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Clear searchRegathering, national rebirth, and the spiritual renewal still to come
The Restoration of the Nation of Israel Regathering, national rebirth, and the spiritual renewal still to come Israel's history contains both judgement and preservation. The Jewish people were conquered, exiled, dispersed a…
Read article →The olive tree, the natural branches, and the limits of the metaphor
Are Gentile Believers Grafted into Israel? The olive tree, the natural branches, and the limits of the metaphor Romans 11 pictures Gentile believers as branches taken from a wild olive tree and grafted into a cultivated olive…
Read article →The question reaches beyond prophecy to the faithfulness of God
Israel and the Church: Why This Series Matters The question reaches beyond prophecy to the faithfulness of God Has the Church replaced Israel in the purpose of God? Some Christians answer ye…
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 Matthew 21:43: "Therefore…
Read article →What Jesus promised the apostles about Israel's future
Twelve Thrones and Twelve Tribes What Jesus promised the apostles about Israel's future Peter once asked the question which many faithful disciples have quietly wondered: what will those who sacrifice for Christ receive? Jesus answered with a promise larger than…
Read article →A response to Michael Horton on the land promise, Amos 9, and the people of God
No Holy Land? Covenant Discipline, Gentile Blessing, and Israel's Future A response to Michael Horton on the land promise, Amos 9, and the people of God Michael Horton's essay, “No Holy Land: Does Israel Still Have a Biblical Claim on the Middle E…
Read article →A history of interpretation, polemic, and forgotten tension
…h communities, interpreted the destruction of Jerusalem as lasting displacement, and read Israel's Scriptures principally through their fulfilment in Christ and the Church. The resulting history is neither simple nor flattering. Some early Christian writers defended essential tru…
Read article →El, the Exodus, and the God Who Came from Sinai
Did Israel Invent Yahweh? El, the Exodus, and the God Who Came from Sinai Yesterday I found myself discussing claims about the origins of Israel’s God with my son. He seemed to regard the essent…
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 Thessalonia…
Read article →Responding to five common criticisms without defending what Scripture does not require
…into God's failed contingency plan, ignores the fulfilment of prophecy in AD 70, baptises modern politics, and restores animal sacrifices in competition with the cross. Some dispensationalists have spoken carelessly on these subjects, and not every objection is imaginary. But a s…
Read article →Why the final seven is unfinished, future, and centred upon Israel and Jerusalem
…the New Testament Tribulation Why the final seven is unfinished, future, and centred upon Israel and Jerusalem The seven-year Tribulation is sometimes dismissed as an interval invented to make a prophetic chart work. That criticism begins at the wrong end of the Bible. The case d…
Read article →Isaiah, John, and the Divine Identity of Jesus Christ
…estament writers saying when they place Jesus within that identity? Isaiah does not leave Israel searching for a greater God behind the God who speaks. The One who comforts Jerusalem is the One who made the heavens. The One who pardons Israel is the One who governs the nations. H…
Read article →History, heresy, and the temptation of private Christianity
…, in Against the Protestant Gnostics, argues that a Gnostic impulse has reappeared within modern Protestantism, particularly in North America. Ancient Gnostics, on his account, sought salvation in private illumination rather than the public life of a believing community. Modern P…
Read article →A response to Hank Hanegraaff on resurrection, Daniel’s final week, and the Tribulation
…s. Pretribulationism does not require Christians to help build a third temple. Nor should Israel’s final trouble be presented as divine retaliation against Jewish people for the crucifixion of Christ. Daniel presents the final week as a period in which God completes His declared…
Read article →An unrequited love for the historic Church
…an history that imagines the apostles followed immediately by a collection of independent modern Bible churches is indefensible. But the same ante-Nicene period also preserves an emphatically futurist and, in several major witnesses, premillennial hope. The final chapter of the D…
Read article →Creation, judgement, and the coming reign of Christ
…destroy them which destroy the earth" (Revelation 11:18). Neither passage is reducible to modern environmental categories. Both concern the much larger corruption produced by human rebellion. Yet neither permits us to separate man's wickedness from the ruin inflicted upon the wor…
Read article →Which Gospel does the Qur'an affirm?
…of God of none effect through your tradition" (Mark 7:13). He did not thereby teach that Israel no longer possessed the Scriptures. Later Muslim thought developed more comprehensive theories of textual corruption, with the eleventh-century polemicist Ibn Hazm becoming an especia…
Read article →The near was real. The far is still coming.
…r the wrong people. The KJV’s “liberal” in verse 5 concerns nobility or generosity, not a modern political position. The point is that a morally foolish person will no longer receive the reputation of a noble one. The exploiter will no longer pass as a benefactor. Isaiah exposes…
Read article →Born, begotten and firstborn in the eternal identity and saving work of the Son
…ship at that point. The sermon has already identified Him as the promised Saviour sent to Israel (Acts 13:23–24), and the wider New Testament calls Him the Son before His incarnation, death and resurrection (John 3:16–17; Galatians 4:4). The force is public appointment and vindic…
Read article →Michael Brown, 2 Thessalonians 1, and the public vindication of the saints
…y of Scripture. John Nelson Darby did not inherit a mature pretribulation system from the modern books which later popularised it. Whatever judgement is made about his conclusions, he articulated the distinction while working through the biblical relationship between the Church,…
Read article →How Christians can think politically without surrendering conscience to a package deal
…as" (1 Corinthians 1:12). The passage concerns factionalism within the Church rather than modern elections, but the spiritual instinct is recognisable. Human attachment becomes a badge of identity, and belonging begins to replace judgement. The Christian belongs to Christ. That p…
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