In a recent interview with Faithwire’s Billy Hallowell, Prison Fellowship CEO, Heather Rice-Minus, stated the popular TV series, The Chosen, based on the life of Christ, is having a profound impact on those who are imprisoned and their families.
One of the more interesting characters making an appearance in the Biblical narrative is the Queen of Sheba. She is believed to have been the ruling monarch of a country, that is today known as Yemen or more probably Ethiopia. Having heard of King Solomon’s reputation, Sheba traveled to Jerusalem with a ‘great’ camel caravan to visit Israel’s monarch ‘to test Solomon with hard questions’ (1 Kings 10:1-13). Sheba also brought with her camels carrying spices, gold and precious stones, (1 Kings 10:2), which she gifted to Solomon, who in turn offered her goods from his treasury. Jesus also speaks of Sheba calling her the Queen of the South and suggests that during this visit she embraced Jehovah as her God (Matthew 24:12), a conversion also hinted at in the Biblical account (1 Kings 10:9). According to the Armstrong Institute of Biblical Archaeology, archaeologists may have uncovered actual evidence of this ancient encounter or at the very least evidence of trade between Israel and North Africa. The discovery, which topped the list of the institute’s …
According to a recent survey of Jewish teenagers, 71% stated that they had experienced some form of antisemitic hate since Oct. 7, 2024, the day Hamas brutally invaded Israel, Israel365 News reports. The survey found that 61% of them had faced person-to-person antisemitism, 46% stated they had experienced it online and 36% said they had experienced it both personally and via the internet. With those who experienced personal attacks, the survey found that 46% of the antisemitic hatred occurred at school. When it came to the internet, the top three platforms for antisemitic expression were Instagram at 33%, followed by TikTok at 23% and Snapchat at 17%. Curiously, X, formerly called Twitter, which the mainstream media has labeled as a forum for hatred since Elon Musk took it over, did not make the top three. The survey was conducted by BBYO, a Jewish teen movement, headquartered in Washington, DC. It has hundreds of chapters found in high schools across America. Meanwhile, at the Oscars, RELATED: Michael Rapaport, Debra Messing denounce Oscar winner’s speech with 450 …
I did a podcast a couple of weeks back about prophetic prayer, which describes how the Holy Spirit will guide our prayer and actually give us the words to pray. And if we proclaim those words, they have a prophetic anointing. I shared how during a group prayer meeting, we prayed for a premature baby who was on life support because of sepsis. The doctors had actually said if there was no improvement, they would be removing the baby from this critical care by Friday. We were praying the Monday before. During that prayer meeting, I felt the Holy Spirit urging me to pray two words for that baby, ‘come home.’ It was time for that baby to ‘come home.’ It didn’t matter how I phrased the prayer, but I had to work those two words, “come home,” into my prayer. So during that meeting, I prayed for that baby several times, sometimes awkwardly, but always uttering those two words, ‘come home.’ I refer to this as prophetic prayer. Where the Holy Spirit literally gives …
The Stone of Destiny is said to be the very stone that the patriarch Jacob used as a pillow when he dreamed of angels descending and ascending (Genesis 28:18). Also referred to as the Stone of Scone, it has been described as mystical and has played an important role in the coronations of Kings in both Britain and Scotland for hundreds of years. In fact, it was part of the coronation of King Charles in May 2023 and there was much pomp and circumstance involved as the stone was transported from Edinburgh Castle to Westminster Abbey for the ceremony. With all the pomp and circumstance involved with the large slab of sandstone, people were shocked when they heard it was recently tossed into the back of a white van to be moved to its new permanent home at Perth Museum in Perthshire, Scotland, the Daily Mail reports. As pictures emerged of its transport, people described it as ’embarrassing,’ as the 700-year-old stone is described as one of the “UK’s most significant historical objects.” Oddly, a …
We know what Bible prophecy is; like the history of the future. If we wonder how close we are to the end, there are at least two important and maybe spooky things to watch for, 1) reverberations, and 2) possible impossibilities. 1) Reverberations: We might see a pattern in history, or in world events now. This pattern might fit something promised in the Bible, but it might not be the final event, at the end of our history. For example, we are promised an evil world leader, called the Antichrist “that day will not come unless the rebellion comes first and the lawless one is revealed, the one destined for destruction. He opposes and exalts himself above every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, declaring himself to be God” (2 Thessalonians 2: 3 and 4). Most people understand the concept of this evil world leader, but there is a promised reverberation, “Every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God. And this …
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