Slavery, Exile, and Israel’s Return

THE QUESTION DOCTRINE CAN’T ANSWER Slavery, Covenant Judgment, the Nations,

and the Return of Israel PROLOGUE — THE EARTH REMEMBERS The earth remembers

what people try to forget. It remembers footsteps that never made it home.

It remembers chains that rusted away but never disappeared. It remembers names that were erased

from mouths, but not from memory. History does not only live in books. It lives in bloodlines.

In trauma. In instinct. For centuries, a doctrine has claimed authority over the

biblical story — that Israel’s role in prophecy ended, that the covenant shifted hands,

that a new age replaced an old people. But doctrine must answer reality. And reality asks