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Clear searchWhy the final seven is unfinished, future, and centred upon Israel and Jerusalem
…tament 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 does not sta…
Read article →A response to Hank Hanegraaff on resurrection, Daniel’s final week, and the Tribulation
…holocaust. He then appeals to John 5, Daniel, Matthew 24, Romans 8 and the destruction of Jerusalem in AD 70 to reject the system. Some of his criticism is directed particularly towards the language of Tim LaHaye and popular Left Behind presentations. Not every claim made within…
Read article →Trusting God when voices seek to weaken our confidence
…not answer. Rabshakeh had come as the spokesman of the king of Assyria. Standing outside Jerusalem, he spoke loudly in the language of its people. His words were intended to reach those on the wall, to unsettle them, and to break their confidence in their king and their God. The…
Read article →Isaiah, John, and the Divine Identity of Jesus Christ
…leave Israel searching for a greater God behind the God who speaks. The One who comforts Jerusalem is the One who made the heavens. The One who pardons Israel is the One who governs the nations. He did not inherit His position from an older deity, and He will not surrender it to…
Read article →Unity in Christ and distinction in God's purpose
…es of Israel and later describes a multitude from all nations (Revelation 7:4-9). The New Jerusalem bears the names of Israel's tribes on its gates and the apostles' names on its foundations (Revelation 21:12-14). Unity reaches its consummation without flattening the history by w…
Read article →Responding to five common criticisms without defending what Scripture does not require
…h series. Criticism 3: “Daniel and Revelation were fulfilled in AD 70” The destruction of Jerusalem in AD 70 matters enormously. Jesus foretold the temple's fall, and that judgement stands as a historical vindication of His words. Dispensationalists should not minimise it. The qu…
Read article →The crucifixion in history, Scripture and the Qur'an
…d could miraculously rescue a prophet. The question is what the evidence says happened in Jerusalem under Pontius Pilate. The Qur'anic claim comes centuries after the event. The Christian claim appears in first-century sources, in traditions which predate the documents preserving…
Read article →Eustathius of Antioch, the human soul of Christ and the pictures created by our words
…very human body has dimensions. During His earthly ministry Jesus could be in Nazareth or Jerusalem, in a boat or on a mountain. He travelled from one place to another. According to His humanity, He lived a local and measurable life. But the divine nature is not a material object…
Read article →What 'yea and Amen' in Christ means for Israel and the covenants
…God names Abraham's descendants, the house of Israel, the house of Judah, David's throne, Jerusalem, or the land. One cannot argue that these particulars cease to control the promise merely because Christ is its mediator. That conclusion would need to be stated or demonstrated fr…
Read article →Why apantēsis does not settle the timing of the rapture
…t Him in the air. Paul's stated conclusion is not, "and so shall we return immediately to Jerusalem." It is, "and so shall we ever be with the Lord." That final promise gives certainty about companionship, not an itinerary. First Thessalonians 4 does not tell us how long the gath…
Read article →The gathering of the elect, one taken and one left, and Paul's revealed mystery
…, and the similarities must not be denied. The Olivet Discourse is anchored in Daniel and Jerusalem Jesus' teaching begins with the temple. The disciples ask when its destruction will occur and seek the sign of His coming and the end of the age (Matthew 24:1-3). The discourse the…
Read article →Circumcision of the heart and the identity of Paul's inward Jew
…soul, that thou mayest live." —Deuteronomy 30:6 Jeremiah repeats the command to Judah and Jerusalem, calling them to circumcise their hearts and turn from wickedness (Jeremiah 4:4). He also condemns those who are circumcised in the flesh while remaining uncircumcised in heart (Je…
Read article →Fulfilment in Christ, the inclusion of the Gentiles, and Israel's future mercy
…s not suggest that Israel has vanished; it anticipates Israel put in order under Messiah. Jerusalem's rejection brought real judgement. Jesus declared that its house would be left desolate. Yet His lament did not end with the word never: "Ye shall not see me henceforth, till ye s…
Read article →The event is explicit; the real dispute is its timing
…nce: 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 Christ's r…
Read article →Why Israel's failure cannot make the word of God fail
…while comparing their endurance to the created order. Zechariah brings the inhabitants of Jerusalem to mourning and cleansing. Paul distinguishes Israel's present enmity from its continuing election "for the fathers' sakes". The identity remains stable across sin, judgement, and…
Read article →Conditional blessing, irrevocable promise, and fulfilment in Christ
…Christ Israel broke God's law, rejected the prophets, and nationally refused its Messiah. Jerusalem was judged, the temple was destroyed, and the Jewish people were scattered among the nations. Does covenant unfaithfulness permit us to conclude that God has permanently abandoned…
Read article →A history of interpretation, polemic, and forgotten tension
…ingly Gentile, separated socially from Jewish communities, 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 ea…
Read article →The LORD, Zion, and the meaning of Beulah in Isaiah 62:4–5
…d her. Zion and Her Land Isaiah 62 opens with an explicit concern for historical Zion and Jerusalem: “For Zion’s sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not rest, until the righteousness thereof go forth as brightness, and the salvation thereof as a lamp th…
Read article →The covenant son and the sacrifice that points to Christ
…enesis 22:2). Later Scripture says: "Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD at Jerusalem in mount Moriah" (2 Chronicles 3:1). The place associated with the offering of the covenant son and God's provision of a substitute becomes the location of Israel's temple and sacr…
Read article →The question reaches beyond prophecy to the faithfulness of God
…of Messiah. The New Testament does not soften it. Many of Israel's leaders opposed Jesus; Jerusalem came under judgement; and the gospel went with astonishing fruit to the Gentiles. Yet Paul would not allow Israel's unbelief to become proof that God had discarded Israel: "I say t…
Read article →A response to Michael Horton on the land promise, Amos 9, and the people of God
…The surrounding verses say that peoples and strong nations will come to seek the Lord in Jerusalem. The prophecy retains recognisable categories: Jews remain Jews, the nations remain nations, and the nations receive blessing through the people with whom God has identified Himsel…
Read article →What God's faithfulness to Israel means for everyone who trusts His promises
…ngdom can include the land promised to Abraham. A renewed creation can contain a restored Jerusalem. A multinational people can share Israel's Messiah without becoming a replacement Israel. Christ can reign universally while fulfilling the particular covenant made with David. The…
Read article →Sources behind Qur’anic narratives
…Jesus moves through Nazareth, Capernaum, Bethsaida, Galilee, Samaria, Judæa, Bethany and Jerusalem. He crosses the Jordan, sails upon the Sea of Galilee, enters the Temple, approaches the city from the Mount of Olives and is crucified outside Jerusalem. John arranges much of Jes…
Read article →Why a loaded label does not settle the question
…ch as the body introduced in the opening chapters is not named on earth. Israel's tribes, Jerusalem, the temple, the nations, the beast and the earth-dwellers move to the foreground. Silence alone cannot prove absence. Yet the change belongs within the cumulative evidence. Heaven…
Read article →An unrequited love for the historic Church
…with Trypho, he confessed a bodily resurrection followed by a thousand years in a rebuilt Jerusalem, while candidly acknowledging that some genuine Christians thought otherwise. His honesty prevents us from manufacturing a unanimous early consensus, but his own conviction could h…
Read article →The Messiah cut off before the Temple fell
…aniel described an anointed figure who would be “cut off”, followed by the destruction of Jerusalem and its sanctuary. That creates a serious question. If Jesus is the Messiah, and if Daniel’s prophecy speaks of the Messiah being cut off before the Second Temple was destroyed, ho…
Read article →Which Gospel does the Qur'an affirm?
…he had received and then delivered. The tradition names Cephas and James, leaders of the Jerusalem church. Its substance therefore existed before Paul wrote the letter and was connected with people who knew Jesus. Paul records that he spent fifteen days with Peter and also saw "…
Read article →The near was real. The far is still coming.
…ah belongs to the discussion. So do Sennacherib, Assyria, Judah’s devastated countryside, Jerusalem’s deliverance and Edom’s hostility. Removing those historical realities would impoverish the passage. But stopping with them would leave much of its language unexplained. The chapt…
Read article →Israel's Messiah, Israel's Scriptures, and a gospel for the world
…ic centres became Rome, Constantinople, Canterbury, Geneva, and countless cities far from Jerusalem. Its Scriptures have been used to justify contempt for Jews, and its Jewish Messiah has often been presented with little connection to the people, covenants, and hopes into which H…
Read article →Regathering, national rebirth, and the spiritual renewal still to come
…urred in history. The northern kingdom fell to Assyria, Judah went into Babylonian exile, Jerusalem was destroyed by Rome, and Jewish communities became established across the world. The warnings did not end with scattering. Moses also looked beyond it: "Then the LORD thy God wil…
Read article →Christianity, Islam and the verdict of the evidence
…. He is the Messiah. He was cut off while the Second Temple stood. Roman forces destroyed Jerusalem and the sanctuary afterwards. His death provides the reconciliation and righteousness announced at the beginning of the prophecy. The Qur’an retains the title “Messiah” while denyi…
Read article →One Messiah, one gospel, and God's continuing purpose for Israel
…Israel's Messiah. Israel also experienced genuine covenant judgement. The destruction of Jerusalem and its temple was not an insignificant historical accident. The nation rejected its Messiah, blind leaders lost their stewardship, and unbelieving branches were broken off. No res…
Read article →What Jesus promised the apostles about Israel's future
…the knowledge of the Lord filling the world (Isaiah 11:1-10). Israel would be regathered, Jerusalem restored, and the nations brought under Messiah's government. Jesus gathers those expectations into one word: regeneration. The kingdom is not a retreat from creation but its renew…
Read article →Four popular claims tested in context
…o belongs to the narrative. After His resurrection, Jesus tells the apostles to remain in Jerusalem until they receive "the promise of the Father" and power from the Holy Ghost (Luke 24:49; Acts 1:4–8). At Pentecost, the Spirit comes upon them and Peter explains the event as the…
Read article →The wicked husbandmen, the fruit-bearing nation, and what Jesus said afterwards
…ent in Israel's history. The consequences nevertheless reach beyond those individual men. Jerusalem followed its leaders in rejecting Messiah, and the generation would experience catastrophic national judgement. Jesus wept over the city, declared its house desolate, and foretold…
Read article →Governmental restraint, the final ten kings, and the preparation of the temple
…r prophetic significance. Daniel receives them as a Jewish exile. His people, their land, Jerusalem, and the sanctuary repeatedly come into view. Daniel 9 expressly concerns “thy people and upon thy holy city”. This gives the succession its prophetic focus amid the wider history…
Read article →Earth-dwellers, heaven-dwellers, and the literary structure of the Apocalypse
…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 contrasts earth-dwellers…
Read article →A forensic reading of Christ's Olivet Discourse
…se are not generic instructions to Christians everywhere. They concern people caught in a Jerusalem-centred emergency. Geography alone cannot identify the elect. It supplies the first marker: the discourse is rooted in the land and institutions of Israel. Clue two: "elect" alread…
Read article →A sign of Israel's renewal, not Israel's disappearance
…men who followed Him, the believers gathered before Pentecost, and the thousands added in Jerusalem were Jewish. Gentiles were subsequently brought into fellowship with Israel's Messiah and believing remnant. This history prevents two opposite errors. The Church must not be detac…
Read article →The positive argument of the whole series, brought together
…letes 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 later appears…
Read article →Labour, purpose, and faithfulness in a fallen world
…hands in a restored world (Isaiah 65:21–23). Revelation says of God's servants in the New Jerusalem: "And his servants shall serve him." —Revelation 22:3 Scripture does not tell us enough to draw a detailed job description for eternity. It tells us enough to reject the idea that…
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