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To: topcat54
"The kingdom of God shall be taken from you and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits of it." [Mt 21:43] What are you saying here? That there are two (or more) sets of the Jewish nation? Is that another item to add to my list of dispensational slice and dice results; two Jewish nations?

Just one nation -- the one that returns from the Diaspora.

What nation do Preterists think it is????

109 posted on 11/21/2007 8:56:12 AM PST by Uncle Chip (TRUTH : Ignore it. Deride it. Allegorize it. Interpret it. But you can't ESCAPE it.)
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To: Uncle Chip; 1000 silverlings; Dr. Eckleburg; tabsternager; Gamecock; Lee N. Field; Campion
What nation do Preterists think it is????

Well, interpreting Scripture with Scripture one can only conclude it is the "holy nation" that Peter references. "But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation," (1 Peter 2:9). Not future tense. Present tense. The only "holy nation" at that time was the Church, what Paul in Ephesians 2 describes as the commonwealth made up of Jews and gentiles.

BTW, it’s not just preterist that interpret this correctly, but most if not all non-dispensationalists. Perhaps all non-hyper-dispensationalists, since I have never heard a dispensationalist try to argue that the "holy nation" of 1 Peter 2 is not the Church. That is a new one on me.

111 posted on 11/21/2007 9:19:48 AM PST by topcat54 ("Dispensationalism -- an error of Biblical proportions.")
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