Middle East Update

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 [...]

ALONE, ISRAEL CONFRONTS THE FEARED HIZB’ALLAH
A ruthless, insidious Hizb’Allah, feared by practically every Middle East regime, slipped into Lebanon behind last year’s retreating Syrians & Lebanon exchanged one occupying force for another. It was part of Iran’s campaign to take over the Middle East, and Lebanon was the second victim, after Iraq. (Iran’s doom will [...]

Given the fragile Lebanon situation, the query of Bible believers is, What is the next step in the progress to Christ’s Kingdom? How long will it take? There is not the slightest doubt that the long period of 58 years, in the current state of progress since the formation of Israel in 1948, has been [...]

The recent Israeli/Hizb’Allah war in Lebanon is part of the larger Israeli confrontation with the Palestinians which is outlined in the Bible prophet Obadiah. This is the smallest of the Old Testament prophecies containing only 21 verses but it is unique and is highly valuable in understanding God’s purpose with Israel today and in the [...]