Everything that Jesus sealed and guaranteed at His first coming, He will bring to completion when He returns. At the cross and through His resurrection and ascension, Jesus secured every promise of God—our forgiveness, our future resurrection, the restoration of all things, and the coming Davidic kingdom of righteousness and peace. What He accomplished in His first coming is decisive and irreversible, but the fullness of those promises awaits His second coming. This is the hope of the Gospel. What Christ began, He will finish. Far too many in the Church fail to emphasize His return with the same urgency and centrality that the New Testament does. Scripture does not treat the second coming as a marginal doctrine. It is the blazing, glorious center and focal point of all Christian hope. Until then, we wait with confidence and expectation—because the One who guaranteed every promise is coming back to make them all a reality. Maranatha. - Joel Richardson