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Clear searchEzekiel 20, child sacrifice, and the judgement of being given over
Did God Give Laws That Were Not Good? Ezekiel 20, child sacrifice, and the judgement of being given over “I gave them also statutes that were not good.” Those words in Ezekiel 20:25 can sound startling when read alone. The following verse makes t…
Read article →The covenant son and the sacrifice that points to Christ
Isaac, Not Ishmael The covenant son and the sacrifice that points to Christ Did God choose Isaac or Ishmael? This is not a tribal debate. It is a covenant question. The answer does not require hostility towards Arabs, contempt for Mus…
Read article →Responding to five common criticisms without defending what Scripture does not require
…gnores the fulfilment of prophecy in AD 70, baptises modern politics, and restores animal sacrifices in competition with the cross. Some dispensationalists have spoken carelessly on these subjects, and not every objection is imaginary. But a system should be judged by its stronge…
Read article →Marvin W. Meyer · Historical sourcebook · 1987
…ld. Mystery religions Greco-Roman world Paul's Gentile mission Ancient worship Initiation Sacrifice Life after death
View recommendation →How the Law reaches its goal and appointed end in Christ
…repetition either. When a promise is fulfilled, the promised reality has arrived. When a sacrifice finds its substance, the shadow cannot remain the governing form. When the One to whom the Scriptures point has come, faithfulness to those Scriptures requires receiving Him. This…
Read article →Why the final seven is unfinished, future, and centred upon Israel and Jerusalem
…then described, with a covenant involving many, a crisis in its middle, the cessation of sacrifice, an abomination, desolation, and a decreed end (Daniel 9:27). The basic sequence is therefore: Seven sevens are associated with the restoration of Jerusalem. A further sixty-two se…
Read article →Why the Son assumed a complete human nature, not merely a body
…f the Son as He comes into the world: “Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me.” — Hebrews 10:5 Read alone, the sentence could sound as though a body was constructed and the Son stepped inside i…
Read article →The crucifixion in history, Scripture and the Qur'an
…n an episode from Jesus' biography. It removes the ransom, the blood of the covenant, the sacrifice for sins and the event through which divine justice and mercy meet. It replaces the apostolic proclamation with rescue from the cross. But the historical evidence will not permit t…
Read article →Fulfilment in Christ, the inclusion of the Gentiles, and Israel's future mercy
…raham believed God. David knew the blessedness of forgiven sin. Israel was taught through sacrifices which anticipated Christ. Every person who is saved is saved by grace through faith on the ground of Christ's finished work. The Church is not God's emergency response to an unexp…
Read article →Conditional blessing, irrevocable promise, and fulfilment in Christ
…nged Israel's relationship to the Sinai covenant decisively. Jesus fulfilled the law; His sacrifice accomplished what the repeated offerings could never complete; and the new covenant rendered the former covenant old. Hebrews states: "In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath mad…
Read article →Does John 6 teach the literal eating of Christ's body?
…y given and blood shed. It visibly declares our participation in the benefits of Christ’s sacrifice. But resonance is not identity, and association is not proof. John 6 contains: no cup of wine; no consecration of elements as Christ’s body and blood; no command, “This do in remem…
Read article →A response to Hank Hanegraaff on resurrection, Daniel’s final week, and the Tribulation
…firm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate.” —Daniel 9:27 The seventy heptads are determined upon Daniel’s people and holy city.…
Read article →Testing Islam's evidence for divine revelation
…tory. What about the Qur'an's power to transform lives? The Qur'an has inspired devotion, sacrifice, moral reform, memorisation and community across centuries. Many Muslims testify that its recitation produces reverence, peace, conviction or fear of God. Those experiences should…
Read article →Two failures, two responses, and the difference between remorse and repentance
…against God.” “I have no excuse.” “I cannot cleanse myself.” “Christ is merciful and His sacrifice is sufficient.” “I will turn from this sin and trust His promise.” “By His grace, I will walk in obedience.” Godly sorrow is painful, but it is not hopeless. It looks beyond the wo…
Read article →A response to Michael Horton on the land promise, Amos 9, and the people of God
…nant is the Mosaic covenant. Hebrews demonstrates the finality of Christ's priesthood and sacrifice. The Levitical system cannot be revived as a competing or supplementary means of atonement. But Hebrews 8 does not say that the Abrahamic covenant has become obsolete. It does not…
Read article →The peace Christ gives in a troubled world
…For comparison with Scripture's use of sustained contrast, see Hebrews 10:1–25: repeated sacrifices and Christ's once-for-all offering, remembrance of sins and sins remembered no more, and the burdened conscience and the believer's liberty to draw near.
Read article →The Messiah cut off before the Temple fell
…errible violence upon Jerusalem. Pagan worship profaned the sanctuary and interrupted its sacrifices. Other chapters of Daniel plainly devote considerable attention to Antiochus. Onias is not a desperate invention produced merely to avoid Jesus. He is a historically recognisable…
Read article →Creation, judgement, and the coming reign of Christ
…Israel may farm, harvest, build, eat meat, own livestock, use working animals, and offer sacrifices. Biblical care is not based upon animal autonomy or the belief that untouched nature is the highest good. Instead, the law places morally significant limits upon use. The weekly S…
Read article →Which Gospel does the Qur'an affirm?
…rist dying for sins. He conquers death by entering it, bearing sin and rising victorious. Sacrifice and victory interpret the same event. The supposed original Gospel - a merely human Jesus preaching Islam before Paul transformed Him - is absent from the earliest evidence. Did th…
Read article →Israel's Messiah, Israel's Scriptures, and a gospel for the world
…yond dispute. The Gospel cannot be explained without creation, Abraham, exodus, Passover, sacrifice, priesthood, Davidic kingship, exile, restoration, and new covenant. Jesus is called Lamb, Messiah, Son of David, Son of man, and Lord because those identities arise from Israel's…
Read article →Regathering, national rebirth, and the spiritual renewal still to come
…ofaned—not a reward for national merit. Hosea foretells "many days" without king, prince, sacrifice, image, ephod, or teraphim. Afterwards Israel returns and seeks the LORD and "David their king" (Hosea 3:4-5). The long absence does not become permanent abandonment. Isaiah presen…
Read article →Two accounts of judgement, mercy, and the sinner's hope before God
…red at the cross. The gospel does not say, “Your sins are light enough.” It says Christ's sacrifice is enough. It does not tell us to balance our past. It calls us to repent and believe upon the Lord Jesus Christ. The human instinct reaches for a scale. God has given a cross. Ref…
Read article →Christianity, Islam and the verdict of the evidence
…ult upon divine unity. Christianity says that reconciliation rests upon Christ’s finished sacrifice. Islam calls people to submission, repentance, good works and hope in divine mercy without that atoning ground. These are not different accents within one faith. They are contradic…
Read article →One Messiah, one gospel, and God's continuing purpose for Israel
…mmes. When Israel is restored, the nation will not return to God by law, ancestry, temple sacrifice, or a separate covenantal path. Israel will look upon the One whom it pierced, receive cleansing, and know the same Jesus whom the Church proclaims (Zechariah 12:10; 13:1). Israel…
Read article →What Jesus promised the apostles about Israel's future
…ked the question which many faithful disciples have quietly wondered: what will those who sacrifice for Christ receive? Jesus answered with a promise larger than personal reward. He spoke of His own glorious throne, twelve apostolic thrones, and the twelve tribes of Israel: "Veri…
Read article →What mercy, holiness and the cross reveal about God
…ade justice to look away. The God who loves acts to remove His people's guilt through the sacrifice He provides. The mechanics of substitution require their own full treatment. The point here is what substitution reveals about God: He does not save at a safe distance. The Father…
Read article →Four popular claims tested in context
…enant; Christ mediates the new. Moses gave the Passover pattern; Christ is "our passover" sacrificed for us (1 Corinthians 5:7). Moses was faithful as a servant in God's house; Christ rules as the Son over His own house (Hebrews 3:1–6). Scripture names the fulfilment The matter d…
Read article →The Gospel, Human Perception, and the Illuminating Work of the Holy Spirit
…od and that God has given it upon the altar for atonement. Hebrews then distinguishes the sacrifices that could not take away sins from Christ’s effective offering of Himself. Leviticus 17:11; Hebrews 9:12–14; Hebrews 10:1–14. The biblical emphasis is upon the life and death of t…
Read article →Governmental restraint, the final ten kings, and the preparation of the temple
…cerning Israel and Jerusalem. In its midst, the ruler associated with the covenant causes sacrifice and oblation to cease. An operating sacrificial service must exist by that point. Daniel 9:24–27. This brings us to a practical consideration. A sanctuary must be constructed and e…
Read article →A forensic reading of Christ's Olivet Discourse
…phecy concerns "thy people and... thy holy city" (Daniel 9:24). Its final crisis involves sacrifice, abomination, and desolation (Daniel 9:27). Daniel 12 then describes an unequalled time of trouble: "And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for th…
Read article →The positive argument of the whole series, brought together
…destroyed. The final week therefore remains distinct, with a covenant, a marked midpoint, sacrifice, abomination, and desolation (Daniel 9:26-27). Jesus places Daniel's abomination before unparalleled Great Tribulation and His manifested coming (Matthew 24:15-31). Paul describes…
Read article →How Christians can think politically without surrendering conscience to a package deal
…ere. Scripture never treats them as self-authenticating. Isaiah confronted a nation whose sacrifices, assemblies and prayers continued while its hands were full of blood. God's answer was not more impressive religious ceremony: "Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppres…
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