“The covenant with Noah remains in force during the times of the Gentiles, until the universal proclamation of the Gospel.”
The covenant with Noah was God’s covenant with the created order that “while the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, winter and summer, and day and night shall not cease”. (Genesis 8:22) The phrase, “while the earth remains”, implies a bounded perpetuity, as does the phrase, “during the times of the Gentiles”. The end is reached when there has been a “universal proclamation of the Gospel”, according to the prophetic (albeit mysterious) word spoken by our Lord: “And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a witness to all the nations and then the end will come”. ?(Matthew 24:14)
Amen.?
