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Clear searchWhat 'yea and Amen' in Christ means for Israel and the covenants
Do All God's Promises Transfer to the Church? What "yea and Amen" in Christ means for Israel and the covenants Paul makes one of the most comprehensive statements about the promises of God: "Fo…
Read article →One Messiah, one gospel, and God's continuing purpose for Israel
The Unshaken Truth of God's Promises One Messiah, one gospel, and God's continuing purpose for Israel This series began with a question: has the Church permanently replaced Israel in the purpose of God? The answer cann…
Read article →Why Israel's failure cannot make the word of God fail
…y rebelled and, when Messiah came, the nation did not receive Him. What happens to divine promises when their recipients prove unfaithful? Scripture does not answer by minimising Israel's sin. Nor does it conclude that God's purpose must be transferred to a more deserving people.…
Read article →What God's faithfulness to Israel means for everyone who trusts His promises
No Shadow of Turning What God's faithfulness to Israel means for everyone who trusts His promises This series has examined covenants, prophecies, apostles, thrones, tribes, branches, seeds, kingdoms, and the difficult words upon which the debate turns. We have tried to hear the…
Read article →Fulfilment in Christ, the inclusion of the Gentiles, and Israel's future mercy
Does the New Testament Reaffirm Israel's Promises? Fulfilment in Christ, the inclusion of the Gentiles, and Israel's future mercy The Old Testament repeatedly promises Israel preservation, regathering, cleansing, the kingdom of Dav…
Read article →Unity in Christ and distinction in God's purpose
Are Israel and the Church Really the Same? Unity in Christ and distinction in God's purpose The New Testament teaches a unity so profound that it would have startled the ancient world. In Christ, Jewish and Gentile bel…
Read article →The question reaches beyond prophecy to the faithfulness of God
…may prefer words such as fulfilled, transformed, or expanded. They believe that Israel's promises have reached their true meaning in Christ and now belong to the multinational Church. Others maintain that Jewish and Gentile believers are one in Christ while national Israel still…
Read article →Election within Abraham's family, the believing remnant, and the future of the nation
What Does "They Are Not All Israel, Which Are of Israel" Mean? Election within Abraham's family, the believing remnant, and the future of the nation Romans 9:6 is often used as a definition of spiritual Israel: "Fo…
Read article →Conditional blessing, irrevocable promise, and fulfilment in Christ
…romise, and fulfilment in Christ Israel broke God's law, rejected the prophets, and nationally refused its Messiah. Jerusalem was judged, the temple was destroyed, and the Jewish people were scattered among the nations. Does covenant unfaithfulness permit us to conclude that God…
Read article →Defining the position before testing it
…el no longer possesses a distinct future in the fulfilment of the biblical covenants. The promises reach their final meaning in Christ and the Church; any future conversion of Jewish people is their entrance into the Church, not the restoration of Israel as a nation with a distin…
Read article →Why the Trinity is not polytheism—and why Christians confess one God
Not Three Gods Why the Trinity is not polytheism—and why Christians confess one God The Trinity is often rejected before it is accurately defined. “The Father is God, Jesus is God, and the Holy Spirit…
Read article →Abraham, Lot, divine wrath, and a pattern that must be used carefully
…earns that judgement is approaching Sodom, he asks one of Scripture's great questions: "Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?" —Genesis 18:25 His appeal assumes something about God's character. The Lord will not treat the righteous and the wicked as morally indistinguish…
Read article →Regathering, national rebirth, and the spiritual renewal still to come
…y. It does force an important question: how should we read the many passages in which God promises to preserve Israel as a nation, gather its scattered people, restore them to the land, cleanse them, pour out His Spirit, and bring them under Messiah? The biblical pattern is not m…
Read article →The olive tree, the natural branches, and the limits of the metaphor
…dvance. The resulting picture is richer than either separation or replacement. Gentiles really do enter blessings rooted in Israel's covenant history. They do so by grace and faith, alongside the believing remnant of Israel. Yet Paul continues to distinguish wild branches from na…
Read article →Christ the promised Seed, Gentile inheritance, and Paul's final blessing
…f the strongest arguments for identifying the Church as Israel. First, Paul says that the promises were made to Abraham and his singular Seed, Christ. Everyone who belongs to Christ is then called Abraham's seed and an heir according to the promise (Galatians 3:16, 29). If Christ…
Read article →Circumcision of the heart and the identity of Paul's inward Jew
…rael, we must identify the person being addressed, follow the argument from verse 17, and allow Paul's next question in Romans 3:1 to control what his conclusion can mean. The crucial question is not whether Gentile believers receive an inward circumcision. They do. The question…
Read article →Divine judgement, the character of God, and the promise of escape
…ther period of persecution, or is it a defined hour of divine judgement from which Christ promises to deliver His Church? Persecution and wrath are not the same Persecution rises from the hatred of Satan, the world, and wicked rulers. Divine wrath is God's judicial response to si…
Read article →The wicked husbandmen, the fruit-bearing nation, and what Jesus said afterwards
…sionism more directly than Matthew 21:43: "Therefore say I unto you, The kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof." —Matthew 21:43 The language is unmistakably judicial. Something is taken away, another people receives it, an…
Read article →Why the final seven is unfinished, future, and centred upon Israel and Jerusalem
…alem. 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 repeatedly uses…
Read article →Responding to five common criticisms without defending what Scripture does not require
…oes not require Dispensationalism is often criticised by slogans before it is defined. It allegedly began with John Nelson Darby, turns the Church into God's failed contingency plan, ignores the fulfilment of prophecy in AD 70, baptises modern politics, and restores animal sacrif…
Read article →The gathering of the elect, one taken and one left, and Paul's revealed mystery
…the elect. The sequence appears plain: "Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light... And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds,…
Read article →A history of interpretation, polemic, and forgotten tension
…ugh one theologian. It developed as the Church became increasingly Gentile, separated socially from Jewish communities, interpreted the destruction of Jerusalem as lasting displacement, and read Israel's Scriptures principally through their fulfilment in Christ and the Church. Th…
Read article →Seeing God, bodily resurrection, and life in the renewed creation
…redeemed will see God and find their perfect happiness in Him. It draws upon magnificent promises: “Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God” (Matthew 5:8); “we shall see him as he is” (1 John 3:2); and “they shall see his face” (Revelation 22:4). The difficulty beg…
Read article →Israel's Messiah, Israel's Scriptures, and a gospel for the world
…Gospel places Him at the feast of tabernacles and the feast of dedication, now commonly called Hanukkah (John 7:2-14; 10:22-23). When asked for the first commandment, Jesus began with Israel's confession: "The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is…
Read article →Earth-dwellers, heaven-dwellers, and the literary structure of the Apocalypse
…r candlesticks, examines their doctrine and conduct, warns them, comforts them, and gives promises to the overcomer. "Church" or "churches" appears repeatedly because these assemblies are the stated earthly audience. The final promise to Philadelphia is especially relevant: "Beca…
Read article →A forensic reading of Christ's Olivet Discourse
…c reading of Christ's Olivet Discourse "Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light... And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds,…
Read article →A sign of Israel's renewal, not Israel's disappearance
…en, seventy, or any other number. Instead, He deliberately formed a group whose number recalled the twelve sons of Jacob and the twelve tribes of Israel. Most interpreters recognise the symbolism. The dispute concerns what the symbol means. Did the Twelve announce that Israel was…
Read article →The positive argument of the whole series, brought together
…ry more than it says. It is a cumulative and comparative case: which timing best explains all the biblical data together with the fewest forced exceptions? Scripture explicitly teaches the event. The Lord descends from heaven; the dead in Christ rise; living believers are changed…
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