[dartuser]

The OT basis of the kingdom is expounded upon by Dr. Fruchtenbaum (he is a Jewish convert to Christ) in an exhaustive fashion. The article is a long, scholarly, and comprehensive background to the coming Messianic reign of Jesus Christ. Enjoy with your friends over coffee.

[Maudeen]

Pre-trib Any-trib The most important thing is to be ready!

http://www.patburt.com/

[Bryan24]

Jesus is ruling on David’s throne. Jesus was a direct descendant of David. He was a rightful heir to the throne. He is now sitting on the throne in Heaven.

The promises to the Jews were fulfilled.

[huldah1776]

sweet in its thoroughness. Thanks! Thinking about His reign is my place of peace.

[boatbums]

Thanks...will read the full article tomorrow.

[redleghunter]

Thanks will finish the article tomorrow. Good to see some scholarly works posted on prophecy. A bit lacking in this forum.

[CynicalBear]

Great article! Thanks for posting it. A paragraph from the article sort of sums it all up.

“It is the extensive prophetic writings, as well as all of these covenants, that provide the basis for the belief in a future Messianic Kingdom, and not merely one chapter of a highly symbolic book. Unless they are understood literally, they lose all meaning in the context in which they are found. To allegorize such a vast amount of material is to render a major part of the Bible meaningless.”

Meaningless is exactly what happens for those who twist scripture and prophesy to mean something they don’t.

[redleghunter]

From the posted article:

The first facet of Israel's final restoration is the national regeneration of Israel. The timing of this regeneration has already been discussed in Chapter 14, The Campaign of Armageddon and the Second Coming of Jesus the Messiah. This section is concerned with the development of that motif. The basis of Israel's final regeneration is the New Covenant, in Jeremiah 31:31-34.

The announcement of the New Covenant begins with a declaration that it will be a Jewish covenant, for it will be made with both houses of Israel (v. 31). It will be in sharp contradistinction with the older Mosaic Covenant (v. 32). Of the five Jewish covenants, the Mosaic was the only conditional one. Although God had been faithful in keeping His terms of the covenant, Israel had not been so faithful, resulting in the Mosaic Covenant's being broken. For while the Mosaic Covenant showed the standard of righteousness which the Law demanded, it could never impart to the Jew the power to keep it. But that problem will be rectified in the New Covenant (v. 33) through regeneration, which will provide the internal power necessary to meet and to keep the righteous standards of God. The result of the New Covenant will be a total national regeneration of Israel (v. 34).

Very good laydown of Jeremiah 31 above. Just for reference here are the mentioned verses:

Jeremiah 31:

31 “Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah— 32 not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, though I was a husband to them, says the Lord. 33 But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put My law in their minds, and write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. 34 No more shall every man teach his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says the Lord. For I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more.”

[boatbums]

Well written and scholarly article by Dr. Fruchtenbaum. What Preterists fail to acknowledge is that there are FOUR unconditional promises God made to Abraham and his descendants that WILL be fulfilled. Unconditional means that they are God's to fulfill and do not depend upon Israel's actions. God ALWAYS keeps His promises. These unconditional promises are:

From the linked article:

The first of these is the Abrahamic Covenant, which promised an eternal Seed developing into a nation that will possess the Promised Land with some definite borders. While that nation-the Jews-continues to exist, never in Jewish history have they possessed all of the Promised Land. For this promise to be fulfilled, there must be a future Kingdom. Besides, the possession of the Land was not merely promised to Abraham's seed, but to Abraham personally when God said, to you will I give it, and to your seed for ever (Gen. 13:15). For God to fulfill His promise to Abraham (as well as to Isaac and Jacob), there must be a future Kingdom.

The second covenant is the Palestinian Covenant, or Land Covenant, that spoke of a worldwide regathering of the Jews and repossession of the Land following their dispersion. While the dispersion has already occurred and is in effect today, the regathering and repossession of the Land still awaits fulfillment in the future. This, too, requires a future Kingdom.

The Davidic Covenant is the third covenant, and it promised four eternal things: an eternal house (dynasty), an eternal throne, an eternal kingdom, and one eternal Person. The Dynasty became eternal because it culminated in a Person Who is Himself eternal: Jesus the Messiah. For that reason the Throne and Kingdom will be eternal as well. But Jesus has never yet sat on the Throne of David ruling over a Kingdom of Israel. The reestablishment of the Davidic Throne and Messiah's rule over the Kingdom still awaits a future fulfillment. It requires a future kingdom.

The last of these covenants is the New Covenant, which spoke of the national regeneration and salvation of Israel, encompassing each individual Jewish member of that nation. This, too, awaits its final fulfillment and requires a future kingdom.

Those who imagine these have already been fulfilled will have to somehow explain why the above ETERNAL, UNCONDITIONAL covenants have not happened yet.