By Giulio Meotti.. Does Israel need Christian help? It’s an old dilemma, as devout Protestants were advocating the restoration of a Jewish State with Jerusalem as its capital long before Theodor Herzl. Moreover, Anglicans of the 19th Century played a central role in the process that led to the State of Israel’s establishment of. (more…)
Two messages for prayer partners. The Church at a crossroads. Find out what you ca do in this second of a two part series.
As we Christians celebrate the coming of Jesus Christ in the coming days, let us remember that Jesus came “as a servant of the circumcision [i.e. the Jewish nation], on behalf of God’s truth, to confirm the promises made to the patriarchs, so that the Gentiles may glorify God for His mercy” (Romans 15:8). We Gentile believers need to remind ourselves that we owe our faith, our salvation, our calling and our hope to the Jewish people. Abraham was called so that all nations would be blessed. Their fall enabled the reconciliation of the world. And their restoration will bring life from the dead (Romans 11). (more…)
The Angel Gabriel made two promises to Mary. First – she would be the mother of a Holy Child. Second – this child would sit on the throne of His father David. The first promise has been fulfilled. The second remains to be fulfilled. It will be fulfilled soon, because the God of Israel by His only-begotten Son Jesus has started to bring His First-born son Israel back to the Promised Land of Israel. The people of Israel, the land of Israel, the nation of Israel and the city of Jerusalem are being prepared for the Coming of the Lord. (more…)
Collapse of the euro, Arab Spring, the rise of extreme Islam, global warming ….. Are we heading for disaster? As Christians we are faced with a fundamental choice. We are inclined to forget that God created this world, and that He is in full control of its redemption. Sometimes with good intentions, sometimes through ignorance, we think that WE have to redeem the world, and save it from destruction. But there is another way of looking at things. And that is to study God’s word and discover how HE intends to fulfil His promise to Abraham – “I will make you a great nation, and I will bless you … and all peoples of the earth will be blessed through you”. A new documentary series produced by Hatikvah Trust and presented by Lance Lambert is intended to help us discover God’s plans to save this earth. (more…)
A banner designates someone’s presence or something being done publicly. Israel reveals a standard of something the Lord is doing and a means of attracting the attention of the World and the Church. It is supposed to attract attention, do you think it is in our generation? Listen and find out more. (more…)
A touchstone is used in the jewelry industry to identify whether something is made of gold. The principle is that Israel is God’s touchstone for the Church/ Find out why in this insightful, challenging message. (more…)
Discussion has flared up again recently concerning the validity of the Old Testament promise of land since the coming of Christ. So-called Palestinian liberation theology, as expressed in particular by the Sabeel Institute, plays an important role in this respect. To put it succinctly and clearly this says, in effect, that the Old Testament finds its complete fulfilment in Christ; there are no more exclusive promises for Israel; there is therefore no more ‘promised land’ for Israel; the New Testament broadening of the promise of land brings the whole earth into focus as the domain of God’s salvation, the promise of land being fulfilled in Christ as a result; and the election of Israel ends with the coming of Christ. (more…)
A controversial subject, even amongst those who love Israel. Everyone who knows their Bible in some measure will agree that the final destiny of Israel and the Church is God Himself (1 Cor 15:24, 28). Upon the matter of the final destiny we have no problem. It is over the meanwhile we have our problem. Lance expounds on this problem as he saw it in 1988. (more…)
By Dexter Van Zile. The god that inheres in the WCC statements about the Middle East is obsessed with Jewish sin and scared to death of Muslim extremists. Such a craven and anti-Semitic god is not worthy of worship, but that is the god implicitly proffered by the WCC in its public witness about the conflict and about the region as a whole. (more…)
