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25 results for “Fulfilment theology”
Clear searchDefining the position before testing it
…rsessionism, and Why Does It Matter? Defining the position before testing it "Replacement theology" is a useful popular label, but it can also conceal important differences. Many Christians accused of teaching that the Church replaced Israel would reject that wording. They believ…
Read article →Fulfilment in Christ, the inclusion of the Gentiles, and Israel's future mercy
Does the New Testament Reaffirm Israel's Promises? Fulfilment in Christ, the inclusion of the Gentiles, and Israel's future mercy The Old Testament repeatedly promises Israel preservation, regathering, cleansing, the kingdom of David's Son,…
Read article →The near was real. The far is still coming.
…on The near was real. The far is still coming. The historical horizon and the question of fulfilment “Was this fulfilled, or is it still future?” That is often a necessary question when reading biblical prophecy. Sometimes, however, it becomes an inadequate question because it as…
Read article →The question reaches beyond prophecy to the faithfulness of God
…d's promised Son. Through Him the blessing reaches the nations. The dispute concerns what fulfilment in Christ does to the other things God said. Does a promise become more faithful when its stated recipient disappears from its fulfilment? May land become only heaven, Israel beco…
Read article →A history of interpretation, polemic, and forgotten tension
…Jerusalem as lasting displacement, and read Israel's Scriptures principally through their fulfilment in Christ and the Church. The resulting history is neither simple nor flattering. Some early Christian writers defended essential truths: Jesus is Israel's Messiah, the law cannot…
Read article →Conditional blessing, irrevocable promise, and fulfilment in Christ
…andoned 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, the temple was destroyed, and the Jewish people were scattered a…
Read article →The covenant son and the sacrifice that points to Christ
…argument about genealogy. It forms part of the redemptive architecture which reaches its fulfilment in Christ. The correspondences should not be forced into an allegory in which every object carries a secret meaning. Scripture itself, however, interprets Isaac's deliverance thro…
Read article →Matthew, the Hebrew word almah, and a sign whose meaning reaches beyond Ahaz
…-Christian Greek translation, the historical sign to Ahaz, and Matthew's understanding of fulfilment together. What does almah mean? The Hebrew noun almah refers to a young woman of marriageable age. The word does not, by itself, function as a technical statement about the biolog…
Read article →The LORD, Zion, and the meaning of Beulah in Isaiah 62:4–5
…Her sin is adultery because she belongs covenantally to the LORD. Hosea develops the same theology through the prophet’s marriage. Israel pursues false gods and attributes the gifts of grain, wine, oil, silver, and gold to the Baals. The LORD disciplines her, removes the gifts sh…
Read article →Testing Islam's evidence for divine revelation
…irmation. Some of these claims are stronger than others. Some belong to classical Islamic theology; others are products of modern popular apologetics. They should not be bundled together carelessly or dismissed with mockery. Each must be allowed to establish whatever it genuinely…
Read article →An unrequited love for the historic Church
…tion, the inclusion of the Gentiles, the resurrection of the body and the things to come. Theology may unfold the riches of revelation. Intelligence, eloquence and careful exposition are gifts to the Church. But exposition is not enlargement of the apostolic deposit. The theologi…
Read article →The Messiah cut off before the Temple fell
…deny the Antiochene pattern. He treated that pattern as capable of a further and greater fulfilment. Antiochus becomes a precursor rather than the final horizon. The Christian reading can therefore acknowledge an immediate Second Temple background without surrendering the prophe…
Read article →Creation, judgement, and the coming reign of Christ
…. Environmental concern has become so closely associated with the political left, liberal theology, nature mysticism, animism, and neo-paganism that some Christians instinctively recoil from the subject itself. We rightly reject the worship of nature. We rightly deny that human p…
Read article →Christianity, Islam and the verdict of the evidence
…; disregard Scripture’s own identification; and insert Muhammad into the space created. A fulfilment should become clearer when context is restored. These claims disappear. The ninth question: Isaac or Ishmael? The biblical record does not require hostility towards Ishmael. God h…
Read article →Born, begotten and firstborn in the eternal identity and saving work of the Son
…it does not mark the beginning of His eternal identity. Eternity and economy In Christian theology, the eternal or immanent Trinity refers to who the Father, Son and Holy Spirit eternally are in God’s own being. The economy of salvation refers to how the three divine persons act…
Read article →Four popular claims tested in context
…ible, Christians must face the evidence. A prophecy does not cease to be true because its fulfilment is unwelcome. Muslim apologists commonly appeal to four passages: the prophet like Moses in Deuteronomy 18; the Servant and Kedar in Isaiah 42; the promised Comforter in John 14–1…
Read article →Governmental restraint, the final ten kings, and the preparation of the temple
…er’s identity. I am identifying neither the EU, the papacy, nor any current leader as the fulfilment. Modern unrest illustrates possible ways authority can be displaced and concentrated; it is no evidence that this prophetic sequence is being fulfilled. The governmental proposal…
Read article →The olive tree, the natural branches, and the limits of the metaphor
…does not carry the root: "thou bearest not the root, but the root thee" (Romans 11:18). A theology in which the Gentile Church absorbs Israel, takes ownership of its Scriptures and promises, and then boasts that Israel has been permanently displaced moves in precisely the directi…
Read article →Why Israel's failure cannot make the word of God fail
…ael'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 the Messiah through its line. Israel repeatedly rebelled and, when Messiah came, the nation did not receive Him…
Read article →One Messiah, one gospel, and God's continuing purpose for Israel
…asking whether Gentile believers inherit in Him. We do. The decisive question is whether fulfilment in Christ and the formation of the Church require Israel's national identity and outstanding promises to disappear. After following the argument through the covenants, the prophet…
Read article →Isaiah, John, and the Divine Identity of Jesus Christ
…that salvation is from the Father. It is evidence that invoking Jesus belongs within the fulfilment of the promise to those who invoke YHWH. John the Baptist prepares the way of YHWH Isaiah 40:3 calls for preparation of YHWH’s way. Matthew 3:3, Mark 1:2–3, Luke 3:4–6 and John 1:…
Read article →Responding to five common criticisms without defending what Scripture does not require
…with John Nelson Darby, turns the Church into God's failed contingency plan, ignores the fulfilment of prophecy in AD 70, baptises modern politics, and restores animal sacrifices in competition with the cross. Some dispensationalists have spoken carelessly on these subjects, and…
Read article →El, the Exodus, and the God Who Came from Sinai
…th use Allah. A common noun does not guarantee a common referent, still less an identical theology. Israel did not need to invent a previously unknown noun before it could confess the true God. Revelation ordinarily speaks through existing human language, correcting its content a…
Read article →A response to Michael Horton on the land promise, Amos 9, and the people of God
…Claim on the Middle East?”, presents a concise Reformed case against dispensational land theology. Horton argues that Israel's possession of Canaan was conditional, that the promise was fulfilled in Joshua's generation, and that the obsolete Mosaic covenant has given way to an i…
Read article →What Jesus promised the apostles about Israel's future
…statements Jesus made about the apostles' future role. It is also an awkward text for any theology in which national Israel has permanently disappeared into the Church. The promise names the rulers, their thrones, the time of their rule, and those over whom they exercise authorit…
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