God the Son will return to bring an end to all evil and inaugurate the new age where all God’s people will dwell in his presence. He can do so because he has lived the life of perfect obedience in the place of God’s people and suffered the judgment which they deserve for their disobedience to God’s law. As a result of his work, those who are united to him by faith can be sure that they will stand in the day of judgment and be welcomed into the kingdom of God’s Son.
36 “But concerning that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father only.