PreTrib PilgrimSearch the library
Search by subject, then refine by approach. A prophecy study may also be apologetic or discerning because subject tells you what it examines, while approach tells you how it examines it.
38 results for “Divine glory”
Clear searchIsaiah, John, and the Divine Identity of Jesus Christ
“I Am the First, and I Am the Last” Isaiah, John, and the Divine Identity of Jesus Christ If YHWH alone is Creator, Saviour and Lord of all, what are the New Testament writers saying when they place Jesus within that identity? Isaiah does not leave…
Read article →What the Father's love for the Son reveals about God
…). That statement raises a serious question. If God is eternally one solitary Person, was divine love eternally active, or did it exist only as a capacity awaiting creation? Did relationship begin when God made something other than Himself? The question is often turned into a qui…
Read article →The glory philosophy could not contain
The Word Did Not Fall into Flesh The glory philosophy could not contain In the previous article, Christ in the Temple of the Philosophers, I argued that the Incarnation does not become absurd merely because it exceeds the limit…
Read article →Origen, Arius and the line between Creator and creation
Does Eternal Mean Divine? Origen, Arius and the line between Creator and creation Why this is useful to know: On your walk through life, you will encounter challenges to the deity of Christ from television sh…
Read article →The incarnation, the limits of created perspective and the love philosophy could not imagine
…er Neoplatonism developed this into an ordered ascent from the material world towards the divine source of all things. Matter occupied the lowest level. In Plotinus, it could be described in terms of privation (the absence or lack of positive being and goodness), darkness and evi…
Read article →Why the distinction matters when we speak about Jesus
…ruth behind that language, but it can easily become misleading. We may begin to imagine a divine Jesus and a human Jesus taking turns: the man sleeps, but God performs the miracle; the man does not know, but God knows; the man suffers, while the Son of God remains at a distance.…
Read article →El, the Exodus, and the God Who Came from Sinai
…Whatever source my opponent was using, the essential argument was familiar: the different divine names in the Pentateuch betrayed different sources and an earlier history lying behind the Bible’s finished account. What was new was hearing the subject return through my son, not as…
Read article →The divine identity of Jesus across the Gospels
Not Just a Prophet The divine identity of Jesus across the Gospels Islam honours Jesus in ways which Christians should acknowledge accurately. The Qur'an calls Him the Messiah, describes Him as a word from God, af…
Read article →Unity in Christ and distinction in God's purpose
…his "kinsmen according to the flesh" as Israelites to whom belong "the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants" (Romans 9:3-5). He can say there is no difference in the sinner's need and the gospel's availability (Romans 10:12), then distinguish Israel from the Gentiles throu…
Read article →Near-death experiences, neuroscience, and the authority of Christ
…ion; judgement is unreal; reincarnation is true; human beings are sparks of an impersonal divine consciousness; repentance and the cross are unnecessary. Whatever psychological comfort such claims provide, Christians cannot accept them merely because they arrived clothed in radia…
Read article →Why the final seven is unfinished, future, and centred upon Israel and Jerusalem
…. The length of the interval is not a defect in God's promise. Scripture repeatedly joins divine patience to the apparent delay of judgement (2 Peter 3:9). The gap is long from the human perspective, but it is neither empty nor purposeless. Who is the "he" of Daniel 9:27? "And he…
Read article →Eustathius of Antioch, the human soul of Christ and the pictures created by our words
…member that Jesus was called “fully God and fully man,” yet continue to picture an active divine person operating a passive human shell. That matters because the picture will begin interpreting Scripture. Who prayed in Gethsemane? Who grew in wisdom? Who felt sorrow? Who obeyed?…
Read article →What 'yea and Amen' in Christ means for Israel and the covenants
…e 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 Corinthians 1:20 Every promise of God is certain in Christ. Nothing God has pledged can reach fulfilment apart from Him, and nothing secured in Him can fail. This tru…
Read article →Why apantēsis does not settle the timing of the rapture
…g caught up unto God (Revelation 12:5). In 1 Thessalonians 4 it describes an irresistible divine transportation. The redeemed are not harmed; they are removed from earth by Christ's power. First Corinthians 15 adds that the transformation occurs "in a moment, in the twinkling of…
Read article →Fulfilment in Christ, the inclusion of the Gentiles, and Israel's future mercy
…en according to the flesh": "Who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises; Whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came." —Romans 9:4-5 Paul doe…
Read article →The LORD, Zion, and the meaning of Beulah in Isaiah 62:4–5
…ccidental residence or ordinary property ownership. It is an enduring bond established by divine promise—a bond involving belonging, possession, habitation, fruitfulness, vocation, and permanence. Isaiah’s imagery must therefore neither be overstated nor weakened. The land is not…
Read article →A response to Hank Hanegraaff on resurrection, Daniel’s final week, and the Tribulation
…hristians to help build a third temple. Nor should Israel’s final trouble be presented as divine retaliation against Jewish people for the crucifixion of Christ. Daniel presents the final week as a period in which God completes His declared purposes for Daniel’s people and holy c…
Read article →A response to Michael Horton on the land promise, Amos 9, and the people of God
…ossession followed by permanent forfeiture. It is disobedience, discipline, repentance or divine renewal, regathering, and restored enjoyment. In some passages repentance precedes return. In others God acts to produce the necessary spiritual transformation. Deuteronomy 30:6 says…
Read article →What God's faithfulness to Israel means for everyone who trusts His promises
…stract attribute. It is the reason His people can trust what He says. If the wording of a divine promise does not reliably disclose what God has committed Himself to perform, confidence becomes impossible. Faith would rest not upon revelation, but upon our hope that the words wil…
Read article →Why the Trinity is not polytheism—and why Christians confess one God
…ee gods.” It would—if Christians believed the Father, Son, and Spirit were three separate divine beings. Historic Christianity denies precisely that. The doctrine of the Trinity is an attempt to hold together everything Scripture reveals: there is one God; the Father is God; the…
Read article →Why a loaded label does not settle the question
…rites: “When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.” —Colossians 3:4 Zechariah says that the Lord will come and “all the saints” with Him (Zechariah 14:5). Jude likewise announces, “Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his sai…
Read article →Creation, judgement, and the coming reign of Christ
…alse worship, but with the refusal to glorify God and give thanks. Man then exchanges the glory of the incorruptible God for created images and worships and serves "the creature more than the Creator" (Romans 1:23-25). Nature worship is therefore no harmless excess of appreciatio…
Read article →Not escape from the body, but its redemption
…k, mortal and subject to decay. Christ will transform it into conformity with His body of glory. The resurrection is therefore not an abstract doctrine. Its pattern can be seen in Jesus. A real body, raised and transformed The risen Christ corrected His frightened disciples: "Beh…
Read article →Which Gospel does the Qur'an affirm?
…l they possessed for centuries before Muhammad, they find the Son who shares the Father's glory, gives His life as a ransom, is crucified under Pontius Pilate and rises bodily from the dead. Islam denies the decisive claims of that Gospel. The usual answer is that Christians no l…
Read article →The near was real. The far is still coming.
…source of renewal in heaven. The verb rendered “be poured” presents the gift as abundant divine provision. Nothing in the vocabulary itself establishes a millennial chronology; its significance lies in the relationship Isaiah establishes between divine outpouring and comprehensi…
Read article →Israel's Messiah, Israel's Scriptures, and a gospel for the world
…e something no longer Jewish? A strong objection remains. Christianity confesses Jesus as divine, worships Him, proclaims His crucifixion as atonement, releases Gentiles from circumcision and dietary law, and gathers a multinational Church. Rabbinic Judaism rejects those claims.…
Read article →Two accounts of judgement, mercy, and the sinner's hope before God
…y just judgement according to works. Christianity does not replace moral seriousness with divine indifference. Yet at the centre of the gospel stands an answer that no scale can supply: the Judge has provided a substitute, and righteousness is given to the believer through Christ…
Read article →Christianity, Islam and the verdict of the evidence
…ntained within the category of prophet. We have considered eternal love, the crucifixion, divine justice, forgiveness and assurance. We have tested the transmission of the Bible, the missing Islamic Injeel, the Qur’an’s miracle claim, alleged prophecies of Muhammad, the covenant…
Read article →One Messiah, one gospel, and God's continuing purpose for Israel
…Israel's Messiah, the true and obedient Servant, and mediator of the new covenant. Every divine promise is yea and Amen in Him. The Church genuinely inherits in Christ. Gentile believers receive Abrahamic blessing, the promised Spirit, adoption, forgiveness, resurrection life, a…
Read article →What Jesus promised the apostles about Israel's future
…have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of man shall sit in the throne of his glory, ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel." —Matthew 19:28 This is one of the clearest statements Jesus made about the apostles' future role. It is al…
Read article →Born, begotten and firstborn in the eternal identity and saving work of the Son
…Spirit eternally are in God’s own being. The economy of salvation refers to how the three divine persons act toward creation and within history to accomplish redemption. The distinction does not divide God into two Trinities. Nor does it imply that God merely wears three temporar…
Read article →The wicked husbandmen, the fruit-bearing nation, and what Jesus said afterwards
…rily mean covenant revocation Scripture repeatedly joins severe judgement with an abiding divine purpose. Israel experienced exile under Assyria and Babylon, lost king, temple, government, and possession of the land, yet the prophets did not conclude that God's covenants had ceas…
Read article →The Gospel, Human Perception, and the Illuminating Work of the Holy Spirit
…evealed, the Spirit brings the sinner to recognise the living God, his own guilt, and the glory and sufficiency of Jesus Christ—and to believe on Him. The same words can carry different worlds Consider a short gospel explanation: God is holy. You are a sinner. Jesus Christ died f…
Read article →Election within Abraham's family, the believing remnant, and the future of the nation
…). He then identifies them: "Who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises; Whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came." —Romans 9:4-5 These ar…
Read article →Constantine, Arius, the Trinity, the biblical canon—and the myths that refuse to die
…d ousia, meaning “being”, “essence” or “nature”. It means that the Son possesses the same divine nature as the Father. Older English translations often render it “of one substance” or “consubstantial”. It does not mean that the Father and Son are the same Person, or that the Son…
Read article →A sign of Israel's renewal, not Israel's disappearance
…have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of man shall sit in the throne of his glory, ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel." —Matthew 19:28 The words retain both sides of the symbolism: twelve rulers and twelve tribes. The coming "…
Read article →The positive argument of the whole series, brought together
…ed for them. Paul later says that when Christ appears, believers will "appear with him in glory" (Colossians 3:4). Revelation presents the Bride prepared in heaven before heaven opens and Christ rides forth in judgement (Revelation 19:7-14). These are materially different movemen…
Read article →How Christians can think politically without surrendering conscience to a package deal
…ssion of widows and fatherless children, and mistreatment of the stranger inside the same divine indictment (Malachi 3:5). The cumulative picture is striking. God cares about innocent blood and honest scales; the integrity of families and the treatment of workers; punishment of e…
Read article →