Some recent scholars have proposed that Jesus... preached a "radically egalitarian society"—that is, that he set about to reform society by inventing a new set of rules to govern social relations... There is little to suggest that Jesus was concerned with pushing social "reform" in any fundamental way in this evil age. In his view, present-day society and all its conventions were soon to come to a screeching halt, when the Son of Man arrived from heaven in judgment on the earth. Far from transforming society from within, Jesus was preparing people for the destruction of society. Only when God's Kingdom arrived would an entirely new order appear, in which peace, equality, and justice would reign supreme.

Ch. 11: 'Not in Word Only', p. 190 - Jesus: Apocalyptic Prophet of the New Millennium (1999)