Spot Report: Is the Gog and Magog war coming soon?

Think on this: “Surely the Sovereign Yahweh does nothing without revealing his plans to his servants the prophets.” (Amos 3:7) Pray on this: Father you have said “I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go. I will counsel you and watch over you.” It’s with confidence in your promises that…

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Wish I'd said that

“If we consider the unblushing promises of reward and the staggering nature of the rewards promised in the Gospels, it would seem our Lord finds our desires, not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child…

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Is Christian Evangelical Support for Israel Kosher?

By MATTHEW M. HAUSMAN,  ARUTZ 7 — Some Christians embrace Jews and Israel for the right reasons while others do not. Support for Israel among evangelical Christians is a growing phenomenon that has many American Jews scratching their heads and asking questions. Is Christian support sincere or is it merely subterfuge to facilitate the missionary…

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What did Paul Believe about Judaism?

By Dr. Brad Young It is common in Christian academic circles to debate whether or not Paul was the “second founder of Christianity” who converted from Judaism to start a new religion. I disagree with this view because I cannot accept the simplistic explanation that Jesus was a loyal Jew, faithful to his people, while…

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‘The US or Israel — who should strike Iran?’

By GAVRIEL FISKE, TIMES OF ISRAEL— Position paper weighing US and Israeli military options against Iran, written by retired US Marine Corps general James Cartwright and Amos Yadlin, former IAF head and military intelligence chief, posits that a US-led strike on the Iranian nuclear facilities would be preferable from a military standpoint, while an Israeli…

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The 3 myths about the two state solution

By DANIEL TAUBER, JPOST— President Barack Obama’s visit to Israel last March likely left even his harshest Israeli critics pleasantly surprised. He showered Israel with compliments, joked about prior disagreements, and most importantly, made no demands. Still, Obama could not completely refrain from addressing the “Israeli-Palestinian conflict,” and delivered one of his signature lecture-speeches on…

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The "grievances" defense

By PETER HUESSY, GATESTONE— The April terrorist attacks during the Boston Marathon killed and wounded scores of people. Machete-wielding thugs last week butchered a British soldier in full view of citizens on a London street. Simultaneously, in Sweden, a full five days of riots have seen burned cars, banks and schools, and assaulted citizens. These…

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Burgers, Fries, and the The State of Palestine

By DAVID RUBIN— For years, we have been hearing expressions such as “the plight of the Palestinians”, “the legitimate rights of the Palestinians”, and most recently, the “national right of the Palestinians to their own independent state”. These mantras have been repeated in the last thirty years almost as often as a MacDonald’s commercial and…

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Wish I'd said that

“Today let us take our place at Jesus’ side and look upon His people with His eyes, full of love and mercy.  Then our hearts would ache to see this chosen people of God wandering through the centuries, wretched, despised, shunned, ostracized, and afflicted with pain like the suffering Servant of God in Isaiah 53. …

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Yaalon: We'll Know what to Do If Syria Gets S-300

By GIL RONEN, ARUTZ 7— Israel “will know what to do” if Russia delivers highly advanced anti-aircraft missiles to Syria, Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon said Tuesday. AFP said this was “an apparent allusion to another air strike” on Syria. “The deliveries have not taken place – I can attest to this – and I hope…

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Shimon's balderdash

By MICHAEL FREUND— Israeli President Shimon Peres created a stir on Monday when he delivered a speech at the World Economic Forum in Jordan that strayed far beyond his circumscribed presidential mandate. In a short and somewhat rambling address, and in remarks to reporters afterwards, the 89- year-old head of state made a number of…

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Candidly Speaking: A global tsunami of anti-Semitism

By ISI LEIBLER – JPOST — In the post-Holocaust era, many had predicted, mistakenly, that the world’s oldest hatred would recede, even anticipating that anti-Semites would soon become an extinct species.   Participants at the fourth conference of the Global Forum for Combating anti-Semitism, held under the auspices of the Foreign Ministry this week in…

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Nigerian church again blesses Israel

By YOSSI ALONI, ISRAEL TODAY— Nigerian church and government officials last week came to Israel bearing a large financial gift for Israel’s Magen David Adom (MDA) emergency medical organization (the local equivalent of the Red Cross). The Nigerian Redeemed Christian Church of God had previously donated a new ambulance to the MDA station in Jerusalem.…

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