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Clear searchIsrael's Messiah, Israel's Scriptures, and a gospel for the world
The New Testament Is a Very Jewish Story Israel's Messiah, Israel's Scriptures, and a gospel for the world To many Jewish people, Christianity appears thoroughly foreign. Its historic centres became Rome, Constantinople, Canterbury, Geneva, and countless cit…
Read article →A response to Michael Horton on the land promise, Amos 9, and the people of God
A biblical response to Michael Horton's case against Israel's territorial future, examining covenant discipline, Acts 15, Amos 9, Hebrews 8, and Gentile inclusion.
Read article →Fulfilment in Christ, the inclusion of the Gentiles, and Israel's future mercy
…ion becomes difficult after the resurrection. Jesus had opened their understanding of the Scriptures, spent forty days teaching them "the things pertaining to the kingdom of God," and was about to ascend when they asked: "Lord, wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom to…
Read article →A sign of Israel's renewal, not Israel's disappearance
…d's purpose for Israel failed. The nations are reached through the fulfilment of Israel's Scriptures, by Israel's Christ, through witnesses chosen from Israel, proclaiming the new covenant first promised to Israel and Judah. Twelve remains visible at the end of Scripture The imag…
Read article →Regathering, national rebirth, and the spiritual renewal still to come
…dly persecuted. Yet they did not disappear into the nations among which they lived. Their Scriptures, worship, identity, and hope of return endured. On 14 May 1948, Jewish sovereignty was re-established in the ancestral land through the declaration of the State of Israel. That ev…
Read article →The olive tree, the natural branches, and the limits of the metaphor
…ans 11:18). A theology in which the Gentile Church absorbs Israel, takes ownership of its Scriptures and promises, and then boasts that Israel has been permanently displaced moves in precisely the direction of the attitude Paul forbids. The passage does not accuse every Christian…
Read article →One Messiah, one gospel, and God's continuing purpose for Israel
…s follows. Israel and the Church belong to one unfolding purpose centred upon Christ. The Scriptures, covenants, Messiah, apostles, and first believers all came through Israel. The Church began with a faithful Jewish remnant and expanded as Gentiles were brought near through the…
Read article →The wicked husbandmen, the fruit-bearing nation, and what Jesus said afterwards
…ing Israel's blind and unfaithful leaders. They occupy the seat of authority, possess the Scriptures, and exercise stewardship among God's covenant people, yet reject the prophets and are preparing to kill God's Son. Their own answer condemns them: wicked husbandmen should be rem…
Read article →Eitan Bar · Biblical and historical polemic · 2019
…binic interpretation. The book is most useful when it sends the reader back to the Hebrew Scriptures to ask whether the traditional objection really accounts for the text in its own context. Bar writes as an Israeli Jewish Christian addressing the religious tradition in which the…
View recommendation →Unity in Christ and distinction in God's purpose
…other can speak so sharply of distinction that the Church appears detached from Israel's Scriptures, Messiah, covenants, and hope. The biblical answer requires both unity and distinction, each defined by the texts which teach it. The Church is one new man in Christ Gentiles were…
Read article →El, the Exodus, and the God Who Came from Sinai
Does archaeology show that Israel fused Yahweh with the Canaanite god El, or does Scripture itself provide a stronger account of the evidence?
Read article →Matthew, the Hebrew word almah, and a sign whose meaning reaches beyond Ahaz
…ique sense. How Matthew uses fulfilment Matthew often presents Jesus as bringing Israel's Scriptures to their intended goal. “Out of Egypt have I called my son” originally recalls Israel's exodus in Hosea 11:1, yet Matthew applies it to Jesus (Matthew 2:15). He is not pretending…
Read article →A history of interpretation, polemic, and forgotten tension
…ties, interpreted the destruction of Jerusalem as lasting displacement, and read Israel's Scriptures principally through their fulfilment in Christ and the Church. The resulting history is neither simple nor flattering. Some early Christian writers defended essential truths: Jesu…
Read article →The divine identity of Jesus across the Gospels
…g all authority in heaven and earth (Matthew 28:9, 17-18). Luke records that He opens the Scriptures, commissions witnesses and ascends as His disciples worship Him (Luke 24:44-52). John brings Thomas face to face with the wounds and to the confession, "My Lord and my God" (John…
Read article →Creation, judgement, and the coming reign of Christ
How Scripture connects human dominion, the suffering of creation, measure-for-measure judgement, and the earth's coming rest beneath the reign of Christ.
Read article →Christianity, Islam and the verdict of the evidence
…rst of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures” (1 Corinthians 15:3–4). The crucifixion is also corroborated outside the New Testament.…
Read article →Four popular claims tested in context
…The strongest remaining objection A Muslim may answer that Christians interpret their own Scriptures through the New Testament and therefore assume the conclusion. Acts and Matthew identify Jesus because Christian authors naturally wished to claim Jewish prophecy for Him; those i…
Read article →A forensic reading of Christ's Olivet Discourse
…Matthew without a history. In the Greek Old Testament and the KJV's rendering of Israel's Scriptures, election language can refer to the Messiah, to Israel, and to a faithful remnant within Israel. Isaiah is particularly important: "For Jacob my servant's sake, and Israel mine el…
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