Of this act, prayer is an exemplary case. The formally religious subscription of the act of hope, direct resort to supernatural intervention, has weakened almost continually in western history and individual consciousness. The twentieth century has put in doubt the theological, the philosophical and the political-material insurance for hope. It queries the rationale and credibility of future tenses. It is interesting in light of his later discussion of religion and hope that God as the great I AM takes that future promise and demonstrates that He is outside the bounds of mortality, using the present for his existence, as we follow looking to the future of our own eternal existences.
Future tenses are an idiom of the messianic.
Take away energizing anticipation, the imperative of waiting, and these tenses will be end-stopped.