A response to Michael Horton on the land promise, Amos 9, and the people of God
…on followed by permanent forfeiture. It is disobedience, discipline, repentance or divine renewal, regathering, and restored enjoyment. In some passages repentance precedes return. In others God acts to produce the necessary spiritual transformation. Deuteronomy 30:6 says that Go…
Read article →What Jesus promised the apostles about Israel's future
…ach part should be allowed to retain its natural force. The promise belongs to the coming renewal Jesus places the apostolic thrones "in the regeneration". The word describes renewal or re-creation. Its only other New Testament occurrence refers to the believer's spiritual renewa…
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 number. Inste…
Read article →Regathering, national rebirth, and the spiritual renewal still to come
The Restoration of the Nation of Israel Regathering, national rebirth, and the spiritual renewal still to come Israel's history contains both judgement and preservation. The Jewish people were conquered, exiled, dispersed across continents, denied sovereignty, and repeatedly per…
Read article →Conditional blessing, irrevocable promise, and fulfilment in Christ
…ontinuing national identity before Him (Jeremiah 31:33-37). Ezekiel joins the same inward renewal to regathering and cleansing. God brings Israel from the nations, sprinkles clean water upon them, gives them a new heart and Spirit, and causes them to walk in His statutes (Ezekiel…
Read article →Christ the promised Seed, Gentile inheritance, and Paul's final blessing
…ther Israel retains promises of nationhood, land, Davidic rule, regathering, and national renewal. Those subjects should not be smuggled into Paul's answer and then declared cancelled because he does not discuss them here. Christ is the promised Seed Paul writes: "Now to Abraham…
Read article →A response to Hank Hanegraaff on resurrection, Daniel’s final week, and the Tribulation
…w earth in Revelation 21. If creation’s complete liberation is identified with that final renewal, the thousand-year distinction is not imposed by pretribulationism. It arises from a premillennial reading of Revelation and would remain even under posttribulational premillennialis…
Read article →The near was real. The far is still coming.
…od’s action. The expression rûaḥ mimmārôm, “spirit … from on high,” locates the source of renewal in heaven. The verb rendered “be poured” presents the gift as abundant divine provision. Nothing in the vocabulary itself establishes a millennial chronology; its significance lies i…
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