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Clear searchTwo accounts of judgement, mercy, and the sinner's hope before God
The Scales and the Cross Two accounts of judgement, mercy, and the sinner's hope before God How will I stand before God? The question reaches deeper than religious labels. We know that our actions matter, that…
Read article →Christ the promised Seed, Gentile inheritance, and Paul's final blessing
…owing "in the flesh" and glory in the circumcision of others. Paul will glory only in the cross of Christ (Galatians 6:12-14). He then states the governing rule: "For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature." —Galatians 6:15…
Read article →The olive tree, the natural branches, and the limits of the metaphor
…unity is deeper than a change of label. Jew and Gentile are reconciled to God by the same cross, indwelt by the same Spirit, and given equal access to the Father. Their equal standing does not require their histories to become interchangeable. Paul anticipates the replacement arg…
Read article →Unity in Christ and distinction in God's purpose
…tecost, the Spirit baptised believers into a Spirit-indwelt community which would extend across the nations. Paul describes the equality of Gentiles within this one body as a mystery "which in other ages was not made known unto the sons of men" as it was now revealed (Ephesians 3…
Read article →How an openly transmitted text survived copying, criticism, and centuries of examination
…ed repeatedly, translated into other languages, quoted by Christian writers, and carried across a wide geographical area. That history did produce differences between manuscripts. It also produced the evidence by which those differences can be identified and examined. The honest…
Read article →Why the final seven is unfinished, future, and centred upon Israel and Jerusalem
…To anoint the most Holy. Christ's first coming is indispensable to their fulfilment. The cross made the only sufficient atonement for iniquity. Nothing in a futurist reading suggests that His sacrifice was incomplete or that a later work must supplement it. Yet the programme is…
Read article →Responding to five common criticisms without defending what Scripture does not require
…n 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 objection is imaginary. But a system should be judged by its strongest responsible form and, above all,…
Read article →What 'yea and Amen' in Christ means for Israel and the covenants
…made at the exodus. It is not a collective name for every undertaking God made before the cross. The promise of land to Abraham preceded Sinai by centuries, and Paul explicitly says that the later law could not disannul the prior promise (Galatians 3:17). The covenant guaranteein…
Read article →Why Israel's failure cannot make the word of God fail
…nmity from its continuing election "for the fathers' sakes". The identity remains stable across sin, judgement, and promised mercy. The texts do not begin with national Israel under judgement and silently change to the multinational Church when blessing appears. The Church's incl…
Read article →A history of interpretation, polemic, and forgotten tension
…ity developed in later settings. The two terms should not be treated as perfect synonyms across every century. Neither should the distinction become an escape from moral responsibility. Collective guilt, degraded descriptions, and portrayals of Jewish existence as cursed helped c…
Read article →Divine judgement, the character of God, and the promise of escape
…bulation in the world. The apostles endured imprisonment, violence, loss, and martyrdom. Across the world, believers still suffer precisely because they belong to Christ. Pretribulationism must never turn into a promise that Christians will escape ordinary discipleship. The quest…
Read article →Why a loaded label does not settle the question
…answers one common label. The Rapture: A Cumulative Biblical Case develops the argument across the complete ten-part reading path, tests the principal objections, and ends by bringing the whole case together. For a fuller treatment than an article series can provide, the book pa…
Read article →Israel's Messiah, Israel's Scriptures, and a gospel for the world
…throne and reign over the house of Jacob (Luke 1:32-33). Even the charge placed above the cross identified Him as King of the Jews. Israel's leaders did not speak for every Israelite when they rejected Him. His disciples, the women who followed Him, the Jerusalem believers, and t…
Read article →Regathering, national rebirth, and the spiritual renewal still to come
…ins both judgement and preservation. The Jewish people were conquered, exiled, dispersed across continents, denied sovereignty, and repeatedly persecuted. Yet they did not disappear into the nations among which they lived. Their Scriptures, worship, identity, and hope of return e…
Read article →One Messiah, one gospel, and God's continuing purpose for Israel
…n which Jewish and Gentile believers are reconciled to God and to one another through the cross. Its unity is new and profound without requiring the earlier covenant names to lose their meaning. National Israel presently remains outside that body in unbelief, except for the remna…
Read article →Defining the position before testing it
…re for national Israel. Paul asks the decisive question Romans 9-11 was written after the cross, resurrection, ascension, and formation of the Church. If those events meant that Israel had ceased to possess a distinct identity in God's purpose, Paul had the ideal opportunity to s…
Read article →A forensic reading of Christ's Olivet Discourse
…etation should begin with the conversation Jesus actually had. He was speaking before the Cross to Jewish disciples whose scriptural world was formed by the Law, the Prophets, and the Psalms. This point must be stated carefully. Jesus had already promised, "I will build my church…
Read article →A sign of Israel's renewal, not Israel's disappearance
…. All the redeemed enjoy one holy city and one divine presence, while God's faithfulness across the stages of His purpose remains permanently inscribed upon it. What the choice of twelve establishes The Twelve do not, by themselves, prove an entire system of future prophecy. Thei…
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