Israel My Glory - July/August 2011

titled “What If There’s No Hell?” Inside was a full-page picture of Rob Bell. Bell is quoted there as say- ing, “I have long wondered if there is a massive shift coming in what it means to be a Christian. Something new is in the air.” MSNBC, FOX, and CNN pro- vided major television face-time to promote his book. However, the book does not sit well with many evangelicals despite its popularity. Life Way Christian Bookstores, for example, a huge chain operated by the Southern Baptist Convention with stores in 28 states, refuses to sell Love Wins. The Bible teaches, “The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God” (Ps. 9: 17). Daniel 12: 2 says, “And many of those who sleep in the dust of the arth shall awake, some to everlasting life, some to shame and everlasting contempt.” Jesus spoke of a literal place where “there will be wailing and gnashing of teeth” (Mt. 13: 42), and Scripture describes hell as a place of utter darkness where “there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth” (25: 30). Jesus warned, “Do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. But rather fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell” (Mt. 10: 28). He also said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except hrough Me” (Jn. 14: 6).

by Steve Herzig, director of North American Ministries for The Friends of Israel.

ISRAEL MY GLORY

The Betrayal Has Begun

David Horowitz of the David Horowitz Freedom Center said recently the Obama administration’s “final betrayal of Israel has begun.” “Never before,” he said, “has an American president so brazenly embraced the ‘Palestinian’ cause; never before has an American president so contemptuously pushed Israel into a corner. To proclaim that the borders of a Palestinian state must be drawn according to the 1967 lines, ignoring all the issues that should be negotiated . . . and ignoring that Israel will someday have to defend these borders from Palestinian hatred, tells two lies at once: that the Palestinians have been sincerely searching for peace, and that Israel is the problem.”

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Three things keep people from intimacy with God: pride (thinking they don’t need Him), rebellion (sin), and being in a hurry.

Said Charles Stanley, senior pastor of the First Baptist Church of Atlanta, Georgia:

It takes time to read His Word and meditate upon it and listen to Him. The more you listen, the more you’ll hear. The more you hear, the more excited you’ll get about hearing. And the more excited you get about hearing, the more you’ll listen.

Katie Goldstein Wins Free Trip to Israel

A22-year-old college senior from Missouri has won The Friends of Israel’s first
annual Go Israel Essay Contest
and is in Israel enjoying the fruits
of her labor.

Katie Goldstein of Missouri won a free place on this year’s monthlong ORIGINS trip to Israel with her one-page essay “Why I Love Israel and the Jewish People.” She said her father read about the contest in Israel My Glory magazine and encouraged her to enter. This year’s prize was worth $3,595.

Second place went to Hannah
Grothe, 17, of Minnesota. The Friends
of Israel paid for half of her trip.
Third place went to Rachel
Graves, 18, of Florida, who won a free
course of her choosing at our online
Institute of Jewish Studies.

The ORIGINS tour, under the direction of Friends of Israel staffers Bruce Scott and Chris Katulka, left for Israel June 14 and will return July 13. ORIGINS stands for Our Resolve Is Giving Israel Never-Ending Support. The trip is for people ages 17 to 26.