Abstract
God's knowledge about the future isn't just a minor issue for theological debate. It's central to our hope of eternal life. In a fallen world filled with death, suffering, and natural disasters, many people live in pain, uncertainty, and hopelessness. People naturally ask questions. Can I have hope in a world that seems so uncertain? Will a day ever come when death and suffering will be no more? Christians have answers. Suffering and death happen because of Adam's sin (Genesis 2:16-17, 3:19; Romans 5:12, 8:19-22), but God's Word gives us hope and certainty that one day the Lord will swallow up death forever and wipe away all tears (Isaiah 25:8; Revelation 21:3-5) because of what Christ achieved for us on the cross (Colossians 1:20). Our certainty about the future doesn't come out of thin air. It is based upon the fact that God not only knows what will take place in the future but has revealed the key events to us so that we might have confident hope.