Paul believed that in Jesus the One God had acted “when the fullness of time arrived.”5 Paul saw himself living at the ultimate turning point of history. His announcement of Jesus in that culture at that moment was itself, he would have claimed, part of the long-term divine plan.
Paul had an eschatological vision of a renewed humanity within the divine cosmic economia; a plan intended but hiddenn from the beginning of time. God, the God of Israel, is at work in our little shoddy world.
