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Jesus and Israel: One Covenant or Two? is unavailable, but you can change that!

Revisiting the important topic of covenant fulfillment, Reformed theologian David Holwerda argues that God’s promises to Old Testament Israel cannot be understood apart from Jesus Christ. Based on careful exposition of key New Testament texts—including a significant in-depth study of Romans 9:11—in dialogue with a wide variety of interpreters and theologians, Holwerda maintains that the Old...

salvation—whether the king (Psalm 118) or the temple—find their fulfillment in the building of which Jesus Christ is the cornerstone. As Isaiah saw a temple situated on this foundation stone in Zion, a temple in which Jews and Gentiles serve the Lord, so Paul announces the fulfillment of that vision in the new temple in the Lord. The worldwide community of believers in Christ is the superstructure erected on the foundation that God laid in Zion, and the ancient prophetic vision of a universal temple
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