Interplanner
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Several NT quotes come from Is 53 of course, but not a few are from the surrounding chapters that show us how the apostles were taught to read it. Is 54's first few should be known from Gal 4 as part of the resolution to the new people called Israel--those who are of faith. But even if you've found that, fewer people will be aware of some of sweeping declarations of the rest of the chapter.
If you go to v7, you find that the new Israel is the resolution to the 'brief moment of abandonement' of Israel (the ethne); he means of course that the resolution is in the Gospel.
Then in v9 you find one of the few major look-backs of the OT. 'This is like the days of Noah, when I swore not be angry with you, never to rebuke you again.' Given the fact that there were some miserable times between the testaments and then there is the destruction of Israel in 70 AD, we are forced away from literalism here.
The modern kind of literalism about prophecy seems to have come from a sincere attempt around the beginning of 1900 when so much of the Bible was under attack. It has the flavor of modern empiricism, which grasps at facts while missing many structures of wisdom.
But we can't go where literalism goes here. The nation was ruined, and this is stacked on top of the apostles using the 'barren woman' analogy about the Christian phenomenon.
By not following this pattern and track, Dispensationalism has become fraught with exceptions, has no meaningful impact on our times or culture, and its few proof-points are latched on to for the worst of reasons. For ex., the 'turquoise and sapphires and rubies' and sublime peace ('terror will be far removed') are the utter opposite of the claimed restored state of today...
If you go to v7, you find that the new Israel is the resolution to the 'brief moment of abandonement' of Israel (the ethne); he means of course that the resolution is in the Gospel.
Then in v9 you find one of the few major look-backs of the OT. 'This is like the days of Noah, when I swore not be angry with you, never to rebuke you again.' Given the fact that there were some miserable times between the testaments and then there is the destruction of Israel in 70 AD, we are forced away from literalism here.
The modern kind of literalism about prophecy seems to have come from a sincere attempt around the beginning of 1900 when so much of the Bible was under attack. It has the flavor of modern empiricism, which grasps at facts while missing many structures of wisdom.
But we can't go where literalism goes here. The nation was ruined, and this is stacked on top of the apostles using the 'barren woman' analogy about the Christian phenomenon.
By not following this pattern and track, Dispensationalism has become fraught with exceptions, has no meaningful impact on our times or culture, and its few proof-points are latched on to for the worst of reasons. For ex., the 'turquoise and sapphires and rubies' and sublime peace ('terror will be far removed') are the utter opposite of the claimed restored state of today...
