The Israel of God

Some years ago I was speaking with a friend who wanted to know whether I thought that the current nation of Israel was the fulfillment of Biblical prophecy. I think he already had His mind made up that the return of the Jews to Palestine in the late 1940s was such a striking providence that it had to be the promised "return" of "Israel" to the "land."

I was recently perusing an excellent volume by our friend O. Palmer Robertson entitled The Israel of God. It is a very careful Biblical analysis that leads to some important conclusions that I endorse. One of these is that the prophesies in the Old Testament that use the language of the Old Testament to describe great future realities "are more properly interpreted as finding consummate fulfillment at the 'resurrection of all things' that will accompany the resurrection of believers at the return of Christ (Acts 3:21; Rom. 8:22-23)."

Robert Reymond says that "Robertson's much-needed book fills a gap in the church's current understanding of the meaning of Israel as a land and people... I highly recommend this book to anyone wanting a better understanding of these matters in the light of Holy Scripture."