"... Before everything else, he [Paul] was the proclaimer of a new time, the great turning point in the history of redemption, the intrusion of anew world aeon. Such was the dominating perspective and foundation of Paul's entire preaching. it alone can illuminate the many facets and interrelations of his preaching, e.g., justification, being-in-Christ, sufferin, dying, and rising agin with Christ, the conflict between teh spirit and the flesh, the cosmic drama, etc.
The person of Jesus Christ forms the mystery and the middle point of this great historical redepmtive revelation. Because christ is revealed a new aeon has been ushered in, the old world has ended, and the enw world has begun."
Anthony A. Hoekema, The Bible And The Future, Pg. 31
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