Not Yet Accomplished

Now it must be freely granted that Messianic prophecy as a whole has not yet received its full accomplishment, that only a part of it has done so. “The woman”s seed” has not yet completely crushed the serpent”s head, as is evident from his present tremendous and universal activity in our world, where the tempter is undeniably still alive and at large! He is still in our day what our Savior called him in His day, “the prince of this world, “ and what Paul called him, “the god of this world,” “the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience” (John:14:30Hereafter I will not talk much with you: for the prince of this world cometh, and hath nothing in me.
See All...,2 Corinthians:4:4In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
See All..., Ephesians:2:2Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:
See All...). Sin still reigns unto death. No one contends that the work of human redemption is as yet complete. This Christian age, though fast nearing its close, has not yet run its course; and according to Scripture, another age the millennial is to succeed the one in which we live before the old serpent will be fully destroyed, before redeemed humanity will rest and rejoice in the new heavens and new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.

-- Dr. Henry Grattan Guinness, The Divine Program of the World's History, 1889