Moody, Stan
(On Christ's Second Coming)
"If Jesus, in His Olivet Discourse, intertwined the destruction of the Temple and His Parousia in such a manner that they are debatably indistinguishable from each other, would it not be reasonable to hypothesize that what happened historically in A.D.70 was the end of all theophanies?" (Crisis in Evangelical Scholarship, p. 35)
(On the Significance of A.D. 70)
"I could not stand on Masada without realizing that something of a critical nature happened there which marked a new era in God's redemptive plan. It seemed like a moment of cleavage, with the old order giving way to the new Messianic order, and Jews completed in Christ, violently and suddenly (albeit unwillingly) being severed from their Jewish traditions. I began to see that in a very real sense, Masada was a moment in the fulfillment of John the Baptist's "coming wrath" (Luke 3:7), from which Christians in obedience to Christ had escaped. By this violent rendering, they at last were free to worship unencumbered by the temptation to revert to the old Jewish customs. Masada signaled the end of the overlapping of the ages. The Temple had given way to the Cross. Surely, A.D.70-72 marked the last days, at least for the moment, of national Israel as God's chosen people, and of Jerusalem as God's dwelling place." (Introduction, Crisis in Evangelical Scholarship)
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