South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
Last week I published a short update from Israel from Vivienne Myburgh national director of the International Christian Embassy Jerusalem (ICEJ), South Africa, who was leading a tour group of South Africans at a joyful Feast of Tabernacles celebration. Little did either of us suspect that the next week we […]
President Biden arrived in Israel on Wednesday afternoon at around 3.45 pm for his first Middle East trip as president. The red carpet was literally rolled out and there were welcome speeches by interim prime minister Yair Lapid and President Isaac Hertzog on his arrival. Traffic was totally diverted to […]
Russian invasion of Ukraine triggers most urgent aliyah campaign on record As the war rages on in the Ukraine, Christians worldwide are making it possible for Ukrainian and Russian Holocaust survivors to escape to Israel. This is “the most urgent, massive aliyah operation we’ve ever been involved in,” said David Parsons, vice […]
Today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day. It was initiated by the UN on January 27 2005 on the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camp and extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau. (This day is separate from Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day — Yom HaShoah) — on the 27th of […]
God ordained that the Jews would be a blessing to the nations even at the outset of His call on their father Abraham. In Genesis 12:3 He stated that Abraham’s descendants would be a blessing to the nations and that those who bless them would be blessed and those who […]
Among the Israelite descendants who have returned to the Promised Land in modern times, the Bnei Menashe identify as part of the “lost tribe” of Manasseh from the northern kingdom of Israel exiled some 2 700 years ago. The Bnei Menashe (“Sons of Manasseh”) are a people living in northeast […]
Israel, God’s nation on the earth — under attack again from all angles! God has always warned that those who represent His Kingdom would come under attack from the forces of darkness, who would seek to destroy His Name, through destroying His representation on the earth. Israel is the nation […]
Kristallnacht was commemorated last week from the evening of November 9 to the evening of November 10. Early in November 1938 a young Jewish man walked into the German Embassy in Paris and shot the third secretary, Ernst Vom Rath, after he had heard that his family had been expelled […]
There have been times that Jewish individuals have said to me that they would prefer to be like any other nation and not to be singled out as a special or chosen nation… My reply has always been that they are not…and simply cannot, be like any other nation. God […]
Part 1 Part 2 Paul writes the following in the book of Romans (Chapter 9:3): For I wish that I myself were accursed for my brethren, my countrymen according to the flesh, who are Israelites, to whom pertain the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, […]