DID YOU KNOW?
Revelation 10:7 says that in the days of the sounding of the seventh angel, “the mystery of God should be finished.”

Paul identifies that mystery in Colossians 1:26–27 as “Christ in you, the hope of glory.”

The seventh trumpet brings us to the very threshold of Christ’s return. If the mystery of God is finished at that point, then it points to a final work of grace being completed in God’s people. Christ will be fully revealed in those who are His.

This is not merely forgiveness without transformation. It is Christ formed within, His character reproduced in His people, the image of God restored in the soul, and grace bringing them into real victory over sin. Through Him, they cease to live for sin and live instead to the will of God (1 Pet. 4:1–2).

Jesus promised, “To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame” (Rev. 3:21). Through union with Christ, His people are brought into the same victory over sin that He Himself obtained.

This is why the promise of 1 Thessalonians 5:23–24 is so precious:
“The very God of peace sanctify you wholly… and preserve you blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. Faithful is he that calleth you, who also will do it.”

And when that work is finished, probation closes. Revelation 22:11 shows every case decided, and Daniel 12:1 shows Michael standing up as the final crisis breaks upon the world. The finishing of the mystery of God is therefore the finishing of the gospel’s work in a living people prepared for Christ’s appearing.

Christ is “the author and finisher of our faith” (Heb. 12:2). He does not abandon the soul halfway through the work of redemption. He completes what He starts.

Before Christ is revealed in the clouds, He will be revealed in His people.
That is the finishing of the mystery of God.
Christ in you, the hope of glory.