Responding to five common criticisms without defending what Scripture does not require
…urns the Church into God's failed contingency plan, ignores the fulfilment of prophecy in AD 70, baptises modern politics, and restores animal sacrifices in competition with the cross. Some dispensationalists have spoken carelessly on these subjects, and not every objection is im…
Read article →A response to Hank Hanegraaff on resurrection, Daniel’s final week, and the Tribulation
…then appeals to John 5, Daniel, Matthew 24, Romans 8 and the destruction of Jerusalem in AD 70 to reject the system. Some of his criticism is directed particularly towards the language of Tim LaHaye and popular Left Behind presentations. Not every claim made within popular dispe…
Read article →The gathering of the elect, one taken and one left, and Paul's revealed mystery
…al end-time gatherings and judgements. The question is what gathering Matthew's context leads us to expect. The prophets repeatedly promised that Israel would be regathered when Messiah establishes His kingdom. Isaiah speaks of a great trumpet and the return of scattered Israelit…
Read article →Why the final seven is unfinished, future, and centred upon Israel and Jerusalem
…rael and Jerusalem. Jesus takes Daniel's abomination of desolation and places it at the head of an unparalleled tribulation. Paul describes a lawless ruler who exalts himself in the sacred place and is destroyed by Christ's appearing. Revelation returns to Daniel's imagery and re…
Read article →The wicked husbandmen, the fruit-bearing nation, and what Jesus said afterwards
…eyard? The immediate context identifies Jesus' targets. The parable identifies what they had corrupted. The chronology of what Jesus says afterwards tests whether permanent national replacement can be the intended verdict. The vineyard and its husbandmen Jesus tells of a househol…
Read article →A history of interpretation, polemic, and forgotten tension
…wish communities, interpreted the destruction of Jerusalem as lasting displacement, and read Israel's Scriptures principally through their fulfilment in Christ and the Church. The resulting history is neither simple nor flattering. Some early Christian writers defended essential…
Read article →The Messiah cut off before the Temple fell
…lam calls Jesus the Messiah. It also denies that He was crucified. Centuries before Muhammad, however, the book of Daniel described an anointed figure who would be “cut off”, followed by the destruction of Jerusalem and its sanctuary. That creates a serious question. If Jesus is…
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