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The Daniel Dilemma The Messiah cut off before the Temple fell Islam calls Jesus the Messiah. It also denies that He was crucified. Centuries before Muhammad, however, the book of Daniel described an anointed figure who would be “cut off”, f…
Read article →Governmental restraint, the final ten kings, and the preparation of the temple
…y, and Daniel and Revelation supply a political setting worth examining alongside it. The temple raises a related question of preparation. Antichrist desecrates a sanctuary already in use. Since the final rulers exercise authority for a limited period, I expect that the temple ma…
Read article →A response to Hank Hanegraaff on resurrection, Daniel’s final week, and the Tribulation
…144,000 evangelists. Pretribulationism does not require Christians to help build a third temple. Nor should Israel’s final trouble be presented as divine retaliation against Jewish people for the crucifixion of Christ. Daniel presents the final week as a period in which God comp…
Read article →Responding to five common criticisms without defending what Scripture does not require
…ed in AD 70” The destruction of Jerusalem in AD 70 matters enormously. Jesus foretold the temple's fall, and that judgement stands as a historical vindication of His words. Dispensationalists should not minimise it. The question is whether AD 70 exhausts the prophetic language. D…
Read article →Why a loaded label does not settle the question
…n glory and His saints appear with Him. This is not a claim that Christ has two unrelated second comings. It is an attempt to preserve the directions and purposes that the passages themselves describe. The Bride is in heaven before Christ rides forth Revelation 19 strengthens the…
Read article →What 'yea and Amen' in Christ means for Israel and the covenants
…Abraham's inheritance widens towards the world; David's Son reigns over every nation; the temple finds fulfilment in Christ and His people; the new covenant creates an international community possessing the Spirit. The New Testament applies language once used of Israel to the Chu…
Read article →Isaiah, John, and the Divine Identity of Jesus Christ
…im the very passages in which Israel’s God declares His uniqueness. Does this introduce a second deity? Does it describe a magnificent creature authorised to represent God? Or does it reveal that the Son belongs within the identity of the one God, while remaining personally disti…
Read article →Why the final seven is unfinished, future, and centred upon Israel and Jerusalem
…Three major readings deserve a fair hearing. The Maccabean reading sees the crisis in the second-century persecution of Antiochus IV Epiphanes. Antiochus halted sacrifice and desecrated the sanctuary, and Daniel elsewhere uses abomination language in connection with his actions.…
Read article →El, the Exodus, and the God Who Came from Sinai
…source, E, was named for its use of Elohim before the revelation of the name Yahweh. The second is the southern-origin hypothesis, which proposes that Yahweh was originally worshipped somewhere south of Canaan and subsequently introduced into Israel. The third is the El–Yahweh m…
Read article →The gathering of the elect, one taken and one left, and Paul's revealed mystery
…The Olivet Discourse is anchored in Daniel and Jerusalem Jesus' teaching begins with the temple. The disciples ask when its destruction will occur and seek the sign of His coming and the end of the age (Matthew 24:1-3). The discourse then returns repeatedly to the prophetic worl…
Read article →Does John 6 teach the literal eating of Christ's body?
…34). This is characteristically Johannine. Nicodemus hears of a new birth and imagines a second entrance into his mother’s womb (John 3:4). The woman of Samaria hears of living water and asks for a supply which will end her journeys to the well (John 4:11–15). Here the crowd hea…
Read article →A history of interpretation, polemic, and forgotten tension
…promises could still expect a future Jewish conversion. Some anticipated a rebuilt Jewish temple and a final crisis centred upon Jerusalem. Early Christian thought was not a single system. The task is therefore to trace the development accurately: neither excusing indefensible wo…
Read article →Signs, expectancy, and the event the Church is told to await
…ippians 3:20 The object of expectation is not first the Antichrist, a covenant, a rebuilt temple, the abomination, or a numbered sequence of judgements. It is the Saviour. A necessary sign changes what can be expected next Suppose Scripture clearly taught that the Church must ide…
Read article →The covenant son and the sacrifice that points to Christ
…r? The first question does not force a choice between the brothers. God blessed both. The second and third questions do require a choice. The Bible answers both explicitly: Isaac. The Qur'an honours both Isaac and Ishmael, but its sacrifice narrative does not name the son. Ishmae…
Read article →What God's faithfulness to Israel means for everyone who trusts His promises
…Christ is the true Seed of Abraham, the faithful Israelite, David's greater Son, the true temple, and mediator of the new covenant. The Church is united to Him. Jewish and Gentile believers therefore become one people, inherit the promises, and anticipate not merely one land but…
Read article →Sources behind Qur’anic narratives
…tory is much older than Islam. The Infancy Gospel of Thomas is ordinarily assigned to the second century, although its manuscript history is complex. In 2024 scholars published a fourth- or fifth-century Greek papyrus fragment containing part of the clay-bird episode. Whatever ch…
Read article →The brothers of Jesus, the sons of Mary, and an argument of strong plausibility
…es of the verse. John 2:17 applies its first half to Jesus, while Romans 15:3 applies its second half to Christ. There is no indication of a change of speaker between verses 8 and 9. Consequently, if verse 9 expresses the Messiah’s experience, it is entirely reasonable to see ver…
Read article →Regathering, national rebirth, and the spiritual renewal still to come
…people can be visibly reassembled before the promised work of the Spirit is complete. The second half of the chapter reinforces the national meaning. Judah and Joseph become one nation in the land, "David my servant" rules as King, the people are cleansed, and God's sanctuary sta…
Read article →Christianity, Islam and the verdict of the evidence
…ld not be reduced to crude slogans when its own theologians offer more serious arguments. Second, a valid concession should be made wherever the evidence requires it. The Bible contains textual variants. The Qur’an possesses literary power. The Hebrew word translated “Messiah” in…
Read article →One Messiah, one gospel, and God's continuing purpose for Israel
…Israel also experienced genuine covenant judgement. The destruction of Jerusalem and its temple was not an insignificant historical accident. The nation rejected its Messiah, blind leaders lost their stewardship, and unbelieving branches were broken off. No responsible defence o…
Read article →The positive argument of the whole series, brought together
…, and "a time, and times, and half a time". It returns to Israel's tribes, Jerusalem, the temple, the nations, a beastly ruler, and persecuted saints. The Church is not removed from this programme because Christians are too good to suffer. Christians have always suffered. The dis…
Read article →How Christians can think politically without surrendering conscience to a package deal
…ile their hearts remained far from Him (Isaiah 29:13). Jeremiah heard people repeat, "The temple of the LORD," as though possession of a sacred institution could protect those who oppressed the stranger, shed innocent blood, stole and lied (Jeremiah 7:1–11). Micah's corrupt leade…
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