In this way, the day of the Lord is also the primary unifying reality of the Scriptures. The Tanakh and New Testament speak the same message because they end in the same event. Consequently they hold to “the same hope” (Acts 24:15, niv). They look forward to the same “new heavens and new earth.” They believe in the same “resurrection of the dead.” They expect the same “glory,” the same “salvation,” the same “inheritance,” the same “kingdom,” etc. The New Testament simply asserts that the Messiah had to suffer before entering his eschatological glory (cf. Luke 24:26; Acts 17:3; 1 Peter 1:11), bearing sin before bringing salvation (cf. Acts 3:18–21; Heb. 9:28), being set forward as a propitiation before the day of wrath (cf. Rom. 3:25; 1 John 2:2), providing justification in anticipation of the day of judgment (cf. Rom. 5:9; Titus 3:7), and offering redemption in light of the day of recompense (cf. Eph. 1:7; Col. 1:14). - John P. Harrigan