I hold with confidence to the personal, bodily, visible return of Jesus Christ (Acts 1:11; Rev. 1:7). On that day, the dead will be raised, the righteous to everlasting life, the unrighteous to everlasting condemnation (John 5:28–29; Dan. 12:2). Christ will judge the living and the dead according to works, as evidence of whether faith was genuine, and He will deliver the kingdom to the Father that God may be all in all (1 Cor. 15:24–28).

I hold to the reality of hell as a place of conscious, eternal torment for the wicked, not annihilation, not purgatorial refinement, but the just and permanent judgment of a holy God against unrepentant sin (Matt. 25:46; Rev. 14:11; 20:10). This is not a comfortable doctrine, but it is a biblical one, and softening it does not serve the gospel.

I believe in the intermediate state: upon death, the souls of the righteous are immediately received into the presence of Christ (Phil. 1:23; 2 Cor. 5:8), while the souls of the wicked are held in conscious suffering awaiting final judgment. The resurrection is still future; the intermediate state is not the final state.

On the millennium (Rev. 20), I hold the matter with some humility. I find amillennialism, the view that the millennium describes the present reign of Christ from heaven during the church age, more consistent with the whole of biblical theology than dispensational premillennialism. I regard this as a secondary matter on which faithful Reformed Baptists disagree.