There are no “new” eschatological promises in the New Testament. All New Testament prophecies of the end are based on and taken from God’s OId Covenant promises made to Old Covenant Israel. This changes everything!
If the eschatological goal of the previous ages was arriving in the first century, it means that all futurist eschatologies are wrong!
If the Old Law could not pass until every jot and every tittle was fulfilled, and if Christ has not come, in judgment and the resurrection, then the Old Law remains fully in effect, binding and imposed.
Paul’s citation of Psalms 69 and discussion of the “blindness of Israel” in Romans 11 provides extremely important contextual basis for concluding that Romans 11 was fulfilled in the first century judgment of Israel’s blindness.
Sam Frost says that everything has to have a “telos”- and end. Well, what about the New Creation? Does it come to an end?
In Edward’s view of God’s Sovereignty, i.e. in the Reformed / Calvinistic view, every single thing that is done or that occurs was / is predestinated. That means that if (since) there was an apostasy, a loss of proper understanding of eschatology, then that apostasy was foreordained / predestinated by God.
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