<P> Goldsworthy schematizes the Kingdom of God as the expression of God's rule over God's people in God's place . In the beginning, God himself ruled over Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden . After the fall, the rule of God was expressed through the Law, the Judges, the King of Israel and finally the promise that God would write his law on his people's hearts (Jer 31: 33). "God's place" came to be the Tabernacle in the wilderness, later the Temple in Jerusalem, and finally the promise of the indwelling Spirit of God (Joel 2, Ezek 37). His "people" were Abraham, the people of Israel, then the faithful remnant of Israel, and finally the promised Messiah (Ps 2). </P> <P> In the New Testament, God's rule is exercised through Jesus Christ the King, who is also the temple of God (John 2: 19 - 21), over his people the Church (of which Israel was a type). Salvation for all people in all times is found by trusting (explicitly or implicitly) in Jesus . Thus, Abraham, Moses, David, and all Christians today are saved by the same faith . The Jews are regarded as special in God's plan (as in Romans and Ephesians) and yet the Old Testament prophecies regarding Israel find their fulfillment in Jesus and the Church rather than in a literal restoration of Israel . </P> <P> Held by reformed, evangelical Protestants (especially Sydney Anglicans). </P> <P> Usually idealist and amillennial . Revelation describes what is happening throughout the Christian era, from Pentecost to the second coming . This view acknowledges that there may be valid preteristic connections (e.g. the seven hills = Rome) but the full understanding comes through an idealistic - historicism (but without necessarily seeing the Roman Catholic Church as the antichrist). The events of the book, while not to be tied to particular historical events, still describe the sorts of things that will happen until Christ returns . The Book of Revelation is interpreted according to apocalyptic conventions regarding numbers and colours (7 = perfection / completion, white = victory) and the enormous number of allusions to the rest of Scripture . </P>

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