What really happened in 1492 when Columbus sailed the ocean blue? Was it to come to America and ‘take whatever he could?’ Or was there some greater purpose behind his finding a ‘new land’ that was not in the continental U.S.? Could anti-semitic attitudes be behind all the misconceptions and deceptions behind celebrating Columbus day?…
Category: Israel and the Jewish People
Yom Hashoah – Holocaust Remembrance
A video of our family’s short visit to the Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem. With only a few exceptions, all photographs ©Tentstake Ministries. “The Bible says, “For I the LORD your God am a jealous God punishing the children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me,…
The Olive Tree of Israel
The Israelites pounded olives to make oil. When pounded, the olive loses its physical appearance and only its essence is extracted. On the Olive Tree of Isra’el there are natural branches along with wild branches. They all produce the same fruit – olives. The root of the Olive Tree is Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the patriarchs of faith and promise. From them came the nation of Isra’el, the natural olives, who have been relentlessly pounded through the millennia by severe persecution and near annihilation. It began with slavery in Egypt and Pharaoh, continued with Haman in Persia, the Syrians and Antiochus Epiphanes, the Spanish Inquisitions
HaTikvah – The Hope (Video)
Using the Israeli National Anthem, HaTikvah, we share some video highlights of our family’s visit to Israel in 2014. ©2014 Tentstake Ministries Publishing, all rights reserved. No copying or reproducing of this article without crediting the author or Tentstake Ministries Publishing.