Middle East Update

Israel Applies a BandaidThe latest Israel incursion into Gaza lasted 22 days, after which time Israel withdrew its forces. At this time of writing - second last week in January - the ceasefire is holding but only just. As the Bible discloses - and recent history confirms, these forays into Gaza and Lebanon do not [...]

Why the World’s Financial Markets Will Recover
The world’s financial markets will recover in order to crash again many years from now. That future crash is foretold in Revelation chapter 18. And the market that crashes in that future will be entirely different, and be in entirely different circumstances, from the present day.
Revelation chapter 18 is [...]

Rockets on Israel, fired by Hamas from Gaza or fired by Hizb’Allah from Lebanon, are great constraining factor on Israel’s civilian life. For the moment Israel has to live with the daily arrival of rocket-borne explosives on two of its towns, Sderot and Ashkelon, a situation that would not be tolerated in any other sizable [...]

Celebrating forty years after the miraculous Israeli victory in the 1967 Six Day War, an analysis of the circumstances of that momentous event has recently been published by a panel of investigative journalists and historians. Its conclusion is that so many factors came together for Israel’s success that it is impossible to conclude that they [...]

Egyptian police seized 1-1/2 tons of explosives in central Sinai on June 4, Security forces on a routine patrol found the explosives packed in 40 sacks and hidden in a mountainous area.

Bible Views on the News - Issue 13
When Bible believers read the prophecies about Israel’s future they realise that, although Israel’s prospects are bright with a Kingdom role to play, conditions are to get worse before they get better. To the present time Israel has always had assistance to help her cause. Initially it was [...]

The Current Battle for the Holy Land
Armageddon…Which Battle?

The long drawn out battle for the Holy Land, raging since Israel’s rebirth in 1948, and prospects for its continuance for a possible twenty years or more, leads us to the necessity of separating, in time scale at least, the near return of Jesus and the more distant defeat of the Palestinian challenge to Israel’s [...]

A survey of Israel’s news sources reveals that neither Israel’s armed forces nor Hizb’Allah are anticipating a renewed war in south Lebanon soon. Both sides are licking their wounds and have embarked on the long process of regrouping. This recent contest has been a small part of the ongoing Arab campaign against Israel, particularly [...]

Obadiah’s prophecy foreshadows the time when sovereign Israel will be expanded to include the lands now basically in the hands of the Palestinians (called Edom and Esau in Obadiah). Five areas will be incorporated into Israel proper [Oba 1:19-20]-Gaza (Philistia in Obadiah),kingdom of north Jordan (Gilead), and south Jordan (mountains of Esau), West Bank(Ephraim and [...]