BAVINCK ON KINGDOM BUILDING

Herman Bavinck:

“The history of the world which intervenes between Jesus’ ascension and return is a continuous coming of Christ, a progressive gathering of His church on earth, a continuing subjection of His enemies. Often we do not see it, we do not understand it, but Christ is in very fact the Lord of times, the king of the ages; He is the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last (Rev. 22:13). Because the Father has loved the Son, He created the world in Him, He elected the church, and all those who are given Him, to behold His glory with Him (John 17:24).

“The completion of the kingdom of God is therefore not the result of a gradual development of nature, nor a product of human effort… Read more

-Our Reasonable Faith: A Survey of Christian Doctrine (Baker, 1956), 559.

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