Aarnoud de Landmeter

I am who I am by the saving grace of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, the Son of the living God.

[Aarnoud de Landmeter @lndmtr]

A false balance is an abomination to the Lord,
But a just weight is His delight.

~ Proverbs 11:1

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[Stephanie Quick @quicklikesand]

“While people are saying, ‘There is peace and security,’ then sudden destruction will come upon them as labor pains come upon a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.”

[Joel Richardson @Joel7Richardson]

Days like this, being a Bible teacher who focuses on prophecy is interesting. On one side, some are furious because I don't "recognize" that Trump is the Antichrist. On the other hand, many say: "Trump knows what he's doing." "Trust the plan." "I trust Trump." Some see an Antichrist behind every headline. Some see a political Savior. To loosely paraphrase Monty Python's "The Life of Brian":

"He's not the Messiah (or the Antichrist), He's a very naughty little boy."

[Joel Richardson @Joel7Richardson]

The Jews have been hated for being poor and for being wealthy; for being weak and for being powerful; for being too separate and for being too assimilated; for being religious and for being secular; for being stateless and now for having a state.

At some point, honest people must recognize that these contradictions expose something deeper than politics, economics, or sociology. The accusations change, but the hostility remains. The reasons are endlessly recycled because "the reasons" were never the real issue.

The Bible teaches that our struggle is not merely against flesh and blood, but against spiritual powers and principalities. Throughout history, there has been a relentless hatred directed toward the people through whom God chose to reveal Himself, give the Scriptures, bring forth the Messiah, and through whom He has promised yet to fulfill His covenant purposes.

Better to recognize this before Yeshua, the King and Messiah of Israel, judges the whole earth.

[Joel Richardson @Joel7Richardson]

Antisemitism is not merely ordinary racism. It is the most persistent, ancient, irrational, adaptable, and uniquely obsessive hatred in human history.

[Stephanie Quick @quicklikesand]

Propaganda from a regime that killed 50,000-100,000 of its own citizens this year

[Joel Richardson @Joel7Richardson]

For years, many of those watching biblical prophecy have asked the question:

How will America eventually abandon Israel?

The assumption has often been that it would happen under a hostile administration from the Left. But what if the process is also beginning from the Right?

Last night, JD Vance said something very important:

"There are cases where the interests of Israel and the U.S. diverge... We can achieve a long-term agreement with Iran. Israel may not like it."

Think about that for a moment. Donald Trump is widely regarded as the most pro-Israel president in American history. Yet even under Trump, the driving goal appears to be securing a deal with Iran—something that would be celebrated as a major foreign policy achievement for Trump regardless of Israel's security concerns. At the same time, a growing isolationist and increasingly anti-Israel (Groyper) faction within the Republican Party is growing and gaining influence. Whether America First or Groypers, their message is the same: Israel's interests are not America's interests. That sentiment is no longer confined to the fringe.

This is precisely why Israel can never base its survival on the assumption of permanent American support. Israel lives in a neighborhood where mistakes are measured in lives, not polling numbers.

Israel must face the fact that it must be able to stand alone.

The writing is on the wall. Biblical prophecy is unfolding right in front of our eyes.

[Dr. Alan Kurschner @DrAlanKurschner]

When the Antichrist is revealed and comes back to life and the false prophet calls fire from heaven on this behalf, the whole world will fall over each other to worship him—except for discerning Christians.

[The Emmaus Wire @EmmausWire]

Jesus in no way "came" in AD 70. The events He and the apostles connect to his parousia (such as bodily resurrection of the saints and judgment of the nations of the Earth) did not happen in AD 70, or AD 135. A localized judgment of Israel did occur, the suspension of the Levitical priesthood did occur, both as eschatological types, similar to the Assyrian conquest, Babylonian conquest, Seleucid persecution, etc. The Roman conquest of Jerusalem and destruction of the Second Temple is no more final or total than any of those previous events, and AD 70 is not even close to being an ultimate fulfillment of the language used throughout Scripture regarding the eschaton.

[Nick Uva @nickuva]

"Behold, a king will reign in righteousness, ​​and princes will rule with justice" (Isaiah 32:1). We look around us and long for a just world, but that dream will never be fully realized until Jesus returns. Let the assurance of His coming be our hope.

[Marc van der Chijs @marcvanderchijs]

Bitcoin at $59,000, it’s time to start buying back in. BTC can certainly go down another 10-20%, but this seems like a good entry point for the new bull market that will start later this year. When there is blood in the streets…

[Stephen Holmes @SHolmes66305]

Israel is God’s Vessel of Redemption

Jesus is Jewish for a reason.

Why do we struggle so much with the idea that God chose a particular people through whom He would bless all peoples?

From Abraham onward, God’s plan has always been universal blessing through a particular nation.

The covenants were given to Israel.
The Messiah came through Israel.
The gospel went out from Israel.
And the kingdom will be restored to Israel.

Gentiles are not blessed apart from God’s covenant purposes for the nation He chose. We are grafted into their promises, not the other way around.

Paul says that Israel’s rejection brought reconciliation to the world. What then will their acceptance be but life from the dead? (Romans 11:15)

Israel’s restoration is not a side issue. It is bound up with the resurrection hope of the nations.

Jesus is not ashamed of the people He elected.

He rejoices to be the Son of David, the King of Israel, and the head of the nation chosen to mediate blessing to the ends of the earth.

When He returns, Israel will finally fulfill her calling under His leadership, and all nations will be blessed through her.

Jesus lived, died, and rose again to make these things certain.

Believing in Jesus means believing He will fulfill the things He and His Father promised in the Law and Prophets.

Maranatha!

[Josiah Geoffrey ✡️ @JosiahForYeshua]

Learn the lesson of Nehushtan.

The Torah recounts how God commanded Moses to build a bronze serpent, set it on a standard (pole), and lift it up for all Israel to look at. Israel was being punished by a plague of poisonous snake bites, but whenever anyone who had been bitten looked at the bronze serpent on the standard, they would be healed and saved from the plague (Numbers 21:6-9).

This bronze statue was directly commissioned by God, and served as a visual, tangible point of focus to represent God’s deliverance for Israel. Indeed, this event was referenced by the Messiah Yeshua, who likened Himself to the bronze serpent, saying that He too must be lifted up (a reference to crucifixion) so that anyone who looks to Him and believes would have life—eternal life (John 3:14-15).

But what God had told Moses to make, Israel later twisted.

Around 700 years after Moses, Hezekiah king of Judah finally destroyed the bronze serpent which Moses had made, because the people of Israel had turned it into an idol named Nehushtan, burning incense to it and setting it up among the Asherah idols (2 Kings 18:1-4).

God did not tell Moses to create an idol. But the people of Israel made it into one by treating it that way. And as a result, the thing which God used as a picture of His salvation had to be completely destroyed. The later actions of Israel made “Nehushtan” irredeemably tainted, and the good that it had accomplished in Israel’s past could not outweigh the present damage of its continued existence. Hezekiah was righteous in destroying what Moses had made.

We should take this example seriously. What kinds of “Nehushtans” do we have in our lives or our religious sensibilities that need to be torn down? What traditions or institutions were set up in past times to accomplish good things for God, but now serve as distractions that are set up in place of God? Anything—no matter how good, holy, or godly it was at the start—can be twisted and perverted by our fleshly desires. Whether it’s a church building, or a synagogue, or a cross, or a Torah scroll, or a systematic doctrine, or a daily routine, or anything else, we can distort anything if we fixate on it as the master of our lives, rather than the One God whom these things supposedly are meant to glorify. Are we looking to religion to determine our faith, or are we looking to God and to His word?

[The Biblical Man @Biblicalman]

The full poem:

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[Shahriq Khan @RealShahriqKhan]

When I was Muslim, man, this verse used to mess me up.

Jesus on the cross saying, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”

As a Muslim, I used to think: how does God feel forsaken by God? That sounds like weakness. That sounds like a prophet in pain.

But then I dug deeper.

And I realized Jesus was not speaking randomly. He was quoting Psalm 22.

That entire Psalm, written by King David centuries before Christ, is a prophecy about the crucifixion:

“They pierce my hands and feet.”
“They divide my garments among them.”
“All who see me mock me.”

In Jewish culture, quoting the first line of a Psalm pointed people to the entire passage.

So Jesus was not crying out in confusion.

He was declaring fulfillment.

He was saying: “This is that.”

And at the same time, He was carrying the full weight of sin, shame, abandonment, and suffering for humanity.

Every moment humanity has cried out, “God, where are you?” Christ stepped into that pain Himself.

That is not weakness.

That is intentional.

That is prophecy unfolding in real time.

That is the King bleeding on purpose so humanity could be brought near to God.

That is the Gospel.

[Dr. Maalouf ‏ @realMaalouf]

Muslim woman in burqa reads the Quran for the first time and decides to leave Islam.

“I read the whole Quran, but didn’t find a single verse about women in heaven. Women get nothing. It’s all about men.”

She’s 100% right!

[Stephen Holmes @SHolmes66305]

“Then what advantage has the Jew? Or what is the benefit of circumcision? Great in every respect. First of all, that they were entrusted with the oracles of God.”
— Romans 3:1–2

My reasoning for standing with Israel is simple:

Israel, not the Gentile church, was entrusted with the oracles of God and the stewardship of those oracles.

That’s not being a “Zionist.”
That’s not sentimental nationalism.
That’s not even being anti-Palestinian.
And it certainly does not mean Israel has acted righteously in all that it has done as a nation.

It is simply a biblical stance toward honoring the ethnic people God entrusted His covenants, prophets, Scriptures, and promises to, along with the hope of those covenants being fulfilled.

It is also Gentile humility toward the Jewish root rather than the arrogant Gentile boasting Paul warned against.

This stance will matter greatly in the days ahead.

The pressure to curse, betray, abandon, or hand over the covenant people will increase, and many who loudly profess Christ will comply with that pressure while convincing themselves they are righteous for doing so.

But I believe the issue is far deeper than geopolitics.

To deny the covenant people whom God Himself entrusted with His oracles and promises is, in a very real sense, to deny the God of those covenants and ultimately the Jewish Messiah who came through them.

And I believe there will be people in the days ahead who will be forced to choose between preserving their own lives or standing with the covenant people in costly obedience to Christ.

Some will deny them to save themselves.
Others will lay down their lives.

And in that hour nearly upon us, truly it is here, the distinction will not merely be political, but spiritual.

[Alastair Roberts @zugzwanged]

I discuss this (and a lot of other things) in our latest post. Read it all here: https://t.co/RWbSMB51iz

[Joel Richardson @Joel7Richardson]

Many in the church wrongly believe Jesus's return is purely spiritual. But scripture promises a literal, physical fulfillment: a restored throne, salvation for Israel, Gentile inclusion, and a renewed Earth. This is our blessed hope. #Christianity #EndTimes #Hope

[Josiah Geoffrey ✡️ @JosiahForYeshua]

Heavenly Jerusalem has not replaced God’s plans for Jerusalem here on earth.

We see Scripture talk multiple times about heavenly Jerusalem (Hebrews 12:22), Jerusalem above (Galatians 4:26), and New Jerusalem coming down out of heaven (Revelation 21:2). There is definitely a heavenly Jerusalem, and it will be greater than the Jerusalem of this earth, because (as Revelation describes) it will be part of the new heavens and new earth.

And yet, the existence of the spiritual/heavenly does not negate the physical. The fact that we will have spiritual/heavenly bodies in the resurrection does not mean that our earthly bodies don’t exist or have significance. In the same way, neither does the future New Jerusalem mean we can dismiss God’s everlasting choosing of Jerusalem, even on this earth.

1 Chronicles 23:25 (NASB)
For David said, “The LORD God of Israel has given rest to His people, and He dwells in Jerusalem forever.”

The Master Yeshua (Jesus) wept over Jerusalem—the current Jerusalem on earth, even the Jerusalem that stoned the prophets—and said that we will not see Him again until the coming day when this very Jerusalem will confess that Yeshua is He who is coming in the Name of the LORD (Matthew 23:37-39). This alone demonstrates that earthly Jerusalem remains pivotal in God’s plans through Yeshua.

Yes, earthly Jerusalem is a shadow compared to heavenly Jerusalem. Indeed, this entire universe is a shadow of the new heavens and earth to come—but we’re not there yet. We do have God’s Spirit as a down-payment of our everlasting, heavenly dwelling place (2 Corinthians 5:1-5), but we have not fully entered into that inheritance. We still live here on this earth, not on a new earth, and New Jerusalem hasn’t come down from heaven yet. And so as long as we wait for that final inheritance, we dwell on this earth. And on this earth, God has chosen Jerusalem, the city in which David lived and Solomon built the Temple.

Earthly Jerusalem does not negate or surpass heavenly Jerusalem, but heavenly Jerusalem will not nullify earthly Jerusalem until the earth itself passes away. When Yeshua returns, He will return to this Jerusalem, and He will reign from Zion in the midst of His enemies (Psalm 110:1-2), subjugating them with a rod of iron (Psalm 2:6, 9) until the day that every enemy is destroyed, including the final enemy—death (1 Corinthians 15:25-26, Revelation 20:7-14). Then will this earth be rolled up like a garment, the heavens and earth will be destroyed, and the new heavens and earth will come. And ADONAI and the Lamb will still rule from Jerusalem, forever and ever. Amen.

[Matt Smethurst @MattSmethurst]

The gospel story in 100 seconds.

What a rescue. What a hope. What a King.

Thanks, @GlenScrivener.