The kingdom is not a place of malice, fear, violence, and chaos, for “God is not a God of disorder but of peace” (1 Cor. 14:33) and “perfect love drives out fear” (1 John 4:18). Our labor in the Lord is progressive and conservative at once: It looks forward to Christ’s return and final victory over evil, but it also carefully stewards the original goodness of God’s creation, of which peaceful, orderly human society is part.