“ Blessed is He that comes in the name of the Lord.”
To pursue the unity of the prayer of Jesus in John 17:21, Frederick’ s emissaries presented a plan whereby the Lutherans would take a secondary position to the Anglicans. This humility would be a key to unity. Unity and the salvation of Israel would be their pursuit together. The plan was approved by the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Queen, and the Parliament.
This theology was known as Restorationism, believing in the restoration of Israel but also a restoration for the Church to unity and revival. This was a climax of 250 years of theological development.
A new theology grew up after this, Dispensationalism, that saw the pursuit of the unity of the Church as a danger. It also taught that God’ s primary working with and through Israel would only take place after the Church was raptured or taken off the earth. Then there would be a seven-year tribulation at the end of this age after which Israel would call upon Jesus and He would return. Dispensational Jewish missions were established to see Jews saved, but those Jews would be part of the Church and would not be part of the corporate salvation of Israel at the end. There were two peoples of God, two salvations, a heavenly destiny for the one people, the Church and an earthly one for the Jews. The destinies were different and not intertwined.
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