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Clear searchThe 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…
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…
Read article →Marvin W. Meyer · Historical sourcebook · 1987
I recommend The Ancient Mysteries because it gives an excellent view of the Gentile religious world in which Paul preached. Rather than leaving the mystery cults as vague names in a textbook, Meyer lets their surviving texts show what their adherents practised, soug…
View recommendation →Israel's Messiah, Israel's Scriptures, and a gospel for the world
…ssiah, first proclaimed by Jewish witnesses in Jerusalem and then carried to the nations. Gentiles do not enter by replacing that story. We are welcomed into blessings which came through it. Recovering this setting does more than add cultural colour. It changes how we understand…
Read article →Fulfilment in Christ, the inclusion of the Gentiles, and Israel's future mercy
…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, regathering, cleansing, the kingdom of David's Son, and a restored relationship with God. A str…
Read article →Why the final seven is unfinished, future, and centred upon Israel and Jerusalem
…before verse 27 describes the final seven. The issue is not whether an interpreter has permission to notice an interval. It is how the events explicitly placed after the sixty-nine relate to the remaining week. Daniel does not say that the seventieth week begins the next day. Els…
Read article →A history of interpretation, polemic, and forgotten tension
…pear in one moment through one theologian. It developed as the Church became increasingly Gentile, separated socially from Jewish communities, interpreted the destruction of Jerusalem as lasting displacement, and read Israel's Scriptures principally through their fulfilment in Ch…
Read article →Which Gospel does the Qur'an affirm?
…him. Muslims commonly and reasonably take this as rhetorical reassurance rather than an admission that Muhammad doubted his revelation. Even so, reassurance works only if the earlier readers are competent witnesses to something relevant. The cumulative pattern is clear: God gave…
Read article →What 'yea and Amen' in Christ means for Israel and the covenants
…iah, and mediator of the new covenant. The Church possesses a genuine inheritance in Him. Gentile believers are not spectators looking through the window at another people's blessings. But a vital step remains unproved. Does fulfilment through Christ mean reassignment to the Chur…
Read article →A response to Hank Hanegraaff on resurrection, Daniel’s final week, and the Tribulation
…oes not therefore require two gospels, two saviours or two methods of salvation. Jews and Gentiles are reconciled to God through the blood of Christ. The distinction concerns covenantal identity, historical vocation and prophetic promises—not whether one group is saved by Christ…
Read article →The covenant son and the sacrifice that points to Christ
…pe. We should not claim more about his inward knowledge than the text reveals, but his submission forms part of the scene. Christ's submission is explicit: "Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again. No man taketh it from me, but I l…
Read article →The question reaches beyond prophecy to the faithfulness of God
…ing in Christ and now belong to the multinational Church. Others maintain that Jewish and Gentile 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 separa…
Read article →One Messiah, one gospel, and God's continuing purpose for Israel
…ing whether Christ fulfils the promises. He does. Nor can it be settled by asking whether Gentile believers inherit in Him. We do. The decisive question is whether fulfilment in Christ and the formation of the Church require Israel's national identity and outstanding promises to…
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