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Clear searchThe covenant son and the sacrifice that points to Christ
Isaac, Not Ishmael The covenant son and the sacrifice that points to Christ Did God choose Isaac or Ishmael? This is not a tribal debate. It is a covenant question. The answer does not requi…
Read article →Christ the promised Seed, Gentile inheritance, and Paul's final blessing
…. Ishmael was Abraham's physical seed but was not Israel. Esau descended from Abraham and Isaac but was not Israel. Abrahamic descent and Israelite identity were never identical categories. Gentiles become Abraham's children in the sense Paul is establishing: they share Abraham's…
Read article →Unity in Christ and distinction in God's purpose
…Israel?" Israel existed before the Church Israel's national history begins with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, develops through the exodus and Sinai, receives a kingdom under David, and continues through exile and return. Its identity includes genealogy, land, tribes, covenants, pri…
Read article →El, the Exodus, and the God Who Came from Sinai
…ly clear in expressions formed with Yahweh’s covenant name. After God provides the ram in Isaac’s place, Abraham names the location YHWH-jireh: “the LORD will provide,” or “the LORD will see to it” (Genesis 22:14). After victory over Amalek, Moses calls his altar YHWH-nissi, “the…
Read article →What 'yea and Amen' in Christ means for Israel and the covenants
…iever the sign and historical commission given to him. God promised that Sarah would bear Isaac, that David would have an enduring royal house, that Mary would conceive and bear the Son, and that the twelve apostles would sit upon thrones judging Israel's twelve tribes. Every pro…
Read article →Fulfilment in Christ, the inclusion of the Gentiles, and Israel's future mercy
…ation: "For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel" (Romans 9:6). God distinguished Isaac from Ishmael and Jacob from Esau. This establishes election within Israel, not the disappearance of Israel. Paul has just defined the people under discussion as his physical kinsmen an…
Read article →Why Israel's failure cannot make the word of God fail
…y servant, so that I will not take any of his seed to be rulers over the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will cause their captivity to return, and have mercy on them." —Jeremiah 33:25-26 These comparisons are designed to remove the promise from the realm of human probabi…
Read article →Conditional blessing, irrevocable promise, and fulfilment in Christ
…ghteous. Ishmael and the sons of Keturah are distinguished from the covenant line through Isaac; within Israel, unbelief brings judgement; and the blessing of salvation is received by faith. Circumcision was commanded as the covenant sign, and disobedience had real consequences (…
Read article →The LORD, Zion, and the meaning of Beulah in Isaiah 62:4–5
…nary property ownership. It is covenantal inheritance because God promised it to Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and their descendants. It is sacred stewardship because the land ultimately belongs to the LORD. It is national vocation because the land is the appointed setting in which Isra…
Read article →A response to Michael Horton on the land promise, Amos 9, and the people of God
…ich God promises: “Then will I remember my covenant with Jacob, and also my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham will I remember; and I will remember the land.” —Leviticus 26:42 Deuteronomy likewise looks beyond dispersion to return: “Then the LORD thy God will…
Read article →What God's faithfulness to Israel means for everyone who trusts His promises
…perform it. Moses did not lead a symbol out of Egypt. He led the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob towards the land God had sworn to their fathers. Their disobedience brought real judgement, yet even the covenant curses anticipated scattering, repentance, regathering, and…
Read article →Not escape from the body, but its redemption
…tied of everything which makes personal fellowship possible. Scripture speaks of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom, of recognition, communion, service and shared joy. Redemption perfects personal life; it does not erase it. That does not mean every feature of fallen existen…
Read article →Israel's Messiah, Israel's Scriptures, and a gospel for the world
…should read the New Testament with gratitude and humility. We worship the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. We trust Israel's Messiah. We read Israel's prophets and receive blessings announced through Israel's covenants. We have no grounds for contempt. Paul tells us that we do n…
Read article →Christianity, Islam and the verdict of the evidence
…el, the Qur’an’s miracle claim, alleged prophecies of Muhammad, the covenant line through Isaac, Daniel’s cut-off Messiah and the Qur’an’s relationship to the religious stories of late antiquity. The individual questions matter. But now we must ask what they mean together. A case…
Read article →Born, begotten and firstborn in the eternal identity and saving work of the Son
…ears, or a child is born. Matthew repeatedly uses it in Christ’s genealogy—“Abraham begat Isaac; and Isaac begat Jacob” (Matthew 1:2). It can also be used figuratively. Paul tells the Corinthians, “in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel” (1 Corinthians 4:15), and…
Read article →Election within Abraham's family, the believing remnant, and the future of the nation
…rd privilege from participation in God's saving purpose and traces that principle through Isaac and Jacob. Any interpretation which gives every Israelite an automatic right standing with God has missed his argument. But Paul does not mention the Church in Romans 9:6. Neither does…
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