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The article, “The Theology of Fulfillment,” examines the Old and New Testaments, asserting “the Old is in the New revealed; the New is in the Old concealed.” Jesus declared, “I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill” (Mat. 5:17), a truth echoed by Paul: “all the promises of God in Him are yea, and in Him Amen” (2 Co. 1:20). New Testament writers consistently present Jesus as “the fulfillment” of Old Testament hope, emphasizing a “Christological focus and a redemptive purpose.” This “epochal truth” is that “the time is fulfilled.” The Old Testament’s eschatological hope for “the age to come” has been brought into “this age” by Christ, realizing “all of our long hopes!” Believers now “enjoy the blessings of the eschaton early,” a “now—and not yet” reality. Ultimately, “the ‘fulfillment’ anticipated in the OT and realized in the NT is nothing other than Jesus Christ Himself.” He is “the goal of history.”