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TomFL
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I have been offering commentary in the context of the "sheep" metaphor that God uses for Israel. You have taken the position that it, the sheep metaphor, is applied to the church and to gentiles as well and it has no special and prophetic significance because of it. if I understand your theology, you do not see any "ages" after the church age when God will take up his cause in these people. I have quoted a number of passages from the OT where that metaphor is established for these people and the Messiah is prophesied to come and gather them back from the mountains and hills where they have been driven because of past unfaithful shepherds. It is in that sense that these Jewish Christian epistles have a dual application.
If I see no ages beyond the church age where God is dealing with Jewish people in a particularly Jewish manner with restored sacrificial and ritualistic practices it is because the New Testament does not teach any such thing
Rather the bible teaches universal resurrection, rapture and judgment at Christs return
And I follow the principle of hermeneutical priority of the New Testament
As the New Testament revelation is the clearest revelation we have; old testament prophesy should be understood within the context of it
Further restoration of the old testament sacrificial and it's relational practices fly in the face of Christs once and for all sacrifice which is the true reality the old testament economy pointed to
It was but a shadow which pointed to the true reality
Having established the reality why go back to what was described as beggarly
Gal. 4:9 —KJV
“But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage?”
In any case what you extoll appears to be Scofield dispensationalism
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