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The Advent Hope for Human Hopelessness: A Theological Study of the Meaning of the Second Advent for Today is unavailable, but you can change that!

There is a boom today in Christian literature dealing with biblical prophecies on the end of the world. Much of this literature treats the prophecies with either skepticism or sensationalism. The result is that many ordinary Christians are either abandoning their hope in the return of Christ, or becoming excessively preoccupied with watching for imminent events which are supposed to bring about...

unpredictable factors as mastery of the subject, type of questions, physical fitness, etc. Biblical Hope is great because is rooted not in the unpredictable human resources, policies, and programs, but on the unshakable assurance of God’s creative and redemptive purpose that will be brought “to completion at the day of Jesus Christ” (Phil 1:6). It is a hope, as Paul S. Minear perceptively points out, “that does not point to what a man has in himself, or what God does by himself; rather, it signifies
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