Friday 18th November. I love the rain, it cleanses the air, the city, the soul and gives life to the earth. I imagine the tiny seeds and bulbs hiding in the cracked arid earth suddenly springing into life, preparing to burst forth in the spring. (more…)
by Sondra Oster Baras.. These past few weeks have included a number of significant events, seemingly unrelated, and yet all bear watching for their inevitable affect on current affairs in Israel. As we face the growing threats, we Jews in Israel will be drawing our strength upon our unique traits.We will hold on to our country and our land even as so many nations of the world seek to erase us as a people. We did not survive these many centuries to be too upset when we lose a popularity contest. We will fight for our survival and pray for G-d’s blessing and we can take comfort in the fact that He promised our eternal survival. But, unique to Israel, we will take comfort in the fact that we are all in this together – that brother will fight for brother and mothers will protect children. We are one family and we will survive. (more…)
By Itamar Eichner. The Israeli Ministerial Committee on Immigrant Absorption has made a decision in principle to bring to Jewish state northeastern Indian community claiming descent from one of Lost Tribes of Israel. (more…)
“I have no doubt in my mind that the real battle has to be fought and won in the secret place, many people do not understand the mystery of real intercession. Intercession is the deepest form of prayer and doesn’t require only your lips, it requires all of YOU, Spirit, Soul and Body!” Find out why…. (more…)
The world is in a complete mess, and getting worse. God desperately wants to redeem the fallen creation. The question all of us have to answer is whether we accept and submit to God’s plans to redeem this world, or try to fix things ourselves.
By Lance Lambert.. This last short period we will consider began with Pompey’s conquest of the Promised Land in 63 BC and ends with the birth of Christ in 6 BC approximately. Although short this period is noteworthy in that it saw the people of God come under Roman law and government, the rise of the Herod’s; the rebuilding of the Temple; the quickening anticipation of the coming Messiah; and the preparation of a tiny but faithful remnant. All this in less than 60 years. (more…)
By Henk Vreekamp…Critics of Zionism have denounced it as just another form of 19th century nationalism with its mythical bond of ‘blood and soil’. And Christian Zionism has been reprobated as ‘blood and soil theology’. How is the bond between the people and the land of Israel to be understood? In this article, we explore the bond between the Jewish people and the land of Israel. (more…)
By Michael Freund, Fundamentally Freund: That dream of some 7,000 Bnei Menashe to come to Israel is now poised to become a reality. Thousands of kilometers to the east, in the furthest reaches of northeastern India, a long-lost community continues to nourish its age-old dream of returning to its ancient homeland, the land of Israel. (more…)
by Derek Prince..God is speaking here to the nations other than Israel. He is saying, in effect: “I am planning to restore My Jewish people to the land that I gave them. If you seek to hinder or oppose what I am doing, I will have to treat you as My enemies.” (more…)
Many Christians hold the view that the New Testament is, at best, silent on the issue of the land of Israel. Or they say: the Old Testament promise of the land for the people of Israel is cancelled, or transformed to mean the heavenly kingdom of God.Is it true that the NT is silent on the promise of the land? Does it deny Israel’s hope for restoration? Does the promised land really mean “only” a kingdom of God in heaven? This is the last part of a series of three articles. (more…)
