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Ancient Israel’s historical experience and faith in the guidance and the promises of God provide the foundation of the Western tradition of historical eschatology. The basic structure of this faith is found in the law of promise and fulfillment, and the eschatology of the Hebrew Bible is grounded in faith in God and hope in the future (Genesis 12:1–3). Jewish eschatology has its beginning in the biblical promise to Abraham that, through him, all nations would be blessed and that his descendants would receive a "good and broad land, a land flowing with milk and honey" (Exodus 3:8). In the ...(100 of 15264 words)