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Clear searchWhat 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 →A 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 →The wicked husbandmen, the fruit-bearing nation, and what Jesus said afterwards
…Messiah would now exercise kingdom stewardship. They began as a believing Jewish remnant: twelve Jewish apostles deliberately corresponding to Israel's twelve tribes. Through their witness, Gentiles would be brought into the one body of Christ and taught to bear the fruit God req…
Read article →Unity in Christ and distinction in God's purpose
…der David, and continues through exile and return. Its identity includes genealogy, land, tribes, covenants, priesthood, kingship, and a calling among the nations. The Church is revealed in relation to a new work of the risen Christ. Jesus said, "I will build my church" (Matthew…
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 →What God's faithfulness to Israel means for everyone who trusts His promises
…ho 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 establish, and ref…
Read article →Israel's Messiah, Israel's Scriptures, and a gospel for the world
…rected to "the lost sheep of the house of Israel" (Matthew 15:24). When He first sent the Twelve, He told them to go to those lost sheep and announce that the kingdom of heaven was at hand (Matthew 10:5-7). That priority was covenantal, not racial favouritism. Israel had received…
Read article →One Messiah, one gospel, and God's continuing purpose for Israel
…and Judah and supplies the changed hearts which faithful obedience requires. Jesus chose twelve Jewish apostles and promised that they would sit upon thrones judging Israel's twelve tribes. When He condemned the wicked husbandmen, the leaders recognised that He spoke against the…
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…
Read article →Earth-dwellers, heaven-dwellers, and the literary structure of the Apocalypse
…opening chapters. The earthly 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-…
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