Projected to its eschatological culmination, the Messiah/Christ is the one appointed and anointed by God to execute the day of the Lord, raise the dead, judge the wicked, reward the righteous, etc. Thus Peter summarizes the apostolic commissioning: “[God] commanded us to preach to the people and to testify that [Jesus] is the one appointed by God to be judge of the living and the dead” (Acts 10:42). Paul likewise concludes redemptive history in his preaching to the Athenians: “[God] has set a day when he is going to judge the world in righteousness by the man he has appointed ” (Acts 17:31, csb).  -John P. Harrigan, Gospel of Christ Crucified, p.121