ST-431 Israel in Prophecy and Politics

What does God's promise to Abraham mean after Christ? Study Israel in the Bible, in church history and today, and learn to teach on it with clarity and humility.

Following Israel in Prophecy and Politics, with Paul's olive tree in Romans 11 as its guide, this course traces Israel's calling through both Testaments and what the church thought about the Jewish people from the apostles to 1948, including its failures. It then turns to prophecy, the land and the modern State of Israel, and presents the main Christian views fairly, with their reasons. The course touches war, the Holocaust and the events of October 2023; when a matter needs more than a course can give, turn to your church or a professional where you live.

What you will study

• The olive tree: root, trunk and branches as a way to read the Bible
• The scholarly debate, and what it really decides
• Israel's calling from Abraham to Jesus, Pentecost and Romans 9–11
• The church and the Jewish people, from the apostles to 1948
• Christian readings of 1948, the land and the prophets
• Christian Zionists, Palestinian Christians and Messianic Jews
• Fulfilment in Christ, and how it differs from the idea that the church replaces Israel
• Witness to Jewish people, with humility

Course materials

• Israel in Prophecy and Politics, a WWES textbook
• The Bible