The Two Christian Hopes and The Partakers of The New Covenant (Covenant Particularity)
The Two Hopes in Relation to the New Covenant There is no doubt that the bible holds out a hope for everlasting life on earth. Revelation 21:3-4 describes realities that don't exist in heaven , so for them to be done away with it must make sense this is referring to the earth where that reality of death does exist. Martha certainly believed in an earthly hope when she said of her brother “I know he will rise in the resurrection on the last day.” (John 11:24) True, the Sadducees of the time denied the resurrection. (Mark 12:18) However, in his book Judaism in the First Centuries of the Christian Era , George Foot Moore says: “Writings . . . of the second or first centuries before our era attest the belief that at the expected turning-point in the history of the world the dead of former generations would be brought to life again on earth.” No such thing as heaven being the “in between” then coming back. When Jesus was speaking to Nicodemus he explicitly mentions ...