Alan Gross
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There is a Bible Exhortation to Preach the Gospel that Will Change the World In An Interpretation of Zechariah 14 (1 of 8)
by Ben Habegger, he had some wonderful thoughts that I have adapted to state the Positive Revelation of Eternal Truth position on these Passages that include: the end of the opportunity for repentance.
This is What The Bible Teaches and we should all call every believers and preachers attention to This Thread, to give them a Blessed initiation into God's Revelation regarding Jesus' Soon Return.
AS BIBLE READERS
we should anticipate a single Consummation and Glorification of God’s Kingdom in connection with the single Second Coming of the Lord Jesus, at the End of The Current Inner Advent Age of Jesus' churches, which is the "seemingly endless", yet FINITE time period taken from Revelation 20.
In the straightforward eschatology of the New Testament, the apostles and prophets and Jesus Himself all declare that the very event of Christ’s Return will be The End of sin and death.
The Second Coming immediately brings the final separation of the righteous from the wicked, the end of the opportunity for repentance, and the eternal glory of a new creation freed from sin’s curse.
Christ’s Blood-Bought Accomplishments in His Priestly Work has Rendered all the types and shadows suggested in historical iterations, as a Reformed Mosaic system of worship, obsolete (Heb. 7:18–22; 8:13; 9:8–10; 10:1, 8–9, 18).
The interpreter must understand that the Old Testament prophets often foretold New Testament realities through the symbolic use of Old Covenant language.
A woodenly literal hermeneutic cannot consistently explain such prophecies as that of Malachi 1:11:
“For from the rising of the sun even to its setting, My name will be great among the nations, and in every place incense is going to be offered to My name, and a grain offering that is pure; for My name will be great among the nations,” says the Lord of hosts.”
On the one hand, literal aspects of the Old Covenant such as incense and grain offerings could only be legitimately performed at the authorized location of the Jerusalem temple.
On the other hand, the New Covenant era renders such a sacrificial system obsolete.
However, once the interpreter acknowledges that the Spirit speaking through Malachi used Old Covenant institutions as pictures of future, New Covenant realities, Malachi’s words harmonize well with those of Jesus recorded in John 4:21 and 23:
“Woman, believe Me, an hour is coming when neither in this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father…
. But an hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for such people the Father seeks to be His worshipers.”
Similarly, the apocalyptic mention of Jerusalem in Zechariah 14 must be allowed to point beyond the earthly city of David.
“For here we do not have a lasting city, but we are seeking the city which is to come” (Heb. 13:14).
Indeed, those in the New Testament churches already “have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem” (Heb. 12:22).
We are of the new covenant corresponding to “the Jerusalem above” who “is our mother” (Gal. 4:24–26).
James the Lord’s brother points to the prophecy of Amos and thus confirms that God has rebuilt and restored the ruined tabernacle of David so that the Gentiles may seek the Lord and be called by his Name (Acts 15:13–18).
The nations are now joining themselves to Zion, the redeemed city of God, the New Testament churches of Jesus Christ.
If James and the other apostles could confidently use such a hermeneutic, so can we.
This hermeneutic will provide us with an interpretation of Zechariah
by Ben Habegger, he had some wonderful thoughts that I have adapted to state the Positive Revelation of Eternal Truth position on these Passages that include: the end of the opportunity for repentance.
This is What The Bible Teaches and we should all call every believers and preachers attention to This Thread, to give them a Blessed initiation into God's Revelation regarding Jesus' Soon Return.
AS BIBLE READERS
we should anticipate a single Consummation and Glorification of God’s Kingdom in connection with the single Second Coming of the Lord Jesus, at the End of The Current Inner Advent Age of Jesus' churches, which is the "seemingly endless", yet FINITE time period taken from Revelation 20.
In the straightforward eschatology of the New Testament, the apostles and prophets and Jesus Himself all declare that the very event of Christ’s Return will be The End of sin and death.
The Second Coming immediately brings the final separation of the righteous from the wicked, the end of the opportunity for repentance, and the eternal glory of a new creation freed from sin’s curse.
Christ’s Blood-Bought Accomplishments in His Priestly Work has Rendered all the types and shadows suggested in historical iterations, as a Reformed Mosaic system of worship, obsolete (Heb. 7:18–22; 8:13; 9:8–10; 10:1, 8–9, 18).
The interpreter must understand that the Old Testament prophets often foretold New Testament realities through the symbolic use of Old Covenant language.
A woodenly literal hermeneutic cannot consistently explain such prophecies as that of Malachi 1:11:
“For from the rising of the sun even to its setting, My name will be great among the nations, and in every place incense is going to be offered to My name, and a grain offering that is pure; for My name will be great among the nations,” says the Lord of hosts.”
On the one hand, literal aspects of the Old Covenant such as incense and grain offerings could only be legitimately performed at the authorized location of the Jerusalem temple.
On the other hand, the New Covenant era renders such a sacrificial system obsolete.
However, once the interpreter acknowledges that the Spirit speaking through Malachi used Old Covenant institutions as pictures of future, New Covenant realities, Malachi’s words harmonize well with those of Jesus recorded in John 4:21 and 23:
“Woman, believe Me, an hour is coming when neither in this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father…
. But an hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for such people the Father seeks to be His worshipers.”
Similarly, the apocalyptic mention of Jerusalem in Zechariah 14 must be allowed to point beyond the earthly city of David.
“For here we do not have a lasting city, but we are seeking the city which is to come” (Heb. 13:14).
Indeed, those in the New Testament churches already “have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem” (Heb. 12:22).
We are of the new covenant corresponding to “the Jerusalem above” who “is our mother” (Gal. 4:24–26).
James the Lord’s brother points to the prophecy of Amos and thus confirms that God has rebuilt and restored the ruined tabernacle of David so that the Gentiles may seek the Lord and be called by his Name (Acts 15:13–18).
The nations are now joining themselves to Zion, the redeemed city of God, the New Testament churches of Jesus Christ.
If James and the other apostles could confidently use such a hermeneutic, so can we.
This hermeneutic will provide us with an interpretation of Zechariah
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