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The land of promise finds its realization in Jesus: not in types and shadows

 Covenant theology saw redemptive history in terms of one overarching covenant of grace—with the various biblical covenants as administrations of the one covenant,   “I will be their God, and they will be my people.” What agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the living God, as God said,      “I will live in them and walk among them,      and I will be their God,      and they shall be my people. ( Jer. 31:1; 1 Cor. 3:16) 2 Co 6:16.  This theology saw a basic continuity between old covenant Israel and the church.  The church “replaces” Old Testament Israel, inheriting her promises of land and rest from enemies as the spiritual blessings of peace, forgiveness of sins, the indwelling Holy Spirit, and eternity in heaven. (Russell D. Moore, “Personal and Cosmic Eschatology,” in A Theology for the Church (Nashville, TN: B&H Academic, 2014),689) This plan of salvation finds its conclusion ...
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Then what about the law: What then was the purpose of the law?

An account of the genealogy of  Jesus the Messiah , the son of David, the  son of Abraham . (Gen 12:3; 22:18; Ps 132:11; Isa 11:1; Lk 1:32; Jn 7:42; Acts 2:30; 13:23; Rom 1:3; Gal 3:16) Matt. 1:1  I will  bless those who bless  you , and the one who curses  you   I will  curse, and  in you  all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”, ( Gen 18:18; 22:18; 26:4; 27:29; Ex 23:22; Num 24:9; Acts 3:25; Gal 3:8) Gen. 12:3  And the king will answer them, ‘Truly  I tell  you, just as you did it to one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine,  you did it to me .’ Matt. 25:40  Inevitably, this leads to an inevitable question: “What, then, was the purpose of the law?” (Gal.3:19). The answer is complex, and, judging by what he says elsewhere (e.g. Rom 7), Paul makes no attempt to give a complete answer in Galatians 3. But intrinsic to its significance is its function in preparation for the coming of Christ “ ...
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This generation will not pass away: Before All these things take place.

 Then some of the scribes and Pharisees answered, saying, “Teacher, we want to see a sign from You.” But He answered and said to them, “ An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign , and no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah. For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.  The men of Nineveh will rise up in the judgment  with this generation  and condemn it, because they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and indeed  a greater than Jonah is here . The queen of the South will rise up in the judgment  with this generation  and condemn it, for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and indeed  a greater than Solomon is here .  “When an unclean spirit goes out of a man, he goes through dry places, seeking rest, and finds none. Then he says, ‘I will return to my house from w...
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Jesus Speaks about the Future: The Unknown Day and Hour

 Ambrose of Milan, “Exposition of the Christian Faith,”   The Arians are condemned by the Holy Spirit through the mouth of David: for they dare to limit Christ’s knowledge. The passage cited by them in proof of this is by no means free from suspicion of having been corrupted. But to set this right, we must mark the word “Son.” For knowledge cannot fail Christ as Son of God, since He is Wisdom; nor the recognition of any part, for He created all things. It is not possible that He, who made the ages, cannot know the future, much less the day of judgment. Such knowledge, whether it concerns anything great or small, may not be denied to the Son, nor yet to the Holy Spirit. Lastly, various proofs are given from which we can gather that this knowledge exists in Christ. 188. WHEREFORE we ought to know that they who make such statements are accursed and condemned by the Holy Spirit. For whom else but the Arians in chief does the prophet condemn, seeing that they say that the Son of Go...
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