All of us think about the end times. When we reflect on what will happen, not only when we die, but also when this present age ends, some combination of ideas, images, hopes, and fears flood our minds. And this is good. God wants us to reflect on the last things, to cultivate an apocalyptic spirituality in which our vision for the future affects our walk before God's face today. For that to happen well our eschatology, our doctrine of the last things, needs to be drawn from Scripture and not reflect our prejudices or wishes.

Thinking about our end can help us to live well — and die well. Especially in our day, with low infant mortality rates, long lifespans, and a medical model that typically removes dying people from society, we need to seize — and sometimes create — opportunities to focus on our end. And if we understand human death as a sign that even "the heavens will pass away" and the whole world will be laid bare, "all these things will be dissolved" (2 Pet. 3:10-11), then we also need to give thought to the end of everything.

What is this blessed hope? "Hope" refers to the fact that there is earnest waiting and confident expectation for something that will surely come. It is "blessed" because this hope, this thing or event that will be, imparts happiness, bliss, delight and glory. Even the exer­cise of this hope is blessed for it focuses on its glorious Author (Rom. 15:13) and all the wonderful truths that it includes — everlasting life, purification of life, boldness of speech, and more (Titus 1:2; 2 Cor. 3:12; 1 John 3:3).

The question before us now needs to be exam­ined rather carefully. The problem is that people sometimes ask the question in such a way that they seem to avoid alto­gether the idea of a "second chance." People in various sects will try to confuse their 'victims' by saying that it is not true they believe in a 'second probation,' arguing something like this: "The heathen and many other people never had even a first chance, for they never heard the gospel as we present it.

When we study "the last things" (the technical term is "Eschatology" which means, literally "study or knowledge of the end things"), we have to make some distinctions in order to make this vast field of study manageable. We all will experience "the last things" within a matter of some years, at most. When our life here comes to an end, we will face the Judge and enter heaven or hell, depending on whether this Judge has, earlier, become our Saviour and Redeemer.

The doctrine about the last things can be divided into two sections. We have dealt with the first: Individual Eschatology. Now we go into the second: General Eschatology. Basically, we will deal with such topics as: The Signs of the End, The Second Coming and the events associated with it, the Millennium and the position of the State of Israel. In dealing with all these issues, we should look back to the first chapter issued, in which various principles of Scriptural interpretation were laid out.

The aim of life must be to enter glory. This life is a preparation for entering the heavenly glory and to be with the Lord forever. That should be our foremost aim. It is sad that many people have other aims in life. Also in the church we find people, sometimes even many, who have other aims. They live for this world only. How blessed we are when we have become strangers in the earth and have found the true purpose of our existence in the living God. In order to go to glory, three things happen to God's children. First, after death their souls will go to be with the Lord.

How should Christians think about the future? This article answers this question by looking first at the context of the Old Testament. What, from the Old Testament perspective, was the believer's outlook upon the future?

When approaching the subject of the Bible and the future, what should we bear in mind? This article mentions several things: keep within the bounds of Scripture, focus upon the truth as it is in Christ, go back to the beginning to understand the promises for the future, and let your hope be nurtured by the Word.

This article is a bible study on the signs of the times and end of times based on Matthew 24-25. Here focus is on Matthew 25: 14-30. 

This article is a bible study on the signs of the times and end of times based on Matthew 24-25. Here focus is on Matthew 24: 43-51. 

Eschatology concerns itself with what will happen after death and after this present world comes to an end. This article argues that the biblical thinking about last things centres on the work of the Triune God. It also evaluates different views about the world to come.

The New Testament is clear that with the coming of Christ, the history of salvation has entered into the latter days. This article explains that the future is now, the future is still anticipated, and the future is promised on account of Christ's first coming.

This article discusses the main features of post-millennialism, a teaching that concerns the millennium.

What is the meaning of thousand years or millennium, first resurrection and second resurrection in Revelation 20? This article engages with this question by looking at the different approaches to the interpretation of Revelation 20. It then gives a possible interpretation of the text and draws conclusions.

This article disusses the terminology, history, and main features of amillennialism.

This article is a critique of premillennialism.