Samuel’s thunder returns: Israel votes as storm strikes on anniversary of Noah’s flood
Israelis who went to the polls on Tuesday to choose their next government walked out of the voting booths into the first heavy storm of the season, which broke as the Hebrew calendar turned to 17 Cheshvan, the date on which, according to Jewish tradition, the rains of Noah’s Flood began to fall.
Rabbi Kaduri’s signs: Elections without a government, and a redemption this year
Israelis go to the polls tomorrow, and the final surveys agree on only one thing: neither camp is close to the 61 seats needed to form a government. Decades ago, Rabbi Kaduri named a sign that would precede the Messiah: elections without a government.
Israel’s new space division enters heavenly battlefield the Bible described 3,000 years ago
The IDF has appointed the first commander of a new Space Division, formally declaring space an active battlefield and placing Israel among the handful of nations organizing their militaries to fight beyond the atmosphere.
Yishmael’s mobs drive France’s Jews home as Israel readies for a new wave of aliyah
Schools set on fire in the Paris suburbs, students hurling objects at police in Rennes and Grenoble, and nearly 5,000 arrests have pushed Israel’s government to plan for something it has seen before: French Jews heading for the airport.
Exile plus one letter equals redemption: A rabbi’s quest to unlock the Bible’s Hebrew for Christians
What does heaven have to do with fire and water? Why does the Hebrew word for a flimsy hut come from the same root as the word “to see”? And how does a single letter turn exile into redemption?
Rabbi Tovia Singer: “We’re in the war of Gog and Magog,” and Iran is being dragged in “like Pharaoh”
“Right now, we’re in a war that is identified in Ezekiel 38 and 39 as a war between Persia and Israel… There could be a war going on in Africa, in Nigeria. No one pays attention to that. This is the big one.”
Study: Weekly Bible readers report less stress and more hope
New research finds Scripture outperforms exercise and meditation on stress, anxiety, and loneliness. The secret is showing up every week.
Plague in a Soviet weapons lab: Russia, Gog and the return of the plagues of Egypt
The fifth plague devastated Pharaoh’s herds. Centuries later, Ezekiel foretold that God would unleash the same pestilence against Gog, whom generations of Bible readers have linked to Russia. Could this ancient biblical warning be taking shape today?
The widow God refuses to forget
The Bible commands care for the poor, the hungry, and the stranger. Yet it returns to the widow again and again, and God goes so far as to attach His own name to her cause. Why her?
What “they shall be My people” does not mean
The Jerusalem Noahide Congress is not the next step toward the House. A congress that stops the nations at seven laws, then calls the stop “My people,” mistakes a starting point for the fulfillment of Zechariah’s vision.