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Clear searchSir Robert Anderson · Biblical and apologetic argument · 1897
…readers question his framework, the book forces serious thought about providence, prayer, suffering, and the character of the present age. Anderson's explanation is closely tied to his dispensational distinctions and to his understanding of miracles, Israel, the Church, and the a…
View recommendation →Not escape from the body, but its redemption
…save us, but it belongs to Him and awaits deliverance rather than contempt. What present suffering cannot keep The resurrection speaks tenderly to forms of suffering which easy answers cannot repair. The body may now be scarred by disease, disability, injury, exhaustion or age.…
Read article →Divine judgement, the character of God, and the promise of escape
…nt before indignation. Pretribulationism does not promise exemption from the cross-shaped suffering of the present age. It expects Christ to keep His Church from a future judicial hour which has a different object and purpose. That is not cowardice. It is confidence in the Judge…
Read article →Why the final seven is unfinished, future, and centred upon Israel and Jerusalem
…ent of Israel and Jerusalem (Joel 3:1-2; Zechariah 12:3; 14:2-3). Revelation shows saints suffering under the beast, vindicates those who are killed, and brings a believing multitude through the crisis. What the period is not said to do is complete Christ's atoning work or perfec…
Read article →The crucifixion in history, Scripture and the Qur'an
…arly Christians opposed the claim that Jesus only seemed to suffer Denials of Jesus' real suffering did arise before Islam. Their existence does not establish that Jesus escaped the cross. It shows that theological reinterpretations of the cross were being proposed and contested.…
Read article →Abraham, Lot, divine wrath, and a pattern that must be used carefully
…e it impossible to argue that God must remove the Church simply because a period contains suffering. The relevant distinction is the source and purpose of the suffering: Persecution is the hostility of the world, the flesh, and the devil against God's people. Discipline is the Fa…
Read article →Jesus and the fountain of living water
…terns. When it does, we should confess honestly and return. At other times it accompanies suffering, exhaustion or a trial through which faith is being deepened. We should not diagnose every weary soul in the same way. The answer is still Christ. We do not graduate from the words…
Read article →The peace Christ gives in a troubled world
…or events they did not yet understand. Yet the One comforting them was not sheltered from suffering. He knew precisely what awaited Him. He would be betrayed, falsely accused, mocked, scourged and crucified. Nevertheless, He spoke of His peace. This was not the peace of a man who…
Read article →The divine identity of Jesus across the Gospels
…er, so He is not the Father appearing under another name. They show Him praying, obeying, suffering and dying, so His humanity is real. Yet they also place Him on the divine side of the Creator-creature distinction. He performs the works of God, bears the authority of God, receiv…
Read article →The Messiah cut off before the Temple fell
…ed under Antiochus IV. The Old Greek translator also handled Daniel 9 in the light of the suffering and expectations of Second Temple Judaism. Most strikingly, the Qumran composition known as 11QMelchizedek appears to use Daniel 9:25 within an eschatological interpretation of Jub…
Read article →Which Gospel does the Qur'an affirm?
…hed for many for the remission of sins" (Matthew 26:28). After His resurrection, He joins suffering, resurrection and worldwide forgiveness: "Thus it is written, and thus it behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day: And that repentance and remission of si…
Read article →Israel's Messiah, Israel's Scriptures, and a gospel for the world
…and enthroned Lord. Atonement is explained through Passover, sacrifice, covenant, and the suffering Servant. Gentile inclusion fulfils the promise to Abraham and the prophets' vision of the nations seeking Israel's God. The new covenant is the covenant promised to Israel and Juda…
Read article →Regathering, national rebirth, and the spiritual renewal still to come
…rn Zionism, international diplomacy, the horrors of the Holocaust, war, and immense human suffering experienced by Jews and Arabs. Acknowledging providence does not require pretending that the historical process was simple or painless. The event remains extraordinary. A people di…
Read article →Christianity, Islam and the verdict of the evidence
…m an uncertain balance of works. We have a Saviour who does not remain distant from human suffering but has entered it, borne judgement and conquered the grave. “Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make inter…
Read article →The wicked husbandmen, the fruit-bearing nation, and what Jesus said afterwards
…les were too eager about at this time. The kingdom would not arrive immediately; witness, suffering, Gentile inclusion, and the calling of the Church lay before them. It does not follow that every element of their question was wrong. The correction stated in the text concerns tim…
Read article →Labour, purpose, and faithfulness in a fallen world
…d servants and slaves. It must not be used to make exploitation holy or to silence people suffering abuse. In the same section Paul warned masters that they too had a Master in heaven and must give what is just and equal (Colossians 4:1). Human authority is never absolute. Yet th…
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