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Mission in the Old Testament: Israel as a Light to the Nations is unavailable, but you can change that!

Walter Kaiser questions the notion that the New Testament represents a deviation from God’s supposed intention to save only the Israelites. He argues that—contrary to popular opinion—the older testament does not reinforce an exclusive redemptive plan. Instead, it emphasizes a common human condition and God’s original and continuing concern for all humanity. Kaiser shows that the Israelites’...

How and why God chose Abram as the conduit through whom this promise would come to all on earth is not discussed in the text; the fact is that he did! This son of Terah was commanded by God to leave his city, Ur of the Babylonians, and journey with his herds and flocks some 1,100 miles away, to a land God would only later disclose to him. The amazing thing is that Abram picked up all that he owned and left, going by faith and trusting in the fact that God would tell him what he was to do next. He
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