God which had raised this Jesus from the dead would not only raise all of us but also make new the heavens and the earth and set all things right. Jesus and other early Christians were not executed because they were spiritual. They were executed because their politic was a threat to the powers that be. It is not the afterlife for which the prophet longs but the setting right of this life: the pain of lost loves and the death of infants, of old griefs and deep regret, of the