After much prayer, careful study and reliance on the Holy Spirit, I have concluded this about Christ’s intercession for us. Jesus died on the cross to purchase peace with God for me – and He is in heaven now to maintain that peace, for me and in me.

The prophet Zechariah warns that any nation that touches Jerusalem will be cut off.

God has never, in the history of mankind, allowed His name to go long offended.

There is a spiritual Israel and a natural Israel. God is committed to both. Neither replaces the other.

'To die is gain!' That kind of talk is absolutely foreign to our modern, spiritual vocabularies. We have become such life worshippers, we have very little desire to depart to be with the Lord.

Economic storm is coming and the stress levels are going to increase because of financial worries.

To believe when all means fail is exceedingly pleasing to God and is most acceptable.