“O, hear the music of God’s future” by Christopher J. H. Wright

“Mission means inviting all the peoples of the earth to hear the music of God’s future and dance to it today.”
–Christopher J. H. Wright, The Mission of God: Unlocking the Bible’s Grand Narrative (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2006), 134.

“We do not know the play” by C.S. Lewis

“The doctrine of the Second Coming teaches us that we do not and cannot know when the world drama will end. The curtain may be rung down at any moment: say, before you have finished reading this paragraph. This seems to some people intolerably frustrating. So many things would be interrupted. Perhaps you were going [...]

“The World’s Last Night” by C.S. Lewis

“There are many reasons why the modern Christian and even the modern theologian may hesitate to give to the doctrine of Christ’s Second Coming that emphasis which was usually laid on it by our ancestors. Yet it seems to me impossible to retain in any recognisable form our belief in the Divinity of Christ and [...]

“May that happy day come soon!” by Charles H. Spurgeon

“The Lord pronounces a curse upon these Pharisees and Rabbis, these who ‘thrust with side and with shoulder,’ those evil shepherds who will not suffer the sheep to lie down, neither will feed them with good pasture. But, after having described this state, He prophesies better times for the poor Jew. The day is coming [...]

“See the world from the heavenly perspective” by Richard Bauckham

“John is taken, as it were, out of this world in order to see it differently… John (and thereby his readers with him) is taken up into heaven in order to see the world from the heavenly perspective. He is given a glimpse behind the scenes of history so that he can see what is [...]

“Sound and healthy otherworldliness” by E.J. Bicknell

“Eschatology does not weaken but strengthen the call to present sanctification. Life is to be lived here and now by those who will have to give an account of it. But the temptation to shirk the ordinary tasks of the present age is sharply rebuked. Christians are to be better citizens, better workmen, better servants [...]