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Clear searchOne Messiah, one gospel, and God's continuing purpose for Israel
…es the people descended from Jacob. The Church's inheritance is gloriously real. Israel's future is covenantally certain. These truths compete only if grace is treated as a possession which one people can receive solely through the dispossession of another. What we affirm togethe…
Read article →What Jesus promised the apostles about Israel's future
Twelve Thrones and Twelve Tribes What Jesus promised the apostles about Israel's future Peter once asked the question which many faithful disciples have quietly wondered: what will those who sacrifice for Christ receive? Jesus answered with a promise larger than personal…
Read article →Not escape from the body, but its redemption
…rt of the gospel because the Christ who died for our sins rose bodily from the grave. Our future rests upon what has already happened to Him. Christ the firstfruits and pattern "But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept." —1 Corinthians…
Read article →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 assumes that a prophecy must belong entirely to o…
Read article →Divine judgement, the character of God, and the promise of escape
…omise that Christians will escape ordinary discipleship. The question is narrower: is the future Tribulation merely another period of persecution, or is it a defined hour of divine judgement from which Christ promises to deliver His Church? Persecution and wrath are not the same…
Read article →Sir Robert Anderson · Biblical and apologetic argument · 1897
…answer to every sufferer, and it should never be used to silence lament or make confident judgments about why a particular prayer was not answered. Divine silence Providence Suffering Prayer Grace Dispensationalism Future judgment
View recommendation →El, the Exodus, and the God Who Came from Sinai
…etch forth mine hand upon Egypt.” — Exodus 7:5 Egypt will know Yahweh through His acts of judgment. Israel will know Him through redemption. The name is made known in the biblical sense when the character and power belonging to it are manifested in history. The patriarchs receive…
Read article →A history of interpretation, polemic, and forgotten tension
…hich 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 spiritualised I…
Read article →The LORD, Zion, and the meaning of Beulah in Isaiah 62:4–5
…betroth thee unto me for ever; yea, I will betroth thee unto me in righteousness, and in judgment, and in lovingkindness, and in mercies. I will even betroth thee unto me in faithfulness: and thou shalt know the LORD.” —Hosea 2:19–20 The biblical distinction is therefore clear.…
Read article →Why a loaded label does not settle the question
…st gathered to Him? Pretribulationism answers by distinguishing two stages within the one future coming of Christ. First, He receives His Church to Himself. Later, He is publicly revealed in glory and His saints appear with Him. This is not a claim that Christ has two unrelated s…
Read article →An unrequited love for the historic Church
…ery knee will bow to Christ as Lord, God, Saviour and King, and He will execute righteous judgment. By His grace He will grant immortality and everlasting glory to the righteous who persevere in His love. I can confess that faith without reservation. More than that: Irenaeus says…
Read article →Four popular claims tested in context
…someone mentioned in Scripture. The question is whether the biblical author identifies a future figure by characteristics which Muhammad actually fulfils. Three standards will govern the examination: Immediate context: words receive their meaning from the sentences and books in…
Read article →Michael Brown, 2 Thessalonians 1, and the public vindication of the saints
…Paul begins by describing the believers’ endurance as: “A manifest token of the righteous judgment of God, that ye may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which ye also suffer.” —2 Thessalonians 1:5 He then explains why their suffering will not have the final word. It is…
Read article →How Christians can think politically without surrendering conscience to a package deal
…f blood. God's answer was not more impressive religious ceremony: "Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow." —Isaiah 1:17 Through the same prophet, God said that the people drew near with their mouths and honoured Him with…
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