Scripture clearly teaches a two age model, speaking of this present evil age and the age come. However, this age to come arrived in principle with the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ who in His own person was the long promised age to come. Between the first advent of Christ in His life, death, resurrection and ascension and the second advent of Christ the age to come is rolling back this present wicked age as the Kingdom of God’s dear son pilfers the Kingdom of darkness until such a time as the Kingdoms of this world become the Kingdoms of our Christ. The present wicked age, was the strong man now bound by the age to come in Christ’s victory. The climatic epoch of the age to come awaits its full expression but like a Mustard seed already planted the age to come has been injected as a healing virus into the sickness that is this present wicked age.
As Christians we live between the “now” and the “not yet,” and because of that we are born unto the conflict that is inevitable between this present evil age and the age to come. In the context of this battle we are warriors seeking to bring the authority of the King of the age to come to bear on every area of life and we expect the simpering enemy defending this present evil age to resist us — Christ’s Warriors — at every step as they resist the dawn’s intent to roll back the night.
But …. the dawn has come and the fullness of the age to come will triumph.
Victory is inevitable.
