Israel of God: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow by O. Palmer Robertson

Author:O. Palmer Robertson
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Israel - History, Israel, Pneumatology, Christianity, Religion, Palestine in Christianity, Middle East, Israel (Christian Theology), General, Christian Theology, History
ISBN: 9780875523989
Publisher: P&R Pub.
Published: 2000-05-28T00:00:00+00:00

104 T H E I S R A E L O F G O D

This significance was not lost when he left the wilderness and

went into Galilee (Mark 1:14), for the wilderness theme con-

tinually recurs in the gospel tradition.37 As in the case of John,

the ministry of Christ was closely related to the desert.

The wilderness tradition plays its most obvious role in Je-

sus' temptation. Forty days and nights may not amount to forty

years, but the parallels between Israel's and Christ's tempta-

tion in the wilderness cannot be missed. Besides the general

scene of testing, all of Christ's replies come from Deuteron-

omy, and even more specifically from passages relating to Is-

rael's testing in the wilderness.38 The setting on a mountain,

with wild beasts and angels present, fits the Israelite traditions

all too well. The new messianic era has begun, and Jesus suc-

ceeds in his period of testing where Israel failed.39

Several studies have explored the theological significance

of the wilderness theme in the designation of Jesus as God's

"Son" let out of Egypt,40 in his calling of the twelve disci-

ples,41 in his delivery of the new law in the Sermon on the

Mount,42 in the feeding of the five thousand,43 in his trans-

figuration on the mountain,44 and in the "exodus" of his de-

cease.45 None of these suggestions may be cast off lightly. The

recurring of the wilderness tradition in the Synoptic Gospels

cannot be escaped.

37 Mauser, Christ in the Wilderness, 102.

38 T. Francis Glasson, Moses in the Fourth Gospel (London: SCM, 1963), 21-22; Jean Danielou, Sacramentum futuri: Etudes sur les origines de la typologie

biblique (Paris: Beauchesne et ses Fils, 1950), 135.

39 Milik, Ten Years of Discovery in the Wilderness ofJudea, 115.

40 Mauser, Christ in the Wilderness, 96.

41 Leonhard Goppelt, Typos: Die typologische Deutung des Alien Testaments im Neuen (Gutersloh: C. Bertelsmann, 1939), 127.

42 Glasson, Moses in the Fourth Gospel, 22.

43 Mauser, Christ in the Wilderness, 135ff.

44 Ibid., 110-11.

45 Jindrich Manek, 'The New Exodus in the Book of Luke," Novum Testa-

mentum 2 (1957): 12, 15.

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