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Making All Things New: Inaugurated Eschatology for the Life of the Church is unavailable, but you can change that!

Many people think eschatology refers to events occurring at the end of history. In this book, two scholars with expertise in biblical eschatology argue that God’s kingdom breaking into this world through Jesus Christ has inaugurated a new creation, a reality that should shape pastoral leadership and be reflected in the life and ministry of the church. Brief and accessibly written, this book...

In this connection, Genesis 1–3 reveals the expectation that Adam should have reigned as a consummate eschatological priest-king in God’s perfect image.9 His failure to accomplish this end-time reign left open the necessity for another Adam figure to accomplish the first Adam’s commission. Subsequent chapters of Genesis, and indeed of the OT, show repeated allusion to Genesis 1:28 and hope for such an eschatological figure. No significant fulfillment occurs, though. It had to await another who would
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