Israel apologized for what it described as a “tragic mistake.” The boy was rushed to an Israeli hospital where doctors fought for his life, but he died two days later. Then, in an incredible gesture of reconciliation, the child’s family decided to donate his organs to Israeli children!

Cross Rhythms, October 16, 2005

Reggae gospel singer, JUDY MOWATT, talked to Mike Rimmer about her years with Bob Marley and the reggae superstar's deathbed conversion to Christianity:

When she became a Christian in the mid-’90s amidst a wave of other successful reggae artists finding Christian faith like Papa San, Stitchie, Chevelle Franklin and Carlene Davis. After her performance, I ask her what she thinks Marley would have made of her conversion. It was here that she made my jaw drop!

She shared, "When Bob was on his dying bed, his wife Rita called me on the phone and said to me that Bob was in such excruciating pain and he stretched out his hand and said, ‘Jesus take me.’ I was wondering to myself, ‘Why is it that Bob said "Jesus" and not "Selassie"?’ But I never said it to anyone. Then I met a friend of mine and he said his sister, who is a Christian, was a nurse at the hospital where Bob was before he passed on, and she led him to the Lord Jesus Christ. So when Rita saw him saying ‘Jesus take me’, he had already received the Lord Jesus Christ in his life."

Israel Today, October 09, 2005

Israel Today editor, Aviel Schneider, spoke to three leaders in the Body of Messiah about the Gaza pullout:

David Parsons, public relations director of the International Christian Embassy in Jerusalem:
The withdrawal wasn’t easy to watch. Families of several generations were uprooted. The settlers need our prayers, and as Christians, we will help the nation get through this.

Meno Kalisher, Israeli pastor of Jerusalem Assembly House of Redemption;
The enemies believe that Allah and Mohammad have won the war, but biblically, I know that God is always right. When Jews are forced to withdraw from their Land, it is only because they have a problem with God. I do not believe in political problems, but rather in spiritual problems.

and Naim Khoury, Palestinian pastor of the First Baptist Church of Bethlehem.
From a biblical perspective, I believe Israel should not have left that area.

The Canadian Jewish News/Temple Israel, Boston, September 09, 2005

A forest fire has spread across Manitoba reaching south to Oklahoma and even as far away as Brazil.

Although no trees were actually destroyed in the conflagration, Rev. Pastor Raymond McLean believes the vivid imagery is the best way to describe the widespread interest in a recently completed aboriginal mission to Israel.

First Nations of Manitoba: "Remembering the Holocaust of Our Peoples"
by Joel Molin

Northern Connections, Manitoba, May 05, 2005

The Present, where Prophecy meets History.

The Jewish Nation, a people group who have kept detailed written accounts of their history and culture, somehow knew in their spirit that accurate records of events in their lives needed to be recorded for the generations to come. Stories of tremendous victories, losses, decisions made - both good & bad - and the consequences that followed them.

Embedded into their writings were prophetic words that told stories of what the world would experience in the coming future, concerning their nation and the world around them. These prophetic writings came by inspiration from the Creator’s Spirit, whereby the writer relates events in picture stories and by declarations, long before the events would come to pass.

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BBC NEWS, UK, January 31, 2005

The Shroud of Turin is much older than suggested by radiocarbon dating carried out in the 1980s, according to a new study in a peer-reviewed journal.

Raymond Rogers says his research and chemical tests show the material used in the 1988 radiocarbon analysis was cut from a medieval patch woven into the shroud to repair fire damage.