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Clear searchThe peace Christ gives in a troubled world
Not as the World Giveth The peace Christ gives in a troubled world There are kinds of peace which last only while nothing disturbs them. We feel peaceful because the bills are paid, the medical result was reassuring, t…
Read article →Christ the promised Seed, Gentile inheritance, and Paul's final blessing
…promise previously associated with Israel? Second, Paul closes 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 sub…
Read article →Matthew, the Hebrew word almah, and a sign whose meaning reaches beyond Ahaz
…n: and the government shall be upon his shoulder... Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David." —Isaiah 9:6–7 Isaiah's prophecy moves from an eighth-century threat to the preservation of David's house and the final rule of David's…
Read article →Signs, expectancy, and the event the Church is told to await
…moment. Paul similarly says that the Day of the Lord comes as a thief upon those who say "Peace and safety" (1 Thessalonians 5:2-3). Different passages address different audiences and stages, so "thief" language should not automatically identify every event. The shared moral forc…
Read article →Jesus and the fountain of living water
…ar our sins, die and rise again. He reconciles us to God; He does not merely help us make peace with ourselves. Earlier in John's Gospel, Jesus told the woman of Samaria: "Whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give hi…
Read article →Seeing God, bodily resurrection, and life in the renewed creation
…niverse itself will be renewed. It calls the beatific vision the wellspring of happiness, peace, and mutual communion in that new creation. The sharper criticism concerns emphasis. Some presentations of heaven—Catholic, Protestant, and popular—allow the intermediate state or phil…
Read article →Divine judgement, the character of God, and the promise of escape
…he immediate context concerns the Day of the Lord arriving as a thief upon those who say "Peace and safety". Believers are children of light who should remain awake and sober. Paul does not merely promise that the Church will avoid eternal condemnation; that is true, but his argu…
Read article →Testing Islam's evidence for divine revelation
…community across centuries. Many Muslims testify that its recitation produces reverence, peace, conviction or fear of God. Those experiences should not be ridiculed. People are not machines, and the power of a text cannot be measured only by propositions abstracted from its wors…
Read article →The question reaches beyond prophecy to the faithfulness of God
…phets 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 nations. The dis…
Read article →The Messiah cut off before the Temple fell
…ve destruction. In Daniel 9:26, the anointed figure does not merely step down from office peacefully. He is cut off and left with nothing. Something hostile and terminal happens to him. The KJV continues, “but not for himself”. That wording has naturally been read in the light of…
Read article →Regathering, national rebirth, and the spiritual renewal still to come
…elf settle every prophetic question. The modern state is not yet the cleansed, believing, peaceful Israel described at the consummation of prophecy. It does force an important question: how should we read the many passages in which God promises to preserve Israel as a nation, gat…
Read article →What Jesus promised the apostles about Israel's future
…the prophets. Isaiah anticipated the earth renewed under righteous judgement, creation at peace, and the knowledge of the Lord filling the world (Isaiah 11:1-10). Israel would be regathered, Jerusalem restored, and the nations brought under Messiah's government. Jesus gathers tho…
Read article →Labour, purpose, and faithfulness in a fallen world
…not depend upon us. Work becomes an idol when we cannot stop, when success determines our peace, when family and worship are treated as obstacles to ambition, or when failure makes us feel that life has lost all value. The answer is not to despise labour. It is to put it back in…
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