God uses regular people like us who will obey Him. Esther was called upon to be the tool of deliverance. God's sovereign rule is assumed though never stated throughout the book of Esther. This makes His power even more vivid because it is seen...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
God declared that in spite of persecution and the periodic wholesale slaughter of Jews, He would not let His chosen people be destroyed, but would preserve them as an identifiable ethnic, national group.
God promised the children of Israel great blessing in the land of promise if they would remain faithful to Him.He also predicted great suffering, persecution and worldwide dispersion when they forsook Him.
So far the story is hardly remarkable. Other peoples have believed that a certain geographic area was their "Promised Land" and after entering it have later been driven out by enemies. The next seven prophecies, however, and their fulfillment,...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
In order to view modern world events in a biblical perspective, we have to take off the glasses provided to us by secular journalists and historians, and put on our biblical glasses that see the movements of the nations from the microscopic...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
The modern miracle of the restoration of Israel, although mostly in unbelief, is but the prelude of even more climactic developments. The world will continue on without the believing Church inexorably toward its time of judgment and the wrath...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
When you are chosen by God there is no limit to what He can do with you! When God picked Jerusalem it was unknown and would have ended up like any other of the vanished cities whose ruins dot the globe. But no, He said I put My name here...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
In Genesis 12:1–3 God declares that His primary focus will be on His promises to Abraham. God planned for Israel's mission to be “a light to the Gentiles” (Is. 42:6). In Genesis 12 God promised three elements:a land,...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
God has a two part planned return for His people Israel. The promised restoration of Israel is to be understood as a two-phased process, encompassing a restoration to the Land followed by a restoration to the Lord, the God of Israel.
Is there any reason other than chance that half the world’s surviving People of the Lord have returned to the Land the Bible has always called Israel? Is there any way this has to do with the 20% of the Old Testament that is not yet...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
