In this third installment of our series on “Guiding God’s Land,” tour guide Stan Goodenough takes us to Shiloh – the first national capital of Israel.
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While it’s natural for Israel to experience jellyfish blooms every year, what is unusual with this particular swarm is its intensity.
“Russia wants to show Israel that, ‘If you make one wrong move, we can do things to you. We have leverage.’”
“Fighting for equal rights and access for Jews on the Temple Mount is the most fundamental movement for the Jewish people today.”
Jewish Agency is at the heart of Aliyah, the prophesied returned of the exiles. Does Moscow’s move have biblical ramifications?
“These are thrilling days to be among the Jewish colonists. Disappointment [with the international community] has made some open to the suggestion that the problem is spiritual…and the solution will be found only in God and in His Messiah.”
The Bible lays the foundation for the unity of humankind in the very first chapters, teaching us that all people were descended from Adam, who was created by G-d.
“America has one major thing it can learn from Israel: that a nation-state must have, at its heart, a nation,” he said.
Out of view, and for many Christian visitors completely out of mind, lies the most significant site in all the Land of Israel; indeed, in all the world. It is the geographical core of everything redemptive God is working to accomplish on the earth: a small, limestone hillock that is The Mountain of the Lord.
