By David Chilton
Does the Bible educate Christians to anticipate victory or defeat during this global? during this robust publication, David Chilton units forth huge biblical facts for the old Christian view understand as postmillennialism - the educating that, ahead of the second one Coming of Christ, the realm may be effectively evangelized and discipled to Christianity. the writer emphasised that our view of the long run is inescapably sure up with our view of Jesus Christ. the truth that Jesus is now King of kings and Lord of lords signifies that His Gospel needs to be effective: The Holy Spirit will convey the water of lifestyles to the ends of the earth. The Christian message is one in every of desire: Pentecost used to be just the start
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60:5-6,9, 11) In line with this theme, the Bible describes us (Mal. 3:17) and our work for God’s kingdom (1 Cor. 3:11-15) in terms of jewelry; and, at the end of history, the whole City of God is a dazzling, brilliant display of precious stones (Rev. 21:18-21). The story of Paradise thus gives us important information about the origin and meaning of precious metals and stones, and therefore of money as well. Right from the beginning, God placed value upon gold and gems, having created them as reflections of His own glory and beauty.
32:13-15) 47 What, then, was God to do? What else could He possibly do, being God, but renew His image in mankind, so that through it men might once more come to know Him? And how could this be done save by the coming of the very Image Himself, our Saviour Jesus Christ? Men could not have done it, for they are only made after the Image; nor could angels have done it, for they are not the images of God. The Word of God came in His own Person, because it was He alone, the Image of the Father, Who could re-create man made after the Image.
The Lord Jesus prayed, in fact, that we would not be “raptured “: “My prayer is not that You take them out of the world but that you protect them from the evil one” (John 17:15). And this is the constant message of Scripture. God’s people will inherit all things, and the ungodly will be disinherited and driven out of the land. “For the upright will live in the land, and the blameless will remain in it; but the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the treacherous will be uprooted from it” (Prov.