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Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you.
1 Peter 1:20

By “these last times” is meant this present dispensation, the dispensation of grace under which we live, and they are called the last times chiefly for two reasons–

1. Because Christ was manifested in the last days of the legal dispensation of the old covenant, which now, as decaying and waxing old, was ready to vanish away (Heb. 8:13), which it did when at the destruction of Jerusalem the whole of the temple service, including the sacrifices offered there, was brought to an end.

2. Another reason why the dispensation under which we live is called “the last days” is because it is the final revelation of God. It is “the time accepted,” “the day of salvation,” of which all the prophets have spoken (2 Cor. 6:2; Acts 3:24).

Christ is now upon His throne of grace; the great, the glorious, the only Mediator between God and men is now at the right hand of the Father; the Intercessor Who is able to save to the uttermost all who come unto God by Him, seeing He ever lives to make intercession for them, still lives to plead, as an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous, as the great High Priest over the house of God. But He will leave the throne of grace to take His seat on the throne of judgment; and then “these last days” will close in all the glories of salvation to His friends, in all the horrors of destruction to His foes.

To the reader…

You who now live in “the accepted time,” in “the day of salvation,” have a rich privilege. Christ still sits upon His throne of grace, the only Mediator between God and men, who ever lives to plead for all who come unto God by Him. He was foreordained before the foundation of the world and was manifested for your sakes, for the sake of such as have nothing in themselves to lean upon.

But these last times will not last for ever. One day He will leave the throne of grace to take His seat on the throne of judgment. Do not let that make you flee from Him, but let it drive you to Him, now that it is still the day of grace. Are you poor, guilty and burdened? He is able to save all who come unto God by Him. Come, then, with your need to this Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous; then that last day will not be for you the day of destruction, but the glory of His friends.

With warm regards,
The compilers of jcphilpot.nl