“The great doctrine of the second advent has in a
sense fallen into disrepute because of . . . this tendency on the part
of some to be more interested in the how and the when of the second coming rather than in the fact of the second coming.” – Martyn Lloyd-Jones
From the Greek word eskatos, eschatology is the doctrine of
“last things” or, better stated, the “goal-oriented redemptive work of
the last One.” As Greg Beale points out in the excellent new book Making All Things New: Inaugurated Eschatology for the Life of the Church (Baker
Academic, 2016), eschatology does not simply include future events; it
subsumes what Jesus inaugurated with his first advent.
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