“The Spirit is simply trying to turn our attention to what matters—the fact that God will judge the world, the dead will be raised, and some will be raised to life and others to destruction.”

Read and listen to, THE SPIRIT & THE ENDURING NEED FOR DIVINE EMPOWERMENT by Bill Scofield now.

This is part three of the Center of Nations series, which examines the history of the modern State of Israel in the midst of an increasingly hostile world. An insidious affair in France inspires a Jewish publisher to write the pamphlet that would spark a movement for a Jewish state in the Jewish homeland.

Read and listen to, THE BIRTH OF THE ZIONIST MOVEMENT by Gabriel Caligiuri now.

"Here’s a very simple recipe for popular cocktail everyone seems to be ordering: one shot supersessionism, two shots replacement theology thoroughly mixed with aspirations for global domination and served with the blood of the martyrs."

Read and listen to, THE ANTI-ZIONISM COCKTAIL by Daniel Thomas Lancaster now.

This is part two of the Center of Nations series, which examines the history of the modern State of Israel in the midst of an increasingly hostile world. A devastating pogrom in the Russian Empire and reforms in the Galilee lead to the first large wave of Jewish emigration to the Promised Land in the 1880's.

Read and listen to, THE FIRST ALIYAH by Gabriel Caligiuri now.

“Throughout history, the law became a stumbling stone for Israel. This excessive dependence upon external righteousness remains visible even today within many religious communities. Israel’s error was not the law itself, which is holy and good, but the attempt to attain righteousness and salvation through the works of the law rather than through faith. Yet this tendency is not unique to Israel. The same principle of self-righteousness can become a stumbling stone even for those who are already within the new covenant.”

Read and listen to, ISRAEL, THE CHURCH, AND THE ETERNAL COVENANT • PART III by Paulo Maranatha now.

This is part one of the Center of Nations series, which examines the history of the modern State of Israel in the midst of an increasingly hostile world. In the midst of the world’s first international antisemitic incident, rabbinic voices are heard calling for a Jewish return to the Land.

Read and listen to, EARLY VOICES FOR RETURN by Gabriel Caligiuri now.

“While the Christian church has historically (and rightly) clung to the cross of Christ, we’ve criticized the Jews for focusing on the crown. But biblical literacy demands we cling to both—because the prophets spoke of both.”

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“Peter, answering for the others, affirms their conviction that Jesus was ‘the Christ’—that is, the Messiah, or the coming King of the Jews. This affirmation became the bedrock upon which the Jesus movement was formed. This story, like the ‘good confession’, served to highlight the central conviction that bound Jesus’s earliest followers together: Jesus of Nazareth was the coming King of Israel.”

Read and listen to, THE GOOD CONFESSION by Bill Scofield now.

“I’m not antisemitic; I’m anti-Zionist.” We hear that disclaimer from the progressive political left, the radical alt-right, Muslim apologists, Hollywood stars, mainstream politicians, and even Christian theologians and pastors. “I’m not against Jews, it’s the political ideology of Zionism that I oppose.”

Read and listen to, THE THREE FROGS: ANTISEMITISM, ANTI-ZIONISM, & ANTI-JUDAISM by Daniel T Lancaster now.

"In that coming day, the LORD will cleanse the land and remove its iniquity 'in a single day.' From that moment forward, there will no longer be merely a remnant within Israel, but the whole nation — 'from the least to the greatest' — will know the LORD. Israel will finally be preserved in holiness as a priestly nation and become an example to all peoples during the reign of Messiah over the earth."

Read and listen to, ISRAEL, THE CHURCH, AND THE ETERNAL COVENANT • PART II by Paulo Maranatha now.