One of the most deporable expressions used in theology and spirituality is undoubtedly the 'Last Things'. This is certainly a misnomer, if ever these was one. And this is not merely a semantic mistake, a question of applying the wrong label to the right doctrine, for the doctrine itself at least in the traditional way of presenting it seems to have been affected by the misnomer. We are not concerned about things fast or last but rather about living persons or personal events. The afterlife is not primarily a study of an advanced report of things or events to come, for it is not so much the present that casts its light over the future, it is rather the future that illlumines the present.