Contributed by Rodelio Mallari on Apr 13, 2011
                
                
                
                    MIRACLE IN ISRAEL
From AD 70 to 1967, the land of Palestine was ruled by 40 different nations. Today, it is under Israeli control.
From 1948 to the present, the Israelis have fought 5 national
                    
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                    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Sep 8, 2008
                
                
                
                    Israel was No Fluke
I'm a laid-back White Sox fan.  All my life,  I have had to deal with being out-numbered by Cubs fans.  Both Sox and Cub fans have long dreamt of a City series, where the two teams are competing during the World Series. That could happen this year.  Statistically speaking, we
                    
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                    Contributed by Todd Stiles on Oct 23, 2006
                
                
                
                    Today in Israel, if you are a follower of Judaism, you must fix all meals in advance of the Sabbath in case of company. You wouldn’t want to work on the Sabbath, would you? There is even a Sabbath elevator that stops on every floor so you don¡¦t have to press
                    
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                    Contributed by Gregg Bitter on Jan 3, 2010
                
                
                
                    "Praise be to the Lord, the God of Israel, because he has come and has redeemed his people" (Luke 1:68 NIV). A little child plays innocently in a park. Suddenly a man grabs her from behind and drags her into a van. She’s gagged. A bag’s pulled over her head. Dust stings her eyes. The smell of sweat
                    
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                    History of Israel stands as a witness...
About 300 years ago, the King of Sweden was having personal doubts about God’s existence and the Bible's divine nature. He called for Count Von Zinzendorf, who was the bishop of the Moravian Church, to provide evidence about God’s existence and Divine
                    
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                    Moses and the children of Israel on the banks of the Red Sea, mountains on both sides, the Rea Sea in the front, and the mighty Pharoah and his great army behind them.  No where to hide, no where to run, they were sitting ducks.  Yet, the Lord came through, He proved to all that He is ABLE.  So
                    
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                    Like the children of Israel in today’s Bible reading, Hannah Hurnard, author of Hinds’ Feet on High Places, was once paralyzed by fear. Then she heard a sermon on scarecrows that challenged her to turn her fear into faith.
     The preacher said, "A wise bird knows that a scarecrow is simply an
                    
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                    Contributed by Paul Kallan on Jan 11, 2003
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    At the beginning of the World War II, Israel Eugenio was the chief Rabbi of Rome. The Nazis occupied Rome in September 1943. The Nazi officer Kappler demanded 50 kg of gold in place of the Jews. The Jews feverishly managed to collect 35 kg. The chief Rabbi Zolli realized his helplessness. For the
                    
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                    Contributed by Johnny Wilson on Jun 27, 2009
                
                
                
                    HEAR O ISRAEL: LISTEN UP!
I served in a volunteer capacity as an unofficial chaplain to the Redondo Beach (California) police force. About seven or eight of us who were ministers would rotate so that we rode entire shifts with some of the officers. 
Police work is a contrast between tedium and
                    
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                    Contributed by Jimmy Chapman on Feb 11, 2010
                
                
                
                    In  Haifa, the largest city in northern Israel, a 	policeman, who knew his Bible, got on the trail of a 	gang of smugglers. The smugglers had used an 	donkey-drawn caravan to escape from the police, 	but the policemen managed to capture some of the 	donkeys. The clever officer let the beasts of
                    
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                    1.      Introduction
Ephesians 2 verse 19, it says … “So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are citizens with the saints, and also members of the household of God”.
There is a lot in that verse … but I will start by focusing on the phrase, “members of the household of God” … so
                    
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                    The tax farmers in Israel, here called tax-collectors, were somewhat different from IRS agents.  They were more like Mafia enforcers, employing thugs to shake down local citizens and merchants.  The Romans specified how much each tax man was supposed to pay them, and the architelōē or
                    
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                    Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Dec 28, 2008
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    For Israel there were the Canaanite Baals, those jolly nature gods whose worship was a rampage of gluttony, drunkenness, and ritual prostitution. For us there are still the great gods Sex, Shekels, and Stomach (an unholy trinity constituting one god: self), and the other enslaving trio, Pleasure,
                    
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                    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Jul 27, 2009
                
                
                
                    WHERE IS THE ARK
The Ethiopian legend described in the "Book of the Glory of Kings," relates that Ethiopians are descendants of Israelite tribes who came to Ethiopia with Menelik I, alleged to be the son of King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba...The legend relates that Menelik, as an adult,
                    
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                    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Aug 31, 2009
                
                
                
                    THE NOAHIDE COMMANDS
A Pagan could become > An Alien Believer > A God-fearer >  A Jew (proselyte)   
A pagan would be an idolater or worship many gods, or one not serving the true God.
An alien believer would be a gentile who wanted to be saved, repented from his sins and turned to the God of
                    
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                    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Sep 8, 2009
                
                
                
                    UNCLEAN GENTILES
The Mishna says, "The dwelling places of Gentiles are ritually unclean (Ohalot 18:7). David Stern summarizes other passages in the Mishna, "…Jews may not remain alone with Gentiles, leave cattle at their inns, assist them in childbirth, suckle their children, do business with them
                    
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