here.

The author

Brandon Wallis is a Bible teacher and disciple-maker. He leads several one-on-one Bible studies each week and is a student of Faith Bible Institute, a church-based program of biblical study. He is the founder of Strangers & Pilgrims and a painter. He wrote the book because he could not find one volume that laid the whole road out, from Genesis to the new creation, for an ordinary reader with a King James Bible open beside it. Write to him.