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Clear searchUnity in Christ and distinction in God's purpose
…a unity so profound that it would have startled the ancient world. In Christ, Jewish and Gentile believers are reconciled to God in one body. Both possess the same Spirit, approach the same Father, and inherit salvation on the same basis. It also continues to speak of Israel, Ge…
Read article →Defining the position before testing it
…ulates Israel's history, fulfils the law and the prophets, and gathers believing Jews and Gentiles into one body. The question is whether those truths entail the permanent cancellation of national promises. What supersessionism gets right A fair examination begins with genuine ag…
Read article →A sign of Israel's renewal, not Israel's disappearance
…ent the Twelve, their commission had the same national focus: "Go not into the way of the Gentiles, and into any city of the Samaritans enter ye not: But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. And as ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of heaven is at hand." —Matthew…
Read article →Why the final seven is unfinished, future, and centred upon Israel and Jerusalem
…salem is left desolate after rejecting Messiah (Matthew 23:37-39); the mystery of Jew and Gentile united in one body is disclosed (Ephesians 3:3-6); and Israel experiences partial hardening "until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in" (Romans 11:25). This present period is not…
Read article →The question reaches beyond prophecy to the faithfulness of God
…ing in Christ and now belong to the multinational Church. Others maintain that Jewish and Gentile believers are one in Christ while national Israel still has an appointed future under the covenants. This is not a contest over which group matters more. Jewish people have no separa…
Read article →What Jesus promised the apostles about Israel's future
…s therefore not merely the apostles' present ministry or the inward renewal of individual believers. It belongs to the public reign of the Son of man and the wider restoration over which He presides. This agrees with the prophets. Isaiah anticipated the earth renewed under righte…
Read article →A forensic reading of Christ's Olivet Discourse
…ing Servant God's elect (Isaiah 42:1), and the New Testament applies election language to believers in Christ. The point is narrower: a Jewish hearer did not need later Church doctrine in order to understand the term. Israel's Scriptures had already supplied a covenantal and remn…
Read article →The positive argument of the whole series, brought together
…licitly teaches the event. The Lord descends from heaven; the dead in Christ rise; living believers are changed; and together they are caught up to meet Him in the air (1 Thessalonians 4:13-18; 1 Corinthians 15:50-54). The question is not whether Christians should believe in that…
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