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Deceptive promises

Just before French President Nicolas Sarkozy came to Jerusalem last Sunday, he reportedly told an Israeli news outlet France would do “everything” to keep Iran from becoming a nuclear armed power.
“Those who outrageously call for Israel’s destruction,” he emphatically told Ynetnews, “will be confronted by France and will be blocked.”
Sarkozy’s expressed sentiments were not unique among Western leaders.
Intentionally [...]

God hides His face

The story of Cain and Abel appears, on the face of it, to be simply the report of the first murder in history, which of course it is. But as with all Scripture, there are many things to be discovered in the text itself - not least the start of the line that would lead [...]

In the beginning…

Note: I am no theologian, not a qualified Bible teacher, not even a student of biblical studies (at least not since 10th Grade). Like millions of “ordinary” Christians, I imbibe Scripture because I believe it to be the inerrant Word of God; I read it repeatedly, receiving and absorbing it prayerfully into my mind because I want [...]

So you know where I stand…

The Bible I am reading through for this purpose of “discovering what it says about Israel” is “The Holman Ultrathin Bible - Classic Edition.” It is the New King James Version published by Broadman & Holman Publishers, Nashville, Tennessee, Copyright 1988 Thomas Nelson, Inc. This is not a Study Bible. Apart from a not very [...]

The Bible on Israel

The Bible – Hebrew Scriptures (“Old” Testament) and the New Testament – is the most widely-read, most published, most venerated book of all time.
With translations of the complete Bible in nearly 440 languages, one of the two testaments translated into 1,168 additional languages, and portions of the text in 848 additional languages, we can say [...]

Obama embraces Israel

“Hugging Israel” - Thus was headlined the front page top story in one of the Hebrew-language dailies cluttering the counter of the Arcaffe coffee shop on Jerusalem’s Hillel Street Thursday morning.
The words were splashed in large print over a three-quarter-page color photograph of euphoric US Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama embracing his wife in front [...]