Khamenei spent the better part of his life terrorizing the Middle East and the world with his desire to spread the Islamic Republic's hateful ideology. He influenced the rise of Hamas and Hezbollah, terrorist organizations bent on the destruction of the Jewish State and God's chosen people. He announced "death to America" and "death to Israel," but his reign of terror ends with hope for the Iranian people. Hope that their freedom is near on the horizon.

For the first time since 1968, the great Isaiah scroll from the Dead Sea Scrolls is being displayed in its full length at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. They were discovered in 1947, just one year before the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948, a moment when the world was questioning Israel's right to exist as a modern nation. The scrolls stood as Israel's ancient deed to the land that God promised them.

Unfortunately, some theologians claim Christ’s death, resurrection, and ascension invalidate God’s covenantal relationship with Israel. If this theory were true, there would be no biblical reason to support Israel’s rebirth as a nation in its ancient homeland today. But this concept never entered Paul’s mind. Paul taught that Israel not only matters to God, but that the nation has a bright prophetic future.

Religious antisemitism attacks the blessing God promised, denigrating the Jewish people’s uniqueness and importance regarding the Scriptures, the covenants, and the Messiah. Racial antisemitism attacks the Jewish people by attempting to erase them entirely, which would void God’s promises. Statehood antisemitism attacks the land by denying the State of Israel’s legitimacy and national Israel’s centrality in God’s redemptive plan.

Iran's state television broadcast was hacked amid a near-total internet blackout, with video clips of exiled crown prince Reza Pahlavi and images of ongoing anti-government protests briefly airing on multiple channels. Pahlavi used the opportunity to call on the Iranian military to break with the Islamic Republic and to side with protesters who have been demonstrating against the regime.

Interestingly, the Jerusalem Post reports that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is "currently the most popular person in Iran." One Tehran resident said that "people have fallen in love with him." Iranians were "impressed" by Israeli strikes on Iran in June as part of "Operation Rising Lion," as the air force focused only on regime infrastructure and did not harm civilians.

In Romans 11, Paul is proclaiming that even though Israel rejected Jesus, that doesn’t mean God’s plan of redemption was thwarted. Instead, it was spread to the nations and the once-severed relationship between God and His creation was reconciled in Jesus. That’s real good news. However, the news gets even better, Paul looks ahead prophetically to that day when Jesus will return

Before taking his own life on April 30, 1945, Adolf Hitler appointed Admiral Karl Dönitz, commander of Germany’s U-boat fleet, as his successor. Hitler knew that World War II was lost and betrayal among his leadership surrounded him. He turned to Dönitz, a man he regarded as disciplined, loyal, and untainted by the corruption of the Nazi inner circle, to defend what remained of the collapsing Reich. Instead, when Hitler died, Dönitz accepted reality: The Nazis were beaten.

X, formerly known as Twitter, released an update aimed at boosting transparency on its platform, revealing the country or region from which an account operates. It is a simple change, but one that has already proven fruitful, exposing widespread deception that is fueling global hatred against God's chosen people. Dozens of accounts that claim to be "eyewitnesses" of the war in Gaza have turned out to be operating from countries like Pakistan, Poland, the United Kingdom, and even Southeast Asia.

God promised through the prophets that He would return the Jewish people to the land of Israel. This promise is reiterated over and over in the Scriptures, which makes the Bible a very Zionist book… so does that mean God is racist too? Nothing could be further from the truth.

Israel has a very clear answer when asked if there is a way to find a two-state solution: NO! As Israel negotiates with the Trump administration, Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz stated the IDF will remain positioned along Mount Hermon in the north and inside Gaza until every tunnel is cleared and Hamas is fully disarmed.

This is why antisemitism is so persistent. It is why it mutates from religious to racial to political forms. It is why it appears on the left and the right. And it is why today’s Jew-hatred looks eerily like yesterday’s, even when the rhetoric has changed. The covenant God made with Abraham remains, and therefore the hatred remains. But the Scriptures are clear: the Jewish people are not the obstacle to the redemption of the world—they are the vehicle of it.

Their line—"Christian Zionism is Christian heresy"—reveals that politics has become their religion. They promote not the transforming work of Christ in individual hearts but a cultural crusade—a collective Christian identity defined by power, blame, and control. In that movement, Israel becomes a target, and Christian Zionists are the pawns.

It is a time for great celebration. However, Hamas appears to be preparing a campaign of violent retribution against anyone it views as an obstacle to its renewed control over Gaza. In the coming days, this could manifest in a mafia-style execution of individuals the group labels as collaborators.

All attention is on the war in Gaza and the hostages that are still being held by Hamas, but once again, we are reminded that Israel's enemies surround them and that the threat is very real. The Palestinian territories of the so-called "West Bank," which is Biblical Judea and Samaria, remain a threat to Israel's national security.

With each day that passes since Hamas attacked Israel, the mantra Am Yisrael Chai continues to drown out the death cry of Iran’s regime. This is the power of hope in God’s promises against the hate and deception of the Devil. Israel’s mantra does not merely counter destruction; it overwhelms it.

Hitler did not invent anti-Semitism in Europe. He was merely the tip of the iceberg. The vast bulk of the insidious structure lies beneath the surface, which is why today’s Europe is beginning to resemble 1939 all over again. Hitler tapped into the prevailing attitude in Germany at the time.

Ambassador Huckabe is speaking to a major problem within Netanyahu's current government, which was made up of largely Orthodox political parties. Unlike Netanyahu, these parties consider evangelicals a religious adversary to the Jewish state, not an ally.

Twice, while walking through Washington, Huckabee was aggressively confronted by pro-Hamas protestors. “They recognized me, surrounded me, screamed at me,” he told us. “It made things so uncomfortable that about fifteen D.C. police had to intervene. That happened—not once—but twice.” In a comment that startled many, Huckabee added, “I got to get out of this crazy town, Washington, and get back to Jerusalem, where I’m safe."

On July 5, the sheikhs sent Economy Minister Nir Barkat a letter expressing Hebron's wish to break away from the widely unpopular Palestinian Authority, establish an "Emirate of Hebron," and formally recognize Israel as a Jewish state under the Abraham Accords. Rather than clinging to the dream of Palestinian statehood with all its pie-in-the-sky demands—like a right of return and an East Jerusalem capital—these Hebron leaders embrace normalization, integration, and cooperation. 

Israeli airstrikes this week destroyed Iran's infamous "Israel doomsday clock" in Tehran, a symbol of the regime's vow to annihilate Israel. Unveiled in 2017 on Israel's Jerusalem Day, the clock displayed a Palestinian fist smashing an Israeli flag beside the words: "Time left before the destruction of Israel."

Humans of New York misrepresented the Jewish community by platforming Neturei Karta. They are a fringe group widely rejected by mainstream Judaism, presented as if they speak for all Jewish people. One commenter captured the concern well, writing: "Wow, this is embarrassing tokenization. This is a tiny, extreme, and racist sect of Judaism that is rejected by nearly every Jew in America."

Hamas is struggling for control. The new Gaza Humanitarian Foundation is aid distributed by America with Israeli security oversight. Hamas wants a permanent ceasefire and the United Nations to distribute food. As US Special Envoy to the Middle Steve Witkoff stated, that is "totally unacceptable." It will give Hamas ample time to reload, rearm, and steal food meant for the Palestinian people.

Just as the Spanish monarchy once scapegoated the Jewish people to appease public sentiment and consolidate power, today's rhetoric risks repeating that injustice under the guise of moral posturing. Targeting Israel in a cultural arena mirrors the same exclusionary mindset that fueled centuries of Jewish persecution in Spain.

The tragic and senseless murders of Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Lynn Milgrim on the streets of Washington, D.C., are far more than another headline—they should stir the conscience of the global Church. In their deaths, we witness a powerful intersection between the Jewish and Christian communities—a moment that reveals just how deeply connected our stories truly are. These two Jewish believers in Jesus were killed for the “hope of Israel” (Acts 28:20), the very phrase the Apostle Paul used to describe the unbreakable link between his faith in the Messiah and God’s promises to His people.