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Is it the End of the World?

The first time I visited Israel, February and March, 1998, I was astounded one afternoon to be walking down the street in Jerusalem…seeing children in what looked like Halloween costumes. They were walking along, looking exactly like kids back home “trick or treating.” I was so ignorant of Jewish history, I didn’t know I was…

While having lunch one afternoon on a busy street in Jaffa—just north of Tel Aviv—I noticed quite a commotion in the middle of the street. Thinking at first there had been a traffic accident, I asked and was told no, it was “just another archaeological dig.” Another dig, that’s all! Jaffa, or Joppa as it…

One of the beautiful things about believing Bible prophecy is having faith in the promises of God. This is but one thing that makes the Bible unique among sacred texts. According to the Bible, the Jewish people are eternal. Scores of dictators over time have tried to wipe them out, and as Mark Twain once…

“The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.” (Isaiah 17:1) As the unrest/murder in Syria reaches catastrophic proportions, I am reminded of the famous prophecy of Isaiah 17, which says that one day, Damascus will be destroyed. Since the city is very ancient—and…

We have nowadays around us a class of men who preach Christ, and even preach the gospel; but then they preach a great deal else which is not true, and thus they destroy the good of all that they deliver, and lure men to error. They would be styled “evangelical” and yet be of the…

There is a most compelling prophecy given in Psalm 83—although it is controversial (some do not believe it is a prophecy meant for the end times). In essence, the Psalmist asks the Lord to preserve Israel against her enemies, and the enemies are listed. They happen to correspond to the nations that immediately surround Israel…

One of the great proofs that the Bible is true—and that we are indeed living in the last days, despite the catcalls and mocking from the critics and skeptics—is the survival of the Jewish people. They are a sovereign nation again. Repeatedly in Scripture, the Lord promises to preserve them. He has done this, the…

One of the weapons anti-Israel leaders in the American Church use is the idea that “the Jews of Israel are not religious.” This is used as a reason not to support their right to dwell in their ancestral land. It is one reason used, I should say. There are many others. Theologically, these liberal voices—some…

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