On the 5 March 1871 Brother John Thomas died in New York at the age of 65. The 150th anniversary of this event gives us an opportunity to reflect on his life, his legacy and what we are as a community today. We live in tumultuous times and need more than ever a clear vision of the future and a stron…
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They called him ‘The Bull’ and the designation fitted him well. General Edmund Allenby was a large, tall and powerful man. He was notorious for his fierce temper. One writer commented, “Allenby’s sudden explosions of temper, if he found anything wrong, were to be dreaded almost as much as an…
100th Anniversary: General Allenby and the Fall of Jerusalem – 11 December 2017 Read More »
One hundred years ago the British Government issued a document which would change the face of Middle East politics for ever. On 2 November 1917 the United Kingdom’s Foreign Secretary, Lord Arthur Balfour wrote to Lord Walter Rothschild, a leader of the Jewish community in Britain and annou…
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“The hand of the Lord was upon me, and carried me out in the spirit of the Lord, and set me down in the midst of the valley which was full of bones, And caused me to pass by them round about: and, behold, there were very many in the open valley; and, lo, they were very dry. And he said unto …
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Palestine – 31st October 1917
“And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up” (Rev 16:12).
One of the fascinating and wonderful privileges we have as students of Bible prophecy is to look back over history w…
The Taking of Beersheba – 100 Year Anniversary Read More »
It is impossible to separate the First Zionist Congress from the towering figure of Theodor Herzl. Without his forceful and determined personality, it is doubtful that the Congress would have taken place. But in the providence of God, Herzl was the instrument to unite the Jewish people behind the Z…
One Hundred and Twenty Years Ago: The First Zionist Congress, August, 1897 Read More »
Six eventful days in June (5th–10th) 1967, changed the map of Israel! And it changed the way the world thinks about Israel. All through May 1967 we watched as tensions grew in the Eastern Mediterranean. In the Sinai, Abdel Gamal Nasser was ‘testing the waters’; seeing how far he could go in h…
