discerned. First, there is fulfilled time. The incarnation of God in Christ represented the fulfillment of the Old Testament messianic longings. Here, in this event, all the Hebraic hopes rooted in the sequence of significant historical moments of the Old Testament were completed. For in Christ the new time (kairos) had arrived as Jesus himself announced: “ ‘The time has come,’ he said. ‘The Kingdom of God is near. Repent and believe the good news!’ ” (Mark 1:15). Second, the coming of Christ is
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