The Future (1-33) -- How the Past Shapes the Future

Episode Synopsis:

We are beginning a new series on the Blessed Hope Podcast, “The Future.”

In this series we will wrestle with the question “what does the future hold for God’s people?”  What historical events and biblical prophecies remain to be fulfilled before Jesus returns on the last day?  How are we to interpret the various signs of the end we find throughout the New Testament?

In this series we will talk about the necessity of understanding the biblical past (specifically the person and work of Jesus Christ) since this gives us the biblical context to understand the promises God makes to us about the future.  What do we expect and what are we to be looking for?  To what (or to whom) do the signs of the end point?

In order to answer these questions we will need to talk about the proper biblical framework in which the signs of the end unfold.  Our future expectation is not the Rapture or a millennial age, but the return of Jesus Christ to raise the dead, judge the world, and make all things new.  Biblically speaking, all of the promises of the future center in and upon our Lord’s return.  This is the critical event to which all of the signs of the end point us.

So, what is included among the signs of the end?  We’ll talk about this in some detail in the episodes to come.  Wars and rumors of war?  What about technology?  What about plagues?  We’ve just lived through one.  What about Israel?  What role will Israel play in the future?  What about an Antichrist?  How does he figure into the end times?  Can we make any specific predictions about what is to come?
  

We discuss all of the things and more in coming episodes in our new Blessed Hope Podcast series “The Future.” 

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