over the Old Testament promise and “unpacking” its literal meaning. An illustration of this approach can be seen in the following quote: If the Lord Jesus Christ and his church fulfill the promises of the Old Testament, as the New Testament affirms (see Acts 3:24–25), then those promises expressed in terms appropriate for the earthly form of God’s kingdom in the old dispensation, find their literal fulfillment in the spiritual form of the kingdom in the New dispensation. Thus if Psalm 2:7 refers