Posts Categorized: Israel

Awaken Bible Prophecy Update 7-5-23: Timing of Gog-Magog War

Bible prophecy teachers are seldom in lockstep about various events in Scripture.  One of the seminal prophecies that causes disagreement is the War of Gog-Magog as recounted in Ezekiel 38-39.  Although this is among the most detailed of foretellings in the Bible, there are several different takes on when it will occur.

Awaken Bible Prophecy Update 6-28-23: As in the Past, So in the Present

There is so much to learn from the trials, tribulations, and underlying apostasies of God’s children, Israel and Judah, when they turned away from Him in rebellion. When we read the Old Testament, we see that sinful people practice their sin regardless of who they are and in what earthly dispensation.  As it was in ancient Israel, so it is today in America and the rest of the world.

Biblical Audio Commentary – Changing gods

In past times, once a nation acknowledged the divine being that ruled it, that spiritual entity became an ironclad fixture in the existence of its people. The nation might also have lesser gods to which it gave allegiance and oblations, but that primary god was always seen as the one that directed the course of its destinies.

Biblical Audio Commentary – Israel’s Psalm 83 Prophesied Land Grab

Bible teachers are split over whether there is an upcoming Psalm 83 War or not.  Is the psalm simply imprecatory, or is it prophetic still to this day?  If an imprecatory psalm, then it’s only one that calls down curses on Israel’s enemies.  If prophetic, the issue is whether its foretelling was fulfilled in Israel’s 1948 War of Independence or one of its subsequent conflicts; or does its prophecy remain – still not achieved?