In the great drama of redemption, all...

In the great drama of redemption, all arrows point down, not up. To say this more plainly, at no point in the biblical panorama is redemption a matter of our rising up to achieve a higher condition ourselves. Instead, at every point, God comes down to us, and at every point this world is the focus of God's gracious activity...in the next great redemptive event (yet to happen) the Son will come down a second time to this world...just as the arrow has pointed down in at the incarnation, so the arrow will point down again as the Son returns to the world."