We can see this dynamic playing out across the pages of the Apostolic Writings as well. Jesus’s earliest disciples regularly anchored new disciples into the hope of future redemption. Assuring new disciples that “the night is almost gone; the day (that is, the redemption) is near,”[Romans 13:12] and exhorting them to “put all your hope fully in the grace to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus, the Messiah.”[1 Peter 1:13]  Moreover, when they wavered from this emphasis, Paul and the other apostles argued that perseverance was the result of maintaining the hope for eschatological redemption.

Hope that is seen is not hope, because who hopes for what he sees? Now if we hope for what we do not see, we eagerly wait for it with perseverance. [Romans 8:24-25]

In this way, the Jesus movement that emerged as a result of the Apostles’ teachings was thoroughly tethered to the hope of future redemption. -Bill Scofield, The Biblical Narrative and the Inconvenient Existence of Israel