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The fact is The New Testament says nothing about the land of Palestine.
The Gospel of the Kingdom is about worshipping God in spirit and truth.
No physical Temple is needed anymore, so God destroyed it in 70 AD.
Some men's desire to build a new temple reminds me of the story of The Tower of Babel.
It's the story of men glorifying themselves and not God.
The Land in the New Testament, by David Devenish
What does the New Testament teach about the land of Israel? Answer: absolutely nothing. There are no references to the importance of the land or of Jerusalem as a ‘holy city’. Some would say that this is simply an argument from silence and that there are sufficient promises in the Old Testament to establish the land as belonging to the Jewish people without the need for New Testament confirmation. However, not only is there silence about the land but the whole tenor of the New Testament message and revelation of God’s saving purpose amongst His people points in a different direction.
To a Samaritan, despised by the Jews, Jesus makes special places of worship (including Jerusalem) a redundant concept (John 4:21). When marveling at the faith of a Gentile centurion, Jesus applied to the gathering in of Gentile peoples from all over the world the Old Testament promises of the bringing of God’s people from the east and west into the promised blessings alongside Abraham, Isaac and Jacob (Matt. 8:11).
Christian Zionism, Bible, Scriptures, Old Testament, New Testament
The fact is The New Testament says nothing about the land of Palestine.
The Gospel of the Kingdom is about worshipping God in spirit and truth.
No physical Temple is needed anymore, so God destroyed it in 70 AD.
Some men's desire to build a new temple reminds me of the story of The Tower of Babel.
It's the story of men glorifying themselves and not God.
The Land in the New Testament, by David Devenish
What does the New Testament teach about the land of Israel? Answer: absolutely nothing. There are no references to the importance of the land or of Jerusalem as a ‘holy city’. Some would say that this is simply an argument from silence and that there are sufficient promises in the Old Testament to establish the land as belonging to the Jewish people without the need for New Testament confirmation. However, not only is there silence about the land but the whole tenor of the New Testament message and revelation of God’s saving purpose amongst His people points in a different direction.
To a Samaritan, despised by the Jews, Jesus makes special places of worship (including Jerusalem) a redundant concept (John 4:21). When marveling at the faith of a Gentile centurion, Jesus applied to the gathering in of Gentile peoples from all over the world the Old Testament promises of the bringing of God’s people from the east and west into the promised blessings alongside Abraham, Isaac and Jacob (Matt. 8:11).
Christian Zionism, Bible, Scriptures, Old Testament, New Testament