Israel & the Kingdom

If a nation is not to take its penal code from Sinai, by what standard do the powers that be act? God has named evils to peoples who never had Israel's law, and He named them specifically. But the sentence in those cases was always His own — and the office in Romans 13 stands in the space before it falls.

A preacher told of a street evangelist who asked drivers at a red light whether they believed Jesus is the Son of God, and took a yes for a convert. The question is Scripture and the answer is true. This study sets out what the kingdom was told to believe, what Paul says to believe, and what a yes to that one question does not show.

Should a nation take its penal code from Sinai? The law was addressed to one people, its penalties were welded to a covenant and a land, and the selection everybody makes from it is governed by a rule Scripture never supplies. Leave the law whole, learn from it, and put it back where God put it.

Matthew 23:39 makes the second advent wait on one sentence Jerusalem has not yet said. Read the whole paragraph and you find what the sentence is about — their treatment of the men God sends them. They killed the prophets, they stoned Stephen, they refused the apostolic witness. The house stands desolate still.

A graphic circulating online asks how a man never under the first covenant could be redeemed from transgressions under it. The question carries a premise it never states: that the only redemption there is, is redemption from covenant transgressions. Paul says guilt reached men who never had a covenant to break, and so does the remedy.

Who are the other sheep of John 10:16? The dispute turns on a word neither side had stopped to define. Scripture uses fold of a place — something built, entered, left or become — and never once of a people. Define the word and the sentence reads itself: Israel's own scattered, brought back to one fold under one shepherd.

Opposition to once saved, always saved seldom turns on the verses it quotes. This article traces the objection to its root — a righteousness a man built himself, and the distance from other men that grace erases — then divides the passages. Israel's salvation is an inheritance received at the end; the Body's was handed over at the beginning.

A revival is being proclaimed across the nation's campuses — crowds, conversions, and a call to reclaim the nation for God. But the renewal of a nation is not the gospel of grace, a faith with no shared creed is not the faith once delivered, and a summons back to Sinai revives the wrong program. A look at what the campus revival actually revives.