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Clear searchUnity in Christ and distinction in God's purpose
Are Israel and the Church Really the Same? Unity in Christ and distinction in God's purpose The New Testament teaches a unity so profound that it would have startled the ancient world. In Christ…
Read article →The question reaches beyond prophecy to the faithfulness of God
Israel and the Church: Why This Series Matters The question reaches beyond prophecy to the faithfulness of God Has the Church replaced Israel in the purpose of God? Some Christians answer ye…
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…
Read article →A sign of Israel's renewal, not Israel's disappearance
Why Did Jesus Choose Twelve Apostles? A sign of Israel's renewal, not Israel's disappearance Jesus did not choose twelve apostles because twelve happened to be a convenient number. He could have appointed seven, seventy, or any other numb…
Read article →A forensic reading of Christ's Olivet Discourse
…w 24, "the elect" most naturally identifies the faithful people of the Tribulation within Israel's prophetic setting, rather than the Church as the Body of Christ. The group may include other redeemed people gathered at Christ's return, but the discourse does not identify this ev…
Read article →Defining the position before testing it
…nceal important differences. Many Christians accused of teaching that the Church replaced Israel would reject that wording. They believe that the Church is the fulfilment, continuation, or expansion of Israel rather than its substitute. The discussion should therefore begin with…
Read article →Why the final seven is unfinished, future, and centred upon Israel and Jerusalem
…the New Testament Tribulation Why the final seven is unfinished, future, and centred upon Israel and Jerusalem The seven-year Tribulation is sometimes dismissed as an interval invented to make a prophetic chart work. That criticism begins at the wrong end of the Bible. The case d…
Read article →The gathering of the elect, one taken and one left, and Paul's revealed mystery
…the age (Matthew 24:1-3). The discourse then returns repeatedly to the prophetic world of Israel: The abomination of desolation spoken of by Daniel stands in the holy place. Those in Judea must flee to the mountains. Flight on the sabbath day creates a specific difficulty. False…
Read article →The positive argument of the whole series, brought together
…Christ completes and gathers His Church, resumes Daniel's unfinished programme concerning Israel and Jerusalem, judges the beast's world while saving a multitude within it, and later returns with His redeemed people to deliver, judge, and reign. Christ receives His people—and lat…
Read article →The event is explicit; the real dispute is its timing
…wider evidence: the identity and calling of the Church, Daniel's unfinished programme for Israel and Jerusalem, deliverance from the coming wrath, imminency, Revelation's distinction between earth-dwellers and the company in heaven, and the events which require an interval before…
Read article →Divine judgement, the character of God, and the promise of escape
…ood judgement. Noah is secured before the waters rise. Lot is removed before Sodom burns. Israel is distinguished in Goshen while plagues fall upon Egypt. Rahab is marked and separated before Jericho is destroyed. These examples are not identical. Noah and Israel are preserved wi…
Read article →Earth-dwellers, heaven-dwellers, and the literary structure of the Apocalypse
…nate the opening chapters. The earthly judgement visions then return to Danielic periods, Israel's tribes, Jerusalem, the temple, the nations, a beastly ruler, and saints persecuted under him. At the same time, redeemed companies worship in heaven, and the book repeatedly contras…
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