Jump to Table of Contents Introduction There is an elephant in the room whenever Christians discuss Israel, Jerusalem, Bible prophecy, and the return of Jesus Christ. We are often told that the Old Testament requires a future restoration of Israel as a distinct national people in the land, Jerusalem as the governmental center of Messiah’s…
(In The Word – Post 1) “For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us; Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace.”…
Why the Church Is Not a Parenthesis “So we, being many, are one body in Christ.” — Romans 12:5 (KJV) “There is neither Jew nor Greek… for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.” — Galatians 3:28 (KJV) Christian Zionism teaches that the Church is a temporary pause in God’s plan — a “parenthesis” between…
Hebrew Roots and the Return to Bondage The One New Man. The Israel of God. The People of Christ. “For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us.”—Ephesians 2:14 1. What Is the Church, Spiritually Speaking? The Church is not a nation. It…
Dismantling the Core Division at the Heart of Dispensationalism “The church is a New Testament organism… Israel is an ethnic/national entity…”— Mike Vlach, Dispensational Theology This is the sine qua non of Dispensationalism: that God has two distinct peoples, two plans, and two sets of promises. But Scripture tells another story — one rooted not…
Post 1 of Already Fulfilled: Misused Prophecies in the End Times Debate Does the Gospel Begin and End with Israel? The gospel is older than Israel. The promise of a Redeemer was given to Adam and Eve in Genesis 3:15 — “And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed…