Bible in the News

On Wednesday, four Israelis, including a plumber, on a flydubai flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv managed to overpower the co-pilot who had stabbed the pilot and was attempting to dive the aircraft into the ground killing all 174 on board, most of whom were Israeli.

As the 81st Debate of the General Assembly of the United Nations, 173 have been listed to speak. 87 nations (so far) have mentioned Israel, Palestine, the West Bank or Gaza. 84 of them have criticized Israel.  In this Bible in the News, we highlight some of these speeches and the biblical prophecies they touch on.

It’s 25 years since the September 11th twin towers or World Trade Center attacks in New York. Those events shook and changed the world, resulting in America launching it’s war on terrorism. It was an attack on the World Trade Center and what that center represented. America is a trading nation. It is no coincidence that the key nations that joined the American led coalition at that tim...

Global attention has shifted from the Russia–Ukraine war toward the Middle East and Iran. Bible prophecy identifies Russia with the “Prince of Rosh” and “King of the North”, and speaks of a Russian-led alliance that will control Europe and invade Israel. Russia’s current difficulties are a temporary period of being “held back,” which has allowed Iran...

While there are many passages in scripture that describe the latter days, Zechariah 12 may well be one of the under-appreciated ones! The purpose of this week's Bible in the News is a little different and is focussed on one particular passage. It's important that we have a strong Bible foundation when looking at the signs of the times in our world today. 

Jerusalem and the mountains of Israel become the centre of international controversy again this week. We look at this in the light of Bible prophecy.

Welcome to another edition of the Bible in the News brought to you this week by Tim Billington. Here is a video version: Israel is still troubled by the Islamic threat within and around them.  It is also no longer the days of incessant terror attacks that constantly took out scores of people in cafes and on buses, either.  This Islamic threat is now harassing the West, too.  We are...

Zohran Mandani is the recently elected Mayor of New York City. This gives him an international well-respected position to voice his views. New York City is currently home to nearly 1 million Jews. Last week, Netanyahu visited Trump at the Whitehouse. This is what Zohran Mamdani said about him as he posted a video that was framed almost as an apology that he did not have the power to arrest Netanya...

This week the News has yet again been filled with stories about the US’s attacking Iran. There have been reports of consecutive nights of airstrikes happening on Iran since President Donald Trump declared the temporary ceasefire agreement was "over". The US is said to be hitting key infrastructure and its reported that airports, bridges and water utilities in parts of the country have been h...

The settlements being built in Judea and Samaria (a.k.a the cradle of ancient Jewish civilisation) are a witness to the hand of God at work with his people Israel in the latter days. This week, further building approvals in the Binyamin region remind us of that once again. 

The United States and Israel attacked Iran together on the 28th of February 2026. Within a week hundreds of targets were hit throughout Iran, killing thousands of IRGC personnel, including the supreme leader Ali Khamenei himself. Along with the military strikes, cyber attacks took over media organisations and telephones, broadcasting messages encouraging the Iranian people to rise up against their...

Isaiah 30:27, AV “27 Behold, the name of the LORD cometh from far, burning with his anger, and the burden thereof is heavy: his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue as a devouring fire:”

On a visit to Israel earlier this year we were able to visit Sderot which sits on the border between Israel and the Gaza Strip. Sderot has experienced over 20,000 missile attacks since 2005 and faced continuous rocket fire from the Gaza Strip since 2001. The situation deteriorated after the “disengagement,” in 2005, when Israel under Ariel Sharon forced the Jewish residents of Gaza to...

Donald Trump has faced growing pressure from a loud minority both inside his administration and in his base to abandon Israel and the war on Iran. And it’s compounded by low polling numbers for the party in the upcoming midterm elections, economic pressure from the war, and real divide in his cabinet. 

Throughout this week, President Trump repeatedly called for 6 Arab States to join the Abraham Accords, stating it was mandatory. The US administration repeatedly insisted Iran will not get a nuclear weapon to destroy Israel with, which is in keeping with Bible Prophecy. The US is pushing to have the Gulf Nations join Israel in creating an unprecedented age of peace and prosperity in the region. &n...

A couple of weeks ago, many of the people of this Island went out to vote in the local elections. Local elections are typically a fairly boring part of politics, where local councillors are chosen across different regions of the country. Often, the party in power does badly, as people use their vote to voice frustration at the direction of government in Westminster. However, this year, the local e...

The disruption of the global economy and stability is causing nations like Germany to shift from pacifist product production to military manufacturing. The Bible is clear that this is how things will unfold. Trump’s tariffs and threats to pull out of NATO are having a significant dual-impact on the German economy.

Hello and welcome to another Bible in the News. This week the world watched a remarkable scene: King Charles III addressing the United States Congress during his state visit to America. Nearly 250 years after American independence, a British monarch stood before American lawmakers and celebrated not division, but deep and enduring unity. For Bible students, the moment was striking - for in Ezekiel...

 

The current crisis in the Middle East is beginning to disintegrate NATO. The nations of the 70-year-old alliance are pulling in different directions, causing it to tear apart. The Bible is clear about what alliances will exist in the latter days. In this Bible in the News, we examine the evidence the Bible gives for the direction things will inevitably go.

When people arrived at Ben Gurion airport in Israel after October 7, 2023, they were greeted by rows of posters displayed for each  of the 251 hostages taken to Gaza on that dreadful day along the entry hallway. When we recently arrived in Israel on January 26 there was only one remaining hostage poster for Ran Gvili, whose body had been held in Gaza for 843 days. His body was identified and...

Recent news reports suggest that events in the Middle East are reshaping the global balance of power in a way that students of Bible prophecy have long expected. Rising oil prices, war between Israel and Iran, and renewed Russian influence are combining to create a geopolitical picture that aligns remarkably well with the outline given in Scripture. Welcome to another Bible in the News.

On the 28th of February, last Saturday, the US and Israel launched airstrikes on major Iranian cities, including Tehran AND Isfahan among others. They targeted air defences, missile units and suspected nuclear weapons related facilities. The US have claimed to have hit nearly 3000 targets and destroyed 17 naval vessels. And most importantly of all, the supreme leader of Iran was killed in the init...