Category: General

For decades, Many misled Christians would warn against “replacement theology”—the idea that the Church has replaced Israel in God’s plan, in their understanding that the idea of the church replacing Israel is wrong. Yet those same Christians are themselves adherents to the true replacement theology, which is a very dangerous theology, and it’s spreading across pulpits and pews: the replacement of Jesus Himself with the modern state of Israel.

As the president of a Christian college, I carry the hopes of young men and women who dream not merely of survival, but of dignity, purpose, and a future beyond war.

Standing in this place—sacred to billions, yet scarred by conflict—I find myself living between two realities: the pain I have witnessed all my life, and the vision of peace that God has placed in my heart.

Do you know about the nakba? Every year, when Israel commemorates the founding of the nation, the Palestinian people commemorate the nakba, which in Arabic means catastrophe.

Why was it a catastrophe? In just a few weeks time, over 500 Palestinian villages were depopulated, and about 750,000 people made homeless. After all of this time, neither that generation nor any of their descendants have been allowed to return to their homes or villages.

Today in Israel and around the globe the Jewish people celebrate a feast called Tabernacles or Succoth in Hebrew. Many of our neighbors and friends prepare ahead of time for this holiday by building a Succa, which is a shack made of branches and decorated with fruits and plants. This biblical feast commemorates the wilderness experience of the Hebrew people and how they lived in tents for 40 years before the conquest of the land of Canaan.

Revd Dr Jack Sara, a Christian from Jerusalem and president of the Bethlehem Bible College, addressed members of the House of Commons and House of Lords at a briefing held by the Britain-Palestine All-Party Parliamentary Group in Westminster on 15 December.