THE HOPE OF ISRAEL - The Preterist Archive

The Hope of Israel: What Is It? 43
This is the promise of the gospel of Christ. It is repeated
in Isaiah 55:7 ("the sure mercies of David,"
Isa. 55 :3, Ac. 13 :34) ; and is recalled by Paul in 2 Cor.
3:16. It is the one and only hope for the natural Israelite,
as for all mankind. The conditions are, "turn
to the Lord" (i.e., repent) and be "obedient to His
voice" (obey the gospel by coming in faith to Jesus
Christ) Specially is it to be noted that this promise is
.
to the individual, there being no collective promise for
the nation as a whole. This is the mercy of the everlasting
covenant which God had sworn to their fathers
(v. 31). Thus it stands in the Word of God.
But compare this with the now current system of
teaching, according to which God will bring the Israelites
in a body again after the day of gospel salvation
is ended, to Palestine "in unbelief" ; and will there
convert the entire nation, not by faith, but by the sight
of Jesus Christ standing on the Mount of Olives !
The above quoted warning and oath of God that He
would, in the event of their lapse into disobedience and
idolatry, destroy them from off the land, was never revoked
or modified, that I can find ;
but on the contrary,
it was reiterated again and again.
Deut. 6:14, 15. "Ye shall not go after other gods
of the people which are round about .
you
. . lest the
anger of the Lord be kindled against thee, and destroy
thee from off the face of the earth" (or land)
.
Deut. 7:1-3. Here they are forbidden to make any
covenants with the Canaanites and to intermarry with
them (they subsequently did both) the ; penalty for
disobedience being stated thus: "So will the anger of
the Lord be kindled against you, and destroy thee
suddenly" (v. 4). For while He "keepeth covenant