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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’...

as universal and extensive in its application. It would not be a matter of the nations looking over the fence to see what Israel had done and then, in copycat fashion, blessing themselves; it would be only by grace, as a gift of God—not by works. This would be the basis for God’s blessing humanity in personal salvation when faith was exercised. The apostle Paul had named Abraham (the changed form of his original name, Abram) as “heir of the world” (Rom. 4:13) and later, in Galatians, as the father
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