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Clear searchA response to Michael Horton on the land promise, Amos 9, and the people of God
No Holy Land? Covenant Discipline, Gentile Blessing, and Israel's Future A response to Michael Horton on the land promise, Amos 9, and the people of God Michael Horton's essay, “No Holy Land: Does Israel Still Have a Biblical…
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, and a restored relationshi…
Read article →Israel's Messiah, Israel's Scriptures, and a gospel for the world
…ssiah, first proclaimed by Jewish witnesses in Jerusalem and then carried to the nations. Gentiles do not enter by replacing that story. We are welcomed into blessings which came through it. Recovering this setting does more than add cultural colour. It changes how we understand…
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 →What God's faithfulness to Israel means for everyone who trusts His promises
…he true temple, and mediator of the new covenant. The Church is united to Him. Jewish and Gentile believers therefore become one people, inherit the promises, and anticipate not merely one land but the renewed creation. On this reading, nothing has been cancelled. Everything has…
Read article →Unity 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 →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 →A history of interpretation, polemic, and forgotten tension
…pear in one moment through one theologian. It developed as the Church became increasingly Gentile, separated socially from Jewish communities, interpreted the destruction of Jerusalem as lasting displacement, and read Israel's Scriptures principally through their fulfilment in Ch…
Read article →What 'yea and Amen' in Christ means for Israel and the covenants
…iah, and mediator of the new covenant. The Church possesses a genuine inheritance in Him. Gentile believers are not spectators looking through the window at another people's blessings. But a vital step remains unproved. Does fulfilment through Christ mean reassignment to the Chur…
Read article →Why Israel's failure cannot make the word of God fail
…mcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises made unto the fathers: And that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy; as it is written, For this cause I will confess to thee among the Gentiles, and sing unto thy name." —Romans 15:8-9 Confirmation can expand understa…
Read article →The LORD, Zion, and the meaning of Beulah in Isaiah 62:4–5
…whose condition is about to be reversed. Her righteousness will be publicly revealed. The Gentiles will see her vindication, kings will behold her glory, and she will receive a new name from the mouth of the LORD. The geographical character of the prophecy is difficult to miss. I…
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 →An unrequited love for the historic Church
…arned teacher to explore the parables, the covenants, the purpose of the incarnation, 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…
Read article →The near was real. The far is still coming.
…ificance requires the disappearance of its earlier geographical and covenantal reference. Gentile inclusion and a heavenly dimension to the promise do not, by themselves, cancel a future for the people and place originally addressed. The chapter ends with a redeemed people, a res…
Read article →Regathering, national rebirth, and the spiritual renewal still to come
…es not become permanent abandonment. Isaiah presents the Root of Jesse as the hope of the Gentiles and, in the same setting, the One associated with gathering Israel's dispersed remnant (Isaiah 11:10-12). Zechariah brings the inhabitants of Jerusalem to mourning over the pierced…
Read article →One Messiah, one gospel, and God's continuing purpose for Israel
…ing whether Christ fulfils the promises. He does. Nor can it be settled by 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…
Read article →The wicked husbandmen, the fruit-bearing nation, and what Jesus said afterwards
…ish apostles deliberately corresponding to Israel's twelve tribes. Through their witness, Gentiles would be brought into the one body of Christ and taught to bear the fruit God required. This is a real transfer. The Church does not merely observe the kingdom from a distance. Beli…
Read article →Election within Abraham's family, the believing remnant, and the future of the nation
…l consists of the children of promise: everyone who believes in Christ, whether Jewish or Gentile. The Church is therefore the Israel within Israel, while unbelieving ethnic Israel no longer possesses a distinct covenant identity or future. Paul certainly denies that physical des…
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