The loss of this eschatological thrust for the Gospel message here coincided, as it always does, with a redefinition both of the redemption and of ‘Israel’. The redemption of the prophets—resurrection, the restoration of David’s throne in Jerusalem, the purging of wickedness from the earth—eventually gave way to a realized redemption. This redemption emphatically did not have Israel as a central feature, having exchanged the old, ethnic program for a new, universal plan.  -Bill Scofield, The Biblical Narrative and the Inconvenient Existence of Israel