There are three possible answers to this question. The first is the refusal to answer because it is considered an unapproachable mystery, the mystery of the divine glory. Another answer sees the eschatological kingdom as having no direct relation to history and the development of the universe. It is established in eternity, and the problem of human existence is whether and in what way individuals may enter this transcendent realm. History is understood merely as the element in which the individual must make decisions, relevant to his own salvation but irrelevant for the kingdom of God which is above history.
History is the earthly realm out of which individuals are moved into the heavenly realm.
Therefore nothing which has been created in history is lost, but it is liberated from the negative element with which it is entangled within existence. The eschatological kingdom of God thus includes the positive content of history, liberated from its negative distortions and fulfilled in its potentialities. The question of the content of the eschaton must be answered from the biblical doctrine of salvation. We have already seen in chapter one that the Son of God was incarnated in order to save this world from sin and not to ontologically replace this world with a new world. We are not saved from this world, we are saved together with it, in our historical existence.