Our Hope

Have you ever wished for a world where all the rulers were just and fair? Where they were wise enough to solve the problems of the environment and heal our troubled planet? A world in which wealth was distributed fairly, the poor were looked after, and there was food for everyone? A world where there was peace throughout our globe?
Is this just a child’s pipe dream—an impossibility?
This is precisely what God promised in His Word, the Bible. We believe God keeps His promises. This vision is OUR hope.

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When His disciples asked Him to teach them to pray, Jesus gave us a prayer model which we call “the Lord’s Prayer”. Have you ever wondered what he meant in it when he prayed “Your kingdom come. Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven?” What IS God’s coming kingdom?

A kingdom needs a king to rule it. When Jesus  was on trial for his life, he was asked if he was a king . He replied that He was a king, but that His kingdom was not of this world. What could that mean?

When Jesus left this earth He was taken up to heaven in a cloud, away from His astonished disciples. An angel appeared then to the men as they gazed up into heaven and promised them that Jesus would come back in the same way that He went up to heaven.

So Jesus is coming back to this earth to become the righteous and loving king that we need. He has all the wisdom and power necessary to right the problems of humankind and He is also immortal, unlike our present rulers.

We are given a beautiful picture of the world under Jesus’ reign in the Hebrew poetry of Isaiah.
“There shall come forth a Rod from the stem of Jesse, And a Branch shall grow out of his roots.
The Spirit of the LORD shall rest upon Him, The Spirit of wisdom and understanding, The Spirit of counsel and might, The Spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD....

...with righteousness He shall judge the poor, And decide with equity for the meek of the earth...
The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, …
...The calf and the young lion and the fatling together; And a little child shall lead them....

...They shall not hurt nor destroy in all My holy mountain, For the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD As the waters cover the sea." Isaiah 11 (NKJV)

There are many such wonderful visions of the future in the Bible. They give us a marvellous hope for the future. We pray that this may be your hope too.