Most assuredly, the eschatology of the New Testament is an ’eschatology of victory’—victory presently being realized by and for the church, through the eschatological kingship of the exalted Christ.
But any outlook that fails to grasp that, short of Christ’s return, this eschatology of victory is an eschatology of suffering—an eschatology of [Christ’s] ‘power perfected in weakness’—confuses the identity of the church.
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