Christ. Though the victory has been decisively achieved, its final celebration and realization awaits the day of the Lord which is yet to come. The Bible is about glory, radiant and ineffable, lost and regained. God’s glorious presence, whether for salvation or destruction, is prominent in the key moments and central institutions of Israel’s history and is decisively revealed in Jesus Christ. Through their sinful rebellion, human beings have forfeited the privilege, as image-bearers of God, of reflecting