Scripture Reading for August 1, 2015
Torah: Deuteronomy 3:23 – 7:11, “Va’etchanan” (And he pleaded … ) Haftorah: Isaiah 40:1 – 26 New Testament: Romans 11:18 – 24 Gospel: Matthew 23:17 – 39, “O’ei lechem” (Woe to you … )
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Knesset Renews Ties to Worldwide Christian Lawmakers
By Israel Today— Israel’s Knesset last week renewed its Christian Allies Caucus, something that must be done after each election. The fact that the Knesset continues this trend is evidence that it views relations between Israel and the Christian world with increasing importance. The event, chaired by Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein, was attended by no…
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Iraqi politician calls for peace with Israel: Muslim world
By Pamela Bland Snow and Emmie Goodenough, JNS.org— Sunni Muslim Iraqi politician Mithal Al-Alusi, who leads the Ummah Party, told the Kuwaiti daily newspaper Al-Rai that Iraq should make peace with Israel. He also called Iran “insane” and said the Muslim world has created the Islamic State terror group by fostering a “mentality of vengeance…
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Syrian Christians and the English Jew
By Charles Krauthammer, Washington Post— Christianity, whose presence in the Middle East predates Islam’s by 600 years, is about to be cleansed from the Middle East. Egyptian Copts may have found some respite under President Abdel Fatah al-Sissi, but after their persecution under the previous Muslim Brotherhood government, they know how precarious their existence in…
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Former Israeli Ambassador to the US Michael Oren said: “Were Jesus to come today to Bethlehem (or any number of other places He ministered, like the Temple Mount) He’d be labeled a “Jewish settler.”
Huckabee: Why I attacked Obama
Former Arkansas governor and current Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee says today is no time for a Neville Chamberlain.
In defense of Mike Huckabee’s Holocaust analogy to the Iran deal
By Nathan Moskowitz, Breaking Israel News— Mike Huckabee, former Christian Pastor, Governor of Arkansas, TV Host and current Republican Presidential candidate recently referenced the Holocaust by likening the Iran nuclear deal to “marching the Israelis to the door of the oven”. Huckabee’s comments drew an immediate tsunami of unmitigated condemnation from the majority of the…
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Blaming failure of a rotten deal on Israel?!
By Jennifer Rubin, Washington Post— As we learn more about the Iran deal — the side agreements, the lifting of the arms and missile embargoes, the loophole-ridden inspections regime — the more apparent it is that only people so enamored of their own work, so gullible to embrace the Iranians’ soothing words and so desperate…
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Iraqi politician calls for peace with Israel, blasts Iran and Islamic State
By JNS.org— Sunni Muslim Iraqi politician Mithal Al-Alusi, who leads the Ummah Party, told the Kuwaiti daily newspaper Al-Rai that Iraq should make peace with Israel. He also called Iran “insane” and said the Muslim world has created the Islamic State terror group by fostering a “mentality of vengeance and nullification of the other.” “Yes.…
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3 Models of Israel’s Theological Significance
By Dr. Michael J. Vlach, Bible Prophecy Blog— How do you view national Israel’s significance in the plan of God? The following are three models of Israel’s significance from a Christian perspective. 1. Replacement Model—The nation Israel no longer has theological significance in God’s plans, being permanently replaced as the people of God by the…
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Turkish Prime Minister Vows To Revive The Muslim Ottoman Empire
By Walid Shoebat Turkish PM says that Obama is “The black man we needed in the White House” and vows to revive the Muslim Ottoman Empire. “Ahmet Hoca , bring us to Ottoman ” a group of Turkish AKP party members cried out while Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu was giving a speech in Istanbul…
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By Jennifer LeClaire, Charisma News— If you type “is Pope Francis antichrist” into Google, you’ll get about 425,000 results in .37 seconds. By way of comparison, if you ask Google the same question about Pope Benedict you only get 137,000 and it takes a little longer—.47 seconds. So why do so many people think—or at…
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Where in the world is the worst place to be a Christian?
Country Total population Christian population Christian % Country Total population Christian population Christian % North Korea 25.2m 300,000 1.20% Like everyone else, Christians in North Korea must worship the nation’s leader, and belonging to another religion makes you an enemy of the state. Thousands of Christians are imprisoned, and many have reportedly been tortured and…
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Palestinian Authority: “Jerusalem never had a Jewish Temple”
By Rachel Avraham, Jerusalem Online— As Jews around the world mourned the destruction of the First and Second Temples on Tisha B’Av, Palestinian Media Watch has exposed that the Palestinian Authority has systematically denied that such a temple ever existed. PA Deputy Minister for Jerusalem Affairs Salwa Hadib proclaimed: “Jerusalem is not only a religious…
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Jews stood up to the U.S. government 40 years ago, and should again on Iran
By Natan Sharansky, Washington Post— These days, like many Israelis and American Jews, I find myself in a precarious and painful situation. Those of us who believe that the nuclear agreement just signed between world powers and Iran is dangerously misguided are now compelled to criticize Israel’s best friend and ally, the government of the…
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Spot Report: Could you be among the least in the Kingdom of Heaven
Matthew 5:19 Therefore anyone who sets aside one of the least of these commands and teaches others accordingly will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever practices and teaches these commands will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
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By Olive Tree Ministries— You don’t have to be Jewish to realize that the world may be sitting right on top of a major moment of biblical prophecy of significant proportions. In keeping with that understanding, maybe this is a year for Christians to sit with the Jewish people and accompany them in mourning and…
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