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Clear searchThe 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 →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 →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 →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 →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 →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 →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…
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