During the Easter season, I heard a seminary professor once say: "We live in an in-between time — between despair and hope — between the Resurrection of Jesus and the Return of Jesus - between the inauguration of the Kingdom of God and the final redemption of all things."
In other words, my professor wanted us to know that we live in the promise of redemption, but not yet in the fulfillment of it.
And I absolutely agree!
I see a world famished with sin, groaning in pain.