Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 4132. The valley of dry bones in Ezekiel 37 is one of the most dramatic and theologically charged visions in all of Scripture. Bones scattered across an open valley, a prophet commanded to preach to the dead, a vast army rising – the vision lodges in the imagination long before you have worked out…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 4131. The new heart and new spirit in Ezekiel 36 stand at the very heart of what the new covenant promises and the Spirit accomplishes. “I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give…
Reading Time: 17 minutesQuestion 7199. If Jesus fulfilled the law, why did Paul still offer temple sacrifices in Acts 21, why will sacrifices return in the millennial temple, and why do certain things carry on from one age to the next? The question of temple sacrifices after the cross is one of the genuinely hard knots in Scripture,…
Reading Time: 7 minutesQuestion 10065 The re-establishment of the nation of Israel in 1948 is one of the most significant prophetic events in modern history. After nearly 2,000 years of dispersion, the Jewish people have returned to their ancient homeland exactly as the Old Testament prophets predicted. This restoration points towards the fulfilment of God’s remaining promises to…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 10008 The covenant described in Deuteronomy 29–30 is sometimes called the Palestinian covenant, though this name is increasingly recognised as problematic, since the term “Palestine” was not applied to the land until the Roman emperor Hadrian renamed the province in the second century AD as a deliberate insult to the Jewish people. A more…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 10091 The temple occupies a unique place in Scripture’s prophetic landscape. From Solomon’s magnificent construction to the Roman destruction of Herod’s temple in AD 70, from Ezekiel’s extraordinary vision of a future temple to Jesus’ own references to the temple’s eschatological role, the subject runs like a thread through prophetic Scripture. For those who…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 10198 The question of millennial worship strikes at the heart of what Ezekiel 40-48 actually describes and how it fits within the broader framework of redemptive history. These nine chapters contain the most detailed description of a future temple, its priesthood, its sacrificial system, and its worship practices anywhere in Scripture. The question they…
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 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: 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…