Thursday 22 January 2015

Prophecy and Covenant Theology

Our understanding of the Bible's use of the term Israel in prophecy is too narrow if it means we have difficulty seeing that it was ever prophesied that Jesus' ministry would be in the land of Israel.

The location of Jesus' ministry was important to Jesus, for prophetic reasons. So if that fact isn't important to us too, then we are missing something in prophecy.

My point is that since many today give an inadequate scope to the use of the term Israel in prophecy, by seeing it as being exclusively about the future Church when in some key instances it was more literally about Israel on location in Israel, then an eschatological outlook might be questionable if it depends on that too-narrow a take on those verses.

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