Much that is still future is, therefore, referred to as though it were past.
The conversion of peoples and strong nations is still future.
The Babylon of the Revelation is still future, and its fullest development falls in the time when the body of the Lord Jesus Christ is no longer in the earth.
The promises which are given in this chapter were only partially fulfilled in Zechariah's day in the returned and believing remnant, the actual fulfillment is still future.
Kosters, indeed, alleges that Zechariah describes the Return from Exile as still future—viz.
The second plainly affirms that the building of the Temple is still future.
As plainly as grammar can enable it to do, this prophecy speaks of Cyrus' campaign against Babylon as already begun, but of its completion as still future.
But in a series of passages, in which the Prophet steps back from the ideal, to the real stand-point, the punishment appears as still future; city and temple as still existing.
Damascus and the kingdom of the ten tribes appears as still future, the Prophet [Pg 138] thus transfers himself back to the stand-point of an earlier time.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "still future" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
