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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 →Near-death experiences, neuroscience, and the authority of Christ
…ss, traumatic injury, anaesthesia or a perceived threat of death. Common features include peace, a sense of leaving the body, passage through darkness or a tunnel, brilliant light, encounters with beings or deceased relatives, a panoramic review of life, and a boundary beyond whi…
Read article →El, the Exodus, and the God Who Came from Sinai
…red that he will not die from his encounter, he calls his altar YHWH-shalom, “the LORD is peace” (Judges 6:24). These are not the remnants of provider, warrior and peace deities being absorbed into a growing composite god. The one God acts, His people recognise something true of…
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 →The LORD, Zion, and the meaning of Beulah in Isaiah 62:4–5
…n explicit concern for historical Zion and Jerusalem: “For Zion’s sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not rest, until the righteousness thereof go forth as brightness, and the salvation thereof as a lamp that burneth.” —Isaiah 62:1 Zion is personified a…
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 →A response to Hank Hanegraaff on resurrection, Daniel’s final week, and the Tribulation
…identity of the covenant-maker is disputed. The verse does not use the modern expression “peace treaty”, and no argument should depend upon placing that phrase in Daniel’s mouth. The central chronological facts remain: one final heptad is named, and its midpoint is marked by the…
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 →Why the distinction matters when we speak about Jesus
…ess and weariness. When His disciples woke Him, He rebuked the wind and said to the sea, “Peace, be still.” The wind ceased, and there was a great calm. The disciples responded, “What manner of man is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?” (Mark 4:39–41). We should not d…
Read article →Spiritual ecstasy, altered states, and discerning what is from God
…The terrible side of ecstasy Modern presentations of mystical experience often emphasise peace, healing, and expanded awareness. Ancient accounts remind us that ecstasy has not always been understood in such gentle terms. In Euripides’ Bacchae, Dionysian ecstasy is depicted as i…
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 →Creation, judgement, and the coming reign of Christ
…me instruments of divine judgement. Yet the created order has plainly ceased to serve man peacefully. Creatures placed beneath righteous human dominion become agents of terror against fallen humanity. Isaiah's vision of Messiah's reign supplies the answering scene: wolf and lamb…
Read article →How the Lord knows His own—and how their lives bear His name
…church troubled by words that eat like a disease Paul did not write these words during a peaceful theological discussion. Timothy was facing teachers whose words were doing serious harm. Hymenaeus and Philetus had departed from the truth by saying that the resurrection had alrea…
Read article →The near was real. The far is still coming.
…d the community’s moral recovery belong together. “And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever.” — Isaiah 32:17 Peace grows out of righteousness. It is the settled condition produced when life is ordered according…
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 →Constantine, Arius, the Trinity, the biblical canon—and the myths that refuse to die
…hy was the council called? Constantine's first attempt was not a theological decree but a peace mission. He sent Hosius of Cordoba to Alexandria with a letter urging Bishop Alexander and Arius to stop quarrelling. The emperor initially treated the disagreement as a needlessly div…
Read article →Governmental restraint, the final ten kings, and the preparation of the temple
…Daniel’s three subdued kings must be included. A picture in which every ruler cooperates peacefully throughout would fail to account for them. Daniel describes subjugation; Revelation describes agreement. These can belong to a larger process involving both resistance and coopera…
Read article →Trusting God when voices seek to weaken our confidence
…to break their confidence in their king and their God. Then we read: “But they held their peace, and answered him not a word: for the king’s commandment was, saying, Answer him not.” —Isaiah 36:21, KJV Their silence was obedience. They had heard the challenge, but they were not o…
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…
Read article →How Christians can think politically without surrendering conscience to a package deal
…2). Jeremiah records the opposite failure with the same result: public voices announcing "Peace, peace" when there was no peace, while the people refused to heed the trumpet (Jeremiah 6:13–17). Ezekiel compares soothing false prophecy to whitewashing an unsound wall. Fresh paint…
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