1. First be a lover of truth even as Jesus is the way, The Truth and the life (John 14:6). All God’s works are done in truth (Psalms 33:4). See scripture as the authority and not be blown by every wind of doctrine (Ephesians 4:14) or manmade traditions (Mathew 15:6) that may be taught by others on the end-times. Therefore, correctly handle the word of God (2 Timothy 2:15).

2. Be a believer (John 3:16) who acquires the wisdom (Proverbs 4:7) of hearing from God (John 10:27) and have the Holy Spirit as your teacher (John 16:13).

3. Use mainline bibles and not modern paraphrase versions. The King James Version of the bible is commonly used in end-time study.

4. Central to end-time study is the orderly timeline of events in the book of Revelation. 

5. Other end-time scriptures such as Mathew 24 will make sense when you see that the sun-moon-stars event is also found at the sixth seal in Revelation 6:12. Therefore you now have a bigger picture by combining the two scriptural blocks. The same will be true with other end-time scripture like found in Daniel as to how they can relate to the Revelation time-line.

6. Spend time with scripture as not to overlook any minute details that can carry over to relate to other scripture. Do not alter scripture (Revelation 22:18-19).

7. It can even take many years of study and divine inspiration to picture the end-times in steps. Some scriptural end-time events found outside of the book of Revelation can be difficult or seem impossible to place in an exact position on the Revelation timeline.