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Clear searchA sign of Israel's renewal, not Israel's disappearance
Why Did Jesus Choose Twelve Apostles? A sign of Israel's renewal, not Israel's disappearance Jesus did not choose twelve apostles because twelve happened to be a convenient number. He could have appointed seven,…
Read article →What Jesus promised the apostles about Israel's future
Twelve Thrones and Twelve Tribes What Jesus promised the apostles about Israel's future Peter once asked the question which many faithful disciples have quietly wondered: what will those who…
Read article →Israel's Messiah, Israel's Scriptures, and a gospel for the world
…this setting does more than add cultural colour. It changes how we understand Jesus, the apostles, the gospel, and the relationship between Israel and the Church. Jesus was born within Israel's covenant world Jesus was not a Gentile religious founder who arrived with an unrelate…
Read article →The wicked husbandmen, the fruit-bearing nation, and what Jesus said afterwards
…he head of the corner, and those who fell upon it would be broken (Matthew 21:42-44). The apostles and the community formed around Messiah would now exercise kingdom stewardship. They began as a believing Jewish remnant: twelve Jewish apostles deliberately corresponding to Israel…
Read article →Unity in Christ and distinction in God's purpose
…Jewish believer belongs to the Church—but they are not mere synonyms. Jesus promises the apostles that they will sit upon twelve thrones "judging the twelve tribes of Israel" (Matthew 19:28). Revelation seals servants from named tribes of Israel and later describes a multitude f…
Read article →What 'yea and Amen' in Christ means for Israel and the covenants
…uld have an enduring royal house, that Mary would conceive and bear the Son, and that the twelve apostles would sit upon thrones judging Israel's twelve tribes. Every promise depends finally upon Christ and glorifies God through Him. Yet union with Christ does not make every Chri…
Read article →Fulfilment in Christ, the inclusion of the Gentiles, and Israel's future mercy
…od. Israel's true hope was always spiritual as well as national. Jesus later promised the Twelve that in "the regeneration" they would sit upon twelve thrones, "judging the twelve tribes of Israel" (Matthew 19:28). The symbolism joins the Messiah's future rule, the twelve apostle…
Read article →The LORD, Zion, and the meaning of Beulah in Isaiah 62:4–5
…s covenant concerning the land of Israel. The New Jerusalem itself bears the names of the twelve tribes of Israel upon its gates and the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb upon its foundations. The final unity of God’s redeemed people is not achieved by forgetting the disti…
Read article →Testing Islam's evidence for divine revelation
…Qur'an's words, letters, chapters and verses. Its examples include equal word counts, the twelve occurrences of a selected form of "month", 365 occurrences of a selected form of "day", and relationships among chapter numbers, verse totals and significant words. Ally asks whether…
Read article →The question reaches beyond prophecy to the faithfulness of God
…obedient. The risen Christ left the restoration question open After the resurrection, the apostles asked Jesus: "Lord, wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel?" —Acts 1:6 The question is often dismissed as the last trace of the disciples' misunderstanding. Yet…
Read article →What God's faithfulness to Israel means for everyone who trusts His promises
…eans for everyone who trusts His promises This series has examined covenants, prophecies, apostles, thrones, tribes, branches, seeds, kingdoms, and the difficult words upon which the debate turns. We have tried to hear the strongest opposing arguments, concede what they genuinely…
Read article →Sources behind Qur’anic narratives
…the Infancy Gospel of Thomas. Its narratives concern Jesus between approximately five and twelve years old. They include healings and displays of extraordinary knowledge, but also disturbing punishment miracles in which the young Jesus harms those who offend Him. The work is not…
Read article →Which Gospel does the Qur'an affirm?
…ounter-gospel survives from their communities. Anonymous Gospels and allegedly illiterate apostles It is often said that the canonical Gospels are anonymous and that Jesus' disciples could not read or write. The Gospel narratives do not introduce their authors by name in their op…
Read article →One Messiah, one gospel, and God's continuing purpose for Israel
…belong to one unfolding purpose centred upon Christ. The Scriptures, covenants, Messiah, apostles, and first believers all came through Israel. The Church began with a faithful Jewish remnant and expanded as Gentiles were brought near through the gospel. Jewish believers did not…
Read article →Defining the position before testing it
…New Testament's continued distinction between Israel and the Gentiles? Can it explain the twelve apostles judging the twelve tribes, the natural branches grafted in again, the Deliverer turning ungodliness from Jacob, and the irrevocable calling? Can it do so without repeatedly c…
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