Backwoods Presbyterian
Puritanboard Amanuensis
Interesting comments by Wilhelmus 'A Brakel on the future of the Nation of Israel (writing in 1700)...
"The Christian's Reasonable Service" Vol. IV, pg. 530-531
"One more question remains to be answered: Will the Jewish nation be gathered together again from all the regions of the world and from all the nations of the earth among which they have been dispersed? Will they come to dwell in Canaan and all the lands promised to Abraham, and will Jerusalem be rebuilt?
We believe that these events will transpire. We deny, however, that the temple will be rebuilt, and that the previous mode of worship will be observed, which prior to Christ's coming was of a typifying nature and would then be of a reflective nature...They will be an independent republic, governed by a very wise, good-natured, and superb government. Furthermore, Canaan will be extraordinarily fruitful, the inhabitants will be eminently godly, and they will constitute a segment of the glorious state of the church during the thousand years prophesied in Revelation 20."
"The Christian's Reasonable Service" Vol. IV, pg. 530-531