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Romans 2 tells us of a near-seamless staging of God's wrath, on the Jew first and then the Gentile. While his tone is to demonstrate the equality of justice toward both, we do get the impression that this takes place at one time.
My delay doctrine says that there was a high degree of finality to the destruction of Israel in the 1st century, and this is what Jesus spoke of several times, though he wished otherwise. It is 'locked' into time with the biological reality of Lk 23:38 where the babies on the roadside near him would see the destruction he was referring to as adults. Paul even refers to the destruction in the past tense in I Th 1, but this seems to be similar to the legal differences between indictment--arraignment--sentencing. Then the whole world is judged together at the 2nd coming. Mt 24:29 is a divide between 1st cent. Judea and the whole world, but there has been a delay--the very delay Peter is referring to in 2 Peter 3.
So there are only a few options for Romans 2. 1, there has been the same delay as just mentioned. The rest of the world will not be judged til the last day. 2, both are on the last day. The foremost difficulty here is the stature of declarations about what just happened to Israel, especially the warning that it would happen in that generation if it did not submit to Christ and his mission, like Acts 3. 3, both are connected to the AD 70 destruction of Israel but something else was meant about the world's destruction (a metaphor, etc.) which is an untenable position, warping individual alternating phrases in many verses.
My delay doctrine says that there was a high degree of finality to the destruction of Israel in the 1st century, and this is what Jesus spoke of several times, though he wished otherwise. It is 'locked' into time with the biological reality of Lk 23:38 where the babies on the roadside near him would see the destruction he was referring to as adults. Paul even refers to the destruction in the past tense in I Th 1, but this seems to be similar to the legal differences between indictment--arraignment--sentencing. Then the whole world is judged together at the 2nd coming. Mt 24:29 is a divide between 1st cent. Judea and the whole world, but there has been a delay--the very delay Peter is referring to in 2 Peter 3.
So there are only a few options for Romans 2. 1, there has been the same delay as just mentioned. The rest of the world will not be judged til the last day. 2, both are on the last day. The foremost difficulty here is the stature of declarations about what just happened to Israel, especially the warning that it would happen in that generation if it did not submit to Christ and his mission, like Acts 3. 3, both are connected to the AD 70 destruction of Israel but something else was meant about the world's destruction (a metaphor, etc.) which is an untenable position, warping individual alternating phrases in many verses.