If God is our Father, Jerusalem is like a mother because it was from Zion that we were redeemed and given new life. It is through what the Messiah accomplished in Zion that we can be born again: through His death and resurrection in Jerusalem that our new life begins.
We just had a double blessing at our Bible college: two cohorts of graduations in one go! Last year when we were under fire from Iranian missiles we had to cancel the celebrations, so this year we had an extra special time to honor double the number of students and
We have been watching and waiting for this moment for a while now, inching inevitably to the one million mark. Finally, we crossed it! There are now more than a million Hebrew speakers who have subscribed to our Hebrew language YouTube channel, signing up to get videos about Yeshua and
Keeping the Sabbath has become a topic of discussion again in Christian circles, partly due to a book written by the hugely influential Charlie Kirk: “Stop, in the Name of God: Why Honoring the Sabbath Will Transform Your Life.” Charlie Kirk had just finished writing the book before he was
Kabbalat Shabbat means welcoming the Shabbat on Friday night. It makes Friday evening very special for Jewish people – especially Jewish families. The family meal together on Friday is almost a no-excuses obligation. Even for many secular families who have long given up on following God’s laws – getting home
Tisha B’Av means the 9th day of the Jewish month of Av, and on this day some 2000 years ago, the temple in Jerusalem was destroyed by the Romans. Remarkably, it happened on exactly the same date in the Jewish calendar as Solomon’s temple was destroyed by the Babylonians some
If God is our Father, Jerusalem is like a mother because it was from Zion that we were redeemed and given new life. It is through what the Messiah accomplished in Zion that we can be born again: through His death and resurrection in Jerusalem that our new life begins.
There’s a famous encounter with a character the Bible describes as the Commander of the Lord’s Army in Joshua chapter 5. His message to Joshua was profound, and his identity even more so. However, there is another extremely important aspect which often gets missed, and that’s what happened next. This
Why did God employ a fish to deliver Jonah? What’s with all the fish in the New Testament? I don’t know if you’ve noticed but there are a lot of fish in the Bible, and it’s worth pondering their symbolism. Fish feature prominently in the stories of Jesus, but appear
How did Israel get the name Israel? And what does it mean? The answer is not so simple. The word “Israel” is mentioned 2362 times in the Bible, 2284 times in the Hebrew Scriptures and 78 times in the New Testament as well. Where does the word come from and
You might have thought the word “hope” would appear in the Bible all over the place. Hundreds of times. But if you’re looking to find hope, the word itself is mentioned just over 80 in the 39 books of the Hebrew Scriptures, and just under 80 in the 27 books
After outlining all the desperate straits that he and his countrymen are in, the book of the prophet Habakkuk ends on an extremely interesting and unusual note. The last verse says this: “God, the Lord, is my strength, and He makes my feet like hinds’ feet, and He makes me to
Well over 100 Arabic-speaking Christians aged 18-35 from all over the north of Israel came for a conference held by the Arabic ministry of ONE FOR ISRAEL. The conference was entitled “Useful to the Master of the House”, with the focus on becoming useful vessels for God based on a
There are some wild ideas of what life looks like for Israeli Jewish and Arab believers in Jesus, but what’s the reality? It’s not easy that’s for sure, but some viral videos give a completely misleading idea of what happens to the believers here in Israel… And there are some
ONE FOR ISRAEL’s Arabic ministry team, though just three people in number, are seeing some wonderful fruit from their labor. “We saw the work of God, there have been some big challenges, and we needed miracles,” Carlos Damianos relayed. They needed miracles and they got them. But there’s more to
Jesus’ genealogies are frequently said to be irreconcilable. They are not. They are an invitation to delve deeply into the history of both Israel and her Messiah, intended not to mystify but to edify. Guest blog by James Bejon The New Testament attributes two different genealogies to Jesus. One is
Capital punishment by stoning!? By hanging!? By burning at the stake!? Sometimes to the modern reader the maximum penalties in the Old Testament may seem cruel, barbaric or primitive. On the other hand, our system of punishment in modern day western society would be regarded as weak, too soft and ridiculous in
God created an escape from eternal death through his Word, which became flesh. He is the Messiah, Yeshua, who was born of the virgin Mary (Isaiah 7:14), in fact, all the Old Testament prophets pointed to him for thousands of years. In the Holy Scriptures we learn that God has
