things. In some circles it is used to refer to the signs of the second coming; I use it here to refer to the end times, but in the sense that with the coming of Christ the end time has already broken into history. In Jesus’ day the Jews eagerly looked forward to the breaking-in of the end time, the eschaton, when God would vanquish his enemies and remove evil from creation. The New Testament assumes such a view but with a vital difference: The age to come, the kingdom of God, has already come in