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What is Our Hope for the Future? [99 in :99]

August 25, 2021 | Aaron Armstrong

One of the common themes in fiction is the future. There are entire genres built around “what if” scenarios, imagining what could happen, with visions of peaceful utopias, where everyone lives in harmony, or dystopian nightmares where everything is pretty much the worst. And while our imaginary futures are fascinating, God has given us a glimpse of what is really going to happen. Let’s take a look together. 

The Bible ends with a vision of the future—a vision of where everything is actually heading. After Christ returns and the children of God are revealed, all of creation will be made new. All of God’s people, everyone who puts their faith in Jesus, will have new bodies, glorified as Christ’s is, forever free from the effects of sin that plague us today. But it’s not just us who will be made new. The physical world itself will undergo a similar transformation. And this transformation is so extreme that the Bible describes it as a new heaven and a new earth. There’s a lot about this that we don’t know about this new earth, but here’s what we can know:

The new earth will be a holy world and we will be entirely holy people. We will feast on the finest foods and drinks without shame or fear of overindulgence. We will have renewed and redeemed desires. We will have identities uncompromised by status-seeking and sin. But most importantly, we will live in a real world where we will delight in the presence of Jesus, whom we will see face to face for the first time and who will live with us forever (Luke 22:18; Rev. 21).

This is a world we can hardly imagine, greater than any human vision of the future. It will be the world as God intends it, the world we’re looking forward to. So we live faithfully day-by-day in this world, sharing the gospel and making God’s glory known in the world, waiting for the day that this new creation will begin.

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About Aaron Armstrong

Aaron Armstrong is the author of several books including Epic: The Story that Changed the World, Awaiting a Savior, and the screenwriter of the documentary Luther: the Life and Legacy of the German Reformer. From August 2016 until September 2021, Aaron was the Brand Manager of The Gospel Project and publishing team leader for The Gospel Project for Adults. Follow him on Twitter.

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  1. Rudy Schellekens says

    October 1, 2021 at 9:34 pm

    I am looking for a list of the “Essential DOctrines” as referenced throughout the material for “From Creation to Chaos.”

  2. Jerry Milam says

    April 9, 2022 at 6:45 am

    I am looking for a list of the “Essential Doctrines” as referenced throughout the material for “From Conquest To A Kingdom”.
    Can you help me with this?

  3. Carl Mueller says

    June 16, 2022 at 6:40 am

    Rudy and Jerry: try this link.

    https://gospelproject.lifeway.com/wp-content/uploads/tgp2018/2018/03/99-Essentials-Booklet.pdf

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