The New Creation

For ancient Jews, the idea of a new creation was often associated with messianic hopes. For Paul, this whole Jewish outlook gets reframed because for Paul, the Messiah has come and in the resurrection of Christ, we have an event that was associated with the new creation. In Jesus, we have the dawning of that new age, that new creation. And so whereas the Jewish mindset had these kind of two spheres, right, the this world, the old creation, and then this world,. the new, the world to come in the new creation, now those who are in Christ are sort of in this period of overlap, right?