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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, Constantinopl…
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, sevent…
Read article →The question reaches beyond prophecy to the faithfulness of God
…r true meaning in Christ and now belong to the multinational Church. Others maintain that Jewish and Gentile 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 hav…
Read article →A history of interpretation, polemic, and forgotten tension
…eologian. It developed as the Church became increasingly 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 resultin…
Read article →Unity in Christ and distinction in God's purpose
…ent teaches a unity so profound that it would have startled the ancient world. In Christ, Jewish and Gentile believers are reconciled to God in one body. Both possess the same Spirit, approach the same Father, and inherit salvation on the same basis. It also continues to speak of…
Read article →What 'yea and Amen' in Christ means for Israel and the covenants
…e an enduring royal house, that Mary would conceive and bear the Son, and that the twelve apostles would sit upon thrones judging Israel's twelve tribes. Every promise depends finally upon Christ and glorifies God through Him. Yet union with Christ does not make every Christian S…
Read article →Fulfilment in Christ, the inclusion of the Gentiles, and Israel's future mercy
…bes of Israel" (Matthew 19:28). The symbolism joins the Messiah's future rule, the twelve apostles, and the twelve tribes. As examined earlier in this series, the choice of twelve does not suggest that Israel has vanished; it anticipates Israel put in order under Messiah. Jerusal…
Read article →What God's faithfulness to Israel means for everyone who trusts His promises
…eans 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, concede what they genuinely…
Read article →One Messiah, one gospel, and God's continuing purpose for Israel
…t to stand together. There is one God, one Messiah, one gospel, and one way of salvation. Jewish ancestry does not justify anyone before God. Gentile ancestry excludes no one who comes to Christ by faith. Every sinner must be reconciled through the blood of Jesus, and every belie…
Read article →The wicked husbandmen, the fruit-bearing nation, and what Jesus said afterwards
…rd placed under faithful care. The judgement is not therefore an abstract denunciation of Jewish ethnicity. Nor is it a declaration that God's promises had always belonged spiritually to a different people. It is a polemic against identifiable rulers at a decisive moment in Israe…
Read article →Defining the position before testing it
…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 nation with a distinctive covenant role. That definition identifies the central claim without pretending t…
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