The goal of creation is in no way attainable apart from Christ

An implication of this outlook on eschatology is that the goal of creation is in no way attainable apart from Christ. As the study of the last things, eschatology simply has no meaning unless it is Jesus who ushers in and accomplishes these things. Arresting and catastrophic events may occur, but they will not usher in eschatology( in which the goal is reached) without Jesus as their instigator and center. In consequence, we need not be exclusively supernatural in our eschatological expectaions. Those things which are yet to happen may do so in a less conspicuous, more ordinary way than some people imagine. They need not be exceptional, supernatual, or catastrophic. Their criterion is whether God's creative purpose is achieved. Jesus' birth was like that- and it began a history which inaugurated the last days. Few extraordinary events took place; all that was to be seen we an infant in a crib, a few foreign astrologers, and a handful of local shepherds. Yet the event was eschatalogical in the fullest sense of the word, because the infant was Jesus. Adrio Konig, The Eclipse of Christ in Eschatology, p. 41