in the past. The whole certainty of our expectation is grounded in this peculiar relationship. Because the expectation is directed to Christ, who has come and will come again at the end of time, it lacks a futurist character. Because the mention of Christ calls to our minds a familiarity—something and someone who has already been revealed—the future can never be labeled terra incognita, “the realm of the unknown.” True eschatology, therefore, is always concerned with the expectation of the Christ