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When the Time Had Fully Come: Studies in New Testament Theology is unavailable, but you can change that!

The Kingdom of God, or the Kingdom of Heaven, is one of the most central concepts in the history of revelation. Prepared in the Old Testament, notable in the so-called enthronement Psalms and in the prophecies, it makes its appearance in the overture of the New Testament as the contents of the great proclamation of salvation, first of the herald, John the Baptist, then of Christ Himself: “The...

mysteries of the Kingdom. What mystery is it? This, before anything else, that the eschatological Kingdom of God is coming as a seed, seemingly the weakest and most defenseless thing there is. It can be devoured by the fowls, it can be choked by the thorns, it can be scorched by the sun, and sometimes it can hardly be distinguished from the tares. That is the secret of the Kingdom. And back of this lies an even greater mystery, namely, that He who brings the Kingdom is a Sower, seemingly the most
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