Three times a day, observant Jews pray, "May the Holy Temple be rebuilt speedily and in our day." Although Jewish people have always lived in the Holy Land, after the Holocaust the Jews began returning to Israel en masse. In 1948, the Jewish nation was prophetically reborn (Isaiah 66:7...
(1) As stated by the Qur'an above, at the time of his emigration from the country, the Prophet Abraham had prayed for a righteous son and in answer to it, Allah had given him the good news of a clement boy. The context shows that this prayer was made at a time when he was chil...
During the Passover week, when Jesus dies – there is a 7-day Feast of Unleavened Bread which the Jews celebrated in the spring annually. The Sunday during that week (which always fell after the Sabbath) is called the Feast of Firstfruits (Lev. 23:10-11). So, what day did Jesus res...
For me, tomorrow is my day to continue working on my other stories that are in the hopper. Too often, my stories take on lives of their own. I get side-tracked and suddenly do not even realize what I wrote. All I can do is shake my head, locate the spot where I lost control, ...
Here is how Luke describes him, “He and all his family were devout and God-fearing; he gave generously to those in need and prayed to God regularly.” One afternoon about three o’clock Cornelius has a vision. He sees an angel of God. This angel comes to him and says, “Cornelius...
After the meal, Jesus leads the disciples to the Garden of Gethsemane. It was late and dark. There was no one around. Jesus wanted to spend time praying. The disciples wanted to spend time sleeping. Jesus prayed three times After the third time (hitting the snooze button), he came to ...
” and Moses replies “a rod”. This was his rod for herding sheep, the profession that Moses had spent his life doing. This was the tool of his trade. God used that staff to part the red sea, to bring water from the stone and Moses lead the Jews for 40 years with that staff. ...
Jews, except for one Italian friend. He wore a big cross around his neck. Now, you might think he must have been the person that God used to bring the Gospel message to me, but that isn’t what happened. He wore the cross around his neck, not because he was a Christian, but ...
“Day and night are not exactly equal to each other at the time of either the March equinox or the September equinox, the date on which day and night are each 12 hours long, or most nearly so, is a few days before or after the equinox.” From the U.S. Naval Observatory in Washing...
Will make [an oxen] stall a court, a cratch [manger] a throne. These days, it’s not very easy to believe that humanity is a fit habitation for the God of love and the Prince of Peace. It’s a sign of our sad times that Christmas got cancelled in Bethlehem this year. The war,...