QUOTE : This is all, in other words, kingdom-of-God language. This is how God has inaugurated his sovereign rule on earth as in heaven. That is how he has rescued human beings to be part of that new reality, to be active participants, not merely beneficiaries. Once liberated from sin, they can play their proper part again—a point of considerable significance when we consider how this “revolution” works out in and through Jesus’s followers in our own day. All this, however, declares that God has rescued humanity through the death of Jesus, seen from several different but complementary angles. It does not yet explain how that is done. We glimpse the goal but not the means. That is still to come.