Bible.org on Revelation 22:12, “I am coming”
“In the Greek is a present tense verb. It is what we call a futuristic or prophetic present. This is used of an event which is so certain that it is regarded as already in the process of coming to pass.”
For future judgment:
- John 3:36b “whoever does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.”
- Matt 3:10 “The axe is already laid at the root of the trees; therefore every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.”
- Matt 23:38 “your house is left desolate.”
- Matt 26:28 “this is my blood, the blood of the covenant, that is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.”
- Eph 5.6 the wrath of God “has come upon” the disobedient; cp. Rom 1.18 “The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven.”
- 1Cor 10:11 “the end of the ages has come”!
For the coming kingdom.
- John 3.36 “anyone who believes in the Son has eternal life,” i.e., of the kingdom age to come.
- Matt 12:28 “the kingdom of god has come upon you.”
- Matt 23:13 some “are entering the kingdom of heaven.”
- Eph 1.14 The Holy Spirit is the guarantee of “our inheritance,” cp. Eph 5.5 no disobedient person “has any inheritance.”
- Rev 5.10 some manuscripts read “they are reigning.”
For the Messiah: A Layman’s Theology, James Clark, p 93.
“The prophecies generally considered to apply to Jesus in Isa 9 and Isa 53 are couched in all three major tenses – past, present, and future.”
- Isa 40:3a “a voice is calling.”
- Isa 53:2b “he has no stately form or majesty that we should look upon him.”
- Isa 53:5b “by his wounds we are healed.”
- Isa 63:1 “Who is this who comes from Edom? He is majesty, marching.”
For the resurrection from the dead:
- John 5:25 “an hour is coming and is now here.”
All 3 tenses:
- Hebrew 8:13 “He has made the first one obsolete [past]; and what is obsolete [present] and aging will soon disappear [future]” all from the perspective of when the words first spoken by God through prophet hundreds of years earlier.
- John 5:24 “Very truly I tell you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life [present tense] and will not be judged [future] but has crossed over from death to life [past tense].”
- Rev 17:8 “The beast that you saw was, and is not, and is about to rise from the bottomless pit and go to destruction.”
