Throughout history the Jewish people have been persecuted. In the last century Hitler and the Nazis sought to wipe the Jews from the face of the earth and succeeded in killing over 6,000,000 in the Holocaust. Today anti-Semitism is rising globally. Political Islam has called for the destruction of the
In my previous post I unpacked the first half of Psalm 87, noting God’s affection for Jerusalem, where all nations will come to worship Him. The second half of Psalm 87 marks an unexpected and revolutionary turn. Those who are God’s enemies will be adopted into God’s family as if
Psalm 87 is short and easily passed over. But its six verses put the reader at the crossroads between an Old Testament promise and its New Testament fulfillment. What was God’s promise? To bless Abraham and make him and his descendants a blessing to ALL nations. God’s people were at
The world has the Jews because of God’s great promise to bless all the nations of the earth through Abraham. And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing. I will bless those
A Nazi named Gerhard Kittel was the editor of the TDNT, the highly acclaimed Theological Dictionary of the New Testament. Should that mean anything? What lessons should we take away from this bizarre historical fact? The Divide of the church in Germany Hitler came to power determined to rid Germany of the
The historic Jewish homeland has been variously called Canaan, Israel, Judea and Samaria, and Palestine. The Jews trace their history there to 2085 BC when Abraham followed “the Voice” into the promised land of Canaan. God promises that this would be the land of Abraham’s descendants “forever.” About 1406 BC,
Justice is ill-served, even in sports, in a worldview built on reincarnation. That’s the gist of a recent article picked up by Yahoo News from Pradeep Magazine in the Hindustan Times. The writer, in a piece entitled Crime and punishment an alien concept, bemoans the lack of accountability for cheating in India’s
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