1.
A peculiarly evil time.[i]
1.
It will be a grand specticle, as the result of the ways of
God, to see all things united in perfect peace and under the authority of a
man, of the second Adam, the Son of God; ourselves associated with Him in the
same glory with Himself, His companions in the heavenly glory, as the objects
of the eternal counsels of God.[ii]
2.
The eternal state, in which God is all in all, is again another thing.[iii]
3.
The administration of the fullness of times in the result of
the ways of God in government.[iv]
1.
Began in Babylon, being the times of the four Gentile beasts
in Daniel. The times of the Gentiles will not end at the same time with the
church, but go on a little after we are caught up.[v]