Sentences with phrase «promised consummation»

The Council helped us to see that the church too is on pilgrimage, led by God to the promised consummation of history.

Over the centuries, these «alien citizens,» still far from their true home in the New Jerusalem that is history's promised consummation, have followed the course of Christian fidelity in accepting responsibility for the well - being of what is their home in time before the End Time.

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In so doing, he has appeased His Holiness, Justice, and Wrath; He has conquered the enemy that we brought into the world by our rebellion, which is death itself, by rising from the dead and living and reigning as victorious King and Savior; and He has reconciled those who believe in Him to Himself that they may live life eternal with Him at the consummation of all perfection, for perfection will be restored as He has promised!

That entanglement, and the imperatives that it entails, will, it seems, continue until the final consummation of messianic promise.

The Bible ends in the last chapter of Revelation with the promise that in the end the whole cosmos will be brought to glorious consummation in the appearance of a new heaven and a new earth.

Obviously the final consummation of all things in the full glory of the promised New Age has never come to pass.

Where hope is born in the expectation of a good future, of a consummation of life in which its promise is fulfilled, the Spirit is the source.

So the present time of the disciple is filled with the reality of God — that is what gives it its meaning — and the promise is that nothing is to be expected other than a consummation of the experience of this reality in the future.