Ad campaign for Israel aimed at Christians: The commercials illustrate the rising importance of bond between evangelicals and IsraelMike Dorning
As an Israelite ceased to be of Israel — became an alien and outcast from the House of God, forfeited the grace of God and his inheritance in God — if he did not keep the Passover and partake of the Lamb; so He would have us learn that, in like manner, unless Christians partake...
“‘The days are coming,’ declares the Lord, ‘when I will make a new covenant with the people of Israel and with the people of Judah.’” (Jeremiah 31:31). This involves Christians today. Because humanity had fallen far from the grace of God, and God wanted a renewal of the relati...
He wound up married to both Rachel and her sister Lea. Eventually Jacob returned to Canaan, and made peace with his brother, but not until he wrestled God in the wilderness. Jacob had twelve sons, who became the patriarchs of the twelve tribes of the nation of Israel. Esau married ...
Like the rest of Jesus' apostles, Peter was an Aramaic-speaking Jew from the Roman province of Judaea (a land that more or less corresponds to the modern nation of Israel). Peter's brother Andrew was another one of Jesus' apostles, and both men are considered to be saints by the Cathol...
The complex is situated in East Jerusalem, which was occupied by Israel during the 1967 Six-Day War. The status of Jerusalem, including the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, is a contentious issue in the conflict. The competing claims and differing access rights to the site have often been a source...
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"But the angel of the LORD said to Elijah the Tishbite, “Go up and meet the messengers of the king of Samaria and ask them, ‘Is it because there is no God in Israel that you are going off to consult Baal-Zebub, the god of Ekron?’ (2 Kings 1:3)...
Neither the word “Trinity” nor the explicit doctrine appears in theNew Testament, nor didJesusand his followers intend to contradict theShemain theHebrew Scriptures: “Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord” (Deuteronomy6:4). The earliest Christians, however, had to cope with the...