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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 →Regathering, national rebirth, and the spiritual renewal still to come
…e conquered, exiled, dispersed across continents, denied sovereignty, and repeatedly persecuted. Yet they did not disappear into the nations among which they lived. Their Scriptures, worship, identity, and hope of return endured. On 14 May 1948, Jewish sovereignty was re-establis…
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 →Isaiah, John, and the Divine Identity of Jesus Christ
…serious alternative therefore understands Isaiah to have foreseen the glory of the future Messiah, especially His suffering and exaltation. Its strength is its attention to the whole chapter and the Servant quotation. Its weakness, if made exclusive, is its difficulty explaining…
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
…d Jesus Christ" (Galatians 6:14). This was not an easy message to invent. Paul admits its offence: "But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness" (1 Corinthians 1:23). Crucifixion was a Roman instrument of degradation and terror.…
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 →Origen, Arius and the line between Creator and creation
…The familiar suggestion is that Jesus was originally a Jewish teacher, prophet or failed Messiah and that belief in His deity emerged only gradually as later Christians elevated Him. The same account may be encountered in schools and universities. A student can easily be left wi…
Read article →Does John 6 teach the literal eating of Christ's body?
…ertullian and Augustine reached the same conclusion from the text. Their testimony is not offered as an infallible authority alongside Scripture. It demonstrates that the interpretation “eating is believing” is not a modern Protestant invention devised to escape an otherwise obvi…
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 →A response to Hank Hanegraaff on resurrection, Daniel’s final week, and the Tribulation
…hariah joins Jerusalem’s distress to repentance, cleansing and recognition of the pierced Messiah (Zechariah 12:9–13:1). The Tribulation is therefore not a dispensational punishment invented to make Jewish people suffer for rejecting Jesus. It is the final collision between human…
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
…n two stories proves very little. Palm trees were common throughout the Near East. A persecuted believer likewise does not establish literary dependence. Persecution is not a rare narrative invention. The case becomes stronger when several unusual elements appear together. Respon…
Read article →Creation, judgement, and the coming reign of Christ
…imals. Israel may farm, harvest, build, eat meat, own livestock, use working animals, and offer sacrifices. Biblical care is not based upon animal autonomy or the belief that untouched nature is the highest good. Instead, the law places morally significant limits upon use. The we…
Read article →Christianity, Islam and the verdict of the evidence
…miracle 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…
Read article →Governmental restraint, the final ten kings, and the preparation of the temple
…t shall arise”. — Daniel 7:24 Another ruler arises after them and subdues three. His persecution is followed by divine judgement and the kingdom given to the saints. This final phase of the fourth kingdom remains future. God’s kingdom follows its overthrow; Christ returns to esta…
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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