God’s plan for Israel in Scripture—past, present, and future.
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 10029 The question of whether modern Jewish people are still God’s chosen people sits at the intersection of some of the most important and most contested doctrines in Christian theology. The answer you give depends heavily on how you read the Old Testament promises, what you understand the relationship between Israel and the church…
Reading Time: 7 minutesQuestion 10066 Replacement theology, also called supersessionism, is the belief that the Church has permanently replaced Israel in God’s plan, and that the promises God made to Israel in the Old Testament are now fulfilled spiritually in the Church rather than literally in the nation of Israel. This teaching, whilst widely held throughout church history,…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 03087 The book of Ruth is four chapters long and tells a story set during the period of the judges. It could be read simply as a moving account of loyalty, loss, and redemption within an Israelite family. But the genealogy at its close, tracing a line from Perez through Boaz to David (Ruth…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 10013 This question lies at the heart of understanding the Bible’s storyline. How we answer it affects how we read prophecy, how we understand God’s purposes, and how we see ourselves as believers today. The distinction between Israel and the Church is one of the fundamental insights of dispensational theology, and Scripture makes this…
Reading Time: 7 minutesQuestion 10041 In 1 Kings 9:3, God tells Solomon: “I have consecrated this house that you have built, by putting my name there forever. My eyes and my heart will be there for all time.” Yet Solomon’s temple was destroyed by the Babylonians in 586 BC, and the second temple was destroyed by the Romans…
Reading Time: 7 minutesStanding with Israel in Biblical Truth and Justice Q10141 Preamble As an Evangelical Baptist committed to the authority of Scripture and the unchanging promises of God, I find myself compelled to respond to recent statements from Baptists Together, BMS World Mission and Baptist Union of Wales that mischaracterise Israel’s legitimate right to self-defence and misrepresent…