THE HOPE OF ISRAEL - The Preterist Archive

Th4 Hope of Israel: What, Is It? 237
of Jesse" was to stand for an ensign (a banner or
standard) for the people ;
and the Gentiles were to seek
unto Him; and He should bring them into a glorious
rest (v. 10). And specifically, He should first
"recover the remnant of His people" (v. 10), and
then "set up an ensign for the nations." All of which
has been gloriously fulfilled. And so wondrously do
the historical facts correspond to the inspired prediction
that very few, I am sure, even in this day of what
has been not inaptly termed "crazy-quilt dispensationalism,"
would have the temerity to take this blessed
prophecy away from the redeemed of the Lord and
apply it to an earthly people of a yet future era.
And when we turn to the article where the above
quoted verses are cited, in order to learn wherein they
speak of the restoration of natural Israel as a nation
in a yet future day, we find no explanation at all. It is
simply taken for granted that the "king" (spelled with
a small k) is a mortal man, and that the people are
"Israel after the flesh" (I Cor. 10:18).
THE NEW TESTAMENT SCRIPTURES
Our writer now turns to the N. T. and quotes (or
rather partly mis-quotes and partly garbles) the scripture
which says that
"Jesus Christ was a minister of the circumcision for the
truth of God to confirm the promises made unto the fathers : and
that the Gentiles might glorify God for His mercy" (Rom.
15:8, 9).
The words I have italicised, which are a part of the
same sentence with what precedes, are not quoted in the
article at all ; and the omission is highly significant, inasmuch
as in this passage Paul, as "the minister of Jesus