Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 10162 On 14 May 1948, David Ben-Gurion declared the establishment of the State of Israel, and within minutes the new nation was recognised by the United States. For the student of biblical prophecy, this was not simply a geopolitical event. It was the most significant prophetic development in nearly two thousand years, directly connected…
Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 10192 It is one of the most puzzling questions in all of eschatology. After a thousand years of Christ reigning visibly on earth, with perfect justice, universal knowledge of God, and Satan bound in the abyss, Revelation 20:7-9 tells us that when Satan is released, he will go out to deceive the nations and…
Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 10009 Few questions in theology carry more weight than this one, and few have generated more confusion. The idea that the Church has permanently replaced Israel in God’s purposes, a position known as replacement theology or supersessionism, has been the majority view in Christian theology for most of the Church’s history. It has also…
Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 10140 The phrase “the kingdom of God” appears dozens of times across the Gospels and the Epistles, yet Christians often use it without pausing to consider what it actually means. Is it a place? A spiritual condition? A future political reality? The answer is that it encompasses more than any single definition can capture,…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 10007 The New Covenant occupies a unique position among the biblical covenants because both Israel and the Church claim it as their own, and the question of how it relates to each has generated sustained theological debate. For covenant theology, the New Covenant is evidence that the Church has inherited the promises originally made…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 10170 The question of whether Jews lived in the land of Israel before the establishment of the modern State of Israel in 1948 is one that carries enormous political, historical, and theological significance. It is sometimes claimed, particularly in anti-Zionist discourse, that the Jewish people had no continuous presence in the land and that…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 10004 Within the dispensational family, not everyone reads the details in quite the same way. Progressive dispensationalism is a more recent development within the tradition, associated particularly with scholars such as Craig Blaising and Darrell Bock, and it represents a conscious modification of certain features of classical dispensationalism while retaining others. Understanding what progressive…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 10006 The covenant God made with David in 2 Samuel 7 stands alongside the Abrahamic covenant as one of the most significant unconditional commitments in the entire biblical narrative. It establishes the royal line through which the Messiah would come, the throne on which He would reign, and the kingdom that would have no…
Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 10001 Few theological terms generate as much confusion as dispensationalism. For some, the word conjures images of elaborate prophetic charts and date-setting speculation. For others, it represents a relatively recent theological innovation that should be treated with suspicion. Neither reaction does justice to what dispensationalism actually is, or to why it matters for how…
Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 10003 Dispensational theology and covenant theology represent two of the most influential frameworks for reading the Bible as a unified whole. Both are held by genuine, committed Christians who affirm the authority of Scripture, the deity of Christ, and the gospel of grace. The differences between them are real and consequential, particularly in how…