{"content":[{"text":"Lynn Andrew, “The Drama is Israel (and God is the Author)”","bbox":{"left":0.052924,"top":0.027021,"width":0.47640499999999997,"height":0.026855}},{"text":"The expedient of denying Israel’s central and permanent role \n in God’s plan gets rid of the symptom, but it is like the expediency \n of remaining self-centered. Ultimately the sin must be dealt with, \n and only the God who made himself known to the world through \n Israel can do away with it. \n The surge of dispensationalism was an evidence of just that; \n its eschatology freely recognized the continuing role of Israel as a \n special agent of God, in spite of historical interruptions. The \n opposition to dispensationalism is essentially the opposition to \n the literal future reign of Jesus Christ on earth—complete with \n the obsolete trappings envisioned by biblical prophets. While it is \n possible to envision a sterile Millennium free of Jewish influence, \n even using Scripture to make the case, the effort must include \n interpretations borrowed from the amillennial exegetic scheme \n that depreciates much of Bible prophecy. \n So when you make your decision about what to do with Israel, \n you have made a decision about how the Bible is to be inter- \n preted, which means you have made a decision about what the \n Bible is: you have adopted a theory of inspiration that you may \n not agree with. If you interpret the Bible in a way that expunges \n the future role of Israel, you have decided that God did not intend \n for it to always mean quite what it says, which may sound harm- \n less enough, but what that implies is that you (through the exposi- \n tors of your choice) have substituted your own inspiration where \n a more straightforward reading would have given more credence \n to the meaning that the authors intended. This is not necessarily a \n bad thing in principle, but if there is even an appearance of","bbox":{"left":0.052924,"top":0.068315,"width":0.8948170000000001,"height":0.864381}},{"text":"2","bbox":{"left":0.51345,"top":0.956329,"width":0.011850000000000027,"height":0.02983899999999995}}],"images_bbox":[],"images_bbox_not_text_overlap":[]}