The Authors: C. Marvin Pate is Professor of Bible at Ouachita Baptist University in Arkansas, having earned his Ph.D. in New Testament studies from Marquette University in Wisconsin. He is the author of several books including The End of the Age Has Come; The Reverse of the Curse; Communities of the Last Days; The Glory of Adam and the Afflictions of the Righteous; Luke; and Four Views on the Book of Revelation.
Douglas W. Kennard is Professor of Bible at Bryan College in Tennessee. He earned his Th.D. from Dallas Theological Seminary. He is author of The Classical Christian God and The Relationship Between Epistemology, Hermeneutics, Biblical Theology and Contextualization.

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Deliverance Now and Not Yet follows Albert Schweitzer's view of mystically dying with Christ and Merkabah mysticism at Qumran to propose that the New Testament pictures Christ's atonement with mystical implications. These pictures set up three forms of New Testament eschatology: consistent, inaugurated, and realized. With regard to the relationship of the Church and the Great Tribulation: (1) Paul and John present deliverance now (realized eschatology), and (2) the rest of the New Testament presents deliverance not yet in two categories - (2a) Mark, James, Peter, and Jude present deliverance not yet (consistent), and (2b) Matthew, Luke - Acts, Hebrews, and Revelation portray deliverance as now and not yet (inaugurated eschatology). Taken together, the Christian's experience of the Messianic woes and mystical expression of the Kingdom prompts us to long deeply for the climactic expression of the Kingdom of God.