DYNASTIC INSTABILITY IN ISRAEL Throughout its history, Israel has had foreign influences, religious upheavals, and assassinations of the kings, causing severe instability within the nation. Amongst this unrest, it is no wonder a stable line of succession could form. All these factors contributed to the dynastic instability referenced in the biblical record and other sources. This is significant as the dynastic instability inevitably leads to fall of Israel and it’s capture by Assyria. Unlike…
It was the year 2058 and there were no more religious distinctions in Israel. After centuries of religious war, including the crusades, the Israeli-Arab conflict and the Intifada there was an even worse religious uprising. On April 13th in 2028, Pope John Francis visited Bethlehem for Easter. He was assassinated by Hamas terrorists, Mahmoud El Axan and Muhammed Bin Raji. The five year war that ensued resulted in the deaths of 2,000,000 people and destroyed most of the religious sites in…
provide for the millions of refugees seeking a home by granting them a Palestinian State. However, he cannot guarantee that they will be able to live within Israel. Many say that this will defeat Kerry’s peace attempts because the Palestinian Liberation Organization would be forced to abandon five million refugees whom want to return to Israel. He plans to make the Gaza Strip included in the new Palestinian borders, but the terrorism from Hamas disables him from advancing. In result, he called…
ravaged Iran and Iraq in the 1980’s and the latter is currently in the midst of what seems to be endless occupation by the United States that threatens to turn into a civil war. In 1981, Israel attacked Iraq to end their aspirations of becoming a nuclear power. Now, the Jewish…
settling in Israel in the early 20th century, creating developments of their own by purchasing lands from the indigenous Arab community. However, when the indigenous Palestinian people realized that larger numbers of settlers were entering the country and buying the land, they resisted to the migration seeing this move as a threat by the British administration. This brought about conflict over the years, resulting in violence and a large number of refugees as well as a continual diminished…
In1948, a new State was born in the Middle East, the State of Israel. After two thousand years, the Jews regained their sovereignty, through a challenging process. The Jews, which had suffered more than any other population during the Holocaust, were spread all over the world, many of them striving to recover from the World War II. The active presence of a leader that could motivate people towards a common goal of unification and the creation of a new county was essential to the Jewish people.…
The heart of God’s redemption for Israel lies on His promise to Abraham: “I will establish my covenant as an everlasting covenant between me and you and your descendants after you for the generations to come, to be your God and the God of your descendants after you” (Genesis 17:7). The climax of Exodus and God’s redemptive work occurs at Mount Sinai where God makes the covenant with Israel. The Hebrew word, Berith, is used for the word ‘covenant’ throughout…
Jonathan Cahn’s book The Harbinger constantly draws parallels and makes similarities between the United States and the Kingdom of Israel. The book tells us that Founding Fathers envisioned a country based on the rules of God and a “Light Unto the Nations”. The book also portrays that America was founded similar to ancient Israel. Jonathan Cahn constantly lists a series of signs and warnings, that were the cause of ancient Israel's destruction. The way Cahn does this is by portraying harbingers…
the Israeli-Palestinian conflict today (“Guide: Why are Israel and the Palestinians fighting over Gaza”). In 1948,…
itself through Palestinian’s rejection of the U.N’s decision to divide Palestine. Coming to its modern incarnation around the late eighteenth century as a result of European Colonialism opposition, Arab nationalism further grew to oppose the state of Israel along with western powers they believed were allied with Israeli forces as a means to conquer the Arab region, which is known for its abundant oil reserves. Nonetheless, upon the U.N’s resolution being passed that Palestine be split, Arab…