COMMENTARY: Do Christians Only Have Half the Story?

By Brian Hennessy, Israel Today— If someone started watching the Christmas classic, It’s a Wonderful Life, in the middle of the film, would they ever figure out the point of the story? Or appreciate the challenges Jimmy Stewart had to overcome? I doubt it. They would learn how the story ended, but remain largely ignorant…

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Apocalypse at Christmas Time

By Russell Moore, Christian Post— It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas. The stirrings of holiday cheer are all around us, from the Bing Crosby music loop at the Home Depot to the inflatable glowing Santas that every neighborhood seems to have. But my Bible reading right now is anything but festive. I’m in…

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Truth Report:”Hallowing the name of Yahweh this Christmas” (Matthew 6:9-13)

“This, then, is how you should pray: “Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name, Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us today our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from…

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Evangelical Beliefs on Israel Match Prophetic Doomsday Scenarios

By Rivkah Lambert Adler, Breaking Israel News— A recent survey of Christian Evangelicals has them echoing Jewish prophecies, associating trouble in Israel and the rest of the Middle East with End Times. Brookings Institute, a Washington DC-based think tank, recently released the results of their survey entitled American Attitudes Toward the Middle East and Israel.…

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Father Gabriel Naddaf Denounces Palestinian Claims that Jesus Was a Palestinian

By Ahuva Balofsky, Breaking Israel News— In response to repeated statements by Palestinian Authority (PA) officials that Jesus was a Palestinian, Israeli Christian leader Father Gabriel Naddaf denounced the claims on Facebook earlier this month. “On what authority does President Abbas claim that Jesus was a Palestinian?” Naddaf wrote. “The Bible says that He was…

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Column One: Rubio, Cruz and US global leadership

By Caroline Glick, JPOST— At some point between 2006 and 2008, the American people decided to turn their backs on the world. Between the seeming futility of the war in Iraq and the financial collapse of 2008, Americans decided they’d had enough. In Barack Obama, they found a leader who could channel their frustration. Obama’s…

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Spot Report: “Christmas: Jews and Christians together”

Think on this: “Jesus’ purpose was to create in himself one new humanity out of the two, thus making peace, and in one body to reconcile both of them to God through the cross, by which he put to death their hostility.” (Ephesians 2:15-16) Pray on this: Father, hasten the day when the Israel of…

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Orthodox Rabbis Issue Groundbreaking Declaration Affirming ‘Partnership’ With Christianity

By THOMAS D. WILLIAMS, PH.D., Breitbart— A group of prominent Orthodox rabbis in Israel, the United States and Europe have issued a historic public statement affirming that Christianity is “the willed divine outcome and gift to the nations” and urging Jews and Christians to “work together as partners to address the moral challenges of our…

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COMMENTARY: Is Jesus the Thief in the Night?

By Brian Hennessy, Israel Today— I remember years ago watching the popular 1970’s rapture movie, “Thief in the Night,” with my two oldest children. A week later they came home early from school and their mother and I were not there. They told us later how frightened they became thinking we’d been raptured and left…

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COMMENTARY: Jewish Envy

By Todd Morehead, Israel Today— What did the Apostle Paul mean when he said, “salvation has come to the Gentiles to make Israel envious?” Is it true that one of the reasons Gentiles are saved is to make Jews jealous? Really? If this is true, and I believe it is, then the Church has yet…

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White House welcomes Hamas-linked group, shuns Muslim reformers

By Steven Emerson, Israpundit— Hassan Shibly, director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations in Florida, has accused the FBI of killing two men in cold blood in separate incidents. But Obama administration officials still find him to be a suitable representative of the American Muslim community at Monday’s White House meeting on combating religious discrimination,…

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US Congress votes to punish banks financing Hezbollah

BY: AFP AND TIMES OF ISRAEL STAFF, Times of Israel— The US House of Representatives voted unanimously Wednesday to impose tough new sanctions on banks that knowingly do business with the Lebanon-based Shiite movement Hezbollah. The bill targeting the Iran-backed Hezbollah, which is considered a terrorist organization by Washington and Israel, passed the Senate last…

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Upcoming Conference to Study Assault on Pro-Israel Evangelicals

By Dexter Van Zile, Breaking Israel News— Evangelical Protestants are part of the backbone of American civil society. Numbering about 90 million people, these Bible-believing Christians have eclipsed mainline Protestants who comprised the Protestant establishment that ruled the roost in the United States in the decades before, during and after World War II. Many elites…

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Vatican Is Wrong, Jews Need Jesus for Salvation, Says Messianic Group

By Stoyan Zaimov , Christian Post— A leading Messianic group in America has responded to the Vatican’s recent claim that Jews do not need to be believers in Jesus Christ to be saved, by saying that the Apostle Paul would have been “horrified” at the suggestion. David Brickner, executive director of Jews for Jesus, said…

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