Bible In The News

In the early hours of Sunday morning, this week, the IDF began its largest military operation in the West Bank for 20 years. The target of the operation was the West Bank city of Jenin. More specifically, Israeli forces were looking to enter the Jenin refugee camp in the city.

This week we see rumours circulating about the United States attempting to put together a normalization agreement between Israel and the Saudi Arabians.

including Southern Command of the Russian Army and several towns or cities and was heading toward Moscow.

Dubrovin Farmstead, which houses the Yesod Ha'malah museum.2024 marks 140 years since the foundation of Yesod Ha’malah, the first modern Jewish settlement in the Huleh valley, in northern Israel in 1884! The community is currently preparing to celebrate this anniversary. The name for the community was aptly taken from Ezra 7:9 where is tells the story of the return from the Babylon exile saying: “For upon the first day of the first month began he to go up from Babylon, and on the first day of the fifth month came he to Jerusalem, according to the good hand of his God upon him. ”. Yesod Ha’malah, is the “beginning” or “foundation” of going up. Today the story of Yesod Ha’malah is told at the Dubrovin Farmstead museum, just outside of the community. Christadelphians donated crucial funds at the very beginning to help the fledging community. References to Yesod Ha’malah can be found in the 1885 Christadelphian magazines.

As the world gears up to celebrate Pride Month we take some time to consider what the Bible has to say about such matters.

A counter-economic group to the G7, called BRICS, is working on a different method of international transactions in an attempt to remove America's ability to weaponize its currency. This effort is designed to collapse the American empire and has been given new life by the sanctions imposed by the West worldwide. It is n keeping with the picture painted in the latter days by the prophets of a multipolar world where Russia, not America is the dominant force. 

The feast of Shavuot (called pentecost, or the feast of weeks) has been celebrated this week in the land of Israel and throughout the Jewish world.

In 2005 the Israeli Knesset passed what was called the “Disengagement Law” which ordered the removal of the 21 Israeli Settlements and the eviction of the settlement’s 8000 inhabitants from their homes in the Gaza strip and banned any settlers moving there in the future.

As then nations of Ukraine and Russia are about to embark on the final push for victory, the world is constantly spun a yarn of imminent Ukrainian victory. The Bible paints a different picture in the long term, including much of Europe coming under Russia’s control.

May 14, 1948 - “The Land of Israel was the birthplace of the Jewish people. Here their spiritual, religious and political identity was shaped. Here they first attained to statehood, created cultural values of national and universal significance and gave to the world the eternal Book of Books. After being forcibly exiled from their land, the people kept faith with it throughout their Dispersion and never ceased to pray and hope for their return to it and for the restoration in it of their political freedom.”

The scripture is very clear, that when the Lord Jesus Christ returns to the earth, all nations will be deceived. There will be a world wide deception.  The Hebrew prophet Jeremiah says, "O LORD, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit.” (Jeremiah 16:19)

Since Russia invaded Ukraine, the West has made a coordinated effort to isolate Russia, cutting off financial and computer services dependent on the Internet. These moves could backfire now that Russia has been forced to operate independent of the West. An attack by Russia on offshore infrastructure, such as Internet cables, would cause catastrophic economic damage to the West, but significantly less to an increasingly isolated Russia. Putin seems to be preparing options for retaliation that may have seemed unthinkable during more peaceful times.

Ezekiel 38 describes a changing of the guard in the hegemony over Europe from the USA into Russia's Court. France's Macron has advocated moving away from US hegemony financially, militarily and industrially. The EU's president agrees, and nations such as German, Turkey and Hungary are singing out of the same hymn book. 

David Billington speaking with Yehudah Glick for Bible in the News.This week for Bible in the News, we were able to sit down with Rabbi Yehudah Glick in Jerusalem. Yehudah is a former member of the Israeli parliament - the Knesset, he served as Executive Director of the Temple Institute, and currently serves as the President of the Shalom Jerusalem Foundation (www.shalomjerusalem.org). He also encourages people from all over the world to connect to Zion and helps people to ascend the Temple Mount. He looks for the day when Zion will be known as a house of prayer for all nations.

In the background in the Knesset, amidst the uproar around the judicial reforms, another small step has been made by the current coalition. However, to understand this we must first go back to 2005. 

This week we witness the AUKUS deal - signifying Tarshish and her young lions rallying together and strengthening ties as we’d expect from Bible prophecy.

The recently sworn in government of Israel, is by far the most religious, right wing government in Israel’s history. The repercussions of this government have already been felt in many ways. One of the hallmarks of the new government’s first months in office has been the controversial Judicial reforms.

Putin has put Russia on a war footing, turning its defence industries into round-the-clock production facilities. He has suspended Russia's involvement in the START Nuclear Treaties, causing fear in the west of nuclear war. The scripture predicts the preparations for war and the re-armament of the world in anticipation of Armageddon. 

This week a Bible is literally in the news as it has been announced that the world’s oldest complete Hebrew Bible, the Codex Sassoon is going up for auction this May. It is believed to have been copied out in the Levant 1,100 years ago and is believed to be the oldest copy of the Hebrew Bible that includes all the books we have in the Old Testament today.

We review what the Bible says about earthquakes in the latter days as major earthquakes rock the Middle East.