You must register with this board before submitting follow up messages. Hence, we understand that for God all things are present. We commune with Jesus, Abraham, Mary, and Francis all at one time. We understand that the sacrifice of Christ is present and fulfilled everytime we are in His presence. Eschatology, the study of the end time, is not a study of one event that is chronologically bound.
Eschatology is how things are fulfilled.
If Cosmogeny is truly the study of the sacred accounts of creation then Eschatology is how creation is to be fulfilled and how it is shown to have sacred meaning. And I am certain that many people lived in a time before Christ, just as many lived afterwards. Yes, of course, because they existed in the arrow of time the Sacrifice was not yet present upon the earth. From the very beginning of history men have offered lambs in sacrifice. Paul tells us that these lambs could not take away sin, yet men still offered them, and the LORD God Almighty was pleased with these sacrifices.