THE HOPE OF ISRAEL - The Preterist Archive

160 The Hope of Israel: What Is It?
tioned upon faithfulness and obedience on their part)
has been abolished finally and forevermore.
Does the New Testament teach that "Israel after
the flesh" will be converted after the second coming
of Christ? and will be then reconstituted as an earthly
nation, and re-established as such in Palestine? Or
does it, on the contrary, teach that Christ's coming the
second time will be for the eternal salvation of all
those who look for Him (whether by nature they were
and for the eternal condemnation
Jews or Gentiles),
of all, both Jews and Gentiles, who have not believed
on His Name? Does it teach that there will be given
to the Jews, after the ending of this day of grace,
another opportunity to believe on Him and be saved
from the wrath to come, an opportunity from which
they who are by nature Gentiles will be excluded?
Will the coming "day" be one of mingled wrath and
mercy? the former for all unbelievers who are Gentiles
in the flesh, and the latter for unbelievers who
are Jews in the flesh? These questions truly are of
great moment; and it must be that clear answers to
them can be found in the New Testament Scriptures.
We shall seek them first in
THE PERSONAL TEACHING OF CHRIST
Matthew 18:24-30; 36-43.
This passage contains the
parable of the Tares of the Field. Its teaching on the
subject of our inquiry is plain; for the meaning of the
parable is explained by the Lord Himself. Its emphasis
Two
is upon what will happen at the end of the age.
classes of people are now mingled together in the
world, even as wheat and tares are mingled together
in the same field. That state of things is to continue