Jews and Gentiles Together Face God's Judgment and Receive God's Salvation

The anticipation in prophetic eschatology that both Israel and the nations will come under God's judgment, and that the nations will share in the salvation that comes to Israel, makes a simple opposition between the two categories increasingly difficult to maintain as the history of redemption unfolds.

--Daniel C. Timmer, A Gracious and Compassionate God: Mission, Salvation and Spirituality in the Book of Jonah (New Studies in Biblical Theology; Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity, 2011), 29.

The Solidarity between Humanity and the Universe

The creation waits for the revealing of the sons of God ([Rom. 8:19]) because it is into that very freedom that the creation too will be delivered (v. 21). In other words, the creation and the children of God are intimately intertwined both in present suffering and in future glory. As there was a solidarity in the fall, so also there will be a solidarity in the restoration.

--Sam Storms, "The Restoration of All Things" in The Gospel as Center: Renewing Our Faith and Reforming Our Ministry Practices (edited by D.A. Carson and Timothy Keller; Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2012), 262.