THE HOPE OF ISRAEL - The Preterist Archive

92 The Hope of Israel: What Is It?
word to the end of the prophecy.
chapter we read:
For in the very last
"He that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man; he that sacrificeth
a lamb, as if he cut off a dog's neck; he that offered an
oblation, as if he offered swine's blood; he that burneth incense,
as if he blessed an idol" (Isa. 66:3).
It would seem impossible to maintain, in the face of
these strong words of abhorrence, that God purposes,
in millennial times, to re-establish once more the whole
detested system incense, oblations, ceremonies, bloody
sacrifices, and all. Nothing, we think, could be more
directly contrary to the revealed purposes of God, or
more contrary to the declared effect of the one Sacrifice
for sins, offered by Jesus Christ "once for all"
(Heb. 10:1-18).
From the foregoing Scriptures, and especially from
the divinely perfect illustration of the one olive tree,
which represents God's "Israel" from first to last
(Rom. XI), we may know with certainty His plan for
bringing to Himself an elect nation, a people for His
own possession, chosen from among Jews and Gentiles.
There is much more in the prophecy of Isaiah that
bears directly upon the subject of "the hope of Israel,"
and which tends to confirm the view that there is but
"one hope" for all mankind, for Jews and Gentiles
alike; or in other words, that "the hope of Israel" (Ac.
28:20) and "the hope of the gospel" (Col. 1:23) are
identical; there being but one hope for all, as there is
but one gospel for all.
THE NEW NATION A RESURRECTION
In the Scriptures we have been considering in this
chapter, the holy nation, which is the true "Israel"