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…
September/October 2025
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…
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…
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…
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.
The 8 Stages of Armageddon
1. The world’s armies gather at Armageddon. 2. God destroys Babylon, the Antichrist’s capital…
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…
Can People Who Rejected Christ Before the Rapture Be Saved After It?
In biblical terms, the word Rapture…
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…
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…