Year: 2015

  • Messianic Prophecy

    Genesis 3 One of the remarkable Messianic prophecies is found in Genesis 3. Here, in the immediate aftermath of Adam and Eve’s defiance of God’s commandment and subsequent Fall from righteousness, the question becomes, “what will God do now? Will He destroy Man and start over? Will He merely abandon Man and the world as…

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  • A Perfect Day for a Funeral

    by Jonathan Feldstein Last Friday was a perfect fall day. The sun shined bright and the sparse white clouds set against the bright blue sky was stunning. A gentle breeze blew through the Judean Mountains and the temperature was just between that of needing a light coat and no coat at all. I could have…

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  • Redeeming Captives

    by Jonathan Feldstein Some years ago I had the opportunity to visit Rome and, while there, we organized a private tour of the Vatican. Little did I know that other than entering the epicenter of Catholicism and all the history (and art) that goes with it, I’d be taking a step back nearly 2000 years…

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  • Zechariah 14, Even More

    Continuing still with Zechariah 14, we see the consequences received by the nations participating in the attack on Jerusalem: 12 “Now this is the plague with which Adonai will strike all the peoples that wage war against Jerusalem; their flesh will rot when they are standing on their feet; their eyes will rot in their…

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  • Zechariah 14 (continued)

    As we continue into Zechariah’s 14th chapter, we find that the return of Yeshua to rescue Jerusalem has ongoing ripples in the sea of Israel’s place among the nations. First off are the repercussions in Nature. “In that day there will be no light, cold, or frost. It will be a day known only to…

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  • Far From Home – Too Close to Home

    by Jonathan Feldstein Last Wednesday, my family’s WhatsApp group was buzzing. Daughter #1, away in college, heard news of a terrorist attack near our home. Knowing it’s where we go grocery shoping, she wrote: “Did something just happen at the grocery store? Everyone OK?” Daughter #3 wrote, “What! Something happened at the store?” Daughter #1,…

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  • Kerry Bashing

    by Jonathan Feldstein Recent remarks by Secretary of State John Kerry give new meaning to the term “Foggy Bottom,” a name synonymous with the location of the US State Department. One might say these remarks represent seeing the peace process through foggy glasses, and a new low, or “bottom,” of US policy vis a vis…

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  • The Syrian Refugee Quagmire

    by Jonathan Feldstein Watching and reading reports of Syrians fleeing the death and violence that’s marked their country’s civil war on steroids since the beginning of the “Arab Spring” is heart wrenching and compelling. The good news is that the human tragedy is now on the global radar albeit a solution is far away. While…

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  • Zechariah 14

    The 14th chapter of Zechariah begins with what appears to be an unmitigated disaster. “Behold, a day of Adonai is coming when your plunder will be divided in your midst. I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem to wage war. The city will be captured, the houses ransacked, and the women ravished. Half of…

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  • Girls in Bikinis and Iranian Nukes

    by Jonathan Feldstein Recently I shared an inspiring and emotional event on Facebook recounting something I witnessed on the Tel Aviv beach: “On the beach in Tel Aviv today the noise of people playing in the crashing waves, life guards calling people to come back to the area under their view, and people playing “matkot,”…

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