Of course the New Testament never says that such a redemption of the world has come—only that a greater sacrifice has been made before eschatological salvation (Heb. 9:28), that messianic suffering has come before messianic glory (Luke 24:26), that a propitiation has been put forward before the wrath to come (Rom. 3:25; 1 John 4:10), that justification has been secured in anticipation of the final judgment (Rom. 5:9; Titus 3:7), that a ransom has been offered before the day of redemption (Eph. 4:30; 1 Tim. 2:6). Such a message, devoid of realized eschatology, was readily received by multitudes of first-century Jews. The same cannot be said after the church rejected the Jewish apocalyptic hope in place of an ersatz Hellenistic gospel.  - John P. Harrigan, The Gospel of Christ Crucified, p.189