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Responding to five common criticisms without defending what Scripture does not require
…dispensationalism 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 sc…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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