In short, the issue of eschatology of the gospel is crucial to its integrity. If the gospel cannot be communicated effectively in the modern context in genuine continuity with its eschatological framework, we must ask whether biblical Christianity has any place in the modern world at all. But if, as I have tried to indicate, the eschatological themes remain strikingly relevant, the nature of the apostolic gospel entails that Jesus Christ is the ‘one mediator between God and men’ (1 Tim. 2:5).