Jerusalem Watchman

[Reminder: “The Bible on Israel” articles are meant to comprise, over time, a protracted study that seeks specifically to understand more about Israel’s place in God’s plan for the world. We are not parsing Scripture verse by verse, or even chapter by chapter, but are specifically looking for instances that directly deal with the People, […]

Immoral then; it is indefensibly immoral now…
 
Kasejovice, Czech Republic – The border with Germany is 45 km west – and the Sudetenland just a few minutes’ drive – from my father-in-law’s small holding where my family and I are savoring the summer.
Forests cover this corner of the Czech Republic. In the tiny villages that dot the […]

On July 9, 2008 I flew from Prague to Boston to speak at a number of meetings arranged by Pastor Don Cobble of the Kaleo Christian Center in Woburn, MA.
The short tour - potentially the first of a series - originated out of an urge in my spirit to speak again into the hearts of […]

Shalom y’all
I am in the United States for two weeks where I will be speaking to a number of congregations on the East Coast - specifically in the Boston area, West Virginia and Virginia.
As a consequence there will be few news updates on Jerusalem Newswire and commentaries on Jerusalem Watchman between now and July 25 […]

“What General Weygand called the Battle of France is over. I expect that the Battle of Britain is about to begin. Upon this battle depends the survival of Christian civilization. Upon it depends our own British life and the long continuity of our institutions and our Empire. The whole fury and might of the enemy […]

Two things before moving on in Genesis…
First: A note to my Jewish readers. As many of you know, I am unapologetically and unashamedly, a Christian, a follower of the way lived and taught by the most wonderful and influential Jew ever to walk this earth. I am deeply ashamed of a great deal of what has […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]