What Was the Age to Come Jesus Spoke Of?
In Mt. 12.31-32, Jesus said: Therefore I say unto you, Every sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men; but the blasphemy against the Spirit shall not be forgiven. And whosoever shall speak a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him; but whosoever shall speak against the Holy Spirit, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, nor in that which is to come. The word translated world is aeon, which is literally age. Most recognize it immediately as the source of our English word aeon. When Jesus spoke of this age, since he lived in the Mosaic Age, this age was, without dispute, the Mosaic Age. The age to come would be the Christian age, the age in which we now live. We now briefly notice some uses of this same word in familiar passages. In Mt. 28.19-20, Jesus spoke to his apostles, saying: Go ye therefore, and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them into the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit: teaching them to observe all things wh
