Israel’s Glorious Future: Redemption in Messiah

By Chosen People Ministries, www.chosenpeople.com The Lord’s redeeming love is one of the great threads of the story of salvation that is set forth in the prophets. This love is not only for individuals, but also for the nations. And if it is true for the nations, it is certainly true for Israel! The story…

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Martin Luther and Supersessionism

By Michael J. Vlach, Ph.D. Martin Luther’s views concerning the Jews and Judaism have been the subject of much debate. According to Hans J. Hillerbrand, “There is scholarly agreement that the early Luther spoke thoughtfully and positively about Jews.”  Luther (1483–1546) prayed for the Jews and called for their friendly treatment.  He said, “We ought,…

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Hebrews: A Post-Hebraic Epistle?

By Rev. Isaac C. Rottenberg A few years ago, Rabbi Leon Klenicki recommended two “New Testament” writings for joint studies by Christians and Jews: Paul’s letter to the Romans and the Epistle to the Hebrews. My response at the time was that these are excellent choices. I found the idea so exciting because those two…

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The Rejection of Israel

By Jacques B. Doukhan, Th.D. Nowhere in the New Testament do we find the rejection of Israel. In fact, the only time where the biblical text speaks about the rejection of Israel, it is in emphatically negative terms to affirm that God has not rejected them. “Has God cast away His people?” (Romans 11:1), asks…

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Romans 11 and Israel’s Fall

By Dwight A. Pryor Recently, my wife and I attended a lecture in Jerusalem by a well-known commentator on the prophetic Scriptures relating to the restoration of Israel in the last days.   In the course of his stimulating discourse on Israel as a banner to the nations, he spoke of “Israel’s fall” and the consequent…

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Repentance for Sin Against the Jewish People

By Peter D. Hocken In the second half of the twentieth century, a sea change took place in the attitudes toward the Jewish people within the Christian world. This change was triggered, above all, by the Holocaust, and the massive shock to the Christian psyche caused by the fact that this organized attempt to eliminate…

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What did Paul Believe about Judaism?

By  Dr. Brad Young It is common in Christian academic circles to debate whether or not Paul was the “second founder of Christianity” who converted from Judaism to start a new religion. I disagree with this view because I cannot accept the simplistic explanation that Jesus was a loyal Jew, faithful to his people, while…

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Faith Lessons: Upper Room

by Daniel McCabe Washing the Disciples’ Feet John 13:1, “Now before the feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that His hour had come that He should depart from this world to the Father, having loved His own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.” Having spent the better part of…

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Lord, Have Mercy

by Jim Hutchens As the United States receives its new President and Israel will be soon to follow, we need to remember what God says about the authorities he places over us. For example the prophet Daniel says, “The Most High is sovereign over the kingdoms of men and places over them anyone He wishes…

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Israel's Glorious Future: Redemption in Messiah

By Chosen People Ministries, www.chosenpeople.com The Lord’s redeeming love is one of the great threads of the story of salvation that is set forth in the prophets. This love is not only for individuals, but also for the nations. And if it is true for the nations, it is certainly true for Israel! The story…

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Symbols of covenant: The stateless Jew and the Jewish state

by Shelley Neese “The Wandering Jew”— a popular figure in medieval Christian folklore—walks the earth alone until Judgment Day, cursed for offending Jesus on his way to the cross. In some variants of the story, he is a Jewish shoemaker named Cartaphilus, who, when Jesus stopped to rest on the road to Calvary, taunted him…

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Power Prayer: The Trinity

THREE IN ONE, ONE IN THREE, GOD OF MY SAVATION Heavenly Father, blessed Son, eternal Spirit I adore you as one Being, one Essence, one God in three distinct Persons, for bringing sinners to your knowledge and to your kingdom. O Father, you have loved me and sent Jesus to redeem me; O Jesus, you…

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What the British church left behind

By Dr. Paul Wilkinson I tell no man that these two truths are essential to salvation, and that he cannot be saved except he sees them with my eyes. But I tell any man that these truths appear to me distinctly set down in holy Scripture, and that the denial of them is as astonishing…

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Unequivocally Pro-Israel

By John D. Garr, Ph.D., Th.D. The rebirth of the nation of Israel in the twentieth century is one of the greatest miracles in human history. Driven by an often incomprehensible passion, millions of Jewish people from around the world have made aliyah, “going up” to reclaim the land central to their corporate legacy from…

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In every generation

By Victor Sharpe, The American Thinker Not one alone has arisen against us to destroy the Jews. Rather in each generation, there are those that rise up against us to destroy us. These chilling and prophetic words have been told and retold for untold generations as Jews celebrate the great festival of freedom — the…

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