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Clear searchThe near was real. The far is still coming.
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 →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 →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 →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 →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 →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 →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 →A forensic reading of Christ's Olivet Discourse
…Judea and flight to the mountains; the Sabbath; Daniel's abomination of desolation; false messianic claimants; the coming of the Son of man; a worldwide gathering as the public advent unfolds. An argument from silence is not decisive by itself. Here, however, the silence is speci…
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 →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 →Why the final seven is unfinished, future, and centred upon Israel and Jerusalem
…ucifixion. The calculation is ingenious and has rightly drawn attention to the remarkable messianic shape of Daniel's chronology. It should not be presented as though every premise were uncontested. Interpreters dispute which Persian decree begins the count, whether the relevant…
Read article →The gathering of the elect, one taken and one left, and Paul's revealed mystery
…ust flee to the mountains. Flight on the sabbath day creates a specific difficulty. False messianic claimants exploit Israel's expectation. 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…
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 →The divine identity of Jesus across the Gospels
…nts. He declares Himself its Lord. Again, a single statement can be assigned to delegated messianic authority. But the cumulative question is already forming. Why does this prophet arrive through a prophecy concerning the coming of the LORD, forgive sins under His own authority a…
Read article →Israel's Messiah, Israel's Scriptures, and a gospel for the world
…ity over the sabbath, forgave sins, identified Himself with Daniel's Son of man, accepted messianic titles, and placed allegiance to Himself at the centre of faithfulness to Israel's God. His Jewish setting makes those claims sharper, not smaller. His mission began with Israel Je…
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