Scripture reading for January 14, 2011
Torah: Exodus 1:1 – 6:1 “Shemot” (The names …) Haftorah: Isaiah 27:6 – 28:13; 29:22 – 23 New Testament: Acts 7:17 – 35 Gospel: John 8:48 – 59 “Hehshevu” (They answered …)
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Chapter 5 – Reading the Holy Scriptures
By PAT HUTCHENS, A rework of Imitation of Messiah by Thomas A. Kempis— Truth is what we are to look for when we read the Bible, not clever or interesting words. The Bible should be read in the same spirit in which it was written – a spirit of humility and total dependence on the…
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U.S. rabbi depicts Jesus as a Jewish patriot
By RAPHAEL AHREN, HAARETZ– Rabbi Shmuley Boteach revels in speaking publicly about topics most Orthodox Jews avoid. In 1999, he gained worldwide popularity with his best seller “Kosher Sex.” He has since written more than 20 books, among them “Kosher Adultery” and “The Kosher Sutra.” And while Boteach’s newest work – due to be released…
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Israel is our land!
By NAFTALI BENNETT, YNet– Some people claim that the Judea and Samaria public relations effort, which is premised on our historical right in this land, is doomed for failure. This is also the perception that dominates Bible and history, because it’s primitive; rather, we must only explain our security needs and point to the murderous behavior…
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Iran nuke work at bunker is confirmed
BY AP— Diplomats on Monday confirmed a report that Iran has begun uranium enrichment at an underground bunker and said the news is particularly worrying because the site is being used to make material that can be upgraded more quickly for use in a nuclear weapon than the nation’s main enriched stockpile. The diplomats said…
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Haniyeh Promises ‘Difficult Days’ for Israel
BY ELAD BENARI, ARUTZ 7— Hamas’ Gaza prime minister, Ismail Haniyeh, promised “difficult days” for Israel on Sunday, AFP reported. Speaking at a rally in the Tunisian capital of Tunis, Haniyeh urged Arab Spring revolutionaries to fight for an independent Palestine. AFP reported that he received an ovation from a crowd of some 5,000 men,…
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The US and Biblical Israel
By BARBARA LERNER, NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE — By now, most Americans know that the “two-state solution” is no solution to the war that supremacist Muslims have been waging against the state of Israel since its rebirth in 1948. Most Americans in public life know it too, but in public, nearly all of them pay lip…
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BY DAVID PARSONS, JPost-Christian Edition — From our vantage point in Jerusalem, it seems that the Christian Zionist movement is constantly gaining new recruits from all over the world. Pro-Israel Christians can now be found in the millions on all continents, and even amid the current turmoil of the Middle East more and more Arab…
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Looming destruction
BY VICTOR SHARPE, AMERICAN THINKER— On the eve of the Second World War, Chaim Weizmann, who was to become Israel’s first president, wrote the following about the persecutions taking place in Nazi Germany: It would require the eloquence of a Jeremiah to picture the horrors, the human anguish, of this new Destruction and of a…
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Israel, the suffering servant
BY DAVID PARSONS, JPost-Christian Edition — From our vantage point in Jerusalem, it seems that the Christian Zionist movement is constantly gaining new recruits from all over the world. Pro-Israel Christians can now be found in the millions on all continents, and even amid the current turmoil of the Middle East more and more Arab…
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Spot Report: Hope for 2012
Think on this! “May the God of hope fill you with joy and peace and you trust in Him. May you overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.”… “I know the plans I have for you; plans to prosper you and not to harm you; plans to give you a hope and…
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Hebrews: A Post-Hebraic Epistle?
By Rev. Isaac C. Rottenberg A few years ago, Rabbi Leon Klenicki recommended two “New Testament” writings for joint studies by Christians and Jews: Paul’s letter to the Romans and the Epistle to the Hebrews. My response at the time was that these are excellent choices. I found the idea so exciting because those two…
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Wish I'd said that
“When I was first here, we had the advantages of the underdog. Now we have the disadvantages of the overdog.” Abba Eban, Former Israeli ambassador to the United States and to the United Nations
Thousands of US troops land in Israel. Aircraft carrier coming soon
DEBKAfile — Thousands of US troops began descending on Israel this week. Senior US military sources told DEBKAfile Friday, Jan. 6 that many would be staying up to the end of the year as part of the US-IDF deployment in readiness for a military engagement with Iran and its possible escalation into a regional conflict. They will…
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US support: Is Israel losing the battle?
BY STEVE RUBIN, YNET— The de-legitimization of Israel is being perpetuated by the Jewish state’s lack of a concrete plan to counter a new generation of anti-Israeli attitudes amongst both the American Jewish community and on college campuses. With regards to college campuses, this is not an issue of bigoted anti-Semitism; rather, it is a…
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The U.S. and Biblical Israel
By BARBARA LERNER, NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE — By now, most Americans know that the “two-state solution” is no solution to the war that supremacist Muslims have been waging against the state of Israel since its rebirth in 1948. Most Americans in public life know it too, but in public, nearly all of them pay lip…
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The land-for-peace hoax
By CAROLINE GLICK, JPost — The rise of the forces of jihadist Islam in Egypt places the US and other Western powers in an uncomfortable position. The US is the guarantor of Egypt’s peace treaty with Israel. That treaty is based on the proposition of land for peace. Israel gave Egypt the Sinai in 1982…
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