A central tenet of originalist hermeneutics is understanding the theme of the kingdom of God in the New Testament through the lens of the Old Testament theme of the eschatological restoration of national Israel. Therefore, the kingdom of God, as prophesied in the Hebrew Scriptures, was never established nor fulfilled during the first advent of the Messiah or what many people call “the church age.”
Much confusion has resulted from theologians who have argued for an “inaugurated eschatology” where the kingdom of God that is taught in the NT is “already but not yet” (developed by Princeton Seminary professor Gerhardus Vos in the early 20th century, formalized by Fuller Seminary professor George Eldon Ladd in the 1950s). This kind of allegorist/spiritualist hermeneutic can ultimately be traced back to the Greco-Roman philosophical influence of the Alexandrian Didascalium of the 2nd century.
Revelation 11:15–17, in the context of the 7th trumpet judgment, clearly records the future establishment of the kingdom of God: “Then the seventh angel sounded; and there were loud voices in heaven, saying, ‘The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ; and he will reign forever and ever.’ . . . ‘We give you thanks, O Lord God, the Almighty, who are and who were, because you have taken your great power and have begun to reign.”
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