By Arlene Bridges Samuels, CBN Israel— Three thousand years of recorded history sit atop, around, and below the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, Israel’s capital city. The 37-acre trapezium-shaped platform rises 2,400 feet above ground. Judaism’s holiest site, the Western Wall (Kotel in Hebrew), is on the southwest side. Built by King Herod during Roman occupation,…
By AP and ILH Staff— Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ call for elections has thrown his political future into peril, forcing him to negotiate competing demands to engage with a friendlier US administration, mend the rift with his militant Hamas rivals and keep his unruly Fatah movement from breaking apart. The presidential decree issued last month,…
By Herb Keinon, Jerusalem Post— “You never get a second chance to make a first impression,” Will Rogers once quipped, a remark as true in diplomatic relations as in personal ones. Which is why the first weeks and months of a new American administration are so important: they set a tone, they create those first…
The Citizenship of the One New Man! Let us return to the context of the One New Man of Ephesians 2:15. The home or residence of the One New Man is not the Church. It is Israel – the Israel of faith. Again, in this sense, Israel replaces the Church rather than vice versa. Why?…