The difference between Eschatology and Redemption

Geerhardus Vos explains the difference between the ideas and projected ends of eschatology and redemption in the Scriptures.

The two great acts of the eschatological drama (i.e. resurrection and judgment) plainly have a remedial significance. Nevertheless, there was something in the pre-redemptive eschatology that was not eliminated but reincorporated in the redemptive program. Eschatology aims at consummation rather than restoration. Therefore, redemptive eschatology must be restorative and consummative. It does not aim at the original state, but at a transcendental state of man. It must be curative and tonic. Every act of salvation must be medical and supernaturalizing whereby man is not made merely normal, but is prepared for the supernormal.(1)

(1) Vos, The Eschatology of the Old Testament. P & R Publishing, 2001, pg. 74.