By UNITED WITH ISRAEL— The U.S. Senate unanimously passed a resolution last week condemning Hamas’ criminal conduct, including the use of civilians as human shields. The resolution, co-sponsored by Senators Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) and Joe Manchin (D-WV), also expressed support for the sovereign right of Israel to defend its territory and its…
DetailsBy ROBERT STEARNS, EAGLES WINGS— Evangelicals, while maintaining their view of Scripture and their faith in Jesus as the Messiah, are largely motivated in standing with Israel and the Jewish people worldwide. As someone who has spent the last 20 years of my life at the intersection of Jewish and Christian communities worldwide, I have…
DetailsBy JOHN LOMPERIS, JUICY ECUMENISM— Any government of sinful human beings in our fallen world is always in need of constructive criticism for its imperfections, some of which are much more dramatic than others. So of course, not all criticism of the Israeli government amounts to anti-Semitism. Nor does simply disagreeing with a particular U.S.…
DetailsBY WALID SHOEBAT— Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan does not only intend to revive the Ottoman Empire but thisMonday (Dec 8) he put to law to revive the dead Ottoman language and to make the Arabic-alphabet and the Ottoman language compulsory in Turkish education. The move has biblical significance. But before we explain the prophetic…
DetailsBy ISRAEL TODAY— Israel’s increasingly vocal Christian antagonists have been trying to blunt support for the Jewish state by Christian Zionists by teaching that it must not be viewed as a fulfillment of biblical prophecy. This despite the wholly unprecedented survival of an exiled people for 2,000 years and the eventual rebirth of their nation,…
DetailsBy BREAKING ISRAEL NEWS— A sheikh called for the “slaughter of Jews” in a spontaneous sermon captured on video on the Temple Mount. In a video released by the Middle East Media Research Institute, Omar Abu Sara was filmed saying that Jews were “the most evil creatures to have walked this earth.” Addressing worshippers gathered…
DetailsBy ISRAEL HAYOM— U.S. President Barack Obama sent a clear and sharp message to Israel on Tuesday: I will not give up on peace negotiations with the Palestinians, even during the final two years of my presidency. U.S. Ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro issued the message during a speech at Bar-Ilan University’s Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic…
DetailsBy JTA— Israel implemented special procedures to speed up the immigration process for people with Jewish origins from Ukraine’s conflict zones. The new procedures were implemented earlier this month and formulated in a new executive directive issued by the headquarters of Israel’s Population and Immigration Authority to its branches, the authority’s spokesperson, Sabine Haddad, told…
DetailsRomans 11:28-29 28 As far as the gospel is concerned, they are enemies for your sake; but as far as election is concerned, they are loved on account of the patriarchs, 29 for God’s gifts and his call are irrevocable.
DetailsBY JAN WILLEM VAN DE HOVEN, INTERNATIONAL CHRISTIAN ZIONIST CENTER— When Shimon Peres lost to Benjamin Netanyahu with a very slight margin in the 1996 election for Prime Minister, he, Shimon Peres, was interviewed the day following by Daniel Ben Simon from the Haaretz. These are the words with which Shimon Peres explained his defeat…
DetailsBY EARL COX, ISRAEL ALWAYS— Its official. The current government in Israel is dissolving. An early election has been set for March 2015. As one of the tens of millions of Evangelical Christians who stand fervently with Israel and her citizens, it brings much relief to finally see Prime Minister Netanyahu fire the two leading…
DetailsBy DEBKAFILE— President Barack Obama and his White House National Security team headed by Susan Rice have decided to seize on the political crisis besetting the Israeli government and the upcoming general election on March 17 for action to bar Binyamin Netanyahu’s reelection to a fourth term as prime minister. This decision reverberated through Future…
DetailsBy RON JAGER— The very same day last week that Israel’s ruling coalition abruptly came to an end, meaning that Israel is heading towards new elections and that Benjamin Netanyahu will be running for an unprecedented fourth term as the Prime Minister of Israel, all hell broke loose. For the Left it signaled “open season”…
DetailsThink on this: “If I forget you, O Jerusalem, may my right hand forget its skill. May my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth if I do not remember you, if I do not consider Jerusalem my highest joy.” (Psalm 137:5-6) Pray on this: Heavenly Father, hinder and prohibit the efforts of the…
DetailsTorah: Genesis 37:1 – 40:23, “Vayeshev” (and he settled …) Haftorah: Amos 2:6 – 3:8 New Testament: I Corinthians 15:3 – 8 Gospel: Matthew 1:18 – 25, “Huladot” ( the birth of Jesus …)
DetailsThe Jerusalem Connection is partnering with the Jewish Agency and the International Christian Embassy of Jerusalem in an urgent appeal to help the Jews of Ukraine make aliyah. What is predicted to be a brutal winter is fast approaching in Ukraine. Many Jews from eastern Ukraine have been displaced from their homes. Damaged infrastructure, due…
Details“I will place no value on anything I have or may possess except in relation to the kingdom of Christ.” —David Livingstone, Explorer and Medical Missionary in the 19th century
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