Category: Israel

20 March 2015

University Conference based on Hate and Lies

We regularly blog on the depressing rise of Anti-Semitism that is evident in this country. The situation is particularly bad across university campuses and the University of Southampton is the latest to jump on the bandwagon by hosting a conference in April entitled ‘International Law and the State of Israel: Legitimacy, Responsibility and Exceptionalism’. It…
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21 February 2015

Beleaguered European Jews consider immigration to Israel

Anti-semitism in Europe is clearly escalating and there appears to be no end in sight at present. This can take the form of direct violence and aggression as has been evident from many deadly attacks in European cities in recent months. It can also take the form of continual political pressure and we have already…
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24 January 2015

How the Church Lost the Truth – our review of Steve Maltz’s book

The purpose of this post is to take a closer look into – How the Church Lost the Truth. The title should immediately grab our attention as it is deliberately provocative – what do you mean the Church has lost the truth?! But as we as take a closer look this will be explained. This…
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22 November 2014

Tension rising in Jerusalem

Peace is always more of a hope than a reality in the Middle East and after a turbulent Spring around Israel there has been relative peace for a number of months – however, there is tension rising in Jerusalem again and it could escalate out of control at any point. In the last month there…
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18 October 2014

Listen to PWMI talk – The Middle East in Bible Prophecy

On 14th October Alan Franklin gave a talk entitled The Middle East in Bible Prophecy @ St. Andrews Baptist church, as we blogged about. This informative talk can now be listened to through the player below (77 minutes). We do not have the slides that went along with the talk but the majority of the…
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14 October 2014

“Gesture” politics in the House of Commons on Middle East

Yesterday the UK Parliament unsurprisingly voted to “recognise” the Palestinian State after a five hour debate in the House of Commons. Whilst this is merely a symbolic vote, it is significant and is one of a steady stream of efforts to apply political pressure on Israel whilst providing support and encouragement for the enemies of…
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11 October 2014

Replacement Theology – where does your church stand on this issue?

Some time ago, we wrote the article Replacement Theology – Has the Church replaced Israel? in which we outline the Biblical case that God has special plans for the Jews when the “times of the Gentiles” is fulfilled (see Romans 9-11). What we did not cover in any detail were the effects of replacement theology…
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