Twelve Reasons the USA Should Support Israel

Let’s not abandon her. But America must not ignore the Palestinians, either. I answer objections throughout the post.

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17 The Church and Israel

Confusion has dominated the Western world in regards to Israel. Today antisemitism has spread around rapidly like an evil virus. So what does the Bible say about Israel in the OT and the land of Israel today and the church?

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Sec. 11, 1 Eschatology, Doctrine of Last Things: New Testament Basics

This post launches a new section of Theology 101. Start here. What did Jesus and the apostolic community really believe about the Second Coming, according to the New Testament? Did they believe in a pre-tribulation rapture and then a Second Coming? Or did all of them have a simple and streamlined and consistent and unified view of the end?

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Luke 13

Jesus tells the Israelites to repent or perish like the ones whom Pilate slaughtered or like those workers on whom a tower fell. He tells the Parable of the Barren Fig Tree. He delivers a woman from a disabling spirit. He tells the short illustration of the mustard seed and leaven. He tells people to enter by the narrow door. Finally, he laments over Jerusalem.

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