The chief note sounded is one of hope: 'God's people eagerly await Christ's return because it promises the completion of God's work of redemption. The future is bright because it is full of promise, the promise of God's Word.
Based on Cornelis Venema's highly acclaimed book, "The Promise of the Future," this helpful new study will clearly guide one through the Bible's teaching on the future of the individual, the church and the universe as a whole.
Viewing this question and answer as unnecessarily polemical and injurious to the Catechism’s usefulness as a contemporary statement of the Christian faith, some Reformed denominations have removed it from the text.
" This collection of Venema's essays summarizes and defends a broad consensus view of the doctrine of the covenants in the history of Reformed theology and clarifies several areas of dispute.
Cornelis P. Venema is the President of Mid-America Reformed Seminary, Dyer, Indiana, where he also serves as Professor of Doctrinal Studies. he gained his PhD. from Princeton Theological Seminary for work on the theology of John Calvin.
An excellent book on the Reformed approach to true church growth.Dr. Venema's analysis of the Reformed confessional teaching on the means of grace encourages readers to examine the confessions for themselves.