Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Not All Israel is Israel

Further, this inchoate redefinition of Israel across her history is complemented by various eschatological passages in the OT that foretell the completion of this redefinition in the resolution of God's conflict not with the nations per se (an ethnically determined category), but with the forces of unrighteousness that they represent (an anthropological or theological category). Depending on the context, this can mean either that not all of Israel is genuinely part of God's people (Hos. 1:9-10; 2:23), or that non-Israelites are (Jer. 48:47; 49:6, 39 for Moab, Ammon and Elam, respectively).

--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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