Why God's promises to Israel must be fulfilled. We don't get to split the literal-ness or figurative-ness of God's promises up between those that have already been fulfilled literally and those that are still in the future; and so must be fulfilled in some sort of figurative and spiritual way...just not in a literal way.
Either God is faithful to His promises, or He is not.
Past performance, recorded for us in great detail in Scripture, is that His promises have been fulfilled literally...or...they are still to come and will also be literally fulfilled.
The promise was to Abraham and His Seed (Gal 3:16). He will reign over a saved Israel, from David's throne in a literal and physical Jerusalem, over all the nations, with a rod of iron, and the prosperity of Jerusalem will be restored.
Otherwise, to whom (what authority) may we turn to discern what God really intended to say? There is none other, but the very word that He gave us, and the testimony of His ability to bring His word to pass, as He promised (Isaiah 43-47).
What is at stake?
Do we have a God who can be trusted in what He has said, and in what He has promised?
We Do! |
