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Clear searchChrist the promised Seed, Gentile inheritance, and Paul's final blessing
Are Abraham's Seed and the Israel of God the Church? Christ the promised Seed, Gentile inheritance, and Paul's final blessing Galatians contains two of the strongest arguments for identifying the Church as Israel. First, Paul says that the promises were made to Abraham…
Read article →A 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 →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 →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 →What 'yea and Amen' in Christ means for Israel and the covenants
…s Son, Israel's Messiah, 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 reas…
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 →Conditional blessing, irrevocable promise, and fulfilment in Christ
…iestly and sacrificial blessings to believers who approach God through Christ. Jewish and Gentile Christians therefore enjoy genuine new-covenant forgiveness, the indwelling Spirit, and direct access to God. These are not borrowed blessings of uncertain ownership. They were secur…
Read article →The LORD, Zion, and the meaning of Beulah in Isaiah 62:4–5
…pture, the LORD is Israel’s covenant husband. The land, by contrast, is Israel’s covenant inheritance. Nevertheless, Isaiah deliberately uses marital language to describe the restoration of Israel’s people to their promised territory. The relationship between Israel and the land…
Read article →The covenant son and the sacrifice that points to Christ
…the son Abraham was commanded to sacrifice. Muhammad is then located within the Abrahamic inheritance through the Ishmaelite line. Both frameworks cannot describe the same covenant history accurately. The question is not which son a later community would prefer. The question is w…
Read article →An unrequited love for the historic Church
…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 Church. But expos…
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
…n." —Matthew 21:37 Instead, the husbandmen recognised the heir and conspired to seize his inheritance. They cast him out of the vineyard and killed him (Matthew 21:38-39). Jesus then asked what the lord of the vineyard would do. His hearers supplied the sentence: "He will miserab…
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