Australia – half-right, or all wrong?

Australia’s recognition of “Western Jerusalem” can only perpetuate the Arab-Israeli conflict, not, as the Labor Party fallaciously charges, because it supports Israel’s claim to half the city, but because it supports the false Arab claim to any of it. What, I have been asked, are we to make of Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s December … Read more

A Train for the Messiah

A note to Bible-believing Christians whose heads may be in the clouds: Please read the following verses, then take a clear-eyed look at developments unfolding at the Center of the Earth in our day. “For I will set My eyes on them for good, and I will bring them back to this land; I will … Read more

Pain amidst blessing

Yesterday afternoon (Thursday, April 26, 2018) I stood with 28 Australian Christians on the Biblical Mountain of Blessing, Mount Gerizim, way up in northern Samaria. The valleys and hills spread out from nearly 900 meters below us were dappled with light as grey clouds heavy with rain and hail charted their course southwards. Rain, so … Read more

‘The beginning of our redemption’

In 1864, famed British Baptist preacher Charles Spurgeon proclaimed, concerning the then-still-anticipated restoration of the nation of Israel: There will be a native government again; there will again be the form of a body politic; a State shall be incorporated, and a King shall reign (emphasis added). In November 1948, six months after Israel’s national … Read more