The coming Kingdom of God & what the Bible wants us to know
“Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.”Matthew 6:10
Eschatology is the study of last things — ta eschata. But the Bible’s center of gravity is not a timetable; it is a Kingdom and its King. The hope carried by the prophets — Isaiah’s mountain where the nations stream, Daniel’s Son of Man receiving an everlasting dominion — is the hope Jesus announced as having drawn near: the age to come already breaking into this one, and not yet here in full. Its horizon is the resurrection of the body, the judgment and mending of all things, new heavens and a new earth, and God at home with his people.
The aim of this study is deliberately narrow: what does the Bible want us to know? Scripture itself draws the line — “the secret things belong to the LORD our God, but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children” (Deuteronomy 29:29). What is revealed is given for hope and obedience, not for chart-making. The one time Jesus was asked point-blank for the timeline, he answered like this:
“It is not for you to know times or seasons that the Father has fixed by his own authority. But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses.”Acts 1:7–8
That answer sets the posture of the whole study: watchfulness without speculation. The great texts are walked slowly, the frameworks are weighed against them rather than laid over them, and the chart is never allowed to replace the hope — a kingdom prayed for, awaited, and practiced in the meantime.
Isaiah’s mountain, Daniel’s Son of Man, Joel’s Day of the LORD
Matthew 24–25, Mark 13, Luke 21 — watch, therefore
1 Corinthians 15, 1 Thessalonians 4 — the dead raised imperishable
The Lamb, the judgment, the New Jerusalem come down
Pages will be gathered here as the work is written.