by Jim Hutchens As of January 20, 2009, Barack Obama is the new President of the United States. Probably no one has ever attained this office accompanied with higher expectations near superhuman expectations expectations that no mortal can fulfill. President Obama campaigned as the candidate of change. As President, he has committed himself to be…
DetailsBy Victor Sharpe, Israelnationalnews.com The days pass and Arab aggression grows more blatant and deadly. The world becomes less and less friendly towards the Jewish state, but in turn, the response from Israel’s present leaders – Ehud Olmert, Ehud Barak and Tzipi Livni – can be summed up as humiliation piled upon humiliation. Both the…
DetailsBy SHELLEY NEESE— “Shelley, I want you to meet the guy who has cracked the code on the Copper Scroll.” With that intriguing introduction, I shook hands with Jim Barfield. We stood among the kiosks of Israeli goods during a lunch break at a Christian Zionist conference in Forth Worth, Texas. “Congratulations,” I replied, “but…
Detailsby Shelley Neese On 14 June 2007, masked gunmen torched and looted the Rosary Sisters School and Latin Church in Gaza City. After bombing the entrance with grenades, the gunmen destroyed every Holy Relic they could find, crushing a statue of the Virgin Mary, burning Bibles, and destroying all Crosses and pictures of Jesus. They…
DetailsBy Joseph Farah, WorldNetDaily.com Israelis are feeling uneasy these days as their leaders continue to negotiate away the land their sons and fathers and brothers fought so courageously to defend from enemies in four major wars and several minor ones. Jews around the world are wondering if their tiny state can possibly survive the onslaught…
Detailsby Jim Hutchens Christian Zionists are often criticized for their failure to show any support for Palestinians. In turn we are accused of giving blank-check approval to all that Israel does. In this issue of The Jerusalem Connection we want to set the record straight. First, regarding the Palestinians, we are asserting, along with several…
DetailsBy Jim Hutchens Christian Zionists are often criticized for their failure to show any support for Palestinians. In turn we are accused of giving blank-check approval to all that Israel does. In this issue of The Jerusalem Connection we want to set the record straight. First, regarding the Palestinians, we are asserting, along with several…
Detailsby Shelley Neese “If someone cuts themselves in the left hand by mistake, would that hand then cut the other hand in revenge? Of course not, for they are hands of the same body.” Jerusalem Talmud The events of six days in August are forever burned in Israel’s national memory. In what had been predicted…
DetailsBy Bill Salus For He will reduce to nothing all the gods of the earth… (Zephaniah 2:11b, NKJV; emphasis added) The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth shall perish… (Jeremiah 10:11b NKJV; emphasis added) The Hebrew prophets Jeremiah and Zephaniah declared approximately 2600 years ago, that their God Jehovah would someday…
DetailsBy Ryan Jones, www.zionist.com Zionism as a concept and an idea of hope has existed for nearly 2,500 years, dating back to the Babylonian Exile. However, the birth of Zionism as a political movement did not take place until 1897. The transformation of Zionism from a mere idea and concept into a very real political…
DetailsBy Ryan Jones, www.zionist.com Zionism as a concept and an idea of hope has existed for nearly 2,500 years, dating back to the Babylonian Exile. However, the birth of Zionism as a political movement did not take place until 1897. The transformation of Zionism from a mere idea and concept into a very real political…
Detailsby Jim Hutchens This year is Israel’s 60th birthday and, as Yogi Berra would say, “it’s déjà vu all over again.” As I write this the menacing behavior of Iran and Syria and their Jihadist terrorist clients, Hamas and Hezbollah, continues to threaten Israel’s security and very existence. The threat of another war looms large…
DetailsBy Joe Kovacs WorldNetDaily And can studying NASA’s website provide evidence for such a scenario? A minister who promotes the Old Testament roots of Christianity suggests a rare string of lunar and solar eclipses said to fall on God’s annual holy days seven years from now could herald what’s come to be known as the…
Detailsby Shelley Neese , The Jerusalem Connection Visit the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem and you are bound to notice a short ladder resting on a second story window ledge. You can also see it in century old photographs and art in the exact same position it is today. On the surface the…
Detailsby Jim Hutchens The definitive teaching about Jews and Israel in the New Testament is Romans chapters 9-11 , Paul’s letter to the Gentile followers of Jesus Christ in Rome. This text voices significant admonitions to Gentile believers concerning what they should not do regarding the Jews. Romans 9-11 follows one of the clearest statements…
Detailsby Shelley Neese Jews and Blacks came together naturally out of shared experiences of persecution and perseverance. Like any complex relationship there were periods of cooperation and of conflict. The 1950s and early 1960s are known as the Golden Years when Black and Jewish communities joined hands to take the lead in improving national race…
Detailsby Shelley Neese What type of lense must one wear to look at the situation of the world and determine that America is a power-hungry empire, Israel is an apartheid state, Christian Zionists are delusional militants, and Palestinians are peaceful advocates for justice? Welcome to Sabeel’s International Conference on Challenging Christian Zionism. Sabeel is the…
DetailsBy Shelley Neese, The Jerusalem Connection What type of lense must one wear to look at the situation of the world and determine that America is a power-hungry empire, Israel is an apartheid state, Christian Zionists are delusional militants, and Palestinians are peaceful advocates for justice? Welcome to Sabeel’s International Conference on Challenging Christian Zionism. …
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