by Layne Overby | May 23, 2024 | Blog Posts
Shavuot known in the New Testament as Pentecost is June 11,12, 2024. What is the Biblical origin in the Hebrew scriptures and the spiritual significance of the last recorded one in the New Testament? And why should we care? Because Jesus came “in the fulness of time,...
by Layne Overby | May 23, 2024 | Blog Posts
45 killed by stampede. On April 30, 2021 The BBC reported that tens of thousands of Orthodox Jews attended an annual all-night religious festival known in Israel as Lag B’Omer. Police sources told Haaretz newspaper, “It happened in a split...
by Daniel Trimpey | Mar 26, 2024 | Blog Posts
Frustration at the Fickle Crowd Many have wondered how the same crowd proclaimed Jesus Messiah King on Palm Sunday and days later called for Him to be crucified. When we put preconceptions aside, answers are always available through an examination of the Jewish...
by Daniel Trimpey | Jan 8, 2024 | Blog Posts, Israel, Israel News, Israel's Messenger
When The Fig tree Withers Away “Now in the morning as he returned into the city, he hungered. And when he saw a fig tree in the way, he came to it, and found nothing thereon, but leaves only, and said unto it, Let no fruit grow on thee henceforward forever. And...
by Daniel Trimpey | Jan 8, 2024 | Blog Posts, Israel, Israel News, Israel's Messenger
The Beginning of Sorrows The horrific news on October 7, 2023, of the Hamas terrorist breach of the Gaza border into southern Israel, and the inconceivable slaughter of over 1200 Israeli citizens and the capture of 240 hostages smells of the fiery breath of...