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Clear searchC. I. Scofield · Pastoral sermons · 1915
…application deepened my understanding of Christ in us. The final study of defilement and cleansing brings the whole book to a searching and satisfying conclusion. These sermons come from an earlier evangelical setting and some expressions may sound unfamiliar today. Scofield als…
View recommendation →Responding to five common criticisms without defending what Scripture does not require
…hasise ritual purification within a restored earthly sanctuary, distinguishing ceremonial cleansing from the eternal forgiveness secured by Christ. Others regard aspects of Ezekiel's vision as symbolic while retaining a future temple and kingdom. Still others acknowledge that the…
Read article →What 'yea and Amen' in Christ means for Israel and the covenants
…the new covenant in His blood. Paul ministered the new covenant, and Hebrews applies its cleansing, forgiveness, and access to believers (Luke 22:20; 2 Corinthians 3:6; Hebrews 8-10). These are not counterfeit or merely borrowed blessings. They belong securely to everyone united…
Read article →Circumcision of the heart and the identity of Paul's inward Jew
…lievers need no physical circumcision to approach God because Christ has accomplished the cleansing and separation to which the sign pointed. But we are the circumcision is not the same statement as we are the Jews or we are national Israel. Paul applies the spiritual substance o…
Read article →Fulfilment in Christ, the inclusion of the Gentiles, and Israel's future mercy
…el's future mercy The Old Testament repeatedly promises Israel preservation, regathering, cleansing, the kingdom of David's Son, and a restored relationship with God. A strong supersessionist response does not simply deny those passages. It argues that the New Testament teaches u…
Read article →Why Israel's failure cannot make the word of God fail
…mong the heathen, whither ye went." —Ezekiel 36:22 The passage then promises regathering, cleansing, a new heart, and the indwelling Spirit (Ezekiel 36:24-28). Israel's condition explains why grace is necessary; God's holy name explains why the promise is certain. This also answe…
Read article →Conditional blessing, irrevocable promise, and fulfilment in Christ
…d carried forwards even through national judgement. The new covenant finally provides the cleansing and transformed heart which Israel could never produce under the law. The covenants are not competing plans. Together they reveal how a holy God judges sin without surrendering the…
Read article →Jesus and the fountain of living water
…urally to that world of remembrance and promise: water from the rock, rain upon the land, cleansing, fruitfulness and the prophetic streams of God's coming kingdom. The later Jewish record describes water being drawn and poured at the altar during the feast. Whether every detail…
Read article →The LORD, Zion, and the meaning of Beulah in Isaiah 62:4–5
…r God.” —Ezekiel 36:28 The sequence could hardly be clearer. Regathering does not replace cleansing, and cleansing does not replace regathering. God restores the land, gathers the people, cleanses their hearts, puts His Spirit within them, and re-establishes the covenant declarat…
Read article →A response to Hank Hanegraaff on resurrection, Daniel’s final week, and the Tribulation
…holy city, while the prophets repeatedly join Israel’s distress to national deliverance, cleansing and restoration. Once those non-essential claims have been removed, however, Hanegraaff has not answered the central case. He requires pretribulationism to appear complete within o…
Read article →The question reaches beyond prophecy to the faithfulness of God
…s 15:18-21; 17:7-8). The prophets added promises of a Davidic King, national regathering, cleansing, a new heart, and peaceful dwelling under Messiah. Christ is not an alternative to those promises. He is Abraham's promised Seed and David's promised Son. Through Him the blessing…
Read article →Two failures, two responses, and the difference between remorse and repentance
…s offered him no mercy. The silver offered him no comfort. His own efforts offered him no cleansing. Seeing no way forward, he ended his life. The Tragedy of Worldly Sorrow Judas’s sorrow became a closed room with no door. His attention remained fixed upon his sin, its consequenc…
Read article →A response to Michael Horton on the land promise, Amos 9, and the people of God
…ement to have the final word. Beyond dispersion they see regathering; beyond uncleanness, cleansing; beyond hardness, a new heart; beyond the fallen house of David, the reign of David's greater Son. Israel's enjoyment of the land has been interrupted by disobedience. That is not…
Read article →Sources behind Qur’anic narratives
…rmission” (Surah 5:110, Pickthall). The canonical Gospels record Jesus healing the blind, cleansing lepers, raising the dead and performing many other signs. They do not record Him forming a bird from clay and bringing it to life. That story appears in the work now called the Inf…
Read article →How the Lord knows His own—and how their lives bear His name
…charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart." —2 Timothy 2:22 The cleansing is therefore neither merely external nor merely private. Timothy must separate from corrupt teaching and dishonourable influence, flee sinful desires and pursue a distinctly Christ…
Read article →The near was real. The far is still coming.
…the outpouring of God’s Spirit upon Jacob’s descendants. Ezekiel 36:25–35 similarly joins cleansing, the Spirit, obedience and renewed land. These passages clarify a recurring prophetic relationship already present in Isaiah 32: God restores His people inwardly and restores the c…
Read article →Regathering, national rebirth, and the spiritual renewal still to come
…in the land; judgement and purification; recognition of the pierced Messiah; new-covenant cleansing and the Spirit; Messiah's righteous reign. No present event should be labelled the complete fulfilment while major elements remain absent. Neither should the unfulfilled elements b…
Read article →One Messiah, one gospel, and God's continuing purpose for Israel
…ce, or a separate covenantal path. Israel will look upon the One whom it pierced, receive cleansing, and know the same Jesus whom the Church proclaims (Zechariah 12:10; 13:1). Israel will not be saved because it is Israel. Israel will be saved because God will bring Israel to its…
Read article →Defining the position before testing it
…romises." Scripture is richer than that division. Israel's covenants include forgiveness, cleansing, the Spirit, and knowledge of God. The Church awaits bodily resurrection and a renewed creation. Both hope in spiritual and material redemption under Christ. The better distinction…
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