I have enjoyed reading your book "Israelology" and I'm really starting to understand the differences between the two systems of theology - Thank you. But I do have a concern about your perspective on the audience of 1 Peter. In Israelology you wrote on page 187, "It is true that the majority of the believers in the provinces mentioned were Gentile believers, but Peter is addressing himself to the Jewish believers only. For that reason, Peter does not use Paul’s formula of “to the church (or churches) of …,” which would have been the case if he was addressing the Church as a whole." But how do we reconcile your thoughts on the audience with how Peter addressed his audience in 1 Peter 1:14 as having lived in ignorance? Does this description fit a Jewish audience who are described in Romans 9:4-5 as having the promises, covenants, and other blessings as Paul wrote? It almost appears that Peter might be writing to a mixed audience. Roger M. Raymer, a Dispensationalist and adjunct professor at DTS, appears to prefer a mixed audience as the recipients and explains such in the introduction to his commentary on 1 Peter: "Gentile readers would have noted Peter’s exhortation to holy living in light of their background of complete ignorance of God’s Word (1:14). Gentile Christians also would have been greatly encouraged by the fact that though they were in ignorance, they were now considered “the people of God” (2:10). Clearly Peter carefully included both Jewish and Gentile Christians in his letter of encouragement to the churches of Asia Minor." Roger M. Raymer, “1 Peter,” in The Bible Knowledge Commentary: An Exposition of the Scriptures, ed. J. F. Walvoord and R. B. Zuck, vol. 2 (Wheaton, IL: Victor Books, 1985), 838. Would you consider accepting a mixed audience and from there allowing certain parts of Peter's first epistle for Jewish Christians while other parts of Peter's first epistle for Gentile Christians? Or do you still prefer the entire epistle to be directed to Jewish Christians only?

  2. I have entire collection by Dr. Fruchtenbaum in Logos, waiting for the newly added titles.
  3. I just pre-ordered this title:The Sabbath by Arnold G. Fruchtenbaum. big discount price.
  4. I've been getting their books ever since I met Arnold and Chuck Missler at many conferences back in the 1990s. I imagine that Arnold's new pre-order book The Sabbath with compliment the Missler book The Feasts of Israel. Missle'rs books can be downloaded in pdf from the KHouse store for $0.99-1.99, then i add them to my Logos personal library.