Think on this: “A day of the Lord is coming, Jerusalem, when your possessions will be plundered and divided up within your very walls. I will gather all the nations to Jerusalem to fight against it; the city will be captured, the houses ransacked, and the women raped. Half of the city will go into…
This week’s Torah portion is Numbers 13:1 to 15:41. The narrative covers the episode of the twelve spies. Twelve appointed leaders went to Canaan to scout the land and its inhabitants. Moses gave them very specific instructions. They were to enter the land through the Negev desert and journey up to the hill country in…
Torah: Numbers 13:1 – 15:41, “Shelach Lekha” (Send to you … ) Haftorah: Joshua 2:1 – 24 New Testament: Hebrews 3:7 – 4:1 Gospel: Matthew 9:18 – 26, “Bicnaf Zitzit, (Hem of his zitzit … )
By Jim Fletcher, Rapture Ready—- I have been critical of Charismatic leader Dr. Michael Brown for accepting a speaking slot at the odious “Christ at the Checkpoint” gathering in Beit Jala, outside Bethlehem. As has been said many times, CATC is a leftwing, anti-Semitic hate-fest. I felt that Brown would be used as a propaganda…
By David Brennan, Newsweek-— Relations between Israel and Iran are at breaking point. The multinational nuclear deal signed with Iran is on the verge of collapsing—partly thanks to Israeli lobbying against it. Iranian leaders have warned that if it fails, the country will resume its uranium enrichment program, a step Israel considers a threat to…
By Ed Straker, American Thinker— Palestinians are launching “arson kites” to set fires in Israel. What is less known is the extent of the damage. It’s quite large. An Israeli has put together what is purported to be a map of the arson fires. While this map does not come from an official source, it…
In November 1917 the British government made a pledge with the Jewish people through the Balfour Declaration to help establish a Jewish National Home in the territory known as Palestine. Find out what happened next … If you want a more exhaustive look at the history surrounding the Mandate Period from 1917 – 1948 then…
By Ryan Jones, Israel Today— “Welcome to the State of Palestine. The only state whose land is still under occupation by another country, the State of Israel,” declared Palestinian Authority Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki (pictured) in his keynote address on the opening night of Christ at the Checkpoint 2018. No mention of Tibet, or that…
By Ariel Kahana, Israel Hayom— An American plan to bring the U.S. closer to recognizing the Golan Heights as Israeli was laid out for Israeli and American officials in Washington last week. The six-point plan proposed by a group of American legislators and spearheaded by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) calls to implement trade agreements between…