and (2) that vocation has been cut abruptly short. Yet God’s sovereignty and the fall of Adam together lead us to believe that the story is far from over. The kingdom always retains a forward-looking aspect. This was true even in Moses’s day. In one moment Israel’s redeemer dreams of seeing a temple established by divine hands (Ex. 15:17); in the next he declares: “The Lord reigns for ever and ever” (Ex. 15:18). When Jews of a later period mused that Moses’s vision had not yet been realized, since