Author: Richard Wilkins

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News Bytes – 31 Dec 2024

Jewish radio host forced out
The Australian Jewish News, 24 Dec 2024.

Community radio station, Radio Ski Row, demanded Nicole support ‘Palestinian resistance’.
A Jewish volunteer radio host said she was dismissed from a Sydney community radio station after refusing demands to “actively support” Hamas and participate in pro-Palestinian rallies … [Read Article]

Erdogan’s Son Calls For Turkey To Takeover Jerusalem
The Gateway Pundit, 25 Dec 2024.

In the latest evidence that the Islamist regime in Turkey is on the wrong side of history, the Turkish president’s son called on Turkey to conquer Jerusalem.
According to Pamela Geller, Erdogan’s son declared at an Islamist rally that “Yesterday Hagia Sophia, today the Umayyad Mosque, tomorrow Al-Aqsa.” … [Read Article]

‘Miracle’ hoard of Hasmonean coins discovered during Hanukkah in Jordan Valley dig
The Times of Israel, 29 Dec 2024.

Haifa University team finds cache of 160 extremely rare coins – dated to 80/79 BCE, during the reign of Judah Maccabee’s grand-nephew – near Alexandrion Fortress, north of Jericho.
In what they called an “archaeological Hanukkah miracle,” a University of Haifa team discovered on Friday a rare hoard of some 160 coins, dating from the Hasmonean period, during a dig in the Jordan Valley, the university said Sunday … [Read Article]

Assad’s fall enables access to ruined 2,700-year-old Damascus synagogue; only 9 Jews remain
The Times of Israel, 29 Dec 2024.

Leader of tiny Syrian community visits destroyed Eliyahu Hanavi synagogue in capital’s Jobar neighborhood, recounts years of site being off-limits during civil war.
JOBAR, Syria (AP) — In this Damascus suburb, the handful of remaining Jews in Syria can again make pilgrimages to one of the world’s oldest synagogues where people from throughout the region once came to pray … [Read Article]

Indian workers slowly replacing Palestinians in Israeli construction industry
The Times of Israel, 31 Dec 2024.

16,000 laborers have come to Israel from India in the last year, but analysts say it still does not make up the shortfall caused when most Palestinians were barred after Oct. 7.
AFP – Wearing a safety belt, helmet and work boots, Raju Nishad navigates the scaffolding, hammering blocks that will form part of a building in a new neighborhood in central Israel’s town of Beer Yaakov … [Read Article]

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Fishermen and Hunters

By Richard

As I have been watching the news, the vandalism in the Eastern suburbs of Sydney and the fire-bombing of a Synagogue in Melbourne, I was reminded of what I read in “Are we Really in the Last Days?”[1] by Dr Roger Liebi. He wrote:
“In 600 BC it was prophesied in Jeremiah 16:14-16 that the return of the Jews would be characterised by two great phases:

First, there will be “a time of many fishermen”, and afterwards “a time of many hunters”. The end-Time return of the Jews would firstly undergo a preliminary stage, which could be termed an enticement-phase”. In this phase there will be “fishermen” who move the Jews to return to the Holy Land.

In the next phase, “hunters” will drive the Jews with violence to return home.

Jer 16:14-16 (NKJV)[2]
14“Therefore behold, the days are coming,” says the LORD, “that it shall no more be said, ‘The LORD lives who brought up the children of Israel from the land of Egypt,’ 15“but, ‘The LORD lives who brought up the children of Israel from the land of the north and from all the lands where He had driven them.’ For I will bring them back into their land which I gave to their fathers. 16“Behold, I will send for many fishermen,” says the LORD, “and they shall fish them; and afterward I will send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain and every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks.” [emphasis added]

I cannot stop thinking that, for the Jewish people living in Australia, the ‘time of fishing’ has come to an end and has now been replaced by the ‘time of hunters’. I never thought that Australia would come to this sad state in its relationship with God’s chosen people. We need to pray for the Peace of Jerusalem.

[1] LIEBI, R. (2012) Are We Really Living In The Last Days? Christlicher Medienvertrieb Hagedorn, Dusseldorf, p 41.

[2] Scripture taken from the New King James Version (NKJV). Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. Nashville.

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Tribulation

One Day Teaching Seminar

The Modern State of Israel in Bible Prophecy
Session 4 of 4

Presented by: Mr Chris Savage (Ariel Ministries).

Date: 9 November, 2024.

When will the Tribulation begin? There is interest in building a third Temple in Jerusalem. What is the future of this Temple? Chris gives details of the coming time of Jacob’s Trouble.

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Session 2: Rejection/Dispersion/Regather [View Details]
Session 3: Northern Alliance Invasion [View Details]

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Northern Alliance Invasion

One Day Teaching Seminar

The Modern State of Israel in Bible Prophecy
Session 3 of 4

Presented by: Mr Chris Savage (Ariel Ministries).

Date: 9 November, 2024.

Not everyone is happy to see the Jewish people settled in their Land once more. The prophet Ezekiel tells of a northern alliance of nations, led by Russia, that will one day invade Israel. How will the Jewish people survive? And when might this invasion occur?

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Other messages recorded at this seminar:

Session 1: Foundation [View Details]
Session 2: Rejection/Dispersion/Regather [View Details]
Session 4: Tribulation [View Details]

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Rejection/Dispersion/Regather

One Day Teaching Seminar

The Modern State of Israel in Bible Prophecy
Session 2 of 4

Presented by: Mr Chris Savage (Ariel Ministries).

Date: 9 November, 2024.

Rejection of Messiah resulted in the dispersion of the Jewish people. 2,000 years later we see the Modern State of Israel. Chris outlines four theological views of the regathering of the Jewish people to their land.

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Other messages recorded at this seminar:

Session 1: Foundation [View Details]
Session 3: Northern Alliance Invasion [View Details]
Session 4: Tribulation [View Details]

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Foundation

One Day Teaching Seminar

The Modern State of Israel in Bible Prophecy
Session 1 of 4

Presented by: Mr Chris Savage (Ariel Ministries).

Date: 9 November, 2024.

Israel is God’s elect nation. Why? Chris outlines the covenants on which Israel was founded. One of the covenants promised a throne and a kingdom. Yet when Yeshua offered His Kingdom, He was rejected.

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Other messages recorded at this seminar:

Session 2: Rejection/Dispersion/Regather [View Details]
Session 3: Northern Alliance Invasion [View Details]
Session 4: Tribulation [View Details]

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And God had the last word! Book of Malachi

Presented by: Mike Smith.

Date: 12 October 2024.

Description: The book of Malachi is the Lord’s last word to His chosen people before 400 years of silence. The Jews have been cured of idolatry by the Babylonian exile, but the Lord is not happy with them. What is their new sin? Are we guilty of the same? Is there any hope? The book concludes with a faithful remnant and the promise of a new messenger.

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Hosea, God’s Unconditional Love and His Restoration Plan

Presented by: Andrew Wilson.

Date: 14 September 2024.

Description: We are all fascinated by Hosea’s love for Gomer. We easily apply the image of forgiveness to Christ and ourselves. But are we on the right track? What is the message to the nation of Israel? Could this be a prophecy about the restoration of Israel? Do the names of Gomer’s children give us any clues about the future?

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Does The World need a Kingdom of David in Israel?

Presented by: Ron Jarlett (Principal of Western Sydney Bible School).

Date: 10 August 2024.

Description: In Acts 1:6 the disciples asked the risen Lord if He was about to restore the Kingdom of Israel. Were they mistaken about Jesus’ purposes? Isn’t His kingdom in the heart’s of believers? Words from Amos chapter 9 are quoted in Acts chapter 15. Does this indicate that Israel’s restoration was in the past? Or could there be a future Kingdom? A theocratic kingdom of Israel?

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The Book of Romans and the Jews

Presented by: Chris Savage (Ariel Ministries).

Date: 13 July 2024.

Synopsis: We know that Romans chapters 9 through 11 are about the Jews, but what what else did Paul write about the Jews in the Letter to the Roman believers? Paul stated, “To the Jew first” more than once in his letter, but what does it mean? Both blessings and curses? What are our responsibilities as Gentiles in light of this statement?

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