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Clear searchThe Messiah cut off before the Temple fell
…its sanctuary. That creates a serious question. If Jesus is the Messiah, and if Daniel’s prophecy speaks of the Messiah being cut off before the Second Temple was destroyed, how can the Qur’an preserve His title while denying His death? The argument must be made carefully. Danie…
Read article →Four popular claims tested in context
…im. If Muhammad was genuinely foretold in the Bible, Christians must face the evidence. A prophecy does not cease to be true because its fulfilment is unwelcome. Muslim apologists commonly appeal to four passages: the prophet like Moses in Deuteronomy 18; the Servant and Kedar in…
Read article →Matthew, the Hebrew word almah, and a sign whose meaning reaches beyond Ahaz
…fore cannot fairly be dismissed as a translation created after the event to manufacture a prophecy. The Greek evidence does not settle every interpretive question. Parthenos itself can occasionally be used more broadly, and a translator's choice is not inspired proof of the later…
Read article →Why a loaded label does not settle the question
Secret Rapture—or Biblical Distinction? Why a loaded label does not settle the question “The secret rapture is unbiblical.” The phrase is repeated so often that it can sound like an argument. It is not. Pretr…
Read article →Responding to five common criticisms without defending what Scripture does not require
…son Darby, turns 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 obj…
Read article →Regathering, national rebirth, and the spiritual renewal still to come
…tate is not yet the cleansed, believing, peaceful Israel described at the consummation of prophecy. 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 lan…
Read article →The question reaches beyond prophecy to the faithfulness of God
Israel and the Church: Why This Series Matters The question reaches beyond prophecy to the faithfulness of God Has the Church replaced Israel in the purpose of God? Some Christians answer yes, although they may prefer words such as fulfilled, transformed, or expand…
Read article →The gathering of the elect, one taken and one left, and Paul's revealed mystery
…u a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed." —1 Corinthians 15:51 A biblical mystery is not necessarily something never hinted at in any form. It is a divine purpose previously hidden or not disclosed with its present clarity. The bodily resurrection was not…
Read article →What 'yea and Amen' in Christ means for Israel and the covenants
…t undertaking made centuries after Sinai. The "better promises" are displayed in the very prophecy Hebrews quotes. God writes His law upon the heart, brings His people into the knowledge of Himself, and remembers their sins no more (Hebrews 8:10-12). The improvement lies in the c…
Read article →Testing Islam's evidence for divine revelation
…terary challenge. The book also contains statements which Muslims understand as fulfilled prophecy, especially the prediction that the defeated Romans would reverse their fortunes. Its text was memorised, written, collected and transmitted with remarkable stability. Its language…
Read article →Why apantēsis does not settle the timing of the rapture
…rior descent of Revelation 19. Those questions must be answered from the wider context of prophecy. This limitation cuts both ways. The passage alone does not prove a seven-year heavenly interval. It also does not narrate an immediate return to the earth. Any interpreter who supp…
Read article →Abraham, Lot, divine wrath, and a pattern that must be used carefully
…out. Does this establish a pretribulation rapture by itself? No. It supplies a meaningful biblical pattern, but patterns must support clear teaching rather than replace it. Abraham's question concerns God's justice Genesis 18 does not portray Abraham teaching God something He had…
Read article →Fulfilment in Christ, the inclusion of the Gentiles, and Israel's future mercy
…ess. They gave him the authority to call Israel to its Messiah. Gentile inclusion fulfils prophecy without excluding Israel Acts 15 is rightly central to this discussion. Gentiles were entering the people of God without circumcision or submission to the Mosaic law. James recognis…
Read article →The event is explicit; the real dispute is its timing
…hing. The word Trinity does not appear in the text either; the doctrine is named from the biblical facts it organises. Paul says that living believers "shall be caught up" (1 Thessalonians 4:17). The Greek verb is harpazō, meaning to seize, snatch, or carry away. The Latin Vulgat…
Read article →A history of interpretation, polemic, and forgotten tension
…able mistake was to allow present historical appearance to determine the limits of future prophecy. The same prophets who foretold scattering had also foretold a restoration which depended upon God's power precisely because no ordinary historical process could achieve it. The Rom…
Read article →Christianity, Islam and the verdict of the evidence
…al fiction, not the Jesus presented across the Gospels. If he leaves because thousands of biblical manuscripts have been presented as thousands of corruptions, while every form of Qur’anic textual plurality is classified as perfect preservation, he has been taught two standards r…
Read article →One Messiah, one gospel, and God's continuing purpose for Israel
…restoration. It should neither be ignored nor declared the completed fulfilment of every prophecy. The nation remains largely in unbelief; the promised cleansing, corporate turning to Messiah, outpouring of the Spirit, and righteous reign have not yet occurred. The biblical expe…
Read article →A forensic reading of Christ's Olivet Discourse
…scourse is rooted in the land and institutions of Israel. Clue two: "elect" already has a biblical history The word "elect" does not arrive in Matthew without a history. In the Greek Old Testament and the KJV's rendering of Israel's Scriptures, election language can refer to the…
Read article →A sign of Israel's renewal, not Israel's disappearance
…rather than erasure. Twelve means Israel Israel's twelve-tribe identity runs through the biblical story. Jacob's twelve sons became the heads of the tribes. Moses built an altar with twelve pillars "according to the twelve tribes of Israel" (Exodus 24:4). Twelve men represented…
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