“Why did God command Abraham to sacrifice Isaac?”……Answer: Abraham had obeyed God many times in his walk with Him, but no test could have been more severe than the one in Genesis 22. God commanded, "Take your son, your only son, Isaac, whom you love, and go to the region of Moriah. Sacrifice him there […]

Israel regathered There has never been anything to compare with the history of Israel. The Jews are unique. They were scattered to every country in the world and, in our day, they are being regathered to the Promised Land. And (this is remarkable) thousands of years ago the Bible predicted these events. God warned Israel […]

“Who was Melchizedek (Melchisedek)?”……Answer: Melchizedek, whose name means "king of righteousness," was a king of Salem (Jerusalem) and priest of the Most High God (Genesis 14:18-20Psalm 110:4Hebrews 5:6-116:20-7:28). Melchizedek’s sudden appearance and disappearance in the book of Genesis is somewhat mysterious. Melchizedek and Abraham first met after Abraham’s defeat of Chedorlaomer and his three allies. […]

Glossary Al Aksa Mosque Built by the Moslems on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem in 711 AD. Al Nakba Arabic for "the disaster" – a term used by Moslems to describe the founding of the State of Israel in 1948. Aliyah Hebrew word meaning "to go up." Describes Jewish immigration to Israel. Anti-Semitism The term […]

God's deliverance There is a plant that grows in arid areas of Israel that the Bible uses as a prophetic picture of what is to happen in the future. The plant is the "galgal" (Hebrew: gimel lamed gimel lamed). It is mentioned twice in the Old Testament – once in Psalm 83 and again in […]

“Who was Flavius Josephus?”……Answer: Since their release in the first century A.D., the writings of Flavius Josephus have become a primary source of Judeo-Christian history. According to The Life of Flavius Josephus, Josephus ÔÇÿwas born to Matthias in the first year of the reign of Caius Caesar' (1:5), being 37 A.D. At ÔÇÿfourteen years of […]

“What is the meaning of Pishon in the Bible?”……The only mention of the word Pishon in the Bible is found in the book of Genesis: "A river flowed out of Eden to water the garden, and there it divided and became four rivers. The name of the first is the Pishon. It is the one […]