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The King, Zion and the Coming Kingdom: Reading Isaiah 32–35 Across the Prophetic Horizon The near was real. The far is still coming. The historical horizon and the question of fulfilment “Was this fulfilled, or is it sti…
Read article →The wicked husbandmen, the fruit-bearing nation, and what Jesus said afterwards
Was the Kingdom Taken from Israel? The wicked husbandmen, the fruit-bearing nation, and what Jesus said afterwards Few statements of Jesus appear to support supersessionism more directly than Matthe…
Read article →What Jesus promised the apostles about Israel's future
…r Messiah's government. Jesus gathers those expectations into one word: regeneration. The kingdom is not a retreat from creation but its renewal under the rightful King. Luke confirms that this is kingdom government Luke records the promise in a different setting. At the Last Sup…
Read article →Responding to five common criticisms without defending what Scripture does not require
…nalism existed before Darby: distinctions among biblical economies, an earthly millennial kingdom, Israel's future restoration, and forms of a translation of saints separated from final judgement. Earlier writers did not assemble those elements into Darby's complete scheme, and i…
Read article →The question reaches beyond prophecy to the faithfulness of God
…e resurrection, the apostles asked Jesus: "Lord, wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel?" —Acts 1:6 The question is often dismissed as the last trace of the disciples' misunderstanding. Yet Luke records no rebuke of its subject. Jesus does not say that there w…
Read article →E. W. Bullinger · Verse-by-verse commentary · 1902
…velation Day of the Lord Biblical structure Old Testament connections Prophetic symbolism Kingdom Judgment
View recommendation →Creation, judgement, and the coming reign of Christ
…s. The Lord's Prayer directs their hope towards earth without making earth their god: Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven. (Matthew 6:10) The Christian hope is not that the earth will remain indefinitely outside God's order while redeemed souls escape…
Read article →Michael J. Vlach · Biblical theology · 2023
…weigh each part of the case from Scripture. Bodily resurrection New creation Restoration Kingdom of God Eternal life Creation
View recommendation →Regathering, national rebirth, and the spiritual renewal still to come
…ticus 26:14-39; Deuteronomy 28:15-68). Those judgements occurred 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 scatteri…
Read article →A forensic reading of Christ's Olivet Discourse
…which the elect must first be identified. Clue six: the proclamation concerns the coming kingdom Jesus says: "And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come." —Matthew 24:14 It is unnecessary to argue…
Read article →A sign of Israel's renewal, not Israel's disappearance
…administrative convenience. Together they represented the covenant nation. Even after the kingdom divided and the northern tribes were scattered, Scripture continued to preserve the hope of all Israel. The prophets anticipated Judah and Israel being gathered under one King: "And…
Read article →How Christians can think politically without surrendering conscience to a package deal
…bey God rather than men" (Acts 5:29). Scripture also tells us where history is going. The kingdoms represented in Daniel are succeeded by a kingdom which God will establish and which "shall never be destroyed" (Daniel 2:44). The Son of man receives an everlasting dominion over al…
Read article →Fulfilment in Christ, the inclusion of the Gentiles, and Israel's future mercy
…cy The Old Testament repeatedly promises Israel preservation, regathering, cleansing, the kingdom of David's Son, and a restored relationship with God. A strong supersessionist response does not simply deny those passages. It argues that the New Testament teaches us how they were…
Read article →Governmental restraint, the final ten kings, and the preparation of the temple
What Restrains the Lawless One? Rome, Israel, and a Working Theory While researching The Kingdom Still to Come, my premillennial sequel to my rapture book, I have been revisiting Paul’s account of the restrainer in 2 Thessalonians 2. Something holds back the revelation of the fi…
Read article →Hippolytus · Exposition, prophecy, and polemic · early third century
…a compelling early discussion of Daniel, the Antichrist, Christ's return, and the future kingdom. His Refutation of All Heresies also records and challenges many competing teachings. Together the writings offer a high view of Scripture, vigorous rebuttal, a clear premillennial w…
View recommendation →Isaiah, John, and the Divine Identity of Jesus Christ
…and invisible.” — Colossians 1:15–16 The subject is the Father’s beloved Son, into whose kingdom believers have been transferred and in whom they have redemption (1:13–14). Paul then explains His relation to creation before turning to the church, resurrection and reconciliation.…
Read article →Unity in Christ and distinction in God's purpose
…begins with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, develops through the exodus and Sinai, receives a kingdom under David, and continues through exile and return. Its identity includes genealogy, land, tribes, covenants, priesthood, kingship, and a calling among the nations. The Church is re…
Read article →Why the final seven is unfinished, future, and centred upon Israel and Jerusalem
…id not produce the bodily appearing of Jesus Christ, the resurrection of the dead, or the kingdom conditions required by the wider prophetic programme. AD 70 vindicated Christ's warning and anticipated the final crisis. It did not consume the entire prophetic horizon. The futuris…
Read article →What the historical evidence proves—and what it does not
…sed. Early Christians commonly expected resurrection, judgement, Antichrist, and Christ's kingdom, but they arranged details differently. A persecuted Church naturally read itself into Antichrist's persecution. Irenaeus and Victorinus can sound like forms of midtribulational deli…
Read article →What 'yea and Amen' in Christ means for Israel and the covenants
…ar Seed through whom Abrahamic blessing reaches the nations. He is the Son of David whose kingdom endures for ever. He is the mediator whose blood establishes the new covenant. Yet a representative does not normally fulfil a promise by eliminating its beneficiaries. David's thron…
Read article →Why apantēsis does not settle the timing of the rapture
…ing require resurrection, judgement, reward, marriage, warfare, national deliverance, and kingdom enthronement to occur in one instant. The distinction is not fundamentally between a secret coming and a visible one. First Thessalonians includes a shout, an archangelic voice, and…
Read article →Matthew, the Hebrew word almah, and a sign whose meaning reaches beyond Ahaz
…he days of Ahaz Isaiah 7 begins during the Syro-Ephraimite crisis. Syria and the northern kingdom of Israel threaten Judah and seek to replace King Ahaz. The Lord tells Ahaz not to fear and invites him to ask for a sign. Ahaz refuses with pious-sounding words, so Isaiah announces…
Read article →What Christ’s promise establishes—and what claims about infallible teaching still need to prove
…ate reading must also consider the next verse: “And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.” — Matthew 16:19 These are substantia…
Read article →The gathering of the elect, one taken and one left, and Paul's revealed mystery
…The Son of man appears in the Danielic cloud-coming scene. The elect are gathered as the kingdom approaches. These features do not make the passage irrelevant to the Church. All Scripture instructs the Church, and Christians living before the destruction of Jerusalem could heed…
Read article →The man of sin, the last trumpet, the first resurrection, and the last day
…seven angels sound a series of earthly judgements. Revelation's seventh trumpet announces kingdom, wrath, judgement, and reward; it does not narrate the dead in Christ rising or living saints being caught up. Paul also wrote before Revelation. Later revelation can illuminate earl…
Read article →Why Israel's failure cannot make the word of God fail
…t. 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 calling. The new covenant does not absorb or replace the national…
Read article →Conditional blessing, irrevocable promise, and fulfilment in Christ
…h the nation He had redeemed from Egypt. Israel was called to obey His voice and become a kingdom of priests and a holy nation (Exodus 19:3-8). The covenant set before them blessing for obedience and curses for rebellion. This covenant was plainly conditional in its administratio…
Read article →History, heresy, and the temptation of private Christianity
…ech moves directly from death to “going to heaven” and leaves resurrection, judgment, the kingdom, and the new creation in the background. The earth becomes a sinking ship whose only theological function is to be abandoned. Work, art, family, social responsibility, and care for t…
Read article →A history of interpretation, polemic, and forgotten tension
…mes the true Israel over against the Jewish nation. Justin also expected a future earthly kingdom centred in Jerusalem. That fact is important because it shows that millennial belief did not automatically preserve a future for national Israel. His eschatology was geographically J…
Read article →Jesus and the fountain of living water
…ck, rain upon the land, cleansing, fruitfulness and the prophetic streams of God's coming kingdom. The later Jewish record describes water being drawn and poured at the altar during the feast. Whether every detail of that later description was already fixed in precisely the same…
Read article →A response to Hank Hanegraaff on resurrection, Daniel’s final week, and the Tribulation
…Old Testament saints and Tribulation martyrs in connection with the establishment of the kingdom. The resurrection after the thousand years concerns “the rest of the dead” who face final judgement. It is not a delayed resurrection of a second company of believers. John 5 guarant…
Read article →A response to Michael Horton on the land promise, Amos 9, and the people of God
…transgress the covenant and consequently suffered the threatened discipline. The northern kingdom fell to Assyria; Judah was carried into Babylon; and later generations experienced further dispersion. But the threatened judgement is not the whole prophetic message. The same passa…
Read article →What God's faithfulness to Israel means for everyone who trusts His promises
…is 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 establish, and refuse conclusions which ext…
Read article →The divine identity of Jesus across the Gospels
…n, and came to the Ancient of days ... And there was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all people, nations, and languages, should serve him" (Daniel 7:13-14). This figure is distinct from the Ancient of days, yet He comes with the clouds of heaven, receives everl…
Read article →Why a loaded label does not settle the question
…. The Old Testament plainly foretold the resurrection, the Day of the Lord, the Messiah's kingdom, and His coming in glory. Paul's revealed mystery includes something more specific: a generation of believers will not die but will be instantaneously changed. That does not make the…
Read article →An unrequited love for the historic Church
…arly consensus, but his own conviction could hardly be clearer. Irenaeus made the earthly kingdom integral to his theology of redemption. The saints would receive the promised inheritance in the same creation in which they had suffered, now renewed by God. He connected the kingdo…
Read article →E. W. Bullinger · Sermons · 1892
…ents. Second Advent Return of Christ Prophecy Day of the Lord Christian hope Watchfulness Kingdom
View recommendation →The Venerable Bede · Ecclesiastical and national history · 731
…ons, failures, and acts of courage. His history shows how the gospel crossed cultures and kingdoms, how political and ecclesiastical interests became entangled, and how fragile the planting of churches could be. It is both a major historical source and a vivid encounter with the…
View recommendation →How the Lord knows His own—and how their lives bear His name
…he parable is the world, not simply a local church. The good seed are the children of the kingdom; the tares are the children of the wicked one. They remain together until the harvest, when the Son of man makes the final separation (Matthew 13:24–43). We should not force every de…
Read article →Not escape from the body, but its redemption
…inherit What, then, does Paul mean when he says that "flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God" (1 Corinthians 15:50)? He explains the statement in the next words: "neither doth corruption inherit incorruption." Flesh and blood describes humanity in its present mortal a…
Read article →Which Gospel does the Qur'an affirm?
…tian evidence contains no account of Jesus receiving a heavenly book. Jesus proclaims the kingdom, expounds Scripture, speaks with His own authority, fulfils the Law and prophets, and commissions witnesses. His words and deeds are then proclaimed and written. Islam appears to pla…
Read article →Israel's Messiah, Israel's Scriptures, and a gospel for the world
…en He first sent the Twelve, He told them to go to those lost sheep and announce that the kingdom of heaven was at hand (Matthew 10:5-7). That priority was covenantal, not racial favouritism. Israel had received the covenants, promises, temple service, and messianic hope. The Kin…
Read article →One Messiah, one gospel, and God's continuing purpose for Israel
…oath. The Davidic covenant anticipated chastisement while preserving the promised house, kingdom, and throne. The new covenant names Israel and Judah and supplies the changed hearts which faithful obedience requires. Jesus chose twelve Jewish apostles and promised that they woul…
Read article →Irenaeus of Lyons · Early Christian theology and polemic · c. 180–190
…of the Old and New Testaments. He is also an important early witness to a future earthly kingdom: his premillennial passages show that this expectation cannot simply be dismissed as a recent invention. Read Irenaeus as an early witness, not as an authority on every matter. His c…
View recommendation →Defining the position before testing it
…dants. He can fulfil the Davidic covenant in Jesus without making the promised throne and kingdom empty figures of speech. He can mediate the new covenant to the Church while still accomplishing what Jeremiah explicitly promised to "the house of Israel, and with the house of Juda…
Read article →Michael Brown, 2 Thessalonians 1, and the public vindication of the saints
…ouble His people will receive righteous recompense, while those who have suffered for His kingdom will be publicly vindicated. The rest in view belongs to that judicial reversal. It is not a technical description of the rapture, and it does not identify escape from persecution as…
Read article →Earth-dwellers, heaven-dwellers, and the literary structure of the Apocalypse
…ts matter An interval also gives room for events which Scripture places before manifested kingdom rule. Believers are assessed for reward (1 Corinthians 3:12-15; 2 Corinthians 5:10). The Bride is prepared before appearing with the Bridegroom. Israel's repentance develops through…
Read article →The positive argument of the whole series, brought together
…restorative programme concerning Daniel's people, Jerusalem, the nations, and the coming kingdom. The Church is promised deliverance from the appointed hour Paul says that believers wait for God's Son from heaven, who "delivered us from the wrath to come" (1 Thessalonians 1:10).…
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