
And On and On the Ages Roll
Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow
J. H. Bavinck(Author)
Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published on 30. July 2019
178 pages
978-1-5326-5887-7 (ISBN)
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Scripture testifies that in the work of Jesus Christ the power of Satan, sin, and death has been broken. Yet on and on the ages roll, and wars rage, humans destroy one another and themselves, and natural evils such as earthquakes and tsunamis occur. We seem to suffer what J. H. Bavinck calls "the great delay," still awaiting Christ's final victory.
In this illuminating survey of the book of Revelation, Bavinck examines the status of the church and the world in the times of the end but before the "final finish." Bavinck suggests the church is based on its mission to show the way of God and share his good news in the world. This mission occurs in a world claimed by Christ's victory, but still marked by the demonic and human hubris. Revelation is a literature that discloses the church's perennial challenges in a time claimed and won by Christ, yet still resistant to his lordship. The book peels back the veil to expose a battle not only on earth, but in the heavens, and assures the sometimes faltering church that it is not forgotten and Christ's victory is certain.
Bavinck centers his account of Revelation in its chapter 12, the strange woman who is crowned and yet haunted and hunted, driven to the edge of civilization. He sees in this woman, the bearer of a child, a figure of the church that bears its child and Lord, Jesus Christ. Like the woman, the church in these times between the times, is both crowned as God's royalty and often scorned by the world.
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Eugene
United States
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978-1-5326-5887-7 (9781532658877)
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J. H. Bavinck (1895-1964) was a pastor and missionary in the Dutch Reformed Church. He served as professor of missions and practical theology at Free University in Amsterdam. His other books included An Introduction to the Science of Missions, The Riddle of Life, and Between the Beginning and the End.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Chapter 1: Between Anxiety and Ecstasy
- This strange world
- The great "not-yet"
- The two scenarios
- This demonic world
- Where do we stand ourselves?
- Chapter 2: The Road More Troubled
- Where we are now
- Life is dangerous.
- Everything is different than it seems
- Caesar or Christ
- In the grip of money
- The very ordinary life
- The only Mission Church
- The mortal self-deceit
- The Road more troubled
- Chapter 3: The Ban Is Broken
- Above the earth are the vaulting heavens
- The Grand Vision
- The first rustling of the coming things
- The beginning of the last things
- Eternity and Time
- Chapter 4: God's Great Disruption
- The thread is unwinding
- The rider with a crown
- The Three Great Disasters
- The hiddenness of the last seals
- The emergency signal
- Chapter 5: The World Advances toward Chaos
- The background of the great delay
- The horizon retreats
- The great panorama
- The two witnesses
- Chapter 6: The Very Last Unmasking
- Overview
- The architecture of the Human Kingdom
- The Fall of Babylon
- The Edge of the History of the World
- Chapter 7: What Is Behind the End
- The question of the 1000-year Kingdom
- The Final Finish
- Chapter 8: On and On the Ages Roll
- Image and CounterImage
- Everything becomes what it is
- And what about us?
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