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Clear searchUnity in Christ and distinction in God's purpose
…harply of distinction that the Church appears detached from Israel's Scriptures, Messiah, covenants, and hope. The biblical answer requires both unity and distinction, each defined by the texts which teach it. The Church is one new man in Christ Gentiles were once "aliens from th…
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 →Defining the position before testing it
…nise. Supersessionism is the view that the Church has permanently succeeded Israel as the covenant people of God, so that national Israel no longer possesses a distinct future in the fulfilment of the biblical covenants. The promises reach their final meaning in Christ and the Ch…
Read article →Why the final seven is unfinished, future, and centred upon Israel and Jerusalem
…Jeremiah's prophecy of Jerusalem's seventy years of desolation. Daniel confesses Israel's covenant rebellion and pleads for "thy city Jerusalem, thy holy mountain" (Daniel 9:16). Gabriel's answer retains those subjects: "Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy h…
Read article →The gathering of the elect, one taken and one left, and Paul's revealed mystery
…of a great trumpet and the return of scattered Israelites (Isaiah 27:12-13). Deuteronomy promises that God will gather His dispersed people "from the outmost parts of heaven" (Deuteronomy 30:3-4). The wording provides a natural Old Testament background for Matthew's gathering fr…
Read article →A forensic reading of Christ's Olivet Discourse
…urch doctrine in order to understand the term. Israel's Scriptures had already supplied a covenantal and remnant-shaped background. Matthew therefore does not place an undefined label into a neutral setting. He uses a familiar biblical term inside a discourse already centred upon…
Read article →A sign of Israel's renewal, not Israel's disappearance
…tself establishes less than either side sometimes claims. Read within Jesus' ministry and promises, however, it points towards renewal rather than erasure. Twelve means Israel Israel's twelve-tribe identity runs through the biblical story. Jacob's twelve sons became the heads of…
Read article →The positive argument of the whole series, brought together
…t off and Jerusalem is later destroyed. The final week therefore remains distinct, with a covenant, a marked midpoint, sacrifice, abomination, and desolation (Daniel 9:26-27). Jesus places Daniel's abomination before unparalleled Great Tribulation and His manifested coming (Matth…
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