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23 results for “Father's house”
Clear searchWhy apantēsis does not settle the timing of the rapture
…rer when 1 Thessalonians 4 is read alongside Christ's promise in John 14: "In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; t…
Read article →One Messiah, one gospel, and God's continuing purpose for Israel
…on Israel, distinguishes it from the Gentiles, and describes it as beloved because of the fathers. The distinction is therefore real, but it is not a wall between two saving programmes. When Israel is restored, the nation will not return to God by law, ancestry, temple sacrifice,…
Read article →Fulfilment in Christ, the inclusion of the Gentiles, and Israel's future mercy
…minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises made unto the fathers: And that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy." —Romans 15:8-9 Christ came "for the truth of God" to confirm what God had promised to the fathers. Paul does not say that Chr…
Read article →Why Israel's failure cannot make the word of God fail
…romises now refer exclusively to the Church. Instead, the nation remains "beloved for the fathers' sakes", because "the gifts and calling of God are without repentance" (Romans 11:28-29). The phrase does not excuse unbelief. It explains why unbelief will not have the last word. G…
Read article →Isaiah, John, and the Divine Identity of Jesus Christ
…sts. The Septuagint makes the glory language especially explicit in 6:1 by describing the house as filled with His glory, where the Hebrew describes the train of His robe filling the temple.[^12] Since John has just quoted Isaiah 6:10, the throne vision is an immediate and compel…
Read article →Christ the promised Seed, Gentile inheritance, and Paul's final blessing
…David's throne belongs finally to Christ; that does not make the promised reign over the house of Jacob meaningless. The new covenant is mediated by Christ; that does not erase its stated making with the house of Israel and the house of Judah. The same principle applies to Abrah…
Read article →The olive tree, the natural branches, and the limits of the metaphor
…he branches their covenantal standing. The immediate context points backwards to Israel's fathers and forwards to Israel's future mercy. Paul later says that Israel remains "beloved for the fathers' sakes" (Romans 11:28). The details can therefore be mapped cautiously: | Image |…
Read article →El, the Exodus, and the God Who Came from Sinai
…t and leading it towards the promised inheritance. They would know in fulfilment what the fathers had known in anticipation. Most importantly, Exodus does not introduce Yahweh as an unrelated deity: “I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of…
Read article →What 'yea and Amen' in Christ means for Israel and the covenants
…to him. God promised that Sarah would bear Isaac, that David would have an enduring royal house, that Mary would conceive and bear the Son, and that the twelve apostles would sit upon thrones judging Israel's twelve tribes. Every promise depends finally upon Christ and glorifies…
Read article →The gathering of the elect, one taken and one left, and Paul's revealed mystery
…hem all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be." —Matthew 24:39 Noah and his household were preserved. Those swept away were the objects of judgement. Luke's parallel adds Lot: he departed from Sodom, and fire destroyed those who remained in the condemned city. Chris…
Read article →Conditional blessing, irrevocable promise, and fulfilment in Christ
…oking Abraham. The Davidic covenant establishes the King God later promised David a royal house, kingdom, and throne. David's immediate descendants could be chastened for iniquity, but the covenant purpose would not be removed as Saul's kingdom had been: "And thine house and thy…
Read article →Signs, expectancy, and the event the Church is told to await
…an hour the servant does not know. The bridegroom's arrival exposes who was prepared. The householder cannot schedule the thief. The point is not merely that the event happens quickly once it starts. It interrupts ordinary activity without the unready person having calculated the…
Read article →The LORD, Zion, and the meaning of Beulah in Isaiah 62:4–5
…heritance. When she is reconciled to Him, she is restored to it. The Land Promised to the Fathers Israel’s bond with the land begins with the promises made to Abraham. The first call of Abraham joins nationhood, territory, and worldwide blessing: “Get thee out of thy country, and…
Read article →The covenant son and the sacrifice that points to Christ
…sents a different Abrahamic framework. The Qur'an associates Abraham and Ishmael with the House at Mecca, while later Muslim tradition predominantly identifies Ishmael as the son Abraham was commanded to sacrifice. Muhammad is then located within the Abrahamic inheritance through…
Read article →The question reaches beyond prophecy to the faithfulness of God
…o separate path of salvation, and Gentile believers are not second-class members of God's household. Every sinner is reconciled to God through the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. The question is whether this unity in salvation removes the distinctions which Scripture cont…
Read article →A response to Michael Horton on the land promise, Amos 9, and the people of God
…oshua 21:45: “There failed not ought of any good thing which the LORD had spoken unto the house of Israel; all came to pass.” —Joshua 21:45 This affirms genuine fulfilment. God gave that generation the promised inheritance and rest from its enemies. Nothing God had promised them…
Read article →What God's faithfulness to Israel means for everyone who trusts His promises
…led the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob towards the land God had sworn to their fathers. Their disobedience brought real judgement, yet even the covenant curses anticipated scattering, repentance, regathering, and restored blessing. David did not receive a vague assuran…
Read article →Why a loaded label does not settle the question
…supplies that wider movement. Jesus tells His disciples that He is going to His Father's house to prepare a place for them, then promises: “I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.” —John 14:3 Christ comes and receives His people to…
Read article →An unrequited love for the historic Church
…he historic Church. But I do. I love the ancient confession of the Triune God. I love the Fathers when they defend the true incarnation of Christ against those who turned Him into an apparition or a spiritual myth. I love their insistence that the God of the gospel is the Creator…
Read article →Regathering, national rebirth, and the spiritual renewal still to come
…h scattered thee." —Deuteronomy 30:3 The passage continues with return to the land of the fathers and an inward work of God: "the LORD thy God will circumcise thine heart" so that Israel will love Him (Deuteronomy 30:5-6). Judgement and restoration therefore form one covenant seq…
Read article →Four popular claims tested in context
…passover" sacrificed for us (1 Corinthians 5:7). Moses was faithful as a servant in God's house; Christ rules as the Son over His own house (Hebrews 3:1–6). Scripture names the fulfilment The matter does not depend only upon resemblance. Peter quotes Deuteronomy 18 and applies it…
Read article →Constantine, Arius, the Trinity, the biblical canon—and the myths that refuse to die
…in the same broad sense in which all creatures are from God. Athanasius writes: “But the Fathers, perceiving their craft … were forced to express more distinctly the sense of the words ‘from God’. Accordingly, they wrote ‘from the essence of God’.” —Athanasius, On the Decrees of…
Read article →The positive argument of the whole series, brought together
…f its words: Christ comes and receives His people to Himself, taking them to the Father's house He has prepared 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…
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