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Clear searchConditional blessing, irrevocable promise, and fulfilment in Christ
Has God Abandoned Israel? What Do the Covenants Say? Conditional blessing, irrevocable promise, and fulfilment in Christ Israel broke God's law, rejected the prophets, and nationally refused its Messiah. Jerusalem was judged, th…
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 →What 'yea and Amen' in Christ means for Israel and the covenants
…s Promises Transfer to the Church? What "yea and Amen" in Christ means for Israel and the covenants Paul makes one of the most comprehensive statements about the promises of God: "For all the promises of God in him are yea, and in him Amen, unto the glory of God by us." —2 Corint…
Read article →Why Israel's failure cannot make the word of God fail
…er responds differently when people repent. Scripture contains conditional announcements, covenant blessings, covenant curses, intercession, and mercy. Faithfulness means that God acts consistently with His character and with the terms He has actually spoken. The question is ther…
Read article →Israel'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 →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 →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 →The question reaches beyond prophecy to the faithfulness of God
…believers are one in Christ while national Israel still has an appointed future under the covenants. This is not a contest over which group matters more. Jewish people have no separate path of salvation, and Gentile believers are not second-class members of God's household. Every…
Read article →The wicked husbandmen, the fruit-bearing nation, and what Jesus said afterwards
…f the kingdom is removed? Who is the fruit-bearing nation? Does the sentence revoke God's covenants with Israel, or does it pronounce judgement upon the unfaithful rulers and generation then entrusted with the vineyard? The immediate context identifies Jesus' targets. The parable…
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 →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 →Christ the promised Seed, Gentile inheritance, and Paul's final blessing
…es the letter by pronouncing peace and mercy upon those who walk according to the rule of new creation "and upon the Israel of God" (Galatians 6:15-16). Is that expression Paul's name for the whole Church? These are substantial questions because Galatians gives Gentile believers…
Read article →What God's faithfulness to Israel means for everyone who trusts His promises
…aithfulness to Israel means for everyone who trusts His promises This series has examined covenants, prophecies, apostles, thrones, tribes, branches, seeds, kingdoms, and the difficult words upon which the debate turns. We have tried to hear the strongest opposing arguments, conc…
Read article →Defining the position before testing it
…nise. Supersessionism is the view that the Church has permanently succeeded Israel as the covenant people of God, so that national Israel no longer possesses a distinct future in the fulfilment of the biblical covenants. The promises reach their final meaning in Christ and the Ch…
Read article →The olive tree, the natural branches, and the limits of the metaphor
…n either separation or replacement. Gentiles really do enter blessings rooted in Israel's covenant history. They do so by grace and faith, alongside the believing remnant of Israel. Yet Paul continues to distinguish wild branches from natural branches and describes Israel's event…
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 →A history of interpretation, polemic, and forgotten tension
…clusion which the apostles had not required—that national Israel had permanently lost its covenant future. Theological argument also hardened at times into collective accusation and degrading rhetoric against Jewish people. Other evidence complicates the story. Writers who spirit…
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 →One Messiah, one gospel, and God's continuing purpose for Israel
…identity and outstanding promises to disappear. After following the argument through the covenants, the prophets, the teaching of Jesus, Acts, Romans, Galatians, Hebrews, and the history of Christian interpretation, the cumulative answer is no. God has judged Israel severely. Th…
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 →Election within Abraham's family, the believing remnant, and the future of the nation
…the Israel within Israel, while unbelieving ethnic Israel no longer possesses a distinct covenant identity or future. Paul certainly denies that physical descent guarantees salvation. He distinguishes outward privilege from participation in God's saving purpose and traces that p…
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
…t 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). Jesus places Daniel's abomination before unparalleled Great Tribulation and His manifested coming (Matth…
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