What is Passover? The book of Exodus tells us that four hundred years after the time of Joseph, the Hebrew people had multiplied greatly, filling the land of Egypt. The Egyptians resented all the Hebrews. They made them slaves and forced them to do back-breaking work at the hands of brutal masters. Pharaoh even tried…
In Exodus 13, the Bible presents a holy script for the holiday of Passover. Essentially, God designed a ritual which makes certain that the Jews institute the Exodus in their collective memory. Their Egypt experience binds them as a people who share a history of oppression but also one where they are commanded to remember…
By Walter Russell Mead, Providence— The Christmas story suggests that we can somehow try to be loyal members of our nations, our families, our tribes—and to reach out to the broader human community of which we are also a part. Back in the beginning of the Christmas season, I wrote about the way the Gospel…
By Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz, Breaking Israel News— Pastor Mark Biltz, the founder of El Shaddai Ministries, has called for churches around the world to recite the “Shema” prayer, declaring the oneness of God, on Sunday, July 29, as a powerful act of solidarity with Israel. The concept for the act of unity first came to…
BY JEWS FOR JESUS— The Feast of Tabernacles had ended. The crowds had dispersed and those who had traveled to Jerusalem from the outlying regions were making their way home. The sukkahs were being cleared away along with well-shaken lulavs, bent and broken from the joyous celebration. Jerusalem was returning to its usual bustling pace.…
By Hannah Nesher, Voice for Israel— As we celebrate the Festival of Sukkot סֻּכּוֹת (Feast of Tabernacles or Booths), we complete the annual Biblical cycle of the feasts (called mo’adim in Hebrew) that occur in the fall. As an agricultural festival, Sukkot marks the end of the harvest time and is therefore called the “Feast…
By Charles Gardner, Israel Today— Persecution of the Jews – at least from those supposedly following Jesus – would perhaps have been largely avoided if the Church had fully understood the Messianic promises of the Tenach (Old Testament). Biblical illiteracy among Christians (certainly in the West) is a major contributing factor to its present backslidden…
By Sam Nadler, Charisma— To many Jewish believers, it seems rather strange to think that the Messiah could have come but that comparatively so few of their people believe in Him. The question is often expressed like this: “So, with all the scholars and rabbis searching to discover the Messiah, you’re the only genius to…
Revelation 11:15 The seventh angel sounded his trumpet, and there were loud voices in heaven, which said: “The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Messiah, and he will reign for ever and ever.”