So in light of all that, so far I’d like to offer you a provisional—and it has to be provisional—a provisional definition of what I think the word “gospel” means when we talk about it in light of the Gospels. And it is this: building especially on the Isaianic vision (“of Isaiah”) the NT authors define the “gospel” as Jesus’ effecting of the long-awaited return of God Himself, bringing His people back from exile (a very important key idea from Isaiah) and into the true promised land (of course, that