The prophet Isaiah speaks of a final day of judgment when “people will go into caves of the rocks and into holes in the ground away from the terror of YHVH and the splendor of His majesty, when He arises to terrify the earth” (Isaiah 2:18-19). The two specific countries that Isaiah focuses on in that prophecy are Lebanon […]
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Hezekiah was a descendant of King David, and he was a good king: He was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned for twenty-nine years in Jerusalem . . . He did what was right in the sight of YHVH, in accordance with everything that his father David had done. He removed the […]
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Many Christians were raised going to Sunday School, hearing Bible stories of Abraham and his camels, or David and his sheep. An other-worldly glow surrounded these tales; hymns and Christmas pageants retold these old, old stories. These stories, which seemed to happen “a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away” actually took place […]
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Bob Dylan once wrote one of the most powerful and prophetic descriptions of the uneasy relationship between Israel and the nations in his song ‘Neighborhood Bully.’ Here are some selected lines from that song: Well, the neighborhood bully, he’s just one man. His enemies say he’s on their land. They got him outnumbered about a […]
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Now the rovin’ gambler he was very bored – He was tryin’ to create a next world war He found a promoter who nearly fell off the floor He said “I never engaged in this kind of thing before But yes – I think it can be very easily done! We’ll just put some bleachers […]
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You have broken down all [Your servants’] walls. You have brought his strongholds to ruin. All who pass along the way plunder him (Psalm 89:39-41) Oh, that my head were waters and my eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for those slain of the daughter of my people! . . . […]
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Osama bin Laden’s teacher, Sheikh Abdullah Yusuf Azzam was born in 1941, in the village of Silat al-Hartiyeh near Jenin, he studied Islamic Law (Sharia) at Damascus University’s Sharia College and at Cairo’s Al-Azhar University. His slogan was “Jihad and the rifle alone: no negotiations, no conferences and no dialogues”). In the mid-1970’s he lectured […]
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The prophet Hosea make reference to a horrific time in Israel’s history when Shalmaneser invaded Israel from the North, massacring Jewish people in Beit Arbel, a Galilean village near Capernaum: “All your fortresses will be destroyed – as Shalman destroyed Beit Arbel on the day of battle, when mothers were slaughtered with their children” (Hosea 10:14). The world has […]
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The God of Jacob wants the Jewish people to remember. Moses instructed Israel: If you say in your heart, ‘These nations are greater than I; how can I dispossess them?’ – you are not to be afraid of them. You shall remember well what YHVH your God did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt: the great trials which your […]
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Over the past two days, Israel has been eliminating the remaining dregs of Hamas terrorists – the jihadi squads of over a thousand who crossed into Israel on the Sabbath to rape, murder, kidnap and torture. Going house to house and building to building, IDF soldiers have taken down or captured nearly a thousand terrorists. […]
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