Quotation Friday Winner: Don Sands of the Sandman blog. Congratulations to Don for correctly guessing that R. C. Sproul is the author of the quote of the week!
I haven't done the mystery meat version of "Quotation Friday" in a while, so I thought now would be a good time. I will post a link to your blog above if you get it right. One clue: it is not John MacArthur.
"And so all Israel will be saved. The context indicates that Paul must be speaking of the Jewish people. He does not mean every Jew that ever lived, but the nation of Israel. Now why do I say that ‘Israel’ in this phrase refers to the Jews? All through his discussion Paul is talking about Israel in part: part of Israel has been blinded, part of Israel has been cut away, part of Israel has been stubborn, part of Israel has been excluded from the kingdom of God and its blessings. The Jews as a people are presently under judgment. But as there was a national judgment, so there will be a national restoration. Their rejection, even though it was a national rejection, did not include the rejection of every individual. So the restoration doesn’t necessarily mean that every individual Jew will be saved, but the nation as a nation will be restored to God . . . .
I remember sitting on my porch in Boston in 1967, and watching on television the Jewish soldiers coming into Jerusalem, dropping their weapons and rushing to the Wailing Wall, and weeping and weeping. Immediately I telephoned one of my dear friends, a professor of Old Testament theology, who does not believe that modern day Israel has any significance whatsoever. I asked him, 'What do you think now? From 70 AD until 1967, almost 1900 years, Jerusalem has been under the domination and control of Gentiles, and now the Jews have recaptured the city of Jerusalem. Jesus said that Jerusalem will be trodden under foot by the Gentiles, until the fullness of the Gentiles be fulfilled. What's the significance of that?' He replied, 'I am going to have to rethink this situation.' It was indeed startling.”
And your quote of the week?
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27 comments:
Charles Lee Feinberg
Nice try, but no. BTW, did you ever experience "Diversity Day"?
"Diversity day" was awesome!!! Best thing going these days (end of cryptic reference to hit tv show).
Arnold Fruchtenbaum
Pat Robertson
...I'm a continuationist, what do you want from me?
(Uh,oh, another strike against me! Now I'll be banned from the Moor for life!)
William Hendrickson
My quote of the week is from a fellow blogger;
"...some dispies are even willing to put Christ on David's throne now."-Jonathan Moorhead
Still no winner.
Another clue: he is still living.
I know who the quote is now but I have already guessed. Here's my quote offering for the week:
“Our contention is not that the New covenant only fulfilled the spiritual promises made to Abraham’s seed. True, the middle wall of partition had been broken down between believing Jews and Gentiles (Eph. 2:13-18); but this again did not imply or explicitly teach that national identities or promises were likewise obviated any more than maleness and femaleness were dropped. Paul’s claim is that Gentile believers have been “grafted into” the Jewish olive tree (Rom. 11:17-25) and made ‘fellow heirs of the same body and partakers of his promise in Christ by the gospel’ (Eph. 3:6)….it should not be too surprising to see the NT writers add to the emerging thesis of the OT that there was just one people of God and one program of God even though there are several aspects to that single people and single program” (Walter Kaiser, Toward and Old Testament Theology, 268-69).
Piper...
Wrong again. I'll post another clue in a couple of hours.
Donald Grey Barnhouse? Somehow that doesn't seem right to me, but I can't think of anyone else who would say this that was possibly living in Boston during the 6 Day War.
Now I know I can't be right if he is still living. I am stumped.
JDM,
No one will get this and you know it. You're starting to act like Alex Trebec.
What?! This guy is one of the most popular theologians out there.
James White.
Sorry Don.
For future guesses: assume you are wrong if I do not respond. I will give another exciting clue at noon, central time.
I'm pulling your leg JDM. This one will shock a few dogs from their porches!
John MacCarthur
Sorry I meant John MacArthur.
Acts 17:11, MacArthur was the first clue in the post.
NEXT CLUE: this is probably a dead giveaway, but the mystery quote is from a man that loves the chalkboard.
Bill Gotthard? heehee
That's too easy. Dr. RC Sproul.
Loves the chalkboard?
Alas, I'm behind donsands on this one, but based on Challies' March 16 post from the Ligonier Conference (where my pastor, his wife and church brethren are as I type), RC Sproul it must be.
So how timely, since my quote is from his book "The Last Days According to Jesus," lent to me by said pastor since we were discussing the comments to your "Who is Israel" post of a few weeks back.
"'The kingdom of heaven is at hand' (Matt 3:2). With the coming of Jesus, the kingdom is inaugurated, reaching its New Testament acme in his ascension. The ascension is not merely a 'going up' to heaven. It is a going up for a specific event, his coronation and investiture as the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords. Insofar as Jesus presently occupies this seat of cosmic authority, the kingdom of God has come. Yet his reign remains invisible to men. It is yet to be made fully manifest on earth.
"At this point Oscar Cullmann introduces his famous D-Day analogy. The resurrection and ascension of Christ represents the D-day of the kingdom, the decisve turning point in redemptive history. In World War II D-Day was not the end of the war, but it was such a decisive turning point that for all intents and purposes the war was over. What was left was a mop-up exercise (the Battle of the Bulge notwithstanding). In like manner the decisive work of the kingdom has been accomplished. We are living in the interim awaiting the consummation that will occur at Christ's parousia."
Thank you brother.
Susan - Thanks for that quote. I especially like this part, "The ascension is not merely a 'going up' to heaven. It is a going up for a specific event, his coronation and investiture as the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords."
So true!
Susan, could you please go to my profile page and send an email to me. I would like to ask you something via email. Thank you.
Mark
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