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16 results for “Israel's covenants”
Clear searchConditional blessing, irrevocable promise, and fulfilment in Christ
Has God Abandoned Israel? What Do the Covenants Say? Conditional blessing, irrevocable promise, and fulfilment in Christ Israel broke God's law, rejected the prophets, and nationally refused its Messiah. Jerusalem was judged, th…
Read article →What God's faithfulness to Israel means for everyone who trusts His promises
…aithfulness to Israel means for everyone who trusts His promises This series has examined covenants, prophecies, apostles, thrones, tribes, branches, seeds, kingdoms, and the difficult words upon which the debate turns. We have tried to hear the strongest opposing arguments, conc…
Read article →What 'yea and Amen' in Christ means for Israel and the covenants
…s Promises Transfer to the Church? What "yea and Amen" in Christ means for Israel and the covenants Paul makes one of the most comprehensive statements about the promises of God: "For all the promises of God in him are yea, and in him Amen, unto the glory of God by us." —2 Corint…
Read article →Why Israel's failure cannot make the word of God fail
…identical with either the Mosaic covenant or the new covenant. The Abrahamic and Davidic covenants establish the nation, inheritance, royal line, and kingdom which God has sworn to preserve. The Mosaic covenant governs Israel's obedience, blessing, and judgement within that call…
Read article →Fulfilment in Christ, the inclusion of the Gentiles, and Israel's future mercy
…the flesh": "Who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises; Whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came." —Romans 9:4-5 Paul does not say that…
Read article →Israel's Messiah, Israel's Scriptures, and a gospel for the world
…ws, and its Jewish Messiah has often been presented with little connection to the people, covenants, and hopes into which He was born. That history cannot be denied. It can, however, obscure the world of the New Testament itself. The New Testament is the story of Israel's God ful…
Read article →The question reaches beyond prophecy to the faithfulness of God
…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 separate path of salvation, and Gentile believers are not second-class members of God's household. Every…
Read article →Election within Abraham's family, the believing remnant, and the future of the nation
…ts the apparent test case. God had foreknown Israel, called the nation, entrusted it with covenants and promises, and set His love upon the fathers. Yet much of Israel now stood in unbelief. If that history simply ended in permanent rejection, how secure could anyone be in the de…
Read article →The olive tree, the natural branches, and the limits of the metaphor
…es Romans 9-11 addresses the problem created by Israel's unbelief. If Israel received the covenants and promises, how can so many Israelites reject Messiah while Gentiles receive the gospel? Has God's word failed? Has God cast away His people? Paul answers both questions with "Go…
Read article →One Messiah, one gospel, and God's continuing purpose for Israel
…identity and outstanding promises to disappear. After following the argument through the covenants, the prophets, the teaching of Jesus, Acts, Romans, Galatians, Hebrews, and the history of Christian interpretation, the cumulative answer is no. God has judged Israel severely. Th…
Read article →The wicked husbandmen, the fruit-bearing nation, and what Jesus said afterwards
…f the kingdom is removed? Who is the fruit-bearing nation? Does the sentence revoke God's covenants with Israel, or does it pronounce judgement upon the unfaithful rulers and generation then entrusted with the vineyard? The immediate context identifies Jesus' targets. The parable…
Read article →Defining the position before testing it
…t national Israel no longer possesses a distinct future in the fulfilment of the biblical covenants. The promises reach their final meaning in Christ and the Church; any future conversion of Jewish people is their entrance into the Church, not the restoration of Israel as a natio…
Read article →Responding to five common criticisms without defending what Scripture does not require
A measured response to objections about Darby, the Church, AD 70, modern Israel, and sacrifices in the millennial kingdom.
Read article →Christ the promised Seed, Gentile inheritance, and Paul's final blessing
Galatians 3 and 6 examined to distinguish the Church's full inheritance in Christ from the claim that it permanently replaces Israel.
Read article →Unity in Christ and distinction in God's purpose
…harply 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 once "aliens from th…
Read article →Circumcision of the heart and the identity of Paul's inward Jew
…ted ellipsis cannot bear the theological weight of renaming the Church and cancelling the covenants which Paul later says still belong to Israel. Romans 3:1 prevents an absolute redefinition Paul's next question is indispensable: "What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit…
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