THE HOPE OF ISRAEL - The Preterist Archive

The, Hope of Israel: What Is It? 235
And not a word of explanation does he give to show
wherein the verses quoted from Jeremiah relate in any
wise to the political status of the natural Israel in a
yet future era. The writer of that article appears to
have a very poor opinion of the intelligence of his readers.
EZEKIEL'S TESTIMONY
Next is quoted the following :
"Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I will take the children of
Israel from among the heathen, whither they be gone" they
were already in captivity when this prophecy was given "and
will gather them on every side, and bring them into their own
land: And I will make them one nation in the land upon the
mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king to them all:
and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be
divided into two kingdoms any more at all" (Ezek. 37:21, 22).
The context of this prophecy makes it quite plain
that it relates to the kingdom of Christ and the "everlasting
covenant" (see particularly verses 24-26). The
oneness here foretold is the oneness of all who are in
Christ, "whether Jews or Gentiles" (1 Cor. 12:13;
Gal. 3 :28 ; Eph. 2 :13-15 ;
Col. 3-11) So it has always
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been understood by Christian teachers and commentators
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and therefore anyone who now would put a radically
different interpretation upon the passage is called
upon to prove his case convincingly. The vision of
Ezekiel 37 is one of a series which begins at chapter
34 with God's stern reproof of "the shepherds of Israel,"
in which chapter He makes the great promise,
"Behold, I, even I, will both search My sheep, and seek
them out" (37 :11) This puts us on the right track for
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the true explanation of these prophecies. But again
the writer completely ignores the context; and again
he makes not the slightest attempt to show that the