CHRIST the PLANNER of the AGES: “God…in these last days did speak to us in the Son, whom He appointed heir of all things, through whom also He did make the ages” (Heb 1:1-2, Young’s Literal Translation). Paul speaks of the “purpose of the ages, which He purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord” (Eph 3:11, Darby). H.P. Liddon writes: The idea of the kingdom of God issues fully developed from the thought of Christ…enunciated with an accent of calm, unfaltering conviction that it will be realized in history…Had He been merely a great man, He would have been more prudent. He would have conditioned His design; He would have tested it; He would have developed it gradually; but He speaks as one sure of the future. The time approaches when it will be seen that the purposes of Christ have triumphed. Then in that day the whole universe shall see that the plan He revealed when He appeared to be a common laborer from Nazareth was in fact the plan of God Himself.