Israel's Kingdom Promises:
1. Didn't fail (as some first-century critics may have wrongly thought the Gospel implied)
2. Weren't all postponed until the future (as many modern Dispensationalists, and Orthodox Jews say)
3. Aren't being fulfilled instead in some other, spiritual, ethereal way only (as many adherents to Covenant Theology, including many Post-Millennialists and A-Millennialists say)
4. But they were fulfilled on location, on time, in Israel, literally
5. It's just that only the remnant of believers experienced it
6. Then Gentiles later were grafted in
7. Despite widespread unbelief in Israel, it wasn't over for Jews, because God began using believing Gentiles to provoke unbelieving Jews to faith (all of this was the exact scenario foreseen by the Prophets, explained Paul - this was the scheme by which the prophecy about salvation for all Israel was being outworked)
8. Through that order God created one new man - the Church - the body of Christ - the house of God - comprising Jews and Gentiles without distinction, and without the works of the Law
9. Jesus inaugurated the Kingdom, and salvation and grace on the cross - yet His Second Coming shall bring the consummation of it, and only the born-again shall enter it, whether Jew or Gentile
1. Didn't fail (as some first-century critics may have wrongly thought the Gospel implied)
2. Weren't all postponed until the future (as many modern Dispensationalists, and Orthodox Jews say)
3. Aren't being fulfilled instead in some other, spiritual, ethereal way only (as many adherents to Covenant Theology, including many Post-Millennialists and A-Millennialists say)
4. But they were fulfilled on location, on time, in Israel, literally
5. It's just that only the remnant of believers experienced it
6. Then Gentiles later were grafted in
7. Despite widespread unbelief in Israel, it wasn't over for Jews, because God began using believing Gentiles to provoke unbelieving Jews to faith (all of this was the exact scenario foreseen by the Prophets, explained Paul - this was the scheme by which the prophecy about salvation for all Israel was being outworked)
8. Through that order God created one new man - the Church - the body of Christ - the house of God - comprising Jews and Gentiles without distinction, and without the works of the Law
9. Jesus inaugurated the Kingdom, and salvation and grace on the cross - yet His Second Coming shall bring the consummation of it, and only the born-again shall enter it, whether Jew or Gentile
10. History records the destruction of the Temple, in the exact timeframe predicted by Daniel and Jesus - but no-one knows the timing of His coming and the end of the world
11. In the mean time we have received the power of the Holy Spirit to be witnesses unto JESUS among all nations.
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