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Clear searchMichael J. Vlach · Biblical theology · 2023
…s work from creation to restoration and shows why bodily resurrection, the renewal of the earth, Christ's reign, and life in God's presence belong together. This is a substantial theological study rather than a short introduction. Vlach writes from a premillennial, dispensational…
View recommendation →Earth-dwellers, heaven-dwellers, and the literary structure of the Apocalypse
Where Is the Church during Revelation's Judgements? Earth-dwellers, heaven-dwellers, and the literary structure of the Apocalypse The argument that the word church disappears after Revelation 3 is often stated as though silence alone proves a…
Read article →Creation, judgement, and the coming reign of Christ
The Earth's Great Sabbath Creation, judgement, and the coming reign of Christ The Christian hope for creation rests neither in human effort nor in escape from the material world. The creation gr…
Read article →Regathering, national rebirth, and the spiritual renewal still to come
…ountain for sin and uncleanness, and culminates in the LORD reigning as King over all the earth (Zechariah 12:10-13:1; 14:9). The components belong together: a preserved people; regathering from the nations; restored national existence in the land; judgement and purification; rec…
Read article →The glory philosophy could not contain
…e down into bodies, clothed Himself in flesh, and then, after the body’s dissolution, was restored to deity. (See Note 2.) At first glance, this can sound surprisingly Christian. Nearly every landmark is present. There is the Word. There is creation. There is descent. There is fl…
Read article →The near was real. The far is still coming.
…n intelligible historical correspondence. Nevertheless, the developing portrait exceeds a restored royal appearance. The dreaded foreign officials and unintelligible conquerors disappear from view in verses 18–19. In their place, the people look upon Zion: “Thine eyes shall see J…
Read article →Responding to five common criticisms without defending what Scripture does not require
…ed into dispensationalism existed before Darby: distinctions among biblical economies, an earthly millennial kingdom, Israel's future restoration, and forms of a translation of saints separated from final judgement. Earlier writers did not assemble those elements into Darby's com…
Read article →Why Israel's failure cannot make the word of God fail
…hariah 12:10-14). A fountain will be opened for sin and uncleanness (Zechariah 13:1). The restored nation will stand as evidence that salvation is of the Lord, not that human descent can save. When God overcomes Israel's unfaithfulness, Israel will not boast. The nations will rec…
Read article →Conditional blessing, irrevocable promise, and fulfilment in Christ
…mised to make of him a great nation, give him a great name, and bless all families of the earth through him (Genesis 12:1-3). As the revelation developed, three features became prominent: descendants, land, and worldwide blessing. Genesis 15 gives the covenant an extraordinary fo…
Read article →A history of interpretation, polemic, and forgotten tension
…it becomes the true Israel over against the Jewish nation. Justin also expected a future earthly kingdom centred in Jerusalem. That fact is important because it shows that millennial belief did not automatically preserve a future for national Israel. His eschatology was geograph…
Read article →The LORD, Zion, and the meaning of Beulah in Isaiah 62:4–5
…to turn “thy land” into a general reference to nature or humanity’s relationship with the earth. The passage concerns a particular people, their historic city, and their promised territory. At the same time, Isaiah does not separate the city from its inhabitants or the inhabitant…
Read article →A response to Hank Hanegraaff on resurrection, Daniel’s final week, and the Tribulation
…ins no sentence reading, “Christ will gather the Church seven years before He descends to earth in judgement.” The question is whether the absence of that one-sentence formulation proves the absence of a biblical case. It does not. Many doctrines arise from the relationship among…
Read article →The covenant son and the sacrifice that points to Christ
…anon, the echo is unmistakable. The promised son passes figuratively through death and is restored on the third day of the journey. Christ actually dies and rises on the third day. The type possesses a limit which magnifies the fulfilment. Abraham's hand is stopped. The Father's…
Read article →Two failures, two responses, and the difference between remorse and repentance
…n can take place. Jesus neither crushed Peter nor treated his denial as insignificant. He restored him and recommissioned him: “Feed my sheep.” —John 21:17 Peter’s failure had exposed the danger of self-confidence. His restoration taught him to depend upon the Lord’s grace. The m…
Read article →A response to Michael Horton on the land promise, Amos 9, and the people of God
…orfeiture. It is disobedience, discipline, repentance or divine renewal, regathering, and restored enjoyment. In some passages repentance precedes return. In others God acts to produce the necessary spiritual transformation. Deuteronomy 30:6 says that God will circumcise Israel's…
Read article →What God's faithfulness to Israel means for everyone who trusts His promises
…m a great nation, give a specified land to his descendants, and bless every family of the earth through his seed. What could he reasonably have understood? He did not journey towards a metaphor. He walked through an actual land which God identified as an inheritance. He waited fo…
Read article →Sources behind Qur’anic narratives
…d awaken after a sleep lasting centuries. A two-horned ruler travels to the limits of the earth and constructs a metal barrier against Gog and Magog. Mary receives dates and water beside a palm tree. These are not stories found in the Torah or the four Gospels. Yet recognisable f…
Read article →Christianity, Islam and the verdict of the evidence
…one can forgive. He heals the paralytic to demonstrate that “the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins” (Mark 2:10). He declares Himself Lord of the sabbath. He commands wind and sea. He walks upon the waters in a manner which recalls the LORD’s mastery of the deep. He r…
Read article →What Jesus promised the apostles about Israel's future
…restoration over which He presides. This agrees with 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…
Read article →Born, begotten and firstborn in the eternal identity and saving work of the Son
…l says the same: “For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible… all things were created by him, and for him: And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.” — Colossians 1:16–17 The Son does not merely precede s…
Read article →Four popular claims tested in context
…exercised civil authority and brought comprehensive laws. Jesus did not marry, govern an earthly state or lead an army. Secondly, "their brethren" is said to include the Ishmaelites, who were related to Israel through Abraham. The promised prophet may therefore arise from Israel…
Read article →The wicked husbandmen, the fruit-bearing nation, and what Jesus said afterwards
…ew covenant will never be made with the houses named by Jeremiah, or Israel will never be restored. Those propositions must be established elsewhere; they cannot simply be inserted into the word "taken". Who is the fruit-bearing nation? The Greek word translated nation is ethnos.…
Read article →A sign of Israel's renewal, not Israel's disappearance
…The dispute concerns what the symbol means. Did the Twelve announce that Israel was being restored under its Messiah? Or did they represent a new Israel which would permanently take the place of the old? The appointment itself establishes less than either side sometimes claims. R…
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