THE HOPE OF ISRAEL - The Preterist Archive

146 The Hope of Israel: What Is It?
revived and re-established in the land of Canaan; in
which Jerusalem is to become the political head and
the religious center of a densely populated and completely
pacified world; and in which the temple is to
be rebuilt, its priesthood and animal sacrifices restored,
&c., &c., as currently taught.
It cannot be too strongly insisted or too firmly maintained
that the doctrine of a coming millennial age of
Jewish supremacy on earth, an age in which nations
of men are to be saved with a salvation different in
kind from, and distinctly inferior to, gospel salvation,
is a, thoroughly unscriptiural and anti-scriptural doctrine.
It cannot be too strongly insisted or too firmly
maintained that there is no going backward in the
works of God ;
that He does not build again the things
He has destroyed ;
that there is no salvation for Jew or
Gentile other than gospel-salvation; that there is no
day of salvation for any part of the human race except
this present day of gospel mercy for all; that there is
no "Israel" in God's purpose but "the Israel of God"
and no "Zion" but that heavenly mount to which we
"are come"; and finally, that the temporary shadows
of the old covenant the temple, altar, priesthood,
sacrifices and ordinances have now been abolished
completely and forever. The current doctrine as to
the conditions of things in the world during the millennium
has no biblical foundation. It is a hybrid ; the
product of a commingling of heathen superstition and
corrupted Judaism. To this subject we will come in
our last chapter.
From the above it follows, that there is but one
form the mercy of God to the Jewish people can possibly
assume. It must take the form of gospel-salvo-