These Last Days

Hebrews 1:2 KJV

Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;

Gill notes the distinction between "times past" and "these last days" and says that the first is a reference to anything pre-messianic while the latter is anything post-messianic.

Interestingly, Gill says the Jews claimed the world's duration would be six thousand years:

• Two thousand years before the Law
• Two thousand years with the Law
• Two thousand years in the Messianic age

That about wraps up all of history to date and offers another evidence (though not Biblical) of the lateness of the hour.

Gill offers as proof that Jesus is the true Messiah that,

"after Jesus, the true Messiah was come, an end was put to both these: (the Jewish civil state and the second Temple in Jerusalem) from whence it may be observed, that the Messiah must be come; that the Mosaic economy, and Jewish worship, will never be restored again; that the Gospel revelation being made in the last days, ought to be regarded the more, it being the last revelation God will ever make."

What a thought that, as Hebrews 1:1-2 puts it, after all the ways God has revealed Himself, the Gospel, the coming of Christ and His death, burial and resurrection is the last revelation God will ever make.

There is, I think, one more revelation to come; that of Christ to establish His Kingdom on earth. But that final revelation will not be a Gospel (good news) to most of those who witness it. His final revelation will be as the Lion of the Tribe of Judah, as a judge and executioner of the verdict upon those guilty of sin and never made clean in the blood of the Lamb.