The Amsterdam Declaration affirms, «The salvation Jesus brings and the community of faith he calls forth are signs of his kingdom's presence here and now,
though we wait for its
complete fulfillment when he comes again in glory.
Though most scholars and Bible teachers agree that Jesus is the
fulfillment of all the Messianic hopes and promises, and some may even agree that fulfilled and
completed Israel herself, few seem to recognize that just as Jesus shows us how to understand what God is like, so also, Jesus shows us how to understand what Israel was supposed to be.