Firstfruit Possession and Enjoyment of Life Eternal: Now

"Paul (regarded) the present reign of Christ, with its semi-eschatological character in the light of a provisional kingdom, to be succeeded by an absolute kingdom at the parousia. In point of fact such a conception is found in the passage of 1 Corinthians 15. Here we are told in so many words that at "the end" Christ will deliver up the kingdom to God, even the Father. This implies plainly a distinction between the kingdom of Christ as a present and the kingdom of God as a future reality. In this place then Paul has plainly incorporated into his eschatology the idea of a twofold kingdom, just as in the teaching of our Lord there appears the same distinction between the present kingdom and the eschatological kingdom. In this form, and in this form only, is the distinction exempt from the objec­tion that it must involve the anticlimax and interpose some­thing different where the whole tenor of the Pauline teaching requires unbroken continuity. On our interpretation the Messianic provisional kingdom and the present salvation are identical and coextensive, so that what the Christian now possesses and enjoys is the firstfruits and pledge of the life eternal. Paul’s aspiration everywhere fastens, without any intermediate resting-point, on the eternal state. This is im­mediately explained, if the blessings and joys of the Mes­sianic reign have already arrived, so that the Christian hope can with undistracted intensity project itself into the world to come." -- Geerhardus Vos, The Pauline Eschatology, pp. 258, 259

PCA Challenge to the Federal Vision

Letter to the Louisiana Presbytery Published
It has been almost 2 years since Cal Beisner hosted the Auburn Avenue Theology Colloquium in Ft. Lauderdale. Any question that Beisner and the opponents of the Federal Vision will abide quietly while the FV gets comfortable in the PCA has been emphatically put to bed in this open letter to the Louisiana Presbytery:
http://www.ecalvinbeisner.com/farticles/LA_Pres_Response.pdf. This letter gets to some specifics in the Auburn Avenue Theology that have been of concern for some time, but have as yet to appear in official form.