I know apartheid well. And there is not the remotest comparison between the nation of my birth, South Africa, and where I live today, Israel
Author - Stan Goodenough
Stan is a South African gentile who for three decades has called Israel home. He is married to a Czech national, Frantiska, and the couple have seven Jerusalem-born children, three of whom were granted Israeli citizenship after completing their service in the IDF. The rest of the family are permanent residents.
A news journalist by profession, Stan has worked as an accredited tour guide for the last 11 years, using Scripture and the geography and history of the Land and People of Israel to teach Christians about the ever-relevant centrality of this nation to the Bible and to our faith.
Before moving to Israel, Stan was a political reporter for the South African newspaper, the Daily Dispatch, during the final years of the apartheid era. In 1991 he joined the staff of the International Christian Embassy Jerusalem (ICEJ), serving as editor of the monthly Middle East Intelligence Digest and helping launch the online ICEJ News Service in the earliest days of the Internet age. In this capacity, he was in Madrid, Spain to cover the first international Middle East Peace Conference, and since then has extensively reported on the “land-for-peace process” as it has passed through its stages, from Oslo to Annapolis and beyond.
“Whether writing or guiding,” says Stan, “my prayerful purpose is to communicate primarily to Christians a Bible-based understanding of how the LORD works in and through the realm of politics to restore Israel and prepare the way for the Messiah’s reign.”
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I cannot know, of course, whether this is poised to happen, but that it ultimately will is certain. God-fearing people should be prayerfully preparing for what may soon be coming upon the earth.
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There Is No Political Solution
The situation is bleak, unpromising. Heaven, alone, has the solution to this mess but what it might be I cannot say and will not speculate about here.
Today’s Israel is the Israel of Moses and Joshua, David and Isaiah, Jesus and Paul. For us Christians, the ramifications of embracing this are enormous.
In this fourth installment of our series on “Guiding God’s Land,” tour guide Stan Goodenough takes us to Jaffa, where the door was opened for Gentiles to meet Jesus.
All of this shock and horror poured out at the completely in-character, and frequently voiced, views of Mahmoud Abbas leave me cold.
God is merciful. Were He to withhold His mercy, the consequences for the nations that are willing to render Israel vulnerable to an Iranian nuclear attack could be more terrifying than we can imagine.
Behind a wall of deception and lies dressed up as diplomacy, Tehran and Moscow strengthen the ties that bind them in what already poses a definitive danger to the Jewish state.
Is the United Nations trying to twist Israel into releasing an Islamic Jihad terrorist?
Every now and then, the name of Jerusalem, Israel’s declared capital, pops up on the radar in some or other land. Most countries reject the Jews’ claim to the city out of hand. By the way – this refusal to recognise a country’s designated capital happens to no other nation in the world.
