Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Jews and Gentiles Together Face God's Judgment and Receive God's Salvation

The anticipation in prophetic eschatology that both Israel and the nations will come under God's judgment, and that the nations will share in the salvation that comes to Israel, makes a simple opposition between the two categories increasingly difficult to maintain as the history of redemption unfolds.

--Daniel C. Timmer, A Gracious and Compassionate God: Mission, Salvation and Spirituality in the Book of Jonah (New Studies in Biblical Theology; Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity, 2011), 29.

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