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32 results for “Righteous judgement”
Clear searchMichael Brown, 2 Thessalonians 1, and the public vindication of the saints
…injustice. God will reverse the present order: those who trouble His people will receive righteous recompense, while those who have suffered for His kingdom will be publicly vindicated. The rest in view belongs to that judicial reversal. It is not a technical description of the…
Read article →Two accounts of judgement, mercy, and the sinner's hope before God
The Scales and the Cross Two accounts of judgement, mercy, and the sinner's hope before God How will I stand before God? The question reaches deeper than religious labels. We know that our actions matter, that evil deserves judgeme…
Read article →Abraham, Lot, divine wrath, and a pattern that must be used carefully
Does God Remove the Righteous before He Judges? Abraham, Lot, divine wrath, and a pattern that must be used carefully When Abraham learns that judgement is approaching Sodom, he asks one of Scripture's great qu…
Read article →Divine judgement, the character of God, and the promise of escape
Is the Church Appointed to the Tribulation's Wrath? Divine judgement, the character of God, and the promise of escape The claim that the Church is not appointed to wrath is sometimes answered too quickly. Christians plainly suffer. Jesus promised tr…
Read article →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 al…
Read article →Why Israel's failure cannot make the word of God fail
…distinguishes the nation's responsibility from God's reliability. Israel's failure brings judgement; it cannot make the word of God fail. The future restoration of Israel is therefore more than one item on a prophetic timetable. It is a public demonstration that God remains true…
Read article →Conditional blessing, irrevocable promise, and fulfilment in Christ
…nd David, however, were grounded in God's oath and carried forwards even through national judgement. The new covenant finally provides the cleansing and transformed heart which Israel could never produce under the law. The covenants are not competing plans. Together they reveal h…
Read article →The wicked husbandmen, the fruit-bearing nation, and what Jesus said afterwards
…ulness determines the transfer. It would be evasive to pretend that the verse contains no judgement upon Israel or no consequence for rejecting the Messiah. The disputed question is more precise. From whom is the kingdom taken? What aspect of the kingdom is removed? Who is the fr…
Read article →How Christians can think politically without surrendering conscience to a package deal
…ians should therefore bring every party, leader, policy and political narrative under the judgement of God's Word. Scripture fixes moral ends—truth, justice, protection of innocent life, impartial judgement, sexual integrity, care for the poor, honest commerce, responsible stewar…
Read article →The olive tree, the natural branches, and the limits of the metaphor
…ith believing Jews. Participation is genuine: the Gentiles receive salvation, the Spirit, righteousness by faith, Abrahamic blessing, and membership in God's household. But a participant is not thereby the original owner or source of what is shared. Paul's grammar resists both ex…
Read article →Why the final seven is unfinished, future, and centred upon Israel and Jerusalem
…make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy." —Daniel 9:24 The expression translated "seventy weeks" is literally seventy sevens. The unit is not state…
Read article →Responding to five common criticisms without defending what Scripture does not require
…m, 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 complete scheme, and it would be anachronistic to label them modern dispensationalists. The balanced historical conclu…
Read article →What the historical evidence proves—and what it does not
…ven. Darby plainly did not invent that. Irenaeus and Victorinus likewise contain ideas of righteous deliverance in relation to final tribulation, but their chronology appears closer to removal from within or near the midst of the crisis than to a mature pretribulation position. T…
Read article →What 'yea and Amen' in Christ means for Israel and the covenants
…and content to be changed? There was no small print in God's covenants. Their conditions, judgements, recipients, and promised restorations were stated openly. Fulfilment in Christ cannot introduce an escape clause which God never placed in the text. Why does Paul say every promi…
Read article →Circumcision of the heart and the identity of Paul's inward Jew
…e without inward reality cannot please God. Circumcision cannot protect a lawbreaker from judgement, and the approval which matters comes from God rather than man. But the conclusion introduces words which Paul does not use. He does not mention Christians, the Church, or Gentile…
Read article →The man of sin, the last trumpet, the first resurrection, and the last day
…hers the dead and living in Christ. In Revelation, seven angels sound a series of earthly judgements. Revelation's seventh trumpet announces kingdom, wrath, judgement, and reward; it does not narrate the dead in Christ rising or living saints being caught up. Paul also wrote befo…
Read article →A history of interpretation, polemic, and forgotten tension
…e. For all practical purposes, it could appear that God had rendered His final historical judgement upon the nation and raised up the Gentile Church in its place. Those circumstances did not logically require supersessionism, but they made it appear historically persuasive. The e…
Read article →The LORD, Zion, and the meaning of Beulah in Isaiah 62:4–5
…again be inhabited and cultivated, and Zion will no longer appear abandoned under divine judgement. In the prophetic vision, Israel’s reconciliation to her God is inseparable from her restoration to the land He promised her. Zion and Her Land Isaiah 62 opens with an explicit con…
Read article →A response to Hank Hanegraaff on resurrection, Daniel’s final week, and the Tribulation
…tives culminate in the removal of transgression, reconciliation for iniquity, everlasting righteousness and the fulfilment of prophetic promise (Daniel 9:24). Jeremiah calls the crisis “the time of Jacob’s trouble” but immediately declares that Jacob “shall be saved out of it” (J…
Read article →Two failures, two responses, and the difference between remorse and repentance
…ble because it acknowledges failure, but it may still be centred upon self. It treats our judgement of ourselves as more decisive than God’s promise of grace. Judas’s story does not teach that suicide is an unpardonable sin, nor does it give us permission to make sweeping judgeme…
Read article →What God's faithfulness to Israel means for everyone who trusts His promises
…nd Jacob towards the land God had sworn to their fathers. Their disobedience brought real judgement, yet even the covenant curses anticipated scattering, repentance, regathering, and restored blessing. David did not receive a vague assurance that godly government would exist some…
Read article →Sources behind Qur’anic narratives
…rophesy against him” (Ezekiel 38:2). God defeats the invading armies through overwhelming judgement. Ezekiel supplies the apocalyptic enemies and their final destruction. It does not supply: a two-horned world ruler; journeys towards the rising and setting of the sun; two mountai…
Read article →Why a loaded label does not settle the question
…Revelation 19 strengthens the distinction. Before heaven opens and Christ rides forth in judgement, the marriage of the Lamb has taken place. His wife has made herself ready and is clothed in “fine linen, clean and white”, which John identifies with “the righteousness of saints”…
Read article →The Messiah cut off before the Temple fell
…make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy” (Daniel 9:24). The prophecy concerns Daniel’s people and Jerusalem, but its purposes reach beyond the reco…
Read article →How the Lord knows His own—and how their lives bear His name
…merely pardon; it teaches us to deny ungodliness and worldly desires and to live soberly, righteously and godly in this present world (Titus 2:11–14). This is why a settled claim to faith accompanied by a settled refusal of Christ's rule creates a biblical contradiction. Titus de…
Read article →Regathering, national rebirth, and the spiritual renewal still to come
…national rebirth, and the spiritual renewal still to come Israel's history contains both judgement and preservation. The Jewish people were conquered, exiled, dispersed across continents, denied sovereignty, and repeatedly persecuted. Yet they did not disappear into the nations…
Read article →Christianity, Islam and the verdict of the evidence
…t the level of vocabulary. Both speak of one God, creation, revelation, prophets, angels, judgement, mercy, prayer and Jesus the Messiah. But shared vocabulary can conceal incompatible meanings. Christianity says that Jesus is the eternal Son made flesh. Islam denies that God has…
Read article →One Messiah, one gospel, and God's continuing purpose for Israel
…inner must be reconciled through the blood of Jesus, and every believer receives the same righteousness and Spirit. Within the Church, Jewish and Gentile believers form one body. Neither possesses a superior access to God. The dividing wall has been broken down, and both approach…
Read article →What Jesus promised the apostles about Israel's future
…ch 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 brought under Messia…
Read article →What mercy, holiness and the cross reveal about God
…crucifixion become unintelligible. At Calvary, love does not redefine evil. It bears its judgement. The gospel summons sinners to repent and believe. Those reconciled to God are created unto good works and commanded to walk in holiness. Jesus does not promise intimate communion…
Read article →Four popular claims tested in context
…s the same promise while recounting Israel's history and identifies Jesus as the rejected Righteous One whose coming the prophets foretold (Acts 7:37, 52). A Muslim may reject the authority of Acts, but he cannot claim that the Bible foretells Muhammad while discarding the Bible'…
Read article →Election within Abraham's family, the believing remnant, and the future of the nation
…f over his physical kinsmen and closes in wonder at the depth of God's wisdom, knowledge, judgements, and ways. Romans 12:1 then turns from this theological argument to practical appeal: "I beseech you therefore, brethren." The question which drives Romans 9-11, however, arises f…
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