Welcome to week 8, friends! What a joy to have you on board our cruise ship as we sail the seas of Bible prophecy! We will spend the week looking at specific Bible prophecies concerning Syria (Isaiah 17), Israel's neighbors (Psalm 83), Egypt and Assyria (Isaiah 19), Jerusalem (Zechariah 12) and Babylon (Isaiah 13). Today, …
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For Christians, we have just celebrated the most important day of the year: Resurrection Sunday. Christ is risen, and if that were not true, Christianity would crumble. We base our celebration on the Biblical accounts of Jesus’s death, burial and resurrection, which is succinctly wrapped up in this passage: For I delivered to you as of first …
Continue reading A Closer Look at Passover, Unleavened Bread and First Fruits
Sheep Fields Outside of Bethlehem In the same region there were some shepherds staying out in the fields and keeping watch over their flock by night. And an angel of the Lord suddenly stood before them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them; and they were terribly frightened. But the angel said to them, “Do not be afraid; …
Perhaps my western mind simply does not understand Middle Eastern thought, but the relationship between Hamas and the Palestinian Authority boggles my mind. One day they are forming a unity government together, another day they seem to mistrust or oppose all that the other does. They go to incredible lengths to destroy Israel, but any …
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