Quotes about Future
Life sometimes hurts like hell but I've discovered that deleting God from the equation doesn't actually help. It merely removes all meaning and morality from the mess, and all real hope from the future
— Pete Greig
It took a while, but the early followers of Jesus began to put the pieces together. Resurrection is a future thing, part of the "world to come." Raising Jesus now meant that the "world to come" was already here—at least a preview of it.
— Peter Enns
Think of the resurrection as God unexpectedly going off script and bringing into the present time a bit of the future.
— Peter Enns
I feel that if we do not engage Scripture with future believers in mind, we will unwittingly erect unnecessary and tragic obstacles to belief. Part of what drives this book is my concern to help prevent that scenario.
— Peter Enns
Get up, lift up the boy, and take him by the hand, for I will make him into a great nation.”
— Genesis 21:18
Then Jacob called for his sons and said, “Gather around so that I can tell you what will happen to you in the days to come:
— Genesis 49:1
In the future, when your son asks you, ‘What does this mean?’ you are to tell him, ‘With a mighty hand the LORD brought us out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
— Exodus 13:14
Moses said, “This is what the LORD has commanded: ‘Keep an omer of manna for the generations to come, so that they may see the bread I fed you in the wilderness when I brought you out of the land of Egypt.’”
— Exodus 16:32
Now I am going back to my people, but come, let me warn you what this people will do to your people in the days to come.”
— Numbers 24:14
And the little ones you said would become captives—your children who on that day did not know good from evil—will enter the land that I will give them, and they will possess it.
— Deuteronomy 1:39
In the future, when your son asks, “What is the meaning of the decrees and statutes and ordinances that the LORD our God has commanded you?”
— Deuteronomy 6:20
to serve as a sign among you. In the future, when your children ask, ‘What do these stones mean to you?’
— Joshua 4:6