Age to Come

Resurrection is here nothing less than the counterpart of creation. The resurrection of Christ is the beginning of the new and final world-order, an order described as spiritual and heavenly. It is the dawn of the new creation, the start of the eschatological age. In terms of the conceptual framework with which Paul views the whole of history, it is the commencement of the "age-to-come.

 

Richard Gaffin. Resurrection and Redemption (Philippsburg, NJ: Baker Book House, 1978), 89-90