What do we know to be true of the material creation?...

It is sighing and travailing in the pangs of childbirth. The creation will continue to suffer birth pains until the Kingdom of God has been established on the earth.

The saint possesses a great, unconquerable hope. He understands that the increasing chaos of the world political and economic systems is announcing the coming to the earth of the only political and economic system that will bring release and glory to the peoples of the earth—the Kingdom of God.

The Glory of the Lord is about to be born in the earth.