A couple of posts ago I shared an extended quote from T.D. Bernard on the New Testament’s breathtaking presentation of the believer’s life “in Christ.” I especially love the last paragraph of the citation and thought that reformatting and slightly editing Bernard’s words might be helpful to grasp the sweeping nature and significance of our union [...]
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At the heart of the message of Paul’s epistles (and of the entire New Testament) lies the concept of the believer’s union with Jesus Christ. Nothing is more fundamental for our faith, the gospel, and the plan of God than the fact that God saves people by uniting them with his Son, thereby providing them with [...] A while back I came across a helpful chart (p. 137) in Greg Beale’s commentary on 1-2 Thessalonians comparing Paul’s presentation of Jesus’ return in 1 Thess 4-5 and Jesus’ own presentation of the same event in Matthew 24. Both pretribbers and non-pretribbers have pointed out the similarities, but seeing it in chart form is especially [...] In my last post I argued that although Israel does not currently possess a divine right to Palestine, they will someday inherit the land promises that God made to Abraham. This will ultimately happen someday in the future, when, to use Paul’s words in Romans 11, national Israel turns in faith to the Messiah and is once [...] Who is the man who fears the LORD? Him will he instruct in the way that he should choose. His soul shall abide in well-being, and his offspring shall inherit the land. (Psalm 25:12-13) This is the first of three posts in which I want to argue that as Gentile believers in Jesus Christ, we share an [...] In case anyone’s interested, I’ve reviewed A Case for Historic Premillennialism: An Alternative to “Left Behind” Eschatology (edited by Craig L. Blomberg and Sung Wook Chung) for the latest issue of Themelios. You can read the review here. Here’s my concluding analysis for the review: Although CHP addresses many important issues relating to nondispensational premillennialism and does an [...] In addition to Dever’s and Schreiner’s recent comments, Craig Blomberg also has some good comments on the non-essential nature of eschatological beliefs such as the millennium and the timing of the rapture. In A Case for Historic Premillennialism Blomberg says: “In my ideal world, there would be no church or parachurch organization, including seminaries, that would make [...] So said Mark Dever in his sermon yesterday on Revelation 20. He was referring specifically to the issue of the Millennium, but his comments obviously apply to lesser issues (like the timing of the rapture). (And obviously his comments don’t apply to fundamental doctrines like the second coming and final judgment.) Here’s what he said: “I think that [...] |
 
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