Anti-Semitism has been around for thousands of years, and it is still very much with us today. The world has witnessed, in the last few years, the greatest increase in anti-Semitism since World War II. Danny Danon, currently Israel’s United Nations ambassador has said, “Jew hatred and demonization of Israel are at ‘the highest level of our lifetimes.’”[1] Since the founding of the nation of Israel anti-Semitism has expanded into another strand we call either “anti-Zionism” or “the new anti-Semitism.” The new strand of anti-Semitism is expanding throughout the world under the leadership of the Arab Muslim world...
The Bible is totally unique when compared with all other “holy books” of the world’s religions. One of the unique aspects of the Bible is the fact that it is the only religious source rooted in past history that also predicts future history. All other religions of the world, unless they rely on the Bible at some point, do not rise or fall on whether they are historically true. All other religions are based upon a philosophy or ethical a way of life and do not stand or fall on whether they are historically accurate...
May 17, 1999 Israel had a major national election in which Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu was defeated by Labor’s Ehud Barak. Barak will be forming a coalition government that is due to assume governance around the first of July. The other story in the Israeli elections that most do not realize is that while the more conservative Netanyahu lost the top spot to the more left-leaning Barak, the religious parties made significant gains in the number of seats they control in the Knesset. This makes for an interesting coalition mix since Barak has to include some of the conservatives and orthodox parties to form a government of at least the 61 seats required for the thinnest majority. How are these recent developments fitting into God’s prophetic plan?
Passage: Revelation 13:11-18
The mark of the beast has been the focal point of more rhetoric, ridicule, argumentation, and speculation than possibly any other single item in the Bible. Christians and non-Christians alike have argued between each other and among themselves about its numerical nomenclature. But what does the text of Scripture say and not say? ...
Passage: 1 Thessalonians 4:17
Last month Dr. Tim LaHaye, Dr. Ed Hindson, and I did a weekend prophecy conference in the Philadelphia area. As usual, we had a time of questions and answers about Bible prophecy. One attendee turned in the following written question: ...