While the Bible writers often assumed that the last days would be shorter, they still believed that they were living in the last days (He 1:2). The Kingdom of Heaven and its king, Jesus, were inaugurated on the cross—and now we wait for His return to bring the Kingdom into its fullness. It is here,…
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The Already But Not Yet
The Gospel of Mark has been forcing me to preach on a lot of eschatology at church lately. Today we took a look what theologians call, “the already but not yet”—an understanding of our currently place in spiritual history based on a tension we find all throughout the Scriptures. A Biblical Theology of the New Testament …