It is not the apocalyptic kingdom of the gospel documents which he otherwise claims to be rescuing.
Here:
[A]t a particular time God called a particular pair for a particular task: to look after his creation and make it flourish in a whole new way. ...
The point is that if you start, not with Adam and a “moral test,” but with Adam and Eve and a vocation (see Psalm 8), then a lot of things in Paul look significantly different. There is more to Paul—and to Genesis—than you might have thought. It all works, it’s all good, it’s all about God’s grace—and it’s about a justification through which humans are “put right” in order to get the original project back on track, so that we might be “putting-right” people for the world.
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"For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven."
-- Matthew 22:30
"[T]he harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels."
-- Matthew 13:39
