““As we have seen, Jesus’s mission centered in the coming of God’s kingdom, the restoration of God’s rule over all creation and all of human life, the day of God’s salvation. Though today some Christians believe that Jesus came to enable us to escape this creation and live eternally in an otherworldly and heavenly dwelling, such an understanding of salvation would have been entirely foreign to Old Testament prophets, to first-century Jews—and to Jesus himself. Salvation is not an escape from creational life into “spiritual” existence: it is the restoration of God’s rule over all of creation and all of human life.””
![“Human salvation is directed toward God's intention to restore individuals, communities, and the world as the kingdom of God continues to break into history. When we give allegiance [to the Lord Jesus Christ], we become new creatures set free from the enslaving power of sin. As we worship the Son…” quote by Matthew W. Bates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/bbd/matthew-w-bates-33276_history_human-salvation-is-directed-toward-god-s_948456.jpg)
