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Mr.Ex_Nihilo
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Now, just for the record, I would like to point out some very well known protestant (and even Catholic) claims regarding the Scriptures and how they believe the new is indeed in the Old concealed, and the Old is indeed in the New revealed.
I will briefly note that these views are merely a sampling of certain thoughts regarding how some protestant groups sometimes interpret the prophecies in the Old Testament (and likewise believe they are fulfilled in the New Testament era).
It needs to be stressed that not all protestants hold these views (and some Catholics might even hold some variations of these views). Nonetheless, many actually outright disagree with these views whereas others may subscribe in part to them without actually teaching them as an article of faith.
But the ones who do wholeheartedly hold these views do tend to sometimes be very anti-Catholic-- and very much do claim that the Old Testament knew something very specific about this Church age we live in.
Now, before I proceed with the protestant thoughts on this, I would like to start with the very first example an old view that was held around the earliest times of the Church by some well known Catholics, the idea of the culmination of the church during the Sabbath Millenium.
In this sense, I’m speaking of the view that the seven days of creation reflects a general overall 7000 year pattern within humanity which mirrors biblical history itself, the idea that a day with the Lord is as a thousand years so to speak.
In this sense, it was beleived that the sacramental nature of the Sabbath itself was intended in some way to foreshadow the final destiny of God’s creation-- that this seven day period also in some way represents the fullness of time as measured in the millennia of human experience.
In other words, they believed that the Sabbath was not just intended to make God’s people aware of their origins, but also of their destiny.
Of those within the early church who apparently did hold this view, it is believed that Barnabus, Irenaeus, Lactanius and even Jerome held this kind of view-- at least, the writings associated with them seems to indicate this.
Consequently, there are a few protestant bodies in our modern day which do indeed still subscribe to this view. And this view certainly does claim that the Old Testament knew something very specific about this Church age we live in.
In a related matter, another form of the symbolism of ‘days’ could be found in the death of Christ himself, at least according to some early church fathers.
In this sense, looking toward Hosea 6:1-3, they say that just as Christ died for two days and then arose on the dawn of the third day, Christ will physically leave this earth for two thousand years and then return near the beginning of the third miillennium.
In this view, some claim that it would be odd that the three days for the most important event in Christian history would be purely arbitrary. They attach more signifiance to the prophecy in Hosea than the New Testament writers attached to it-- and, yet, it is a reasonable conclusion to make without distoring the passage from Hosea either.
Regardless of whether this is true or not, there are indeed a few protestant bodies in our modern day which do indeed still subscribe to this view. And this view certainly does claim that the Old Testament knew something very specific about this Church age we live in too.
I will briefly note that these views are merely a sampling of certain thoughts regarding how some protestant groups sometimes interpret the prophecies in the Old Testament (and likewise believe they are fulfilled in the New Testament era).
It needs to be stressed that not all protestants hold these views (and some Catholics might even hold some variations of these views). Nonetheless, many actually outright disagree with these views whereas others may subscribe in part to them without actually teaching them as an article of faith.
But the ones who do wholeheartedly hold these views do tend to sometimes be very anti-Catholic-- and very much do claim that the Old Testament knew something very specific about this Church age we live in.
Now, before I proceed with the protestant thoughts on this, I would like to start with the very first example an old view that was held around the earliest times of the Church by some well known Catholics, the idea of the culmination of the church during the Sabbath Millenium.
In this sense, I’m speaking of the view that the seven days of creation reflects a general overall 7000 year pattern within humanity which mirrors biblical history itself, the idea that a day with the Lord is as a thousand years so to speak.
In this sense, it was beleived that the sacramental nature of the Sabbath itself was intended in some way to foreshadow the final destiny of God’s creation-- that this seven day period also in some way represents the fullness of time as measured in the millennia of human experience.
In other words, they believed that the Sabbath was not just intended to make God’s people aware of their origins, but also of their destiny.
Of those within the early church who apparently did hold this view, it is believed that Barnabus, Irenaeus, Lactanius and even Jerome held this kind of view-- at least, the writings associated with them seems to indicate this.
Consequently, there are a few protestant bodies in our modern day which do indeed still subscribe to this view. And this view certainly does claim that the Old Testament knew something very specific about this Church age we live in.
In a related matter, another form of the symbolism of ‘days’ could be found in the death of Christ himself, at least according to some early church fathers.
In this sense, looking toward Hosea 6:1-3, they say that just as Christ died for two days and then arose on the dawn of the third day, Christ will physically leave this earth for two thousand years and then return near the beginning of the third miillennium.
In this view, some claim that it would be odd that the three days for the most important event in Christian history would be purely arbitrary. They attach more signifiance to the prophecy in Hosea than the New Testament writers attached to it-- and, yet, it is a reasonable conclusion to make without distoring the passage from Hosea either.
Regardless of whether this is true or not, there are indeed a few protestant bodies in our modern day which do indeed still subscribe to this view. And this view certainly does claim that the Old Testament knew something very specific about this Church age we live in too.
