Features
From the Editor Sep/Oct 2025
As is practically a birthright for American boys, I grew up watching superheroes on TV. Even now, I look fondly on those shows from decades past that portrayed a...
Can You Ace the Israel Test?
Do you know the movers and shakers of the State of Israel’s history? Let me challenge you to a test—no grades, no prizes!
From Wicked to Worst to Wonderful (Zechariah 10—11)
A look at Israel’s shepherds: what was and what is to come. Victory, deliverance...
Israel Faces the Nations (Zechariah 12:1-9)
Like a divine magnet, Jerusalem will someday draw all the Gentile nations to fight against it—to their great detriment.
Looking to Jesus—for Everything (Zechariah 12:10-13:9)
Israel doesn’t understand who Jesus truly is. But the day is coming, . . . and it will...
The Return of the King (Zechariah 14)
Zechariah pulls back the curtain of time to give us a glimpse of the glory that awaits. Zechariah 14 forms the pinnacle...
More In This Issue
Inside View Sep/Oct 2025
Since Hamas’s slaughter of some 1,200 Jewish people and kidnapping of hundreds more on October 7, 2023, the Lord has allowed me to lead five solidarity trips...
How Am Yisrael Chai Drowned Out ‘Death to Israel’
Two slogans ring across the Middle East, capturing the existential crisis that has...
Strategic Bridge Between Asia and Europe?
President Donald Trump and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently pledged to...
The Friends of Israel in Action Sep/Oct 2025
On a recent trip to Argentina, a team of workers from our ministry’s U.S. headquarters visited FOI’s medical...
Antisemitism Down Under
Israeli influencer Max Veifer regularly engages with people who hold anti-Israel views. But one encounter he had in...
Glorious! (Zechariah 9)
Some of the clearest, most abundant Messianic prophecies on the Lord’s First and Second Advents appear in Zechariah 9—14. These chapters consist of events...
The 8 Stages of Armageddon
1. The world’s armies gather at Armageddon. 2. God destroys Babylon, the Antichrist’s capital...
Can People Who Rejected Christ Before the Rapture Be Saved After It?
In biblical terms, the word Rapture...
The Problems of Preterism
Have we somehow unknowingly slipped into the new heavens and new earth? Not a chance! Did you know that some...
Absalom in Archaeology (Part 1)
King David’s beloved son Absalom was an important figure in the biblical narrative of his father’s life. The Israelites esteemed...
Paul’s Thankfulness
The Bible admonishes believers to be constantly and consistently thankful in all circumstances, for this is God’s will. Jesus’ brother James wrote, “My brethren...
To Know Him and Be Like Him
If you knew what it would take to spread the gospel message throughout the known world in the 1st century AD and you could...
Jewish World Update Sep/Oct 2025
The Jewish people and the Jewish state have learned the harshest lessons from history. When a regime openly declares...
Apples of Gold Sep/Oct 2025
I often take the bus to Jerusalem. The things I hear on my rides are hard to believe. This week, my wife and I took our seats on the bus next to several ultra-Orthodox...
Daily News from Israel
Palestinian Authority Announces First Election in Over 20 Years!
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas announced plans for a presidential election...
News Digest — 6/23/26
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Defense Minister Israel Katz, and IDF Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir issued a rare joint statement on Monday evening (22nd)...
News Digest — 6/22/26
Soldiers from the 91st Division’s 551st Brigade have taken control of a massive Hezbollah tunnel in Majdal Zoun, about 10 km. into southern Lebanon...
News Digest — 6/19/26
The IDF will not withdraw from Israel’s security strip in southern Lebanon, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday (18th)...
News Digest — 6/18/26
Lebanese President Joseph Aoun stressed on Wednesday (17th) that Lebanon’s negotiations with Israel are being conducted independently...
News Digest — 6/17/26
Syrian President Ahmad Al-Sharaa fears that a military intervention against Hezbollah could be perceived in the Arab world as...
Why Israel Refused to Stay Silent After Hezbollah’s Latest Attack
Israel launched military strikes after Hezbollah rockets targeted...
News Digest — 6/16/26
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday (15th) that Israel does not yet know the final terms of the agreement between the...




