NEWS FROM ISRAEL AND THE MIDDLE EAST

  • Destruction of Israel guaranteed, Ayatollah says
  • IDF chief warns attack against Israel will carry ‘painful price’
  • Netanyahu: We Have an Iron Dome – and an Iron Will
  • Barkat: ‘Jerusalem Cannot Be Split’
  • Islamic Jihad Issues Call to Abduct IDF Soldiers
  • Iran Mounts Advanced Weapons, Radars on New Overhauled Warship

CONTENDING FOR THE FAITH

  • Endless extermination of Christians: Do we care?
  • Coptic Kristallnacht
  • Coptic Church cancels Sunday mass for 1st time in 1,600 years
  • Coptic Christians chant in Tennessee streets: ‘Obama, don’t you care?’
  • UK Church reports over 100 attacks on Christian properties in Egypt
  • Islamists Kill Five Christians in Nigeria Because of Their Faith
  • Iran upholds American Pastor Saeed Abedini’s 8-year prison sentence
  • Judge: Foreigners can sue U.S. pastor over sermons

THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD

  • Egyptian Court Advised to Abolish Muslim Brotherhood
  • Egyptian government decides to dissolve Muslim Brotherhood
  • Egypt to try ex-President Morsi for inciting murder
  • Muslim Brotherhood: No Compromise

CREEPING SHARIAH

  • Man set fire to daughter for meeting men online

TERRORIST THREATS

  • Jihadist leader to U.S.: ‘Islam is coming’
  • Al-Qaida Muslims declare war on Hezbollah Muslims
  • Taliban Claims Responsibility for U.S. Base Attack

September 30, 2013

My friends do not believe in the “blessed hope” – the return of Christ to claim His own. I need additional verses that speak specifically of the Rapture. Also, what about the “signs pointing to […]

September 23, 2013

Could there be a “partial” Rapture? The simple answer is no. Some teach that only the perfect will be evacuated during the Rapture, but this is contrary to the teaching of God’s Word. Many base […]

September 16, 2013

What validity, if any, should be given to the Prewrath Rapture theory? In a book titled The Pre-Wrath Rapture of the Church by Marvin Rosenthal, this earlier reliable proponent of the pretrib position altered his […]

September 9, 2013

We want to continue in our study of why I believe in the pre-tribulational rapture. The Tribulation is called “the time of Jacob’s trouble” (Jeremiah 30:7). “Alas! for that day is great, so that none […]

September 2, 2013

Pre-, mid-, or postribulational view. Which position is correct? The Bible is truth, it provides peace to troubled souls living in a chaotic world. Because it is a two-edged sword, it cuts through the insignificant […]

CONTENDING FOR THE FAITH

  • U.S. churches warned of ‘jihadist’ threat
  • Military Censors Christian Chaplain, Atheists Call for Punishment
  • U.S. city looks to penalize Bible believers
  • Egypt: Christian Beheaded as Islamist Violence Escalates
  • Syria: Jihadist Rebels Kidnap Priest
  • Assyrian Christians told ‘If you want to come back, convert to Islam, or die
  • Iranian Christians continue to face arrest, imprisonment
  • Pakistan: Christian facing life imprisonment for blasphemy

NEWS FROM IRAN

  • Iran’s president-elect calls Israel ‘wound’ on Muslim world
  • Iran’s President Warned: Fighting Israel a Top Priority
  • Supreme Leader Appoints Ahmadinejad as Expediency Council Member
  • Rouhani Calls for Broadening of Ties with China
  • Iran May Try New Path to Nukes
  • Report: Iran may develop nukes that could reach the US by 2015