By David Parsons, ICEJ— In the new year of 2017, we will pass several important milestones for Christians who support Israel. For instance, it has been 500 years since the start of the Protestant Reformation in October 1517, when Christians could read the Bible in their common languages once again and rediscovered that God still…
DetailsThink on this: “I urge, then, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for all people— for kings and all those in authority, that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness. This is good, and pleases God our Savior, who wants all people to be saved…
DetailsBy Charles Jacobs, Jpost— Major Jewish establishment organizations are strenuously lobbying for the resettlement of Syrian refugees on American soil. It’s explained as a natural extension of Jewish values and history – “we, too, were refugees once. We, too, were the ‘other.’” The comparison is, to say the least, abstract. It ignores vast differences between…
DetailsBy JNS— Following a high-profile meeting with David Friedman, President Donald Trump’s choice for U.S. ambassador to Israel, a group of more than 70 evangelical Christian leaders has issued a joint letter to the president expressing their enthusiastic support for Friedman’s candidacy. In the letter, the group expressed confidence that Trump “wisely selected a fellow…
DetailsBy Sean Savage, JNS— Aside from its centrality to Jewish peoplehood as the home of the ancient Jewish Temples and now the modern state of Israel’s capital, Jerusalem is also synonymous with Judaism for many Bible-reading Christians. As such, prominent pro-Israel Christian organizations are lining up to express their support for President Donald Trump’s promise…
DetailsBy Dexter Van Zile, Israel Hayom— Yusef Daher is the executive secretary of the Jerusalem Interchurch Center (JICC), an ecumenical peacemaking institution supported by the World Council of Churches. Daher is no peacemaker, however. He is instead an ideological and theological combatant in the ongoing effort to delegitimize the Jewish state. He uses his status…
DetailsBy Charles Gardner, Israel Today— A political document blamed by many for today’s Middle East crisis was motivated by the evangelical Christian faith of a uniquely international, cross-party, British war cabinet. This was the claim of Jerusalem-based Canadian Rev Dr David Schmidt in a London lecture marking the centenary of the 1917 Balfour Declaration. This…
DetailsBy Brandon Showwalter, Christian Post— Christians and Messianic Jews are weighing in on the possible relocation of the American embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem as the Trump administration appears to have pushed pause on its campaign promises to do so. Messianic Jewish scholar and host of the Line of Fire radio program Michael Brown,…
DetailsTorah: Exodus 10:1 – 13:16, “Bo” (Enter …. ) Haftorah: Jeremiah 46:13 – 28 New Testament: I Corinthians 11:20 – 34 Gospel: Luke 22:7 -30, “Ha’yom shezarik” (Day of Unleavened Bread … )
DetailsBy Lamb and Lion Ministries— There are some Bible prophecy teachers out there who are teaching that we are currently living in the Tribulation. All the way back since World War 1, they claim, the prophetic judgments of Revelation have been pouring down upon the earth. Sadly, the only thing predictable about their predictions is…
DetailsZechariah 12:2-6 2 “I am going to make Jerusalem a cup that sends all the surrounding peoples reeling. Judah will be besieged as well as Jerusalem. 3 On that day, when all the nations of the earth are gathered against her, I will make Jerusalem an immovable rock for all the nations. All who try…
DetailsBy Eric Cortellessa, Times of Israel— US President Donald Trump continued to back off his campaign pledge to relocate the American embassy to Jerusalem in an interview aired Monday, saying the move was “not easy” and giving it no more than “a chance” of occurring. Trump’s repeatedly promised to move the embassy from Tel Aviv…
DetailsBy Dr Inna Rogatchi (C) Based on the speech at the Inaugual Opening of the Shining Souls. Champions of Humanity exhibition at The European Parliament – January 24, 2017, Brussels Between Wansee and Auschwitz At the time of the commemoration of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day 2017 at the European Parliament, on the initiative and…
DetailsBy Jeffrey Heller | JERUSALEM Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu voiced support on Sunday for moving the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem but mentioned no time frame, after a Republican activist accused Israel of pressing the Trump administration to delay the pledged step. In an interview with Israel’s Haaretz newspaper, Marc Zell, head of the Republicans Overseas…
DetailsThink on this: “Jesus said, ‘I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.’” (John 14:6) Pray this way: Father, you know who is uncertain about their eternal destiny — move them by your Holy Spirit to ask, “Help me Jesus,” knowing that help will…
DetailsBY Dr. Mordechai Kedar, Arutz 7— From the minute Donald Trump, while still a candidate, promised to move the American Embassy to Jerusalem, I have been asked repeatedly what I think the Arab and Muslim response to that move might be. My usual answer to this kind of question is that “I am neither a…
DetailsBy Josefin Dolsten, JTA— American Jews are watching the beginning of Donald Trump’s presidency with both fear and hope. Many have expressed worries about some of his supporters’ ties to the so-called “alt-right” movement, whose followers traffic variously in white nationalism, anti-immigration sentiment, anti-Semitism and a disdain for “political correctness.” Those fears intensified when Trump…
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