LAST DAYS

Last Days-ESCHATOLOGY

 

God alone knows the future. "I am God, and there is none like Me, declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure" "and what shall be the sign . . . of the end of the world." "things which must . . . come to pass"

The ages had a beginning (Heb. 1:2), but they will never have an ending. The ages will roll on ceaselessly into the unending future (Eph. 3:21), and men will have a relationship to those future things either in a condition of life or in a condition of death.

"In the last days perilous times shall come" "There shall come in the last days scoffers" "the harvest is the end of the world"

"Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power. . . . And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him that God may be all in all."

 

Some people demonstrate that they have an interest in and bring their lives into conformity with the pattern, program, and preciousness of the future. It is certainly of practical value to each saint to be able to assure his own heart that he belongs to God and may therefore cherish the hope of experiencing the blessings of the future and escaping the blasts of judgment.

Are we living in the last days? The church, while on earth, according to scripture, exists in the last days. Hebrews 1:1-2 “...in these last days has spoken to us..." Regardless of how long these last days endure, we are living in the last days according to the writer to the Hebrews. 2000 years is a long last day(s). Hang on. We have to be close.