Proximate Justice

Proximate justice is one way to describe what we get between Jesus' resurrection and his Second Coming. We do not get perfect justice (or righteousness, or goodness, or even perfect truth) because of the affect of sin in our lives. We get proximate justice. See this article by Steve Garber. This is a helpful way to look at election season; it is also a helpful way to look at our own lives.
I came across an example of proximate justice in 2 Chronicles 30 this morning. Hezekiah is king of Judah, and he and his princes and officials desire to keep the Passover. Passover, according to Exodus 12, is to be kept in the first month of the year; but Hezekiah finds he has does not have enough consecrated priests and Levites (v. 3). So, v. 2, they determine to keep the Passover in the second month.
Sometimes it is right to take what we can get, instead of insisting on perfection (and losing out altogether!). It is not that timing of the Passover did not matter--it did. But it was better to keep the Passover (a picture of the gospel, of what the coming Messiah would do--which is the central them of all of Scripture, Luke 24:45-49) at the wrong time, than not to keep it at all.