Characteristic of the history of the people of Israel is the continual desire for Zion, for Jerusalem, for the Holy City. Arising during the Babylonian Exile, it has continued up to the present day, after centuries of Diaspora, pogroms and extermination camps. (more…)
Rev. Gijs Lammerts van Bueren
The creation of the new state of Israel in 1948 has greatly influenced church thought concerning God’s plan of salvation for the Jewish people and the land promise. Many ‘Church and Israel’ commissions rapidly followed one another and countless articles and books were published on this topic. Almost sixty years have passed, and while this continues, the last word has not yet been spoken. (more…)
By David Pileggi
In 1896, Herzl, the father of Modern Israel, met Anglican clergyman, William Henry Hechler, a “prophet without honor”. David Pileggi tells the story of that meeting – one hundred years ago – and its outcome. (more…)
I am not a Jew. I am a Gentile. An Australian who lives in Holland, who has been saved by the grace of God. I love Israel and the Jewish people. Unconditionally. In my daily life I am active in helping Jewish people in Israel, and also Jews who want to come to Israel. And I defend the right of the Jewish people to live in Palestine in safety and security. So who and what am I? When I read the Christian media, I discover that I am a “Christian Zionist”.
Its roots and tendencies by Susanne Urban, published by Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs http://www.jcpa.org/
The new millennium has witnessed a resurgence of anti-Semitism in the world, especially in Europe. (more…)
The British refused to accommodate the Jews. The situation reached rock bottom when the British Navy boarded the ship ‘The Exodus 1947′ just inside the territorial waters of Haifa. The ship had left Marseille in France on July 9th 1947, and sailed through the Mediterranean Sea to Palestine. (more…)
The prophet Isaiah talks about the Jews in the whole world when he unfolds the plan of the Lord: “I will bring your children from the east and gather you from the west, I will say to the north: Give them up! And to the south: do not hold them back, bring my sons from afar and my daughters from the ends of the earth…” (Isaiah 43:5,6) (more…)
We all know the story of the release of the Jewish People from Egypt, their journey through the Red Sea and 40 years wandering through the desert, on their way to the promised land. This happened many, many years ago. But the return of the Jewish people in our days, and especially since 1948, is much larger in size. The Bible speaks many times very clearly about the land of the North, far in the north of Israel.
