Friends, take a good look at the picture above. This new sculpture now sits in the Visitor's Plaza at the United Nations (UN) building in New York City, and is hailed as the "guardian for international peace and security." This "fusion of jaguar and eagle" is a very reminiscent of the beast described by the …
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Welcome to Occupy Till I Come! In case you just stumbled upon our current series, we're focusing on the role God desires Christians to have in public affairs. If we have learned anything at all in our recent past, it is that Christians have become far too adept at being spectators rather than gladiators! Christianity …
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Last Thursday was Tisha B'Av (ninth of Av), a day of deep grief in Israel. Many calamities throughout history have occurred on that calendar date, including the decree that the generation Moses led out of Egypt would remain in the wilderness for 40 years, thousands of Jews were expelled from England in the year 1290, …
When you read about Jerusalem in the Bible, do you really know the location of what you are reading about? While the Old City of Jerusalem is what we read about in the New Testament, it was not the actual seat of Jewish life until the time of King Herod, who demonstrated his building prowess …
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