THE HOPE OF ISRAEL - The Preterist Archive

CHAPTER XV
OTHER N. T. PASSAGES ON THE FUTURE OP ISRAEL
We have now shown by the teaching of our Lord
Jesus Christ Himself that at His coming again (of
which no premonitory sign will be given) there will
be an immediate separation of those who have obeyed
the gospel from those who have refused its proffered
mercy; that the former will enter at once into everlasting
glory and blessing and the latter into eternal
wrath and judgment. We come now to
THE TEACHING OP PAUL
Reference has already been made to the passage in
Romans 2:1-16, which states that they who in this
day of salvation despise the riches of God's goodness,
refusing to repent, are even now treasuring up for
themselves wrath against the day of wrath; and that
just as in this era of grace, the gospel is "to the Jew
first" (1:16), even so in that day of judgment, the
tribulation and anguish upon every soul of man that
doeth evil will also be to "the Jew first." And the
reason is given, namely, that "there is no respect of
persons with God" (2:9-11). This Scripture alone, if
there were none other, would suffice to overthrow completely
the doctrine of a special salvation for the
natural descendants of Jacob after the day of grace
shall have ended, and the day of judgment shall have
begun.
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