Scripture Reading for October 28, 2016
Torah: Deuteronomy 33:1 – 34:12, “V’zot Beresheet” (Shabbat beginnings… ) Haftorah: Joshua 1:1 – 18 New Testament: Colossians 1:15 – 17 Gospel: John 1:1 – 14, “Beresheet” (In the beginning … )
Prayer by Derek Prince before the presidential election in 1980
By Derek Prince, 1980 Almighty, God, our Heavenly Father, we come to You in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, redeemed by His blood, committed to serve and follow Him. We come to you as Your believing people, Your representatives in this earth, the agents of Your government in the earth. We lift up…
Pope Francis: God gave the land to Israel
By Israel Today— Amid the uproar caused by a UN resolution passed this week denying any Jewish connection to Jerusalem and its Temple Mount, Pope Francis on Wednesday insisted that Israel’s ties to the Holy Land are both ancient and divinely ordained. “The people of Israel, who from Egypt, where they were enslaved, walked through…
Outpour of Christian support for Israel
By Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz, Breaking Israel News— An outpouring of Christian support for Israel and decrying the UNESCO vote began during Sukkot, a Jewish holiday prophesied to have multi-national relevance. The resolution passed last week on the day after Yom Kippur, and was ratified by UNESCO’s Executive Committee on Tuesday. It referred to the Temple…
Trump tells Jerusalem rally he’ll ‘make Israel, US safe again’
BY RAOUL WOOTLIFF AND RAPHAEL AHREN, Times of Israel— Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump told a Republican event in Jerusalem on Wednesday that he will work to make “America and Israel safe again.” “I love Israel and honor and respect the Jewish tradition and it’s important we have a president who feels the same way,”…
Republican senators urge Obama to cut UNESCO ties over Jerusalem Resolution
By Abra Forman, Breaking Israel News— A group of Republican senators sent a letter to President Barack Obama on Wednesday urging him to suspend the US’s diplomatic ties with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in light of its recent adoption of resolutions denying Judaism’s connection to Jerusalem. “Because UNESCO continues to…
Palestinian campaign vs Balfour shows hostility to Jewish state undimmed after 100 years
By David Horovitz, Times of Israel– Hidden away at the British Library — available for viewing only by special permission — is the original Balfour Declaration, foreign secretary Arthur James Balfour’s short but oh-so-resonant century-old letter of British government intent to revive Jewish sovereignty in the Holy Land. Also preserved, in an elegant folders kept…
The coming shift: Hillary Clinton’s plans for Israel and Iran
By Michael Wilner, JPost— Hillary Rodham Clinton is preparing to dramatically shift the tone and tenor of relations with Israel away from a publicly disputatious posture adopted by the Obama administration, according to several of her top aides, who in conversation with The Jerusalem Post outlined, for the first time, her detailed plans for the…
For the first time every Jews allowed to pray on the Temple Mount
By Abra Forman, Breaking Israel News— In a not-so-subtle response to the recent UNESCO resolutions denying all connection between Jerusalem and the Jewish people, record-breaking numbers of Jews ascended to the Temple Mount over the three-week holiday period encompassing Rosh Hashana, Yom Kippur, and Sukkot – and in an incredible reversal of the usual status…