And this is how. [HOUTOS = in this way, like this, this is how.] Paul paraphrases Isaiah 59:20 which is a prophecy fulfilled by the first coming of Christ! It is not the "end time" which Paul looks at, but the events before the Days of Punishment (Luke 21:20). The gospel was preached to all the world (Colossians 1:23), and percentage-wise, the complete number of Gentiles did come to God. Josephus, the Jewish historian, says that by the end of the first century, more than one-third of the Jews had become Christians! Christ did come from Zion, he did remove all wickedness (by his imputed righteousness), he did make a new covenant (Hebrews 8:7-13), and every Jew can share in it (Romans 11:23).

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