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(4) Restoration to the land, v.5 (Isa. 11:11; Jer. 23:3-8; Ezk. 37:21-25).
(5) National conversion, v.6 (Rom. 11:26, 27; Hos. 2:14-16).
(6) The judgement of Israel’s oppressors, v.7 (Isa.14:1,2;Mt. 25:31-46).
(7) National prosperity, v.9 (Amos 9:11-14)’ 850
Schuyler English, in the 1967 New Scofield Reference Bible 851 revision,
consistently adds to Scofield’s original notes to give a more explicit
dispensational reading of key texts. In many cases references to
contemporary Israel are appended to verses on which Scofield originally
made no comment at all. 852 For example, on Deuteronomy 30:5, Schuyler
English adds the following innovation:
‘No passage of scripture has found fuller confirmation in the events of
history than Dt. 28 - 30. In AD 70 the Jewish nation was scattered
throughout the world because of disobedience and rejection of Christ.
In world-wide dispersion they experienced exactly the punishments
foretold by Moses. On the other hand, when the nation walked in
conformity with the will of God, it enjoyed the blessing and protection of
God. In the twentieth Century the exiled people were restored to their
homeland.’ 853
Inexplicably, Scofield’s original chronology in which the Lord returns before
Israel is restored, which is retained by Schuyler English, is nevertheless
contradicted by the final sentence he adds to the footnote. 854 No explanation
is given for the apparent contradiction between Israel’s continued
‘disobedience and rejection of Christ’ and yet their restoration ‘to their
homeland.’
Scofield’s claim that Israel never possessed all the land promised to
Abraham, is also at variance with the books of Joshua and Nehemiah. 855 The
author of Joshua insists, ‘So Joshua took the entire land, just as the Lord had
directed Moses.’ (Joshua 11:23). At the end of the book of Joshua, the same
assessment is repeated but more emphatically, ‘So the Lord gave Israel all
the land he had sworn to give their forefathers, and they took possession of it
and settled there … Not one of all the Lord’s good promises to the house of
Israel failed; every one was fulfilled.’ (21:43-45). It is hard to see how this
850 Ibid., fn. 1, p250.
851 Schuyler English, New, op.cit.,
852 Ibid., p19.
853 Ibid., p217.
854 Ibid., p217.
855 Joshua 11:23; 21:43-45; Nehemiah 9:22-23.
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