“I agree that the church is often spoken of in the New Testament as spiritual Israel and that the basic dispensationalist principle of an absolute distinction between Israel and the church, involving two distinct purposes of God and two distinct peoples of God, has no biblical warrant.”
― The Meaning of the Millennium: Four Views
― The Meaning of the Millennium: Four Views
“What Paul termed the "dividing wall of hostility" between Jew and Gentile has been broken down, and it is never to be raised up again. Christ performed his work equally for men of all nationalities and races.”
― The Meaning of the Millennium: Four Views
― The Meaning of the Millennium: Four Views
“However, I understand the word as it is used here to mean not regeneration but the transition from physical death to life in heaven with Christ during the time between death and the resurrection (pp. 170-71).”
― The Meaning of the Millennium: Four Views
― The Meaning of the Millennium: Four Views
“Since the Messiah has come and has fully performed his work of atonement, this special role assigned to the Jews has been fulfilled. Hence there remains no reason whatever for reviving or re-establishing any one or more of the elements of the old system.”
― The Meaning of the Millennium: Four Views
― The Meaning of the Millennium: Four Views
“Ladd understands ezesan in verses 4 and 5 as meaning bodily resurrection in both instances. In support of this interpretation he points to two other passages in the book of Revelation whereezesan has this meaning: 2:8 and 13:14.”
― The Meaning of the Millennium: Four Views
― The Meaning of the Millennium: Four Views
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