There is much in the Scriptures of both the Old and the New Testament that present us with a steadfast hope.

Romans 15:4—For whatsoever things were written aforetime (in the Scriptures of the Old Testament) were written for our learning (our instruction), that we through patience (steadfast patience and endurance) and comfort (encouragement) of the Scriptures might have (a hold on) hope (the expectation of good.)

We find this hope in the Covenants and in the accounts of ancient victories in which the Lord God displayed both His might and His mercy. The prophecies that held a vital Word for the first recipients of their message also reach through the ages like an arrow shooting toward its goal in the closing of this age. Whatever the Scripture, whatever its purpose, whoever delivered it, there is an underlying theme of the great HOPE of the ages. This hope reaches all the way back to the Garden in Eden when the Lord God commissioned the first Man and Woman to subdue the earth and bring order to its government. A fight continues to this day over this government, but with a hope only this present age knows. This hope lies in the triumph won for us by the Lord Jesus Christ in His death and resurrection. Through this, we have a stronghold on the expectation of whose shall be the final rule. It will belong to the Lord Jesus Christ, and those joined with Him.

I John 3:2,3—Beloved, now are we the sons of God (now are we the tek’na, the children of God), and it doth not yet appear (it is not yet made manifest) what we shall be: but we know (assuredly) that, when He shall appear (whenever He shall become manifest), we shall be like Him; for we shall see Him as He is (just as He is). And every man that hath this hope in him (and everyone holding this hope upon himself) purifieth himself (is making himself ceremonially and morally clean and pure), even as He is pure (just as the Lord Jesus Christ is ceremonially and morallyclean and pure).

FATHER, with a sure hope in my heart, I give myself over to Your Spirit and Your Word that I might become pure for You and Your purpose as this age comes to its close. There is a hope within me that has been there since I was young, that Jesus Christ is alive. I have an assurance that He is living within my heart. Let these I hold before You come to this same assurance. Draw us all to a purity worthy of Your Kingdom.

Christ Is Revealed at the Latter Day—Col 3:4; I John 2:28