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On February 17, leaders of the Messianic Jewish Alliance of America (MJAA), Union of Messianic Jewish Congregations (UMJC), International Messianic Jewish Alliance (IMJA) and the International Alliance of Messianic Congregations and Synagogues (IAMCS), representing the mainstream Messianic Jewish movement, issued a joint statement on the Christ at the Checkpoint (CatC) conference scheduled for March 5–9 in Bethlehem. The local committee of CatC responded promptly to our statement with a letter posted on their website. On the surface, the CatC response was collegial but seemed to miss or ignore the point of our original statement. Read More

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Christian Palestinianism: With Friends Like You Who Needs Enemies?

There seems to be a new trend going around within the political arena and garnering quite a bit of support from the Evangelical community. It is known as Christian Palestinianism (CP) and is a new approach to the middle-east crisis that once again has the world fooled into thinking that a solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict can easily be reached. Reconciliation seems to be its primary goal, but many questions arise as to the real catalyst for such a movement?

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Would you rather have a nuclear Iran than a war?

Would you rather have a nuclear Iran than a war?

Successive leaders of Iran have repeatedly said that they will erase Israel from the pages of history.

The current president of Iran, Ahmadinejad has said many times, "Israel must be wiped off the map". Read More

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How Close Are We *Really*?

One of the questions I’m asked about most frequently is how close do I think are we *really* are to the end times? It’s one thing to point to current events in Israel or Europe, for example, and say that we might be getting close, but let’s be honest – folks like Hal Lindsey have been doing that for more than 40 years. As I’ve stated many, many times, no one knows when God’s ultimate plan for humanity will unfold and we could be 1, 10 or 100 years away from it. I’ve tried to make the case in these newsletters that we live in unique times prophetically, so I don’t believe it will be at the higher end of that range, but what about the lower end? What is the case against an immediate unfolding of the end times prophecies? It’s an interesting question to consider. Read More