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Clear searchThe Messiah cut off before the Temple fell
The Daniel Dilemma The Messiah cut off before the Temple fell Islam calls Jesus the Messiah. It also denies that He was crucified. Centuries before Muhammad, however, the book of Daniel described an anointed figur…
Read article →Israel'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, Constantinople, Canterbury, Geneva,…
Read article →One Messiah, one gospel, and God's continuing purpose for Israel
The Unshaken Truth of God's Promises One Messiah, one gospel, and God's continuing purpose for Israel This series began with a question: has the Church permanently replaced Israel in the purpose of God? The answer cannot be reached…
Read article →Regathering, national rebirth, and the spiritual renewal still to come
…people, restore them to the land, cleanse them, pour out His Spirit, and bring them under Messiah? The biblical pattern is not merely return. It is national restoration completed by spiritual regeneration. Scattering and regathering belong to the same promise Moses warned Israel…
Read article →What Jesus promised the apostles about Israel's future
…h 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 renewal under the rightful King. Luke confirms that thi…
Read article →A sign of Israel's renewal, not Israel's disappearance
…s what the symbol means. Did the Twelve announce that Israel was being restored under its Messiah? Or did they represent a new Israel which would permanently take the place of the old? The appointment itself establishes less than either side sometimes claims. Read within Jesus' m…
Read article →Christ the promised Seed, Gentile inheritance, and Paul's final blessing
…ng to promise. Any interpretation which leaves Gentiles outside the covenant blessings of Messiah contradicts Paul's argument. But participation must not be made to prove more than Paul says. Abraham's seed, children of God, the Church, and Israel overlap within God's purpose, bu…
Read article →The olive tree, the natural branches, and the limits of the metaphor
…nbelief. 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 "God forbid" (Romans 9:6; 11:1). God has preserved a believin…
Read article →Unity in Christ and distinction in God's purpose
…peak so sharply 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 "alien…
Read article →Why the final seven is unfinished, future, and centred upon Israel and Jerusalem
…nd "thy holy city": Daniel's people, Israel, and Jerusalem. The blessings secured through Messiah reach far beyond Israel, but the programme cannot be detached from the people and city Gabriel names. How the seventy sevens are divided Gabriel does not present the period as one un…
Read article →The crucifixion in history, Scripture and the Qur'an
…inthians 1:23). Crucifixion was a Roman instrument of degradation and terror. A crucified Messiah was not an obvious apologetic advantage. The earliest Christians proclaimed it because they were convinced it had happened and that God had overturned its apparent defeat through the…
Read article →What 'yea and Amen' in Christ means for Israel and the covenants
…The argument contains substantial truth. Christ is Abraham's Seed, David's Son, Israel's Messiah, and mediator of the new covenant. The Church possesses a genuine inheritance in Him. Gentile believers are not spectators looking through the window at another people's blessings. B…
Read article →The gathering of the elect, one taken and one left, and Paul's revealed mystery
…leads us to expect. The prophets repeatedly promised that Israel would be regathered when Messiah establishes His kingdom. Isaiah speaks of a great trumpet and the return of scattered Israelites (Isaiah 27:12-13). Deuteronomy promises that God will gather His dispersed people "fr…
Read article →Fulfilment in Christ, the inclusion of the Gentiles, and Israel's future mercy
…t their inclusion does not require the promises to the fathers to be reassigned. The same Messiah accomplishes both purposes. This gives us a sound New Testament rule: Christological fulfilment confirms God's word, and Gentile inclusion extends its blessing. Neither principle, by…
Read article →Why Israel's failure cannot make the word of God fail
…est of theology. God chose the nation, gave it His law, sent it prophets, and brought the Messiah through its line. Israel repeatedly rebelled and, when Messiah came, the nation did not receive Him. What happens to divine promises when their recipients prove unfaithful? Scripture…
Read article →Conditional blessing, irrevocable promise, and fulfilment in Christ
…lment in 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 a…
Read article →A history of interpretation, polemic, and forgotten tension
…nor flattering. Some early Christian writers defended essential truths: Jesus is Israel's Messiah, the law cannot justify, Gentiles are full heirs in Christ, and the Old Testament finds its goal in Him. Yet those truths were sometimes joined to a further conclusion which the apos…
Read article →The covenant son and the sacrifice that points to Christ
…place him and the line no longer accounts for Israel's history, the Davidic covenant, the Messiah's genealogy or the apostolic interpretation of the promise. What Galatians says—and does not say Paul uses Sarah, Hagar, Isaac and Ishmael allegorically in Galatians 4:22–31. Isaac r…
Read article →The question reaches beyond prophecy to the faithfulness of God
…a Davidic King, national regathering, cleansing, a new heart, and peaceful dwelling under Messiah. Christ is not an alternative to those promises. He is Abraham's promised Seed and David's promised Son. Through Him the blessing reaches the nations. The dispute concerns what fulfi…
Read article →What God's faithfulness to Israel means for everyone who trusts His promises
…sed to the gospel. God's plan was always to bless the nations through Israel and Israel's Messiah—not to bless the nations by proving that Israel's identity was expendable. Expansion is not contradiction Biblical fulfilment frequently expands an earlier promise. Abraham looks bey…
Read article →The divine identity of Jesus across the Gospels
…rs Jesus in ways which Christians should acknowledge accurately. The Qur'an calls Him the Messiah, describes Him as a word from God, affirms His virgin birth and attributes extraordinary signs to Him by God's permission. It does not dismiss Him as an impostor or an insignificant…
Read article →Sources behind Qur’anic narratives
…the Qur’an often seems to begin in the middle. Its audience is expected to recognise “the Messiah”, “the Gospel”, “the disciples” and other inherited terms without receiving the history which originally gave them meaning. The Qur’an does not construct the historical world of Jesu…
Read article →Why a loaded label does not settle the question
…led by God. 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 no…
Read article →Christianity, Islam and the verdict of the evidence
…claim, alleged prophecies of Muhammad, the covenant line through Isaac, Daniel’s cut-off Messiah and the Qur’an’s relationship to the religious stories of late antiquity. The individual questions matter. But now we must ask what they mean together. A case is not decided by leavi…
Read article →The wicked husbandmen, the fruit-bearing nation, and what Jesus said afterwards
…tend that the verse contains no judgement upon Israel or no consequence for rejecting the Messiah. The disputed question is more precise. From whom is the kingdom taken? What aspect of the kingdom is removed? Who is the fruit-bearing nation? Does the sentence revoke God's covenan…
Read article →Election within Abraham's family, the believing remnant, and the future of the nation
…y are Paul's physical relatives, the nation which had received the covenants and produced Messiah according to the flesh. Yet many of them had rejected the gospel. That creates the controlling problem: if the promises pertain to Israel, has Israel's unbelief caused the word of Go…
Read article →Defining the position before testing it
…persessionism. Israel forfeited its position through persistent unbelief and rejection of Messiah, and the Church took its place. This form has often been expressed in the harshest language and has sometimes nourished contempt for Jewish people. A second form is economic superses…
Read article →A forensic reading of Christ's Olivet Discourse
…tament and the KJV's rendering of Israel's Scriptures, election language can refer to the Messiah, to Israel, and to a faithful remnant within Israel. Isaiah is particularly important: "For Jacob my servant's sake, and Israel mine elect, I have even called thee by thy name." —Isa…
Read article →The positive argument of the whole series, brought together
…ecreed upon "thy people and upon thy holy city" (Daniel 9:24). After the sixty-nine weeks Messiah is cut off and Jerusalem is later destroyed. The final week therefore remains distinct, with a covenant, a marked midpoint, sacrifice, abomination, and desolation (Daniel 9:26-27). J…
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