Bible in the News

This is the Bible in the News with Paul Billington speaking with you from Ontario, Canada. On Wednesday morning we learnt from news headlines that Palestinians had attacked a fuel supply depot on the Israeli-Gaza border at Nahal Oz, killing two civilian Israeli workers. According to the Associated Press report:

The age old conflict in the Middle East has gone through many metamorphoses but the final outcome remains certain. While America may talk of isolationism God has indicated a course for the Tarshish powers to take. The end of the conflict will play out as the Bible has predicted since the hostility between God's people and the world was announced in Genesis 3:15.

Welcome to this week's edition of the Bible in the News; this is Paul Billington bringing you a somewhat late edition this week, due to our visit into Toronto to hear a speech by the Israeli political leader Moshe Feiglin, who has been recently banned from entering the United Kingdom by that country's Home Office. It was an opportunity not to be missed: What would we find? A rabble-rouser? Incitement to terror or violence? Fomentation of criminal activity? A preacher of hate? From the letter sent to Feiglin by the Home Office, that is what we would have expected.

Welcome to the Bible in the News--and to yet another update on prophecy fulfilling. This is Paul Billington speaking with you. Week by week as we see events taking place we see a world situation developing which answers to that which was predicted long ago in the Bible.

The world keeps trying to get the Jews out of Judah, but they just don't seem to be able to achieve their goals. This is David Billington with you for the Bible in the News.

Just as we publish Bible in the News this week, there has been a horrific terror attack in Jerusalem. The terror attack was a shooting attack in the Mercaz Harav Yeshiva, which is the most prestigious religious zionist education institution. This attack was perpetrated at the heart of Religious Zionism. Mercaz Harav was founded by the late Rabbi Yitzhak HaCohen Kook and led after his death by his son Rabbi Zvi Yehuda Kook. Rabbi Kook is known as the founder of Religious Zionist thought and his son Zvi Yehuda put his weight and energy behind the settlement movement in Judea and Samaria. It can be seen not just as a random terror attack, but a carefully chosen target, one that would effect the Religious Zionist community greatly, but the government of Israel is also warring against the Religious Zionist community and the settlement movement. A quote from Arthur Hertzberg's book, "The fate of Zionism", correctly sums up what would be Olmert's government's view of Religious Zionism: "It is... important within the Jewish community that modern Zionism not be identified as the heir and continuation of the messianic element of classic Jewish religion. If the Zionist endeavor is ever dominated by the notion that Jews have come back to Palestine as a giant step toward the coming of the messiah, there can be no peace within the Jewish camp." In the first report after the attack on the Jerusalem Post website, the Olmert government was already stating that this would not effect their "peace talks". To read about the hatred of the Catholic Church toward Zionism and even more so religious Zionism, see the latest Bible Magazine.

Welcome to the Bible in the News, this is David Billington. A headline in the National Post in Canada today read, "Arctic debate could result in armed conflict." The first paragraph of the article reads:

As the world reels from political earthquakes, the declaration of independence in Kosovo and Russia's reaction, The 5th Annual Jerusalem conference is going on. One of the main issues: Jerusalem!

Fall of a terrorist, the elusive mass-murderer Mughniyeh meets his death, bringing the mid-east to the brink of war once again, American presidential race candidate Obama says: "Yes, we can heal this nation" and a Man kills 5 and himself at a northern Illinois University. This is David Billington with the Bible in the News.

Travel to Judea with Paul Billington for a live interview with David Wilder, the spokesman for the Jewish community in Hebron. This weeks Bible in the News is currently audio only, we apologize for any inconvenience.

Welcome to the Bible in the News. This is Paul Billington speaking with you from Jerusalem in Israel--and as I speak it is a Jerusalem that is covered with a blanket of snow, bringing to mind those words of Isaiah the prophet:

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A seal of one of the temple servants or "Nethinim" has been discovered in Jerusalem, at a sensitive time when there is talk of turning over eastern Jerusalem and the temple mount to the Arabs. Indeed, a small party in the Israeli ruling coalition government, quit this week because these things were on the table in the so called "peace talks". What an incredible discovery! For a 2500 year old artifact to be unearthed relating to the first Jewish temple, just when the site of that aforesaid temple is up for discussion. Welcome to Bible in the News at www.bibleinthenews.com, this is your host David Billington.

"There should be an end to the occupation that began in 1967. The agreement must establish Palestine as a homeland for the Palestinian people, just as Israel is a homeland for the Jewish people. These negotiations must ensure that Israel has secure, recognized, and defensible borders. And they must ensure that the state of Palestine is viable, contiguous, sovereign, and independent."

"And to the angel of the ecclesia in Philadelphia write; These things saith he that is holy, he that is true, he that hath the key of David, he that openeth, and no man shutteth; and shutteth, and no man openeth; I know thy works: behold, I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it: for thou hast a little strength, and hast kept my word, and hast not denied my name." The door is open. This is David Billington with you for the Bible in the News; this week we will take an intermission from the troubled world around us, to pause and reflect as another year has past us by. The world is indeed troubled. At the beginning of 2008 there is violence in Kenya, Pakistan and in the West there is fear of a recession in the UK and the United States. However, the door is open.