Another interesting factor relates to China which is a dominant power. China is moving into all parts of the world including the Middle East, and they have made this deal with Iran and Saudi Arabia; a very big deal. Saudi and Iran have been at loggerheads: Saudi the leading Sunni power and Iran, the leading Shiite power, are hostile to each other. Iran has hit Saudi with missiles and there is a...
Will someone come up with a solution to this problem, offering peace and safety, bringing a guarantee such as a peace treaty? If so, would he be hailed as a great world leader? Israel Politics Let’s just come on to Israel because Israel was also mentioned in the speech which Guterres gave at the U.N General Assembly. He said, “In Israel and Palestine, cycles of violence under the occupation...
Israel moves to fifth election in three years On June 20th Israel’s weakened coalition government decided to dissolve parliament and call new elections. The vote, expected later this year, could bring about the return of a nationalist religious government led by former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu or another prolonged period of political gridlock. In a nationally televised news...
Introduction In the January 2022 edition of Light for the Last Days I wrote that there were three world situations threatening wars which could have far reaching consequences. Russia and Ukraine, China and Taiwan and Iran and Israel. Now the Russia and Ukraine war has happened. Will the other two follow? The world was in shock after weeks of denying that he had any intention to invade...
The Kingdom of God is at hand. The Bible says that whoever calls on the Name of the Lord shall be saved. You don’t have to do great or good works and earn your Salvation, you just have to call on the Name of the Lord, ask Him to save you from your sins. Any person can do that in any circumstance. God gives us a way out and we don’t know how many people called on the Lord in their...
In Isaiah 59 we read: Justice is turned back, and righteousness stands afar off; for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter. 15 So truth fails, and he who departs from evil makes himself a prey.Isaiah 59.14-15 Wherever you look in the world today you see violence and oppression. Evil rulers are taking control of nations and people suffer injustice. Those who resist...
We’re going to look now at some of the things happening in Israel and the Middle East relating to the Second Coming. A number of verses in the scripture speak about a time of trouble which will centre on Israel and the Middle East before the return of Jesus the Messiah. Jeremiah chapter 30 verse 3 says: For behold, the days are Coming,’ says the Lord, ‘that I will bring back from captivity...
David Stone Before 1967, I would say that most Western liberals were fairly sympathetic to Israel. After 1967, when Israel became an occupier of Arab territory, that changed. There was a rapid cooling of attitude. But bizarrely, despite the fact that Israel was the party that was constantly striving for peace, that was accepting UN resolutions while the Arabs were rejecting them, that was...
For the Lord shall build up Zion;He shall appear in His glory.
Psalm 102.16
Israel and Iran at war in all but name. Iran and Israel entered into a new phase of their shadow war over the nuclear arms program of the Islamic Republic and its attempt to expand Tehran’s influence across the Middle East. It is well known that Israel launched more than 1,000 airstrikes on Iranian weapons transports to proxies in Syria in order to prevent the further build-up of an anti-Israel...