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20 results for “Davidic covenant”
Clear searchConditional blessing, irrevocable promise, and fulfilment in Christ
Has God Abandoned Israel? What Do the Covenants Say? Conditional blessing, irrevocable promise, and fulfilment in Christ Israel broke God's law, rejected the prophets, and nationally refused its Messiah. Jerusalem was judged, th…
Read article →What 'yea and Amen' in Christ means for Israel and the covenants
…s Promises Transfer to the Church? What "yea and Amen" in Christ means for Israel and the covenants Paul makes one of the most comprehensive statements about the promises of God: "For all the promises of God in him are yea, and in him Amen, unto the glory of God by us." —2 Corint…
Read article →The covenant son and the sacrifice that points to Christ
Isaac, Not Ishmael The covenant son and the sacrifice that points to Christ Did God choose Isaac or Ishmael? This is not a tribal debate. It is a covenant question. The answer does not require hostility towards Ar…
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…
Read article →The LORD, Zion, and the meaning of Beulah in Isaiah 62:4–5
…e both affirmative and qualified. Israel is not married to the land in precisely the same covenantal sense in which she is married to the LORD. Throughout Scripture, the LORD is Israel’s covenant husband. The land, by contrast, is Israel’s covenant inheritance. Nevertheless, Isai…
Read article →Fulfilment in Christ, the inclusion of the Gentiles, and Israel's future mercy
…rael's story. Those who belong to Christ are Abraham's seed. The Church receives Israel's covenant titles, the kingdom is taken from unbelieving Israel and given to a fruit-bearing nation, and all God's promises are yea and amen in Christ. There is one gospel and one people of Go…
Read article →The question reaches beyond prophecy to the faithfulness of God
…believers are one in Christ while national Israel still has an appointed future under the covenants. This is not a contest over which group matters more. Jewish people have no separate path of salvation, and Gentile believers are not second-class members of God's household. Every…
Read article →The wicked husbandmen, the fruit-bearing nation, and what Jesus said afterwards
…f the kingdom is removed? Who is the fruit-bearing nation? Does the sentence revoke God's covenants with Israel, or does it pronounce judgement upon the unfaithful rulers and generation then entrusted with the vineyard? The immediate context identifies Jesus' targets. The parable…
Read article →Christ the promised Seed, Gentile inheritance, and Paul's final blessing
…t, and inherit according to promise. Any interpretation which leaves Gentiles outside the covenant blessings of Messiah contradicts Paul's argument. But participation must not be made to prove more than Paul says. Abraham's seed, children of God, the Church, and Israel overlap wi…
Read article →Why Israel's failure cannot make the word of God fail
…er responds differently when people repent. Scripture contains conditional announcements, covenant blessings, covenant curses, intercession, and mercy. Faithfulness means that God acts consistently with His character and with the terms He has actually spoken. The question is ther…
Read article →What God's faithfulness to Israel means for everyone who trusts His promises
…aithfulness to Israel means for everyone who trusts His promises This series has examined covenants, prophecies, apostles, thrones, tribes, branches, seeds, kingdoms, and the difficult words upon which the debate turns. We have tried to hear the strongest opposing arguments, conc…
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 →Israel's Messiah, Israel's Scriptures, and a gospel for the world
…ws, and its Jewish Messiah has often been presented with little connection to the people, covenants, and hopes into which He was born. That history cannot be denied. It can, however, obscure the world of the New Testament itself. The New Testament is the story of Israel's God ful…
Read article →A history of interpretation, polemic, and forgotten tension
…clusion which the apostles had not required—that national Israel had permanently lost its covenant future. Theological argument also hardened at times into collective accusation and degrading rhetoric against Jewish people. Other evidence complicates the story. Writers who spirit…
Read article →The near was real. The far is still coming.
…rious consideration within the immediate horizon. In contrast to Ahaz, he was a reforming Davidic king who sought the LORD. The account in 2 Kings 18:3–6 commends his faithfulness. For people who had suffered under corrupt leadership and faced the threat of Assyria, the prospect…
Read article →The brothers of Jesus, the sons of Mary, and an argument of strong plausibility
…my brothers,” it might be argued that the word refers broadly to relatives, countrymen or covenant brethren. But the parallel expression “sons of my mother” substantially narrows the natural meaning. The Gospel correspondence John records the fulfilment of the family alienation d…
Read article →Regathering, national rebirth, and the spiritual renewal still to come
…eneration. Scattering and regathering belong to the same promise Moses warned Israel that covenant rebellion would bring defeat, exile, and scattering among the nations (Leviticus 26:14-39; Deuteronomy 28:15-68). Those judgements occurred in history. The northern kingdom fell to…
Read article →One Messiah, one gospel, and God's continuing purpose for Israel
…identity and outstanding promises to disappear. After following the argument through the covenants, the prophets, the teaching of Jesus, Acts, Romans, Galatians, Hebrews, and the history of Christian interpretation, the cumulative answer is no. God has judged Israel severely. Th…
Read article →What Jesus promised the apostles about Israel's future
…s known, while appointed rulers dealt with ordinary cases (Exodus 18:13-26). The promised Davidic King would "reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth" (Jeremiah 23:5). Thrones make the governing sense especially clear. The apostles are not pictured…
Read article →Born, begotten and firstborn in the eternal identity and saving work of the Son
…o be God’s Son when He rose; He was powerfully manifested and installed as the victorious Davidic Son. Resurrection did not create His identity. It revealed and vindicated it. Hebrews applies the same decree in two related ways. Hebrews 1:5 demonstrates the Son’s superiority to a…
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