Bible in the News

This November will mark 5 years since the famous "Orange Revolution" in Ukraine, when large protests were instrumental in bringing to power a more pro-western president. The more pro-western demonstrators adopted the color orange in their large protests, which is why this is called the Orange Revolution. During that election the west clearly backed one side and Mr. Putin and Russia the other. The...

When Christendom begins to show its true colours to the Jews, and when the Jews--especially those in Israel--begin to resist the religious and political pressures being brought to bear, then we know that we are on the home straight to "the battle of that great day of God Almighty."

Jeremiah reveals to us where the heart of God is at in the restoration and the redemption of Israel. As Jews return from Yemen fulfilling Bible prophecies Christians and Jews alike are fighting against the purpose of God in restoring His people to the mountains of Israel.

Obama continues to push Israel hard to freeze all growth of the so-called settlements, in the mountainous area of Judea and Samaria, known today as the West Bank. In response a poster is being put up in Israel with the slogan, "Obama! Let my people grow." Obviously a take off from when - in the words of the famous song - Moses asked Pharaoh to "Let my people go!" The situation at the time of the E...

Welcome to this week's edition of the Bible in the News. This is Paul Billington with you again this week, scanning the news for events which in one way or another demonstrate the Truth of the Bible. Most frequently this connects us to Bible prophecy, and so it is again this week as we see Iran in an uproar-- near revolutionary situation--as opposition leaders and protesters confront police and th...

Welcome to another edition of the Bible in the News. This is Paul Billington speaking with you this week. Our interest in world events is stimulated by the knowledge that "the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men," and that He will cause them to either prosper or decline as a result of their behaviour and response to the principles revealed in His word. As the Almighty deals with nations on this...

Welcome to another edition of the Bible in the News. There is a rise again this year in North American Jews making aliyah (immigration of Jews to Eretz Israel, the cornerstone of Zionist ideology.), the Jewish Agency estimates that 2009 will see an increase of 15% in the number of North Americans immigrating to Israel. A 12% increase has already been documented for the first third of 2009 (January...

The European Union introduced the Euro as a way to tie the nations of Europe together - but also as a method of decreasing the United State's economic dominance. Now Russia is calling for a new world currency and the Vatican has just released an encyclical calling for a new world economic order. The book of revelation is being revealed before our eyes.

Welcome to another edition of the Bible in the News. This is Paul Billington with you this week, and scanning the news headlines we are once again reminded of the on-going hostility of Iran towards Israel in particular, and towards the West in general.

Welcome to the June 26, 2009 edition of Bible in the News. This is Glenn Abel with you. In the shadow of the Iranian election drama, moves by Russia in the last few weeks have been underreported. This week, we are going to look at some of those moves.

Welcome to the Bible in the News, this is David Billington. Our eyes are still watching Iran this week as the election protests continue. More importantly we are watching Israel, the land God's eyes are always upon, as this Sunday afternoon at the Western Wall there is a large prayer rally planned.

Welcome to the June 12, 2009 edition of Bible in the News. This is Glenn Abel with you. Hardly a week goes by without some major Anti-Semitic attack, but this week, it hit close to home, in Washington DC.

As president Obama tours the Middle East we welcome you to another edition of the Bible in the news. It is a very interesting time in the world, we are constantly watching the world with our Bible in hand for the events to take shape according to scripture. We are given the end view but sometimes the road we are going to take to get there is hard to see. This week most of the talk seems to be arou...

But the world knows not “the thoughts of Yahweh, neither understand they His counsel (plan)”

Thursday May 21st was "Jerusalem Day," and marked 42 years since the city was reunified as a result of the 1967 Six-Days War. At a ceremony that was held to celebrate that event, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, "United Jerusalem is Israel's capital. Jerusalem was always ours and will always be ours. It will never again be partitioned and divided."

If we go back in history, we discover that the Vatican has been against the idea of the State of Israel from the start. In the book "The Vatican and Zionism" by Sergio I. Minerbi, he points out that "...the Holy See's policy toward political Zionism is inseparable from the Catholic Church's religious stand regarding the Jews." and he notes that, "For hundreds of years, the Catholic Church has take...

Welcome to the May 8, 2009 edition of Bible in the News. This is Glenn Abel with you. This week, Pope Benedict XVI begins his much anticipated trip to Israel, and it will be interesting to see what happens...and even more interesting to hear what he has to say.

Hello, this is Paul Billington bringing you this week's edition of the Bible in the News. And the news this week has been dominated by the outbreak of Mexican swine flu. TIME had the foreboding headline: "Swine Flu's First Fatality: A Chronicle of Deaths Foretold." A Canadian newspaper weighed in with a front-page alert: "All Humanity urged to Fight Swine Flu Pandemic." The Brits of northern Engla...

Welcome. This is David Billington with you to comment on the Bible in the news. The spirit of our times found expression this week in the Durban II conference. A conference supposedly against racism. Yet on the opening day of the conference, the pariah President of Iran, Ahmadinejad, had been invited to speak. Ahmadinejad is a man who would like to see the murder of 6 million Jewish men, women and...

George Mitchell, Barack Obama's personal envoy to the Middle East, has come to Israel with the message that the "Push for two-states begins now". The Americans are now officially pushing for an Arab state in the heartland of Israel with Jerusalem as its capital. Welcome to the Bible in the News.

Obama's trip through Europe and the Middle East has revealed his government's position on several vital issues including the European Union, Russia's role in her defense, Turkey's role in Europe, the West's relationship with Islam, and his views on Israel.

Welcome to the April 3rd, 2009 edition of Bible in the News. This is Glenn Abel with you. Last week marked the 30th anniversary of the peace agreement between Israel and Egypt. On March 26, 1979, the Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty was signed in Washington DC by Egyptian President, Anwar al-Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister, Menachem Begin. In exchange for peace, the Israeli government gave up the Sinai...

The Western powers are struggling in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq. Israel is struggling with Iran, Hezbollah, Hamas and the Palestinians. Yet the prophet Ezekiel predicts a time of peace in the Middle East before Armageddon. Welcome to the Bible in the News this is David Billington.

Bible students everywhere need to “get it into their heads” that “the wisdom of the world is foolishness with God”. Welcome to another edition of “Bible in the News”, this is Glenn Abel with you.

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