Israel And Church
The covenants, the distinction between Israel and the Church, and the Hebrew roots of the faith.
Drawn in these studies
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The promised Messiah · Hebrew Roots of Christianity
The studies
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The Bride of Christ
Scripture calls the church a betrothed bride and says so in its own voice. What the primary rabbinic and cultural sources actually document about Jewish betrothal, which popular details have no source at all — and what a finished betrothal, a prepared place, a kept covenant and a bride presented holy mean for you while you wait. The wedding pattern set out component by component, four of its eight already done to you.
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Hebrew Roots of Christianity
Christianity as the faith of Israel followed through to its Messiah: how Jesus meets what Israel's Scriptures required of the Messiah, what His return completes, and why the Old Testament's types, Torah, feasts, creation and prophecy still shape how the church reads Christ.
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Israel and the Church
Paul spends three chapters of Romans on whether God is finished with Israel, and answers no. What the Church is, what Israel still is, and how the two stand together in God's plan today.
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Israel's Regathering and Refining
God gathers Israel to the land for His holy name's sake, then cleanses her; refines a remnant through the time of distress for Jacob; and turns the nation to mourn for Jesus, the one they pierced. Ezekiel 36 and Zechariah 12-13, with 1948 weighed carefully.
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Where Two or Three Are Gathered
Matthew 18:20 is often said in church as though Jesus comes, or prayer gains power, once two or more are present. In context it closes Jesus' teaching on going after a brother who has sinned. What the verse promises, which uses of it are fair, and why a believer praying alone is not alone.
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The Wife of the Lamb
When the marriage of the Lamb comes, Scripture begins calling the bride His wife. Israel is the LORD's wife, restored; the church is the Lamb's bride, married in heaven; and Revelation puts both in one city with the nations. What a wife shares: His rest, His reign, His inheritance, His family and His face.