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Jewish History
For thousands of years, Jewish people have celebrated Passover, remembering God’s deliverance of the Israelites from slavery in Egypt and His faithfulness over the centuries. This month, millions of Jewish people worldwide will gather around the table to recount the story of the exodus. But thousands of seats will be…
The beginning of Micah chapter 7 is a lamentation about the prophet’s disappointment with Israel’s ungodliness: “Woe is me! For I am like the fruit pickers, like the grape gatherers. There is not a cluster of grapes to eat, or a first-ripe fig which I crave” (Mic 7:1).
Given a comparatively positive history, the rising antisemitism in North America is particularly troubling.
The modern history of Tel Aviv began in 1909 when sixty families founded what they called Ahuzat Bayit (roughly, “Homestead”). This neighborhood merged with Nachalat Binyamin(“property of Benjamin”) and Geula under the name of Tel Aviv, meaning “hill of spring.” The term comes from Ezekiel 3:15, which speaks of a village called “Tel-abib,” where…
End-times prophecy may not seem like the most practical topic. Why deal with future events when so much is happening in the present? End-times prophecy is not just about the end times. This topic, which arises frequently in Scripture, affects how we think about so many other areas. Prophecy about…
The first thing we observe about the book of Esther is that God’s name and even the title “the Lord” are never directly mentioned. This does not mean God is not active or that this book is not Scripture; rather, it simply gives us a different…