ow many of those who profess the Christian faith realize the stupendous importance to the human race of that amazing series of events which happened in Palestine during the opening years of the Christian era?
Roderick Campbell
Israel and the New Covenant
We believe that the Great Commission includes not merely the formal and external announcement of the Gospel preached as a "witness" to the nations...but the true and effectual evangelization of all the nations so that the hearts and lives of the people are transformed by it. That seems quite clear from the fact that all authority in heaven and on earth and an endless sweep of conquest has been given to Christ and through Him to His disciples specifically for that purpose.
Loraine Boettner
The Millennium
Assuredly, I say to you, this generation will by no means pass away till all these things are fulfilled.
Matthew 24:34
...how under His mighty working the instrumentalities for spreading the Gospel may be seen indefinitely multiplying: all the missionary principle and energy of a Church, quickened from the base torpor of ages previous...majestic steps in Providence startling men from their stupid slumbers...constraining their attention to long despised truths...these and other such things, in connexion with direct and copious effusions of the Spirit, the heart delights to think of as destined to effect that universal submission to the sceptre of Christ which is to characterize the latter day.
David Brown
Christ's Second Coming/Will It Be Premillennial?
For He must reign till He has put all enemies under His feet.
1 Corinthians 15:25
The covenant concept of "all nations blessed" comes to the fore in the poetry of the Psalter. The composers of the Book of Praise of the Old Testament looked for the triumph of the church upon earth. They rejoiced in this concept for it would redound to the glory of their God. There are no better missionary hymns than those contained in the Psalms. One of the contributing factors to the present day pessimism, gloominess, defeatism within the church is the omitting of the Psalms from the hymn books. They should have first place...In Psalm 22..."All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the Lord: and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee. For the kingdom is the Lord's: and he is the governor among the nations."
Marcellus Kik
An Eschatology of Victory
There have been great and glorious days of the gospel in this land; but they have been small in comparison of what shall be.
James Renwick (martyred 1688)
Quoted by Iain Murray in The Puritan Hope
...The issue of the great scheme of redemption is by no means uncertain, His cause must prosper, His throne must be established, and the will of the Lord must be done. Let us brace ourselves up this morning with the delightful prospect of the predestined triumph of the kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ.
Charles Spurgeon
The Sure Triumph of the Crucified One
They shall not hurt nor destroy in all My holy mountain, for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the sea.
Isaiah 11:9
Men have spoken too soon in claiming that the world has now entered a post-christian era and we have been fools to believe them.
Iain Murray
The Puritan Hope
The kingdoms of this world have become the kingdoms of our Lord and of His Christ, and He shall reign forever and ever!
Revelation 11:15b
We may surely regard it as axiomatic that what God has plainly commanded and promised can, by His help, be achieved. The Old Testament promises of world-wide blessing are far too numerous to mention, but may all, without exaggeration, be summed up in the words of the last of the Old Testament prophets which read: I have no pleasure in you, saith the Lord of hosts, neither will I accept an offering at your hand. For from the rising of the sun unto the going down of the same my name shall be great among the Gentiles; and in every place incence shall be offered unto my name, and a pure offering; for my name shall be great among the heathen (Malachi 1:10-11).
Roderick Campbell
Israel and the New Covenant
The word of God teems with intimations, direct or indirect with statements or inferences with assurances and prophecies of a day of coming universal religious revival.
John Lorimer
Encouragements to Expect, Pray, and Labour for the Revival of Religion
...when Rutherford lay dying at St. Andrews...he spoke with the same anticipation..."We cannot but say it is a sad time to this land at present, it is a day of darkness and rebuke and blasphemy...Yet we are to believe, Christ will not so depart from the land, but a remnant shall be saved; and he shall reign a victorious conquering King to the ends of the earth."
Iain Murray
The Puritan Hope
