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"Future Salvation: Glorious Hope" (posted May 2, 2004)

Knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep; for now our salvation is nearer than when we first believed.
   - Romans 13:11

Kept by the power of God through faith for salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
   - 1 Peter 1:5

There remains a further group of Scriptures that clearly speak of salvation as a future thing. It is our hope, and is to be worn as a helmet (1 Thessalonians 5:8-9). Our hope of salvation will be realized at the second advent of Christ.

It is true that He is coming as the Judge, but we do not look for Him in that character. For us it is written, "We also eagerly wait for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who will transform our lowly body that it may be conformed to His glorious body" (Philippians 3:20-21). Hence it is that we are left here to look for Him when He shall "appear a second time, apart from sin, for salvation" (Hebrews 9:28).

This future salvation altogether depends upon the crowning act of mercy which will reach us as the last delivering act of the Lord Jesus on our behalf. "Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life" (Jude 21). It will involve the raising of the dead saints and the catching away of the living saints before the full storm of God's righteous wrath breaks on the earth. Then all true Christians -- both dead and living -- are to be found forever with Christ in bodies of glory like to His own. This will be the final thing. Salvation as regards ourselves will be absolutely completed.

Israel was saved out of Egypt in order that they might enjoy the land to which God called them. We are saved from the world, the flesh, the devil, and the wrath of God which is to come, in order that we may enjoy God's call to the place of sons and share the coming glory of Christ. The salvation which is ours in Christ is a very mighty and wonderful thing; and thereby we are liberated to enjoy our calling now.

Frank B. Hole
Adapted from The Great Salvation (Central Bible Truth Depot, Ltd., London)



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