we have seen our own future

“This has led us to designate Jesus’ resurrection as an eschatological event. It is an anticipation of the end. To speak crudely, it is a piece of eschatology split off from the end and planted in history. The end has begun; the future is present.”

George Eldon Ladd, I Believe in the Resurrection (Grand Rapids, 1975), page 152.

(From the blog of Ray Ortlund)