need to learn this truth in regards to eschatology. God gives us revelation regarding the future but not without application to the present. The requirement of Paul has to do with the present life. Knowledge of future events is always to effect, in a noble and holy way, our present conduct. As an example, when Peter said, “The day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with a fervent heat, the earth also
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