You will rise up and have compassion on Zion, for it is time to show her favor--the appointed time has come. . . . Psalm 122:6Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: "May those who love you prosper. Ecclesiastes 7:18It is good to grasp the one and not let the other slip from your...
In this passage, we meet an Ethiopian eunuch who had been to Jerusalem to worship. He was reading from the Prophet Isaiah and seeking to understand what it meant. As a eunuch, he would not have been accepted by the Jews, but God saw his heart and sent Philip to share the gospel with...
The sighting of a new crescent moon marks the start of Ramadan, a time for piety and self-reflection.
Jerusalem is first mentioned in the Bible in Genesis 14:18, a passage that tells us Abraham paid tithes to Melchizedek, the King of Salem.Shalemmeansbe completeorpeaceablein Hebrew. It is the root word of Yerushalem (Jerusalem) and of shalom (peace). Indeed, God intends that Jerusalem be...
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel is determined to launch a ground offensive against Hamas in Rafah, Gaza’s southernmost city, a plan that has raised global alarm because of the potential for harm to the hundreds of thousands of civilians sheltering there. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel ...
A year before last September, I spent three weeks in Israel, visiting Tel Aviv for a week and Jerusalem for two weeks. I also got two one-day tours, one to Masada and the Dead Sea for sightseeing, and the other a “security tour” of the defensive environs of Jerusalem given by the...
Consider also the prophecy of Christ concerning the city of Jerusalem: “For days will come upon you when your enemies will build an embankment around you, surround you and close you in every side, and level you, and your children within you, to the ground; and they will not ...
True Discipleship 21From that time forth began Jesus to shew unto his disciples, how that he must go unto Jerusalem, and suffer many things of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised again the third day. 22Then Peter took him, and began to rebuke him, ...
Appointed governor over the cities of Judah by the Babylonians after the fall of Jerusalem. He was a key figure in maintaining order and peace among the remaining Jews.3. Ishmael son of NethaniahA member of the royal family who harbored ambitions against Gedaliah, leading to a conspiracy ...
Brokering peace How the Northern Ireland conflict became divisible (and why Jerusalem has not)seem unable to divide territory through partition, compensation, shared sovereignty, or othermechanisms of division. In Jerusalem, for example, many Israelis "insist that a united Jerusalem will be the ...