The world is moving on, not to chaos, but to Christ; to the glorious return of our Lord whose first coming to the world forever settled its destiny. That is what the biblical doctrine of the second coming guarantees: the manifestation of the victory of God over sin, death and Satan, bringing greater glory to His Name and greater good to humankind. History is the outworking of God’s purposes, and all God’s purposes centre on the first and second comings of Christ to the world.