If Israel was truly God’s people, why were the pagans ruling over her?” ( ) “The worst thing was that the foreigners were pagans. In other words, God was now unveiling his age-old plan, bringing his sovereignty to bear on Israel and the world as he had always intended, bringing justice and mercy to Israel and the world.” ( ) “The kingdom of God, he said, is at hand. “Scripture is not ‘we believe the Bible, so there is nothing more to be learned,’ but rather ‘we believe the Bible, so we had better discover all the things in it to which our traditions, including our ‘protestant’ or ‘evangelical’ traditions, which have supposed themselves to be ‘biblical’ but are sometimes demonstrably not, have made us blind.’” ( ) “Thus, though some of them had returned from geographical exile, most believed that the theological state of exile was still continuing.” ( )
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