What causes the widespread confusion in Christendom about the Old Testament program and the age of grace?
Widespread confusion in Christendom is caused by mixing the Old Testament program with the age of grace and the age of grace with the Old Testament program. That continual blending leaves people unsure what to believe, why to believe it, and how it fits together.
Les explains that over the years, and throughout all of Christendom, the source of confusion has been the extensive mixing of the Old Testament program with the age of grace and vice versa. Because of this mixing, no one really knows what to believe and why and how. He therefore takes time to outline the Old Testament program, emphasizing that nowhere in the Old Testament, or well into the New, is there a single hint of a Gentile bride of Christ; everything is Israel. Israel is to be the wife of Jehovah, as pictured in Hosea.