Thanks for stopping by! This is a first for me: to have the author of the song I blogged about give some comments.

I really do appreciate your song. At Bethlehem Baptist Church (John Piper’s church) we sing it fairly often (every 5-6 weeks or so). It is a blessing each time.

I’ll be sure to check out that song you mentioned by Bob Kauflin. I have and really enjoy Songs for the Cross Centered Life. I hope one day to order more music from Sovereign Grace, and the Valley of Vision CD sounds good.

God bless, and keep blessing the wider church of Christ with your great music!

Bob Hayton

Just to ease everyone’s minds, I had no millenial thoughts when I wrote those lyrics. I was thinking of the Isaiah 11 passage and Revelation 5:

11 Then I looked, and I heard around the throne and the living creatures and the elders the voice of many angels, numbering myriads of myriads and thousands of thousands, 12 saying with a loud voice, “Worthy is the Lamb who was slain, to receive power and wealth and wisdom and might and honor and glory and blessing!” 13 And I heard every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and in the sea, and all that is in them, saying, “To him who sits on the throne and to the Lamb be blessing and honor and glory and might forever and ever!”

If you are interested in a song along the same lines that I think is a better song, check out Sovereign Grace’s new CD based on the Valley Of Vision. Bob Kauflin has a great new song called “Let Your Kingdom Come”.

Glad to find that the song was useful to you.

I really liked the song. On another note, what kind of instrumentation was used for this hymn? Unfortunately, my church is much more ‘contemporary’ than traditional when it comes to the use of instrumentation; we have many more keyboardists, drummers, and guitarists than those who play more classical instruments.

I don’t know if neutral is the right word. Clearly in the millennium (assuming premillennialism for the moment) God’s glory will be made known in all the whole earth.

Is. 11:9 “They shall not hurt or destroy in all my holy mountain; for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD as the waters cover the sea.”

The song would have us yearning for the consummation of God’s promises to us as embodied in the millennial age.

And then before Christ will come, we have the following promise.

Matt. 24:14 ” And this gospel of the kingdom will be proclaimed throughout the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.”

So the song certainly applies well to premillennialism. Yet with amillennialism and postmillennialism there is also a desire for God’s rule to be even more complete and more efficacious in effect. Certainly postmillennialists expect this to be a reality before Christ’s return. And amillennialism has plenty of room for optimism and hope in a postmillennial-like glory of God covering the whole earth. With Is. 11:9 above, it seems that both these positions would not yet see that verse as ultimately realized and would long for it to be so. But again, in any case, before Christ’s return (which both of these positions eagerly await) Matt. 24:14 will be fulfilled.

Interesting question, Larry. Are you premil? As for myself, I respect the historic premil position, but I tend toward amillennialism or postmillennialism at present.

God bless!

Do you think that this hymn would be ‘inappropriate’ theologically if a church that is premillennial used it for worship? (By the way, I don’t think it is) Although it seems to be eschatologically neutral, is this hymn oriented toward a post-millennial eschatology?