674. The glorious Messiah’s coming is suspended at every moment of history until his recognition by “all Israel”, for “a hardening has come upon part of Israel” in their “unbelief” toward Jesus.568 St. Peter says to the Jews of Jerusalem after Pentecost: “Repent therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out, that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord, and that he may send the Christ appointed for you, Jesus, whom heaven must receive until the time for establishing all that God spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets from of old.”569 St. Paul echoes him: “For if their rejection means the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance mean but life from the dead?”570 The “full inclusion” of the Jews in the Messiah’s salvation, in the wake of “the full number of the Gentiles”,571 will enable the People of God to achieve “the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ”, in which “God may be all in all”.572
Aprofunde seus conhecimentos
268. What is the effect of Confirmation?
524. What is required by the eighth commandment?
427. What are the goods that we can merit?
568. What are the expressions of the life of prayer?
252. What names are given to the first sacrament of initiation?
522. How does one bear witness to the truth?
385. What are the theological virtues?
Acesse nossos estudos biblicos:
What are Daniel’s visions of the golden image and the four beasts?
How does the conquest of Canaan in the book of Joshua demonstrate God’s faithfulness?
David’s old age and death: the end of a life of ups and downs (2 Samuel 23, 24)
What does Malachi 4:1 say about the punishment of the wicked?
What is the message behind the parable of the Pharisee and the Publican?
What is the meaning of being “blameless” according to the 2 Peter 3:14 passage?
What is the relationship between truth and joy mentioned in 2 John 1:4?
