God of the armies of Israel
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have begun a ground operation in the Gaza Strip. What are the latest developments? What do the Scriptures say about these events? How can we pray? Tunnel of hate Early...
View ArticleTunnel vision in Gaza
On Saturday evening Israel Defense Forces (IDF) directed intense tank and air power against areas in Gaza opposite Kibbutz Nahal Oz. This was a standard military tactic, a ‘preparing of the ground’...
View ArticleThe prophetic arrow of victory
The war against the jihadi army of Hamas continues. Rockets continue to be fired at Israeli population centers. Israel’s Air Force (IAF), Army and Navy (IDF) are responding by targeting rocket...
View ArticleWho is on the Lord’s side?
The words of U.S. General William Tecumseh Sherman ring out from the pages of history and echo over Gaza’s jihadi terrorists of Hamas: “You people … don’t know what you are doing. This country will be...
View ArticleStumbling with the footmen
More than 2,600 years ago, the prophet sadly noted, “If you have run with footmen and they have tired you out, then how can you compete with horses? If you fall down in a land of peace, how will you do...
View ArticleGird up your loins
US President Obama and UN President Ban Ki Moon, in cooperation with Turkey, Qatar and Hamas, are turning the thumbscrews on Israel, upping the political pressure. They are pushing for an unconditional...
View ArticleAs it was in the days of Adolph
The war between jihad and the Jewish state enters its fourth week. The fog of war is clearing, and outlines are becoming sharper. What follows is a summation of the flow of the past three weeks, a...
View ArticlePhoenix rising
As of Tuesday morning Israel has withdrawn its forces from the Gaza Strip, in exchange for a 72 hour Egyptian brokered ceasefire beginning at 08:00 hours (the eighth ceasefire so far, all of which have...
View ArticleThe seduction of the blind
Western Christians in the 1930’s were beset by a selective blindness – one that left them criminally unprepared for the rise of genocidal Nazi anti-Semitism. This same dynamic is being repeated in our...
View ArticleMorphing the face of jihad
As Hitler and Stalin rose to bloodthirsty power, some opinion-shapers in the West became apologists for these demonic movements. They tried to make horrendous evil appear to be simply ‘another...
View ArticleStacked deck in the Middle East
On Tuesday August 26, 2014 at 19:00 hours, an unlimited ceasefire brokered by Egypt went into effect between Israel and Hamas. Nevertheless, Hamas fired rockets seven times at 19:02 and 19:09 – their...
View ArticleIf I forget you, O Jerusalem
The last few weeks have seen Islamist rioting and civil unrest break out like root fires on the seams between Jerusalem’s Jewish and Arab populations. Calls for violent opposition to Israeli rule on...
View Article‘Tis the Season to remember
The holiday season is in full throttle. Good food, good cheer, trees and lights, and nine-branched menorahs abound. Dreidels and potato pancakes, fruit cake and egg nog overflow on groaning tables....
View ArticleThe Sanballat Syndrome
Bob Dylan said it well. “The enemy is subtle. How be it we are deceived, when the truth’s in our hearts and we still don’t believe…” (“Precious Angel”, © Special Rider Music, 1979). As Islamist terror...
View ArticleThe black flag and the black hole
Under Paris skies Jihadi-inspired terrorism has become a hot-button item in the past weeks. On January 7, 2015 Chérif and Saïd Kouachi – two French citizens of North African Islamic origin (connected...
View ArticleMarrying the anti-Israel spirit
“The days have gone down in the West, behind the hills, into shadow. How did it come to this?” (Théoden’s soliloquy before the Battle of Helm’s Deep, www.councilofelrond.com/subject/the-two-towers-2/)....
View ArticleBoasting against the branches at the Feast of Esther
The coming week ushers in the worldwide celebration of Purim (the Feast of Lots). A Persian plot to destroy the Jewish people, hatched in the prideful heart of Haman, nearly led to the genocide of the...
View ArticleMaking the crooked straight : Tearing down Evangelical strongholds opposed to...
Purim, the Feast of Esther, memorializes the attempted genocide against the Jewish people in what is now called Iran (ancient Persia) by Haman and his supporters. The Bible tells us that Haman was...
View ArticleStumbling over the calling of Israel
Christians across the planet have just celebrated Palm Sunday, the day commemorating Yeshua’s triumphal entry into Jerusalem in that pre-Passover week leading up to His crucifixion and resurrection....
View ArticleSuperpower confrontations
Red-starred nuclear bombers probe Swedish, British and American airspace. Camouflaged “irregulars” move heavy weapons across the erstwhile border between Ukraine and Russia. U.S. paratroopers of the...
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