Doug Harink calls the church “a people ‘apocalypsed’ through Jesus the Messiah.” What this means is that God’s revelation (which is salvation) takes the form of invading a world enslaved to other powers. The church is “apocalypsed” in that through the action of the whole Trinity (1 Pet 1:2) it is set free from the slavery that sin and death has wrought in the world. To be “apocalpysed” is to find themselves created and libertated by the act of God in Jesus.
That, according to Harink is what it means to call the church “apocalypsed.” It indicates the rooting of the church in the divine Trinitarian act of Jesus’s life, transfiguration, death, resurrection, ascension, and parousia. The people of God is born from the apocalypse of Jesus the Messiah, the resurrection, the new creation.
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