The apostles understood eschatology not merely as futurology but as a mind-set for understanding the present within the climaxing context of redemptive history. That is, the apostles understood that they were already living in the end times, and that they were to understand their present salvation in Christ to be already an end-time reality. William Manson has well said, When we turn to the New Testament, we pass from the climate of prediction to that of fulfillment. The things which God had foreshadowed