Upon him I will write the name of My God, and the name of the city of My God (the new Jerusalem that comes down out of heaven from My God), and My new name.Revelation 7:3“Do not harm the land or sea or trees until we have placed a seal on the foreheads of the servants ...
In February, ‘death to Arabs’ and ‘relocation now’ was written on cars in the village of Jit, near Nablus, the attackers also adding the name of Yitzhak Gabay, a Jewish extremist convicted of setting fire to a bilingual Jewish-Arab school in Jerusalem. Attackers often spell out their r...
Abe Katsman is an American attorney, consultant and political writer living in Jerusalem. His columns are carried in several newspapers and political websites in both Israel and America, and he is a popular guest on American talk radio discussing Israel and American foreign policy. He serves as ...
The Church that was born in Jerusalem on Pentecost is the very same Church that St. Peter established in Rome, about 42 AD (a pretty gutsy thing to do, considering what the Romans did to Jesus, just a few short years before). The Roman Church overcame more than 200 years of brutal an...
So, today, we come to a passage where the Jerusalem church is persecuted. We will look at that passage. I wish to teach that passage, and I also want to talk about persecution today. Goals today: Learn about Acts 12:1-5 Learn about persecution in the world Be ready for your Christian...
City of Culture for the year 2000. I didn’t know this but after Jerusalem and Rome it is the third most holy city in Christendom and the cathedral is the destination today, as it has been throughout history, of the important ninth century medieval pilgrimage route, the Way of St. ...
In the temptation of Jesus in the wilderness, Satan had asked Jesus to bow down to him and worship him in return for all the kingdoms of the world. Satan wanted to put himself into the place of God. And now the religious people from Jerusalem are with Jesus, doing something that Jesus...
/ I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. / And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying: “Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man, and He will dwell with them. They will be His people,...
When Paul gave his defense before Felix in Acts 24, he states that it was only twelve days ago that he arrived in Jerusalem for the purpose of giving to the poor, see verse 17. In Paul’s letter to the Romans, he tells them that he is on the way to Jerusalem to bring aid to ...
Letter 51 in the Jerome corpus. From Epiphanius, bishop of Salamis in Cyprus to John, bishop of Jerusalem: 9. Moreover, I have heard that certain persons have this grievance against me: When I accompanied you to the holy place called Bethel, there to join you in celebrating the Collect,...