Matthew Rawlings

“We believe in the Great Commission, we believe it is going to be fulfilled. We believe the book of Revelation assures us of that. We believe that the teaching of the entire Bible coalesces to teach this view of history. We are now in the kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and that kingdom is going to grow and grow as He builds His church, and the gates of hell will not prevail against it.”
― Greg Bahnsen

“For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet. The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. (1 Cor. 15:25–26) In the common assumption shared by many Christians, at the Lord’s return the first enemy to be destroyed is death. But the apostle here says that it is the last enemy to be destroyed. The Lord will rule from heaven, progressively subduing all His enemies through the power of the gospel, brought to the nations by His Church. And then, when it would be easy to believe that it just couldn’t get any better, the Lord will come and deliver the kingdom to His Father, and God will be all in all.”
― Douglas Wilson, Heaven Misplaced: Christ's Kingdom on Earth