This is a book about an evil age. Specifically, it is about "the present evil age" that we live in right now. For many Christians, the expression "these last days" refers to the time right before the second coming of Christ but according to the apostles, the last days started with the first coming of Christ and continue even today. How do we biblically understand our time as the final age of world history? What does this mean for our faith? Reformed Christians have often avoided the field of eschatology but it was this doctrine of history that thrilled the first disciples. They realized that with the coming of the "last days" they had entered the time of the kingdom, and this understanding will strengthen our faith too. Here the Philadelphia Conference on Reformed Theology addresses this important topic. Together some of the most gifted communicators of God's Word explain the Christian's view on life, death, and the hereafter. "Christians live to serve the living and true God -- not in a vacuum but as they wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead (I Thessalonians 1:9-10). This waiting service of the church, bracketed between its Lord's resurrection and return, occupies this collection of uniformly sound and helpful addresses on biblical eschatology. Here is a wealth of biblical teaching about Christ's return, events that will accompany it and the eternal state that follows, as well as how we are to live presently in the light of that hope. The appearance of this volume is most welcome. I commend it highly." -- Richard B Gaffin Richard D. Phillips (MDiv, Westminster Theological Seminary) is the senior minister of Second Presbyterian Church of Greenville, South Carolina. He is a council member of the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals, chairman of the Philadelphia Conference on Reformed Theology, and coeditor of the Reformed Expository Commentary series. Gabriel N. E. Fluhrer is the pastor of Shiloh Presbyterian Church, a mission work of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church, in Cary, North Carolina. He is also the executive editor of reformation21, the online magazine of the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals.