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I myself would add to what König is saying. For both passages are of Johannine authorship.Therefore, they need to be taken together."John 12:31," says König, "follows on the request of the Greeks to see Jesus. Jesus reacts by sayingtwo things. First, Satan was then to be cast out of his dominion. John 12:31. Second, Jesus wouldthereupon draw all men unto Himself. John 12:32. This means that Satan is now being conqueredand bound, and that Jesus is now, by means of worldwide missions, turning all nations into Hisdisciples."This means, by Christ's actions of death and resurrection, that the power of Satan over the nationshas been broken. The house of Satan or the strong man's house -- that is, the world -- is now beingtaken over by the stronger man Christ. He executes this through His worldwide missions -- throughHis Church -- as pictured in Matthew 12:29!"In his doctoral dissertation Jesus Christ the Eschatos (alias the Last One), König tells us thefollowing: "The continued progress of the Kingdom throughout the world is indeed not anunpleasant surprise. To the contrary, it is one big pleasant surprise. Jesus was not just a Jewishapocalyptic who would have been satisfied if the end of the world had arrived immediately, and ifonly a handful of Jews would have been saved -- while God's judgments would have broken looseover all mankind. No!"In the first place, Jesus is the revelation of the God of love. First John 4:8 & 16. He is therevelation of the God Who so loved not just the Jews but the whole world, John 3:16. He is therevelation of the God Who sent His only Son not to condemn the world, but that the world throughHim might be saved. John 3:17. And this is why Jesus was called the Saviour of the world. John4:42, cf. First John 4:14 and First John 2:2."This Father and this Son do not just quietly supervise the arrival of the end as nothing more than adestructive condemnation of the human masses. No! This Father told this Son: 'It is a light thingthat Thou shouldest be My Servant to raise up only the tribes of Jacob, and to restore only thepreserved of Israel! I will give Thee for a Light to the Gentiles -- so that Thou mayest be MySalvation unto the ends of the earth!' Isaiah 49:6."I now point briefly to a South African perhaps already known to you (because he writes inEnglish). I mean the Reformed Baptist from South Africa known as Erroll Hulse -- who has leftSouth Africa, settled in England, and become the leading Reformed Baptist in England (chieflythrough his books and well-known magazine "Reformation Today").I would like to give you a quote from his readable book The Restoration of Israel. Says Hulse,"Jesus reigns as king. He has an invincible purpose to redeem a great many from the nations of theearth. The universal kingship of Christ is far more prominent in Scripture, than the idea of defeatand apostasy. To the end of time -- believers have to face indwelling sin, persecution, tribulationand death. Yet the ultimate triumph of the believers is certain, and their triumph includes theproclamation of the Gospel on a vast scale -- to the salvation of an innumerable multitude."Now is a dark time. But the rains and harvest will come once more. The promises are ripe. Theyawait fulfilment. Yes, in these last days it shall come to pass that the mountain of the Lord's houseshall be established in the top of the mountains and shall be exalted in the hills; and all nations shallflow unto it. Isaiah 2:2 and Micah 4:1f. Now we see the tiniest trickle. Then shall come the riverflowirresistible. Hallelujah!"Finally, I would like to close with a quotation from my friend Rev. Dr. Cornelius van der Waal.
Van der Waal is a very brilliant South African New Testamentician. He wrote a number of doctoraldissertations. One was on the Church Father Mileto of Sardis, who flourished round about 150 A.D.Another was on the priestly motive, in the book of Revelation.Van der Waal has written a massive two-volume commentary on the book of Revelation which stillneeds to be translated. He has also authored shorter works on the book of Revelation -- arguingstrenuously that the book was written before the destruction of Jerusalem in A.D. 70. Some of hisworks are only now being translated into English by Paidia Press in Canada. These include: In theLatter Days (his work against Hal Lindsay); and his eight-volume series on Sola Scriptura (alias Bythe Scriptures Alone). A writing from his pen that urgently needs translating, is his work TheCultural Mandate in Discussion.This van der Waal is a fascinating person. He has a paradise-like home in Pretoria, which headorned with all kinds of palm-trees and mosses and ferns and desert plants -- both inside andoutside his house and further into his garden. It is all surrounded by a huge fence -- to keep out"snakes" (and other poisonous theological characters)! There he has tried to rebuild the garden ofEden -- or, perhaps, his vision of what the perfect combination of culture and nature will be like onthe new earth -- as reflected in Revelation 21 and 22.The most interesting thing of all -- if you visit the home of van der Waal as I have done -- is theway in which you walk out of his house into the garden. You are never quite sure where the gardenends and the house begins, and the other way round. The two melt into one another!He visited me in America several years ago, and I took him on a tour through my home. I askedhim for tips as to how to recreate the garden of Eden in my own home -- and he was very helpful.Van der Waal has written a number of important books, even over and above those titles I have justmentioned. A very fine book he wrote is entitled: What Exactly is Written There? It is a bookdealing with some of the most difficult and misunderstood texts in the Bible which the pietists loveto misinterpret. He straightens them out, with his painstaking exegesis. He deals, in this citation Iam about to read, particularly with Hebrews 11:13. This states that the patriarchs confessed theywere strangers and pilgrims on the earth. Van der Waal does not like the pietistic interpretation ofthe word "pilgrim" -- and sets out to straighten them out.Says van der Waal: "The translations have the writer saying in Hebrews 11:13 that the patriarchs'confessed they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.' Now it is very questionable to mewhether this translation 'on the earth' is justified. Instead of 'on the earth,' we would like to pleadfor the translation, 'in the land.' Compare the Hebrew word 'erets -- meaning 'land' or 'earth' or'country.'"So here, we should be thinking of the promised land. Then the meaning would be: 'Abrahamconfessed that he a stranger and a pilgrim in the land.' In verse 8, we read of a place whichAbraham received as an inheritance. Canaan was no halfway-house. No! It was his inheritance, hisplace. Hebrews 11:9 speaks of this place -- as the land of promise!"Woe unto Abraham -- if he thought that this 'land' was still not actually the true and the real thing!There would be no 'Platonic' land in the sweet by-and-by more real, which he would only one dayinherit. It is true on account of Abraham's situation, that he lived in that land as a sojourningstranger. Yet he was still the legal heir of that land."Of course, Abraham also expected the city which has foundations. Here, however, we should thinkof both Jerusalem and the New Jerusalem. For both are lineal fulfilments of the promise. Hebrews
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