While Melbourne is gripped by the Spring Racing Carnival, the inaugural Carnival of the Reformation has just got underway, in celebration of Reformation Day. The first one is on Sola Scriptura...
Enjoy!
OPSM, Australia's leading provider of eye care and eye wear, is running a series of ads at the moment to do with transitions lenses:
"In the future, everyone will be wearing transitions lenses. But at OPSM, the future is now."
Now, I'm sure the folks at OPSM don't realise this, but they've come up with an excellent summary of Biblical eschatology. Eschatology is usually regarded as the study of future things, but according to the New Testament, the future has invaded the present. We are living in the last days. The 'eschaton' is now. Paul says in Ephesians 2:6 that Christians are right now seated with Christ in the heavenly places.
Of course, we need to temper this by noting that Biblical eschatology consists of two components - the 'now' and the 'not yet'. Although we are reigning with Christ now, yet we have to struggle with sin our whole lives long - if we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. So perhaps it would be better to say that the future 'starts' now.
But in any case, if we are united to Christ by faith, then for us, eternity has already begun.
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