THE HOPE OF ISRAEL - The Preterist Archive

The Hope of Israel: What Is It? 59
the like, that there is but one hope, one gospel, one
salvation, even as there is but one Saviour for all men.
Israel after the flesh was a nation under the law. As
such, i.e., as being under the law, promises were given
them, all those promises being expressly conditioned
upon their obedience to the law; and as such, judgments
were denounced "upon them as penalties for disobedience,
which judgments mounted up to complete
national extermination, if their disobedience should be
persistent as it was.
And now the law has been superseded by the gospel,
with its "better hope." The economy of the law, with
all its shadows people, land, city, temple, priesthood,
sacrifices has been set aside, and forever. Therefore,
it is needful, and is due also to the glory of the gospel,
and of Him Who died and rose again in order that all
men might have the blessings of the gospel, that it
should be clearly established and ceaselessly proclaimed
that there is one hope, and only one hope, for all mankind.
For there is no room in the purposes of God for
"the hope of the Gospel" and for another hope for any.
Whatever promises there were annexed to the law
were all conditional; and all have now been forfeited
and annulled. Its curses were what the nation earned
for itself; and hence there is, in this dispensation of
grace, but one way of escape from the curse of the law,
and that is by accepting the mercy which God freely
offers to all men through "Jesus Christ of the seed of
David raised from the dead" (II Tim. 2 :7)
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THE KINGDOM FORETOLD BY MOSES
It is a remarkable fact that Moses foretold, in this
last prophecy, that the children of Israel would set a