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30 results for “Temple”
Clear searchThe incarnation, the limits of created perspective and the love philosophy could not imagine
Christ in the Temple of the Philosophers The Incarnation, the Limits of Created Perspective, and the Love Philosophy Could Not Imagine “For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.” — Coloss…
Read article →The Messiah cut off before the Temple fell
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 →Isaiah, John, and the Divine Identity of Jesus Christ
…se as filled with His glory, where the Hebrew describes the train of His robe filling the temple.[^12] Since John has just quoted Isaiah 6:10, the throne vision is an immediate and compelling background to “saw his glory”. John brings the glory of Christ into relation to the glor…
Read article →Why the final seven is unfinished, future, and centred upon Israel and Jerusalem
…ts desolation was near (Luke 21:20). The city suffered terrible covenantal judgement; the temple was destroyed; believers could heed Christ's command to flee; and Jerusalem entered a prolonged period of Gentile domination. A futurist reading which treats AD 70 as irrelevant fails…
Read article →El, the Exodus, and the God Who Came from Sinai
…period of the judges, Jeroboam’s calves, Ahab’s Baal cult, Manasseh’s desecration of the temple, the Queen of Heaven in Jeremiah and the abominations shown to Ezekiel within the sacred precincts. Archaeological evidence of Israelite syncretism is therefore not an embarrassment s…
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 →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 →Conditional blessing, irrevocable promise, and fulfilment in Christ
…law, rejected the prophets, and nationally refused its Messiah. Jerusalem was judged, the temple was destroyed, and the Jewish people were scattered among the nations. Does covenant unfaithfulness permit us to conclude that God has permanently abandoned the nation? The answer dep…
Read article →Does John 6 teach the literal eating of Christ's body?
…rescue resistant hearers with a flattened paraphrase. In John 2 He speaks of raising the temple in three days; the Jews continue thinking of the building, while John explains that He spoke of His body (John 2:19–21). A misunderstanding left standing is not thereby endorsed. In J…
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
…of the covenant son and God's provision of a substitute becomes the location of Israel's temple and sacrificial worship. Abraham calls the place Jehovah-jireh: "And Abraham called the name of that place Jehovahjireh: as it is said to this day, In the mount of the LORD it shall b…
Read article →A response to Michael Horton on the land promise, Amos 9, and the people of God
…he alternative to Israel's restoration Horton repeatedly directs attention from the land, temple, and nation to Christ. Every Christian should affirm Christ's supremacy. The disagreement concerns what follows from it. Mainstream dispensationalism does not teach multiple ways of s…
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
…, Bethany and Jerusalem. He crosses the Jordan, sails upon the Sea of Galilee, enters the Temple, approaches the city from the Mount of Olives and is crucified outside Jerusalem. John arranges much of Jesus’ ministry around recognisable Jewish feasts. Passover approaches. Jesus a…
Read article →Why a loaded label does not settle the question
…introduced in the opening chapters is not named on earth. Israel's tribes, Jerusalem, the temple, the nations, the beast and the earth-dwellers move to the foreground. Silence alone cannot prove absence. Yet the change belongs within the cumulative evidence. Heaven contains worsh…
Read article →The brothers of Jesus, the sons of Mary, and an argument of strong plausibility
…ondence is striking. The sufferer is consumed by zeal for God’s house; Jesus cleanses the Temple. Reproaches directed against God fall upon the sufferer; Paul applies those words to Christ. The sufferer becomes a stranger to his brothers; Jesus’ brothers do not believe in Him. Th…
Read article →Israel's Messiah, Israel's Scriptures, and a gospel for the world
…ed faith. He was born to a Jewish mother, circumcised on the eighth day, presented at the temple, and raised in obedience to the law of Moses (Luke 2:21-24). Paul summarises His historical setting: "God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law." —Galatians 4:4 He a…
Read article →Regathering, national rebirth, and the spiritual renewal still to come
…n under Zerubbabel, Ezra, and Nehemiah was a genuine fulfilment of prophetic promise. The temple was rebuilt, Jerusalem was restored, and a Jewish community again lived in the land. Any interpretation which ignores that return is incomplete. It did not exhaust the wider prophetic…
Read article →Christianity, Islam and the verdict of the evidence
…hs. It accounts for an anointed priest, a violent death and a terrible desecration of the Temple. It should not be dismissed as though no alternative has ever been proposed. But Jesus explains the larger convergence. He is the Messiah. He was cut off while the Second Temple stood…
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 glory philosophy could not contain
…into Flesh The glory philosophy could not contain In the previous article, Christ in the Temple of the Philosophers, I argued that the Incarnation does not become absurd merely because it exceeds the limits of our created experience. The God who made the universe is not imprison…
Read article →The wicked husbandmen, the fruit-bearing nation, and what Jesus said afterwards
…esus wept over the city, declared its house desolate, and foretold the destruction of the temple (Matthew 23:37-38; 24:1-2; Luke 19:41-44). The events of AD 70 gave that warning terrible historical expression. We should therefore avoid two opposite reductions. Matthew 21 is not t…
Read article →Earth-dwellers, heaven-dwellers, and the literary structure of the Apocalypse
…arthly judgement visions then return to Danielic periods, Israel's tribes, Jerusalem, the temple, the nations, a beastly ruler, and saints persecuted under him. At the same time, redeemed companies worship in heaven, and the book repeatedly contrasts earth-dwellers with those who…
Read article →A forensic reading of Christ's Olivet Discourse
…reveals for those "in Christ". Clue one: the setting is Judea The discourse begins at the temple. The disciples point to its buildings; Jesus foretells their destruction; and they ask about His coming and the end of the age (Matthew 24:1-3). His answer soon narrows to a particula…
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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