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Jeremiah’s prophecy resembles Isaiah’s in many ways, even though they certainly never met; Isaiah wrote in the 700s BC, while Jeremiah wrote more than a century later, in the late 600s and early 500s. But they have the same focus: the sin of Judah and the coming judgment by Babylon. (Incidentally Ezekiel is Jeremiah’s contemporary, but he’s writing from Babylon, while Jeremiah is in Judah. Ezekiel has little to say about Creation theology, unless one counts his reference to the creation of…

Good Christians disagree about whether the people of Israel have a future in God’s plan because they have very different ways of understanding the Bible’s “big story.” Many Christians believe the people of Israel are important to the Bible’s story. But not all of them know why, other than to correctly declare “Israel is special” or “they’re God’s chosen people.” These are incomplete answers.

There are at least two reasons why we believe the people of Israel are a key part of the Bible’s “big story.”

To be a blessing. Israel is special because God plans to use her as a…

Several times in recent years, I have heard people who hold firmly to Zionism and traditional dispensational theology speak about the subject of replacement theology in a manner that I find somewhat perplexing.

While well-intentioned, they seem to think that this is a new doctrine that is now suddenly sweeping through our churches. I desire to deal with this matter here in as simple a format as possible. In order to do so, we must ask, and answer, the following questions:

What is replacement theology? How old is replacement theology? What is it that may be new about…