There are three especially important areas of truth that are in view as God, in our day, opens our eyes to much new truth that throughout the church age was not well understood. These areas are as follows. (1) The nature and timing of God's salvation plan. (2) The end-time details, which include the timeline of history. (3) The nature and character of God's plan of judgment.
In this study, we will focus to a small degree on the nature of God's salvation plan. Secondly, we will intensively focus on the end-time details. The nature and character of God's plan of judgment will be provided in a following book.

In Hebrews 8:10-11, God instructs us:

 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people: And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest.

These  verses  are  especially  focusing  on  God's  salvation  plan. Throughout the church age, the dominant teaching of most Biblical churches was to tell the brothers and sisters of the congregations how they might be sure they are saved or how they might become saved. A careful analysis of the teachings of these denominations invariably shows that they include the requirement that some contribution be made by the individual seeking salvation. These contributions could include actions such as water baptism, public profession of faith, the act of accepting Christ, the partaking of the Eucharist or communion table, or praying a certain kind of prayer. In virtually every case, there was a definite violation of the law of God, which clearly stipulates that all the work of saving a person was done by Christ, long before that person was born.*

In Hebrews 8:10-11, quoted above, God emphasizes that once the full revelation of the Bible occurs, the teaching on salvation in the world will be altogether Biblical. Mankind will not be taught how they might become saved, 

but rather that salvation is entirely the work of God (Ephesians 2:8-9). God will saving a great multitude who actually may understand very little of the Bible.

We will attempt to set forth a simple outline of the Biblical teaching concerning the salvation of the great multitude, which no man could number, who are being saved in our day.

1. The Bible commands the true believers to send the Gospel into all the world. God has guided the development of worldwide communications, such as radio and Internet, to make possible the hearing of the Gospel by every person in the world. 

2. In God's mysterious providence, many who know little or nothing about Bible truth will begin to realize the following.

a.  They are sinners who are on their way to some awful future in which they will be punished for their sins.

b. The Bible they are hearing about, and to which they have begun to listen, must be from God, and therefore, they begin to try to obey its commands.

c. They learn that judgment day is very near, but God is saving many people.

d. They begin to realize they can and must cry to God for mercy, hoping that maybe God will save them.

This is the present situation in the world, as more and more people are being saved all over the world, entirely by God's action. When God saves an individual, He gives that person a brand new, eternal, resurrected soul. Therefore, they have an intense, ongoing desire to be obedient to the Bible. The tremendous increase in the number of people who are now becoming saved, as the Bible insists (Revelation 7:9-14), surely is related to the fact that God is now revealing a great many truths of the Bible, which previous generations had not known.

The Bible Gives the Timeline of History

By carefully studying the whole Bible, we have learned that the Bible is not only a law book that sets forth all the laws by which God governs all mankind, but it is also a book that is given to mankind so that they can know God's timeline of history. We read in Ecclesiastes 8:5-7:

Whoso keepeth the commandment shall feel no evil thing: and a wise man's heart discerneth both time and judgment. Because to every purpose there is time and judgment, therefore the misery of man is great upon him. For he knoweth not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be?

In these verses, the word "judgment" is a synonym for the word "law." Thus, it is teaching that by studying the Bible, the true believer not only learns God's laws, particularly as they relate to God's judgment process, but also, he learns much about God's timetable for the earth.

For that reason, the true believer can know much about the timetable of history, including many truths about the timing of the end of the world. For those who do not follow the Biblical method of Bible interpretation, however, Christ will come as a thief in the night. Instantly, their misery will be enormously compounded when they realize, too late, that the end of the world has come. No longer will there be mercy or grace or salvation for the unsaved. Thus, we read in I Thessalonians 5:2-6:

For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape. But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief. Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness. Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober. For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.

And we read in Revelation 3:3:

Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard, and hold fast, and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come on

thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee.

In these verses, God is teaching us that those who read the Bible are divided in two kinds of people. There are those who are satisfied with their present understanding of their relationship with God. They know that someday the world will end, but their understanding is that the timetable of the last day is known only by God. Therefore, they think that mankind need not be concerned about it. For them, Christ indeed will come as a thief in the night. However, His coming for these individuals is for the purpose of destroying them. How awful!

On the other hand, there are those who have come to realize that God has given us much information in the Bible concerning the timetable of history. Therefore, they have learned, from the Bible, much about the timetable of the creation of the world and a great many other major events that are recorded in the Bible. They have also learned very much about the precise timetable of the end of the world. For them, the timing of the end of the world will not be unexpected.