What is God's eternal purpose according to Ephesians?
According to Ephesians, God's eternal purpose, as Paul speaks of it, looks beyond His original dealings with Israel to the time when He would go to the whole human race without Israel, which He has done. This is His total purpose.
Les teaches that God's total purpose, as Paul speaks of it in Ephesians, is His eternal purpose. In that eternal purpose, God is looking beyond His earlier dealings with Israel to the time when He would go to the whole human race without Israel, which He has done. Yet Les emphasizes that first things first: Scripture must be taken as it unfolds, and in the Isaiah passages being considered, God is dealing with Israel. The Redeemer shall come to Zion, and God's covenant promises His Spirit and words will not depart from Israel's mouth or the mouth of their seed forever. Those promises were given to the nation of Israel, while the eternal purpose reaches beyond to the whole human race.