According to Joel, the timing for the Spirit’s work is described as preceding “the day of the Lord” for a time of judgment and reward of the righteous. As we come to the fulfillment of this prediction, the outpouring of the Holy Spirit that began in Jerusalem in chapter 2 occurred “before the great and…
The passage in our title reads, “These things happened to them as examples, and they were written for our admonition, on whom the ends of the ages have come” (NKJV). The arrival of the Holy Spirit that marked the last days implies that the end or goal of all past types and shadows has arrived…
We should not think of Jesus delivering the kingdom to the Father in 1 Corinthians 15 as if he is relinquishing His post and ending his reign. First, if deliver here means surrender, or abdicate, what does it mean in verse two? The same word in the same chapter speaks of Paul delivering the message…
When Paul writes in 1 Corinthians 15:24, “then comes the end,” the “end” is the same consistent end spoken of throughout the New Testament – the end of the Jewish era. We have nothing in the scriptures that use this language to refer to the end of time or the end of the world (kosmos)….
Christ’s return or His second coming would mark the end of one age and the start of another. The prophet, Daniel, refers to the end of the age or days in his last words of prophecy (Daniel 12:13). It was used in the context of the siege of Jerusalem, the abomination of desolation, and the…
Several other biblical topics are tied to the last day events. We will place them here under the second coming of Christ because they will be accomplished when he returns. As we divide each topic, we cannot but notice that the content in each section overlap each other because they all pertain to the same…
We have already looked at these terms but not in the particular context of the second coming of Christ. The incarnation and entrance into this world was in the “last days.” Hebrews 1:2 reads, In these last days has spoken to us in His Son, whom He appointed heir of all things, through whom also…
Few would deny that a relationship exists between the miracles of the first century and the coming of the Lord. However, there is also a relationship between the miraculous work of the Holy Spirit and the imminent return of Jesus, after His ascension. A connection exists between the Holy Spirit’s presence to Jesus’ absence from…
I was taught that the miraculous powers of the Holy Spirit began at the first part of the last days but would end at the cross when the Old Law was nailed to it (Col. 2:14). I was conditioned to think that the Mosaic age was replaced by the Christian Age when Christ started the…
The use of the word “end” speaks of the completion of an age. That which accompanied that age, including the gift of the Holy Spirit and spiritual gifts, served a purpose for that age. Peter writes, “the end of all things is at hand” (1 Peter 4:7). When the New Testament refers to the end,…