God’s ultimate redemptive plan is “to secure God’s people in God’s place under God’s reign living God’s way enjoying God’s shalom in God’s loving and holy presence as both family and worshippers, to God’s glory.”

Graham A. Cole, God the Peacemaker: How Atonement Brings Shalom, New Studies in Biblical Theology (Downers Grove: IVP Academic, 2009), 25.