Tag: jerusalem

  • for it was not the season for figs – 2

    … and I will remove the iniquity of this land in a single day. In that day, declares the LORD of hosts, every one of you will invite his neighbor to come under his vine and under his fig tree.” – Zechariah 3:9b-10 [circa 519 B.C.] Looking Back to the Prophets From Moses to the late Prophets at…

  • for it was not the season for figs – prologue

    Lost in the glory of the entrance of Jesus into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday we find a brief story much overlooked. The story of Jesus cursing a fig tree not only seems much out of character for the Lord, but relatively insignificant. I cannot recall ever hearing it preached simply on its own merits. In…

  • The Three o’clock Prayer Service

    CHRISTIAN NEWS HEADLINES You will not see these HEADLINES in the Jerusalem News twenty-one centuries ago or even now. MIRACLE! ישוע המשיח עלה! Changes in Worship Peter and John went to the Temple one afternoon to take part in the three o’clock prayer service. Acts:3:1 NLT Post-resurrection Christians frequently miss some subtlety of detail in…