This Salvation Is What The Prophets Saw Before Its Time As They Prepared The Way For His Coming (1 Peter 1:10-12).
Peter now stresses that what the prophets saw ahead in previous centuries was pointing to what we are experiencing. The ‘church age', in which believing Gentiles are incorporated into Christ as the new Israel, is the fulfilment of the expectancy of the prophets, and the implication is that we need look no wider for the significance of their message. It is in the new Israel which is ‘in Christ' (the new Vine in place of the old (John 15:1-6) and is founded on the One Who as representing Israel came out of Egypt to call a people to Himself (Matthew 2:15; Matthew 16:18; Matthew 21:43)) that all God's promises to ‘Israel' will find their fulfilment. And this message is so important and so central that the prophets spent their valuable time diligently searching it out, and it is so precious that even the angels of Heaven now desire to look into it. It is the truth on which both prophets of old, through the Holy Spirit, and angels now, have set their whole concentration. It is only unbelieving man who sets it aside as unimportant.