In 2024, they founded the Conference of Christian Presidents for Israel to create a setting for leaders of Christian organizations to learn more about Israel and anti-Semitic tropes, take trips to the region, and start to police anti-Semitic outbreaks wherever they appear.
One officer admitted, “Our senior officers were all assassinated within one hour.” Once again, Israel had stunned the world. It is now known that Israel Defense Forces and intelligence agents had placed weapons and drones well within Iran, weeks ahead of the attack.
U.S. President Donald Trump announced on April 23 that the ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon will be extended for three weeks, after an Oval Office meeting with envoys of both governments, as well as his senior national security team.
U.S. President Donald Trump said the brief pause of violence would begin on the evening of April 16 after conversations with Lebanese President Joseph Aoun and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
The sun in the western sky silhouettes Deir al-Balah on the distant horizon. With an M16 in my lap, we bounce along a dirt road pitted by tanks and Humvees in a compact car of dubious quality. Mikaela, a 25-year-old member of the Israeli Defense Force (IDF), sits confidently at the wheel, the Gaza border fence her objective.
Shortly after Israel’s Wednesday attack on the South Pars gas field, Trump posted to social media, “Israel, out of anger for what has taken place in the Middle East, has violently lashed out at a major facility known as South Pars Gas Field in Iran,” Trump wrote.
Israel, officially State of Israel, Country, Middle East, at the eastern end of the Mediterranean Sea. Area (excludes the West Bank and Gaza Strip): 8,522 sq mi (22,072 sq km). Population (2026 est.)
Israel is a country in the Middle East, located at the eastern end of the Mediterranean Sea. Jerusalem is the seat of government and the proclaimed capital, although the latter status has not received wide international recognition.
State Secretary Marco Rubio admitted Monday that the administration “knew that there was going to be an Israeli action” against Iran, and so Trump “made the very wise decision” to be the first to attack. In other words, our “closest ally,” Israel, a country that only exists because we fund its defense, forced us into war for its own interests.
How much has been provided to Israel? The United States has provided its Middle East ally with more than $155 billion since its founding in 1948 to improve its military’s capabilities, including about $4 billion a year since 2019.
God has distinct plans for Jews and Gentiles. He has an earthly people with land promises (Israel) and a heavenly people with spiritual promises (the church). In dispensationalism, the church is a kind of “plan B,” a parenthesis unforeseen from the perspective of Old Testament prophets.
Netanyahu has stated that Israel does not intend to govern Gaza long-term but aims to establish a “security perimeter” and transfer governance to “friendly Arab forces” opposed to Hamas. Though it seems appealing, this vision is fraught with uncertainties.
Israel has sent troops into the south of Lebanon as it seeks to destroy the Iranian-backed terror group, who dragged the country into the war by sending a barrage of missiles at Israel.
Dig deeper: Read Elizabeth Russell’s report on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s response to the conspiracy theory that Israel was behind the assassination of Kirk.
When I finished reading Left Behind, I was fully convinced of the central role Israel played in God’s plan for the nations. I was only 15 years old, but my imagination had been captured. Israel, in my mind, was the ticking clock of prophecy.
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