about by the culmination of “the kingdom of God”—will this happen right away? No. First, everyone waits. Fulfillment will come, but after a waiting period. When the two messengers in robes call Jesus’s followers back to their senses after he disappears, they do not tell them to get to work. Although there is urgency in the messengers’ admonishment to stop staring slack-jawed into the sky and pondering everything, the moment’s urgency is not a call to action. It is a call to wait. The first great