American Milk and Honey: Antisemitism, the Promise of Deuteronomy, and the True Israel of God

American Milk and Honey: Antisemitism, the Promise of Deuteronomy, and the True Israel of God

It’s rather odd how often I read something by Wilson, and it’s as though he had just written down some insight I’d come to in the last year. In this case, it was seeing that the Church is not something which replaces Israel, the Church is the fulfillment of Israel. But don’t take my word for it; read the book.

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American Milk & Honey is an extremely thought provoking book. Statements like "lowliness of heart does not maintain itself" and "only appropriate response to enormous material blessing is humility and greatness" make the reader deeply contemplate their own response. The author's presentation of the role of Gentiles throughout Scripture also is not a often discussed position. I've recommended this book to several fellow readers already!

I really enjoyed this book. The way Pastor Wilson is able to put the Bible into modern terms/events is what draws me to him; after all, it is the book for all ages/eras. The devil has had alot of practice in deception, but there really is nothing new under the sun and I appreciate authors, pastors, and Podcasters that point that out.
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This is a very good and sensible approach to the nation of Israel and her position in redemption history. Superseccesionism (the idea that the church is the true Israel of God) is taught in the Bible, so I've been confused before about why some Christians find it to be a wicked or antisemitic teaching. Wilson is a "soft" supercessionist, and he explains what that means. Like most of Wilson's books, this contains some nice, clear thinking about the roles of Jews and Gentiles, along with a good Reformed theological foundation a commitment to the plain reading of the Scripture. It's sort of a like a Christian version of a Thomas Sowell book. I got copies for several friends and loved ones.

American Milk and Honey: Antisemitism, the Promise of Deuteronomy, and the True Israel of God

The book helped me better understand the enigma of “Jews” being grafted back int the true Israel which is the Church (Bride of Christ). Altogether a thorough and honest discussion of anti-semitism.

American Milk and Honey: Antisemitism, the Promise of Deuteronomy, and the True Israel of God

When I ordered this book, I knew what I was getting into. The Doug and Friends livestream with Boniface showed the fault line very clearly. But I ordered and read anyway. While I have benefitted from Uncle Doug in more ways than I can say, this book was not one of them. This very much is intervarsity postmil differences, which is why I give Uncle Doug a pass on this tertiary issue. I am what Doug calls a hard supercessionist (though I don't really like that title), because I view the Church as Israel and ethnic Jews as any other Gentile people group.

My issue is pretty straightforward: no one is kinda sorta a chosen people. Someone is either in union, in covenant with the Lord Jesus the Christ, or they are not. There's no halfway covenant for an ethnic entity (to turn a phrase). There is now, post 70 AD, no chosen ethnic people of God. There is the church.

Anyhoo, I enjoyed the mental exercise of the read and the car ride. The music was just a little weird.