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Clear searchIsrael'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 be…
Read article →Fulfilment in Christ, the inclusion of the Gentiles, and Israel's future mercy
Does the New Testament Reaffirm Israel's Promises? Fulfilment in Christ, the inclusion of the Gentiles, and Israel's future mercy The Old Testament repeatedly promises Israel preservation, regatherin…
Read article →Why the final seven is unfinished, future, and centred upon Israel and Jerusalem
Daniel's Seventieth Week and 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…
Read article →How an openly transmitted text survived copying, criticism, and centuries of examination
…trust a hidden reconstruction. The text did not travel through one vulnerable channel The New Testament writings circulated among churches in different places. Copies produced further copies; early translations carried the text into Latin, Syriac, Coptic, and other languages; Chr…
Read article →Seeing God, bodily resurrection, and life in the renewed creation
…tific Vision the Whole Christian Hope? Seeing God, bodily resurrection, and life in the renewed creation The beatific vision is the Christian teaching that the redeemed will see God and find their perfect happiness in Him. It draws upon magnificent promises: “Blessed are the pure…
Read article →Unity in Christ and distinction in God's purpose
…rael and the Church Really the Same? Unity in Christ and distinction in God's purpose The New Testament teaches a unity so profound that it would have startled the ancient world. In Christ, Jewish and Gentile believers are reconciled to God in one body. Both possess the same Spir…
Read article →Conditional blessing, irrevocable promise, and fulfilment in Christ
…er, were grounded in God's oath and carried forwards even through national judgement. The new covenant finally provides the cleansing and transformed heart which Israel could never produce under the law. The covenants are not competing plans. Together they reveal how a holy God j…
Read article →A sign of Israel's renewal, not Israel's disappearance
Why Did Jesus Choose Twelve Apostles? A sign of Israel's renewal, not Israel's disappearance Jesus did not choose twelve apostles because twelve happened to be a convenient number. He could have appointed seven, seventy, or any other number. Instead…
Read article →Regathering, national rebirth, and the spiritual renewal still to come
…he 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 across continents, denied sovereignty, and repeatedly perse…
Read article →What 'yea and Amen' in Christ means for Israel and the covenants
…all God's promises have transferred to the Church. Israel's land becomes a figure of the new creation, David's throne becomes Christ's present heavenly rule, and Israel's promised national restoration becomes the salvation of the multinational Church. The promises are not said t…
Read article →Why Israel's failure cannot make the word of God fail
…hen, whither ye went." —Ezekiel 36:22 The passage then promises regathering, cleansing, a new heart, and the indwelling Spirit (Ezekiel 36:24-28). Israel's condition explains why grace is necessary; God's holy name explains why the promise is certain. This also answers the sugges…
Read article →The olive tree, the natural branches, and the limits of the metaphor
…herefore not most naturally reduced either to the modern State of Israel or simply to the New Testament Church. It represents a covenantal continuity which existed before the Gentile mission and through which God's saving mercy now reaches the nations. The Church participates in…
Read article →Responding to five common criticisms without defending what Scripture does not require
…present body, believing Jews and Gentiles are reconciled to God and to one another in one new man (Ephesians 2:11–18). They possess equal standing in Christ. That unity does not require every covenantal promise to change its named recipient. Acts 15 gives a helpful order. God is…
Read article →Why apantēsis does not settle the timing of the rapture
…ld go out to meet an approaching dignitary and accompany him in a formal entry. Two other New Testament passages are frequently compared with 1 Thessalonians 4. In Matthew 25:6, the cry announces the bridegroom: "go ye out to meet him." In Acts 28:15, Roman believers travel to Ap…
Read article →Matthew, the Hebrew word almah, and a sign whose meaning reaches beyond Ahaz
…ry woman it describes. Yet neither is virgin an arbitrary Christian invention. In the Old Testament settings where the woman's circumstances are known, the term naturally carries the expectation of an unmarried young woman. Rebekah is called an almah in Genesis 24:43 after the na…
Read article →The gathering of the elect, one taken and one left, and Paul's revealed mystery
…the discourse is operating within Israel's prophetic programme rather than explaining the newly formed body of Christ in Pauline terms. Daniel's abomination is especially important. Jesus says that when it appears, "then shall be great tribulation" (Matthew 24:15, 21). Daniel 9 p…
Read article →Circumcision of the heart and the identity of Paul's inward Jew
…n Israelite category Paul did not invent inward circumcision to provide the Church with a new ethnic name. Moses had already commanded Israel: "Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiffnecked." —Deuteronomy 10:16 The same book promises a future divine…
Read article →The event is explicit; the real dispute is its timing
…n behind to be purified through the Tribulation. Its moral concern is understandable. The New Testament repeatedly commands believers to watch, remain sober, and avoid being ashamed before Christ. But those warnings do not divide Christ's body into raptured and abandoned members.…
Read article →A history of interpretation, polemic, and forgotten tension
…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 apostles had not required—that national Israel had permanently lost its covenant fut…
Read article →Signs, expectancy, and the event the Church is told to await
…ertain and constantly expected without anyone being authorised to calculate its date. The New Testament repeatedly directs believers towards Christ Himself: "Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ." —Titus 2:13 "For…
Read article →The question reaches beyond prophecy to the faithfulness of God
…7:7-8). The prophets added promises of 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 n…
Read article →What God's faithfulness to Israel means for everyone who trusts His promises
…braham, the faithful Israelite, David's greater Son, the true temple, and mediator of the new covenant. The Church is united to Him. Jewish and Gentile believers therefore become one people, inherit the promises, and anticipate not merely one land but the renewed creation. On thi…
Read article →Why the Trinity is not polytheism—and why Christians confess one God
…ord and my God” (John 20:28), and Jesus receives rather than corrects his confession. The New Testament also gives the Son works and honours belonging to God. All things were created by Him (John 1:3; Colossians 1:16). He forgives sins, receives worship, gives life, and will judg…
Read article →Two accounts of judgement, mercy, and the sinner's hope before God
…sus” (Romans 3:25–26). Second Corinthians 5:21 describes the great exchange: Christ, who knew no sin, was made sin for us so that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him. Christians do not claim that one person's unwilling punishment can be transferred arbitrarily to ano…
Read article →What Jesus promised the apostles about Israel's future
…h part should be allowed to retain its natural force. The promise belongs to the coming renewal Jesus places the apostolic thrones "in the regeneration". The word describes renewal or re-creation. Its only other New Testament occurrence refers to the believer's spiritual renewal…
Read article →The wicked husbandmen, the fruit-bearing nation, and what Jesus said afterwards
…that the Abrahamic covenant is revoked, David's throne has lost its national setting, the new covenant will never be made with the houses named by Jeremiah, or Israel will never be restored. Those propositions must be established elsewhere; they cannot simply be inserted into the…
Read article →Defining the position before testing it
…ulfilled apart from Him. He is the Seed of Abraham, the Son of David, the mediator of the new covenant, and the One in whom all God's promises are yea and amen (Galatians 3:16; Luke 1:32-33; Hebrews 9:15; 2 Corinthians 1:20). The Church also shares blessings once associated with…
Read article →A forensic reading of Christ's Olivet Discourse
…whom Christ gathers after the Tribulation? Many readers assume the answer is obvious. The New Testament applies the language of election to Christians, so the elect in Matthew 24 must be the Church. If they are gathered after the Tribulation, the passage appears to place the rapt…
Read article →The positive argument of the whole series, brought together
…th God's revealed character and ways. The Church is directed to expect Christ Himself The New Testament repeatedly directs believers towards the Saviour, not first towards Antichrist, a covenant, a rebuilt temple, the abomination, or a numbered sequence of judgements. Believers l…
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