The Things To Come!
"Let them bring forth and show us what will
happen; let them show the former things,
what they were, that we may consider them,
and know the latter end of them; or declare
to us things to come."
Isaiah 41: 22
The late J. Dwight Pentecost was a long-time
professor. One of his earliest of many
books
was a massive volume—seven hundred plus
pages—titled 'Things to Come.'
It remains widely read today, with hundreds of
thousands of copies sold. It's length is an accurate
reflection of the attention the Bible gives to “things to
come”—specifically, the study of the doctrine of the
last things on God’s
prophetic timetable.
The prophets in the Old Testament saw the day
when God’s righteous rule would cover the earth
and when peace would fill the earth (Isaiah 11:1-9).
What they didn’t see as
clearly was the gap
between Messiah’s first and second comings,
meaning the truths about His coming glorious
Kingdom are still “things to come.”
The New Testament reveals His coming Kingdom
to be a thousand-year period (Revelation 20:1-6)
the Kingdom for which Jesus taught us to pray
(Matthew 6:10). Thank God that His Millennial
Kingdom is coming!
"The key to the history of the
world is the kingdom
of God."
D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
