Jesus was anointed by God to represent both God and humanity in the restoration of a broken relationship existing between the Creator and his creation. In this version of the Jesus story, Jesus serves as a unique bridge between God and humanity, between heaven and earth. No one else is like him. No one else had or ever will have his calling. What Jesus proclaimed was the kingdom of God, and his coming represented the beginning of its arrival. Jesus both announced that kingdom and labored to show that