Our Eschatological Age

The times in which we live make the impression on many people of God, who take the Word of God and the promise of the coming of Christ seriously, that they are, in a special sense of the word "eschatological", precursory to the end of all things. More than once, not only in our part of the world, but also, and especially, in the old world, this impression is voiced. I say "impression," for the expectation and hope that the coming of the Lord is near is by no means always the result of a process...