Bible in the News

The current economic crisis threatens to destroy NATO, and Russia is quick to move into the opening void. Using pressure tactics it has forced NATO to allow it back to the table and is setting its sights on positing itself to be at the center of future European defense plans. The scriptures are clear on her future role.

Welcome to the Bible in the News, this is David Billington with you for the February 26th edtion. The troubled economy is beginning to effect all of us in different ways. You probably know several people that have lost their jobs - maybe you have yourself. This weeks Time magazine cover shows a person's hands grasping a rope which is frayed and soon will certainly snap. The heading reads, "Holding...

Benjamin Netanyahu has been endorsed by the majority of the parties, which have been elected to make up the next Israeli Government. It seems quite certain that Netanyahu will be the next Prime Minister of Israel. This is David Billington with you for this week's, Bible in the News!

Welcome to the Bible in the News. This is Paul Billington speaking with you from the Kotel, otherwise known as the Wailing Wall, in Jerusalem Israel. We are going to talk this week about the political results-- the election results that have come in, and which will shape the future in the next few years for Israel. Now we’ve spoken to various people about this.

EXTRA this week! Bible in the news presents a special half-hour interview by Paul Billington with Yishai Fleisher recorded at Israel National Radio in Bethel Israel. Click here for the MP3. From Jerusalem, Israel, this is Paul Billington bringing you the Bible in the News just a few days before the election of a new government in this Land of the Bible. The democratic process is in full swing here...

EXTRA this week! Bible in the news presents a special half-hour interview by Paul Billington with Yishai Fleisher recorded at Israel National Radio in Bethel Israel. Click here for the MP3. Welcome to the Bible in the News from Jerusalem, Israel. (Note: for the next 3 weeks, God willing, Bible in the News will be from Jerusalem Israel.) This is Paul Billington speaking with you in this city which...

America looks to Obama as its Messiah Russia turns the gas back on to Europe Huge gas deposits are found of the coast of Israel. Israel withdraws from Gaza

As the world is fed a story after story about Gaza from tainted sources, Israel is accused of both war crimes and disproportionate use of force. The Bible speaks of all nations being gathered against Jerusalem. We are seeing the "legal" framework being set as the finger is pointed at Israel with accusations of "human rights". The frog spirits are gathering the nations.

This week Bible in the News presents a lecture delivered by David Billington, presenting an analysis of the Bible in the News in 2008. David identifies the year's trends along with the forces and ideologies driving events. Due to the length of this lecture, there will not be a full transcription this week, other than this short introduction:

Israel has been bombarded by thousands of Qassam missiles from Gaza, the first being fired in 2001. However, since the Israeli communities of Gaza were destroyed and the Jews forcibly removed in 2005, the missile fire has become much worse. Even though the media have called these missiles "homemade", "cheap", "inaccurate", "rudimentary", ineffective" and "thrown together"; they are deadly, destroy...

Welcome to the Bible in the News; this is Paul Billington bringing you the last edition in 2008. As another year passes into history we look out on a troubled world--and we think of the words recorded for us in Luke 21:25, 26,

Welcome to the Bible in the News weekly programme. This is Paul Billington with you this week. When you open a Bible, there is one nation that is dominant in all that it says, or that it is concerned with--and that nation of course is Israel. You just cannot escape it. Well, in our day, the news has that same feature--the nation of Israel is always a topic. During the past week or so important sta...

The two state solution is presented as the solution to the mid-east conflict. The plan consists of taking the current nation of Israel and dividing it into two states. One for Israel and one for the Palestinian Arabs. The Arab state would exist in the Gaza strip and the central highlands of Israel - what is know as the West Bank or Judea and Samaria. Jerusalem would be a shared capital city for bo...

Today Jewish families were dragged out of their home by riot police in Hebron, some were seriously hurt. We called David Wilder in Hebron whose daughter and grandchildren were some of those evicted.

Western companies that have outsourced thousands of jobs to India were in a panic on Wednesday evening as terrorists struck Mumbai, the capital of commerce and tourism in India… surely a portend of increased instability in a region on which they have come to increasingly rely. Welcome to the November 28th, 2008 edition of Bible in the News. This is Glenn Abel reporting.

As the world roils in financial meltdown, Bible students continue to see the spirit of Esau at work among the nations. Welcome to the November 20, 2008 edition of Bible in the News, this is Glenn Abel reporting.

Welcome to another edition of the Bible in the News. This is Paul Billington speaking. Today we have visiting us Don Pearce from the UK, who will be familiar to the readers of the Bible Magazine as Don writes the Milestones updates which appear in each issue. So I wanted to get a British angle on world news as far as the Bible is concerned.

Welcome to the November 6th edition of the Bible in the News, this is David Billington. Mr. Obama is now president elect of the United States, elected on a platform of change. The words from his now famous speech were:

America's recent attack on terrorists within the Syrian borders is citing international uproar. However, this is a continuation in the push against Russia that will eventually bring it down into the land of Israel.

The book of Revelation was given to show the servants of the Lord Jesus Christ "things which must shortly come to pass". This restricts the full understanding of the book to those who are truly his servants, however it does not restrict those servants to a particular class in one generation. To all generations of his servants believing the Hope of Israel, from John until the his return, the prophe...

Welcome to another edition of the Bible in the News, this is John Billington. "For the first time in years and in the face of Iran's nuclear drive, Israel surpassed Saudi Arabia in arms purchases in 2008, reaching just over $20 billion… Last year, the US Department of Defense approved plans to sell Israel that amount of arms, including stealth fighter jets, transport aircraft, state-of-the-...

Take for instance the hebrew prophet Moses, who by faith "...refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter; Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season; Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt: for he had respect unto the recompence of the reward. By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wra...

This week Israel National News reported that the population of Judea and Samaria has increased by 20% during Olmert's term in office. Welcome to the Bible in the News, this is David Billington.

Welcome to the September 25, 2008 edtion of Bible in the News, this is David Billington with you. I'm not an economist and I don't know much about Wall Street. However, I do know that Wall Street is a symbol of the powerful US financial system and a center of trade for the western powers. This relates to the biblical Tarshish which was a merchant power, consider Ezekiel 27:12: "Tarshish was thy me...

The Catholic Church, driven out of France during the French Revolution, is being invited back into French society by President Sarkozy. The Catholic Church is positioning itself to exert control over Europe through the grassroots mechanisms that make up part of the European Union's governance system.