JETS 41:3 (September 1998) p. 391 realization of covenant hope. These developments nuance our eschatological discussion both within dispensationalism and across the various lines of tradition within evangelicalism. They are fresh proposals of synthesis, specifying where continuities and discontinuities exist in God’s plan. Our point has been that initial fulfillment in the Church now does not require the end of a central role for believing, national Israel in the future. Neither should this be read