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Clear searchThe LORD, Zion, and the meaning of Beulah in Isaiah 62:4–5
Is Israel Married to the Land? The LORD, Zion, and the Meaning of Beulah in Isaiah 62:4–5 “Thou shalt no more be termed Forsaken; neither shall thy land any more be termed Desolate: but thou shalt be called Hephziba…
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 I…
Read article →Regathering, national rebirth, and the spiritual renewal still to come
…of return endured. On 14 May 1948, Jewish sovereignty was re-established in the ancestral land through the declaration of the State of Israel. That event does not by itself settle every prophetic question. The modern state is not yet the cleansed, believing, peaceful Israel descr…
Read article →Christ the promised Seed, Gentile inheritance, and Paul's final blessing
Are Abraham's Seed and the Israel of God the Church? Christ the promised Seed, Gentile inheritance, and Paul's final blessing Galatians contains two of the strongest arguments for identifying the Church as Israel. First, Paul says that the promises were…
Read article →What Jesus promised the apostles about Israel's future
Twelve Thrones and Twelve Tribes What Jesus promised the apostles about Israel's future Peter once asked the question which many faithful disciples have quietly wondered: what will those who sacrifice for Christ receive? Jesus answere…
Read article →Why Israel's failure cannot make the word of God fail
…nbelief. His holiness required judgement. Solomon praised God because not one word of the promised blessing had failed (1 Kings 8:56); later generations discovered that not one word of the threatened judgement was empty either. The same covenantal faithfulness which sent Israel i…
Read article →Unity in Christ and distinction in God's purpose
…dom under David, and continues through exile and return. Its identity includes genealogy, land, tribes, covenants, priesthood, kingship, and a calling among the nations. The Church is revealed in relation to a new work of the risen Christ. Jesus said, "I will build my church" (Ma…
Read article →Responding to five common criticisms without defending what Scripture does not require
…od is taking from the Gentiles a people for His name; James then relates this work to the promised rebuilding of David's fallen tabernacle and the blessing of the nations (Acts 15:13–18). Romans 11 warns Gentile believers not to boast over Israel's natural branches and describes…
Read article →What 'yea and Amen' in Christ means for Israel and the covenants
…s united to Christ; therefore 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…
Read article →Matthew, the Hebrew word almah, and a sign whose meaning reaches beyond Ahaz
…Immanuel." —Isaiah 7:14 Before the child knows enough to refuse evil and choose good, the lands of the two threatening kings will be forsaken (Isaiah 7:16). This creates an unavoidable near horizon. The prophecy spoke meaningfully into Ahaz's own crisis; a sign relevant only many…
Read article →Fulfilment in Christ, the inclusion of the Gentiles, and Israel's future mercy
…for his mercy." —Romans 15:8-9 Christ came "for the truth of God" to confirm what God had promised to the fathers. Paul does not say that Christ's coming changed those promises into something different from what God had pledged. Neither does he set confirmation of Israel's promis…
Read article →Conditional blessing, irrevocable promise, and fulfilment in Christ
…tions upon its recipients. The Mosaic covenant made Israel's enjoyment of blessing in the land conditional upon obedience. The promises to Abraham and David, however, were grounded in God's oath and carried forwards even through national judgement. The new covenant finally provid…
Read article →A history of interpretation, polemic, and forgotten tension
…Messiah were multiplying among the nations. Jewish communities had not vanished from the land, and rabbinic leadership continued to rebuild Jewish communal life. Even so, the national institutions which made a straightforward restoration seem imaginable were gone. For all practi…
Read article →Jesus and the fountain of living water
…ed naturally to that world of remembrance and promise: water from the rock, rain upon the land, cleansing, fruitfulness and the prophetic streams of God's coming kingdom. The later Jewish record describes water being drawn and poured at the altar during the feast. Whether every d…
Read article →Testing Islam's evidence for divine revelation
…sus really claim to be God? Was He actually crucified? Has the doctrine of the Trinity compromised monotheism? Those questions deserve answers, and the preceding articles have supplied them. But Christianity is not the only faith carrying a burden of proof. Islam does not merely…
Read article →The covenant son and the sacrifice that points to Christ
…ngs God gave Ishmael. Genesis expressly records that God heard Ishmael, protected him and promised to make him fruitful. Christians have no reason to erase what Scripture affirms. But blessing is not the same as covenant election. God named the covenant heir before he was born. H…
Read article →The question reaches beyond prophecy to the faithfulness of God
…to the Jewish people. The words of a promise matter God called Abram from his country and promised to make of him a great nation, bless him, make his name great, and bless all the families of the earth through him (Genesis 12:1-3). He later identified a land, a line of descent, a…
Read article →What God's faithfulness to Israel means for everyone who trusts His promises
…elievers therefore become one people, inherit the promises, and anticipate not merely one land but the renewed creation. On this reading, nothing has been cancelled. Everything has been enlarged and fulfilled. That argument rightly insists upon Christ's supremacy. Any interpretat…
Read article →Sources behind Qur’anic narratives
…leader of an end-time invasion against Israel: “Son of man, set thy face against Gog, the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him” (Ezekiel 38:2). God defeats the invading armies through overwhelming judgement. Ezekiel supplies the apocalypt…
Read article →One Messiah, one gospel, and God's continuing purpose for Israel
…he Church genuinely inherits in Christ. Gentile believers receive Abrahamic blessing, the promised Spirit, adoption, forgiveness, resurrection life, and hope in the renewed creation. We are not distant observers of Israel's story but participants in the salvation which came throu…
Read article →The wicked husbandmen, the fruit-bearing nation, and what Jesus said afterwards
…ced exile under Assyria and Babylon, lost king, temple, government, and possession of the land, yet the prophets did not conclude that God's covenants had ceased. They appealed to those covenants as the ground of eventual restoration (Leviticus 26:40-45; Jeremiah 31:35-37; Ezekie…
Read article →A forensic reading of Christ's Olivet Discourse
…ding evidence? What do the geography, institutions, prophetic references, vocabulary, and promised gathering tell us? This article treats the passage as a textual investigation. No single clue carries the whole case. The question is whether the clues converge. The minimum claim d…
Read article →A sign of Israel's renewal, not Israel's disappearance
…to the twelve tribes of Israel" (Exodus 24:4). Twelve men represented the tribes when the land was searched, and twelve stones were taken from Jordan as a memorial when Israel entered it (Numbers 13:1-16; Joshua 4:1-9). The tribes were not merely an administrative convenience. To…
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