Grace Then Peace

I thought Revelation was going to tell me something about the future. All I can answer is, it has. It has taken the same gospel of Jesus Christ—that God is present with us to bring us to new life, to support us, and to fulfill us—and applied it to the future. There is no different gospel for the future than for the present or the past. There is no use casting around for some easier, magical way to live our lives this next year.

Eugene Peterson

The greatest and best man in the world must say, By the grace of God I am what I am; but God says absolutely—and it is more than any creature, man or angel, can say I am that I am.

Matthew Henry

Because God lives in an everlasting now, He has no past and no future. When time words occur in the Scriptures, they refer to our time, not to His. . . . Since God is uncreated, He is not Himself affected by that succession of consecutive changes we call time. God dwells in eternity but time dwells in God.

A. W. Tozer

At His first coming, [Jesus] dealt with sin; at His second coming, He will deal with sinners. We must live either in verses five and six, freed by His blood, or in verse seven under His coming judgment. . . . If you will not let Him deal with you in love, He must come to you as your Judge.

Donald Grey Barnhouse

God is that out of which everything proceeds and exists. God is also the “end” in a more profound sense than that he will be around at the end of the world. The Greek word for “end” means that he is the destination of all things. His being is the fulfilled purpose for which all things exist.

Eugene Peterson