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Clear searchWhy Israel's failure cannot make the word of God fail
God's Unfailing Faithfulness Why Israel's failure cannot make the word of God fail Israel's history presents a severe test of theology. God chose the nation, gave it His law, sent it prophets, and brought t…
Read article →What God's faithfulness to Israel means for everyone who trusts His promises
No Shadow of Turning What God's faithfulness to Israel means for everyone who trusts His promises This series has examined covenants, prophecies, apostles, thrones, tribes, branches, seeds, kingdoms, and the difficult word…
Read article →The question reaches beyond prophecy to the faithfulness of God
…srael and the Church: Why This Series Matters The question reaches beyond prophecy to the faithfulness of God Has the Church replaced Israel in the purpose of God? Some Christians answer yes, although they may prefer words such as fulfilled, transformed, or expanded. They believe…
Read article →Labour, purpose, and faithfulness in a fallen world
Work Is Not a Curse Labour, purpose, and faithfulness in a fallen world Modern culture often swings between two errors. Some people live for their work. Their job becomes their identity, their status becomes their worth, and achiev…
Read article →Conditional blessing, irrevocable promise, and fulfilment in Christ
…le was destroyed, and the Jewish people were scattered among the nations. Does covenant unfaithfulness permit us to conclude that God has permanently abandoned the nation? The answer depends partly upon a distinction Scripture itself makes. Not every covenant contains the same pr…
Read article →Faith, assurance, and the unseen reality of God
…deeply personal meaning. We hear God’s Word, come to Christ, and experience His grace and faithfulness. There can grow within us a recognition that is difficult to convey to someone who knows Christianity principally as a subject of debate. God is no longer merely a proposition u…
Read article →Defining the position before testing it
…ed from the text rather than assumed from a theological system. Second, it concerns God's faithfulness. The strongest supersessionist does not intend to accuse God of falsehood. Even so, a framework must explain why irrevocable gifts, a guaranteed seed, specified covenant partner…
Read article →Trusting God when voices seek to weaken our confidence
…: You are vulnerable; therefore God cannot be trusted. Others have surrendered; therefore faithfulness is foolish. Opposition is powerful; therefore compromise is inevitable. Familiar language, a destructive purpose Rabshakeh knew how to speak to his audience. He used their langu…
Read article →Isaiah, John, and the Divine Identity of Jesus Christ
…ted Him. Israel’s exile reflects His judgement, and Israel’s restoration will display His faithfulness. Isaiah 40:3 announces a highway for YHWH through the wilderness. The picture is of the divine King coming to His people, with the landscape transformed for His arrival. Verse 5…
Read article →Dave Hunt · Devotional theology and biblical exhortation · 2000
…ful for readers who need to recover the weight, wonder, and urgency of ordinary Christian faithfulness. This is a collection of forceful biblical exhortations rather than a systematic treatment of one doctrine. Hunt writes urgently and sometimes moves quickly across large and dis…
View recommendation →How the Law reaches its goal and appointed end in Christ
…dow cannot remain the governing form. When the One to whom the Scriptures point has come, faithfulness to those Scriptures requires receiving Him. This is the tragedy within Romans 9–10. Many possessed the words which testified of God's righteousness while missing the One in whom…
Read article →Why the final seven is unfinished, future, and centred upon Israel and Jerusalem
…l was chosen, not because of national superiority, but because of God's love and covenant faithfulness, and as the historical channel through which blessing and Messiah came to the nations (Deuteronomy 7:6-8; Romans 9:4-5). Israel's present hardening is partial, not total, and te…
Read article →A quiet invitation to draw near to Christ
…at Christ has withdrawn. Feelings of nearness vary, and weariness is not a measure of His faithfulness. His promise remains: “I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee” (Hebrews 13:5). But there is a gentle question worth asking: have we been making room for fellowship with Him?…
Read article →Responding to five common criticisms without defending what Scripture does not require
…ce (Romans 11:18, 28). Dispensational concern for Israel should arise from God's covenant faithfulness, not party loyalty or an unwillingness to mourn injustice. A biblical posture can therefore hold several truths together: God's promises to Abraham, David, and Israel are not di…
Read article →Eustathius of Antioch, the human soul of Christ and the pictures created by our words
…rist without a human mind cannot redeem the human mind by living a complete human life of faithfulness and obedience. The distinction also helps us speak of the cross. The Son of God truly suffered and died; Christians must never turn the crucifixion into the suffering of someone…
Read article →What 'yea and Amen' in Christ means for Israel and the covenants
…ient. It promises divine grace which will produce the changed hearts necessary for future faithfulness. Israel's restoration is not a reward for achieving perfection before God acts. God acts to cleanse and transform the nation for the honour of His holy name. The new covenant th…
Read article →Circumcision of the heart and the identity of Paul's inward Jew
…pose is not to condemn Jewish ethnicity. It is to destroy confidence in privilege without faithfulness. Some recent interpreters propose a different addressee: a circumcised Gentile or Gentile claimant who calls himself a Jew. The wording of verse 17 can permit attention to the a…
Read article →History, heresy, and the temptation of private Christianity
…of apostasy. There is also a commanded refusal of false gospels and destructive teaching. Faithfulness requires both charity and boundaries. The question is whether separation is governed by apostolic truth, proportion, patience, and accountable judgment—or by the thrill of belon…
Read article →The LORD, Zion, and the meaning of Beulah in Isaiah 62:4–5
…saith the LORD.” —Jeremiah 31:32 Israel’s idolatry is consequently portrayed as marital unfaithfulness. Jeremiah calls faithless Israel a treacherous wife and summons her to return: “Turn, O backsliding children, saith the LORD; for I am married unto you.” —Jeremiah 3:14 Ezekiel…
Read article →Divine judgement, the character of God, and the promise of escape
…ed watchfulness and prayer in relation to it. The Christian hope is not a desire to avoid faithfulness. Believers should be prepared to suffer, serve, lose possessions, and die rather than deny Christ. The pretribulation claim is not that the Church deserves comfort. It is that G…
Read article →The covenant son and the sacrifice that points to Christ
…e when Abraham and Sarah could not naturally produce the heir. The choice magnifies God's faithfulness, not human boasting. Ishmael was blessed. But God immediately distinguished that blessing from the covenant line. God named Isaac as the covenant heir When Abraham asks concerni…
Read article →A response to Michael Horton on the land promise, Amos 9, and the people of God
…hether Israel's disobedience annulled promises whose ultimate fulfilment rests upon God's faithfulness. Interrupted enjoyment is not cancellation The Mosaic covenant made Israel's continued enjoyment of the land conditional. Deuteronomy 28 warned that covenant rebellion would bri…
Read article →The peace Christ gives in a troubled world
…er than pretending it does not exist. We ask for what we need. Thanksgiving remembers the faithfulness which fear causes us to forget. Then Paul speaks of: "The peace of God, which passeth all understanding." —Philippians 4:7 This does not mean irrational peace or a pleasant feel…
Read article →Why the distinction matters when we speak about Jesus
…things” (John 21:17). We should not remove one set of passages to make the other easier. Faithfulness requires us to confess everything Scripture says. Could Jesus Truly Be Tempted? James tells us that “God cannot be tempted with evil” (James 1:13), while Hebrews says that Chris…
Read article →Creation, judgement, and the coming reign of Christ
…ctices (Leviticus 18:28; 20:22). This is not a passage about poor agricultural technique. Faithfulness requires us to retain its moral context. Yet the very point is that moral wickedness and the land cannot be sealed into separate compartments. Human sin defiles the place of hum…
Read article →Not escape from the body, but its redemption
…y will not be lost; whatever belonged to death's occupation of it will not remain. Grace, faithfulness, and reward The certainty of resurrection rests upon Christ, not upon our success in accumulating merit. Those who are Christ's will be raised at His coming because they belong…
Read article →The near was real. The far is still coming.
…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 of righteous Davidic government had an intelligible historical meaning. The o…
Read article →Israel's Messiah, Israel's Scriptures, and a gospel for the world
…Son of man, accepted messianic titles, and placed allegiance to Himself at the centre of faithfulness to Israel's God. His Jewish setting makes those claims sharper, not smaller. His mission began with Israel Jesus described His earthly mission as directed to "the lost sheep of…
Read article →Regathering, national rebirth, and the spiritual renewal still to come
…ertainty of restoration rests not upon Israel's political strength but upon the Creator's faithfulness. Ezekiel sees a nation brought back to life Ezekiel's vision of dry bones is sometimes applied generally to spiritual revival. The prophet himself identifies the bones: "Son of…
Read article →One Messiah, one gospel, and God's continuing purpose for Israel
…spel of their own Messiah. Why Israel's restoration strengthens Christian assurance God's faithfulness is indivisible. The Church cannot build confidence upon the claim that God permanently reassigned another people's promises when they failed. We also are weak, inconsistent, and…
Read article →What Jesus promised the apostles about Israel's future
…modern records to identify those who are His. Scripture assigns the fulfilment to divine faithfulness, not human archival competence. The apostles' rule is part of a larger kingdom The Twelve are not the only redeemed people promised responsibility in Christ's reign. Paul tells…
Read article →Four popular claims tested in context
…flax shall he not quench" (Isaiah 42:2–3). These words portray quietness, gentleness and faithfulness towards the weak. Verse 4 says that he will not fail until he has established judgement, but his mission must be understood as a whole. It is not enough to seize upon judgement,…
Read article →Election within Abraham's family, the believing remnant, and the future of the nation
…ow in Romans 9 is therefore not a change to an unrelated subject. Romans 9-11 defends the faithfulness of the God proclaimed in Romans 8. The verbal links are important: those whom God foreknew in Romans 8 are secure in His purpose, and Paul later insists that God has not cast aw…
Read article →Michael Brown, 2 Thessalonians 1, and the public vindication of the saints
…as seen. God will judge. The apparent victory of the persecutor will be reversed, and the faithfulness of the suffering Christian will be publicly vindicated. That is why the rest is tied to the recompense. The revelation of Jesus does not merely stop an unpleasant experience. It…
Read article →A sign of Israel's renewal, not Israel's disappearance
…ithout amnesia. 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…
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