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20 results for “Ancient Israel”
Clear searchEl, the Exodus, and the God Who Came from Sinai
Did Israel Invent Yahweh? El, the Exodus, and the God Who Came from Sinai Yesterday I found myself discussing claims about the origins of Israel’s God with my son. He seemed to regard the essent…
Read article →The olive tree, the natural branches, and the limits of the metaphor
Are Gentile Believers Grafted into Israel? The olive tree, the natural branches, and the limits of the metaphor Romans 11 pictures Gentile believers as branches taken from a wild olive tree and grafted into a cultivated olive…
Read article →Regathering, national rebirth, and the spiritual renewal still to come
The Restoration of the Nation of Israel Regathering, national rebirth, and the spiritual renewal still to come Israel's history contains both judgement and preservation. The Jewish people were conquered, exiled, dispersed a…
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…
Read article →The LORD, Zion, and the meaning of Beulah in Isaiah 62:4–5
Is Israel Married to the Land? The LORD, Zion, and the Meaning of Beulah in Isaiah 62:4–5 “Thou shalt no more be termed Forsaken; neither shall thy land any more be termed Desolate: but thou sh…
Read article →A response to Michael Horton on the land promise, Amos 9, and the people of God
No Holy Land? Covenant Discipline, Gentile Blessing, and Israel's Future A response to Michael Horton on the land promise, Amos 9, and the people of God Michael Horton's essay, “No Holy Land: Does Israel Still Have a Biblical Claim on the Middle E…
Read article →A history of interpretation, polemic, and forgotten tension
…h 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 tru…
Read article →Why the final seven is unfinished, future, and centred upon Israel and Jerusalem
…the New Testament Tribulation Why the final seven is unfinished, future, and centred upon Israel and Jerusalem The seven-year Tribulation is sometimes dismissed as an interval invented to make a prophetic chart work. That criticism begins at the wrong end of the Bible. The case d…
Read article →History, heresy, and the temptation of private Christianity
…nostic impulse has reappeared within modern Protestantism, particularly in North America. Ancient Gnostics, on his account, sought salvation in private illumination rather than the public life of a believing community. Modern Protestants likewise elevate the knowing self over the…
Read article →An unrequited love for the historic Church
…leave an institution that binds the conscience beyond Scripture are said to resemble the ancient Gnostic impulse—a flight from matter, history, authority and ordinary Christian fellowship into a private world of disembodied knowledge. The charge would be easier to dismiss if I f…
Read article →Matthew, the Hebrew word almah, and a sign whose meaning reaches beyond Ahaz
…venty or seventy-two Jewish scholars translated the whole Old Testament in one event. The ancient tradition about the translators belongs specifically to the Greek Pentateuch, and the remaining books were translated at different times. We do not need the inflated claim. The narro…
Read article →A response to Hank Hanegraaff on resurrection, Daniel’s final week, and the Tribulation
…s. Pretribulationism does not require Christians to help build a third temple. Nor should Israel’s final trouble be presented as divine retaliation against Jewish people for the crucifixion of Christ. Daniel presents the final week as a period in which God completes His declared…
Read article →The covenant son and the sacrifice that points to Christ
…n Abraham was commanded to offer. The rest of Scripture traces the promise through Jacob, Israel, Judah and David until it reaches Jesus Christ. Islam presents a different Abrahamic framework. The Qur'an associates Abraham and Ishmael with the House at Mecca, while later Muslim t…
Read article →The divine identity of Jesus across the Gospels
…e. They place Jesus within the identity, works, authority, honour and glory of the God of Israel while continuing to distinguish Him personally from the Father. Each strand must be interpreted in context. Some passages establish more than others. Several are capable of a weaker e…
Read article →Sources behind Qur’anic narratives
…from Ezekiel? Gog appears in Ezekiel 38–39 as the leader of an end-time invasion against Israel: “Son of man, set thy face against Gog, the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him” (Ezekiel 38:2). God defeats the invading armies through ove…
Read article →The Messiah cut off before the Temple fell
…o decisions can be held together. What Daniel actually says Daniel has been praying about Israel’s sin and Jerusalem’s desolation. He understands from Jeremiah that the Babylonian desolation would last seventy years, confesses the sins of his people and pleads for mercy upon God’…
Read article →Creation, judgement, and the coming reign of Christ
…w of restrained dominion The law of Moses does not abolish human use of land and animals. Israel may farm, harvest, build, eat meat, own livestock, use working animals, and offer sacrifices. Biblical care is not based upon animal autonomy or the belief that untouched nature is th…
Read article →Which Gospel does the Qur'an affirm?
…of God of none effect through your tradition" (Mark 7:13). He did not thereby teach that Israel no longer possessed the Scriptures. Later Muslim thought developed more comprehensive theories of textual corruption, with the eleventh-century polemicist Ibn Hazm becoming an especia…
Read article →Christianity, Islam and the verdict of the evidence
…divine beings cooperate in a heavenly society. It teaches that there is one God. “Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD” (Deuteronomy 6:4). The doctrine of the Trinity distinguishes being from person. God is one in divine being and three in personal distinction: Father, So…
Read article →How Christians can think politically without surrendering conscience to a package deal
…tal: they revealed what God sees when He judges people who exercise power. Moses required Israel's king to live under God's law, refuse self-exaltation and resist the accumulation of power, wives and wealth (Deuteronomy 17:14–20). Samuel warned that government could become an eng…
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