by Peter Barfoot | Nov 7, 2025 | Blog
If I were an American, I’d sing the chorus of “God Bless America” every morning and encourage family and friends to do the same. I would organise a “God Bless America Day” and invite fellow Americans to join me in celebration of...
by Peter Barfoot | Nov 7, 2025 | Blog
Israel is Real. Israel is factual but Palestine is fictional. The Romans decided to punish the Jews for their AD32-36 revolt, 66 years after the AD70 destruction of the Temple. So, they banned Jews from living in or near Jerusalem on pain of death. So, many Jews moved...
by Peter Barfoot | Nov 6, 2025 | Blog
Remembrance Day will be with us again on November 11, so it’s time to call to mind the costly price of sacrifice. When King David needed a certain threshing floor as the site for an altar, its owner offered it as a gift, work oxen included. But, knowing that...
by Peter Barfoot | Nov 6, 2025 | Blog
Two prophecies in the book of Jeremiah pointed the Jews to the time when they would return from exile in Babylon. The first stated that they would serve the king of Babylon for seventy years (Jeremiah 25:11). The second gripped the heart of the prophet Daniel and...
by Peter Barfoot | Nov 6, 2025 | Blog
The relationship between the Jews and the Church is problematic to some Christians. Here’s the way I see it: (1) The end of the [Jewish] age is often mentioned in the NT — Acts 2:17, Hebrews 1:1, 1 Corinthians 10:11 and James 5:9 refer to the “these...
by Peter Barfoot | Nov 6, 2025 | Blog
In the early 1980s, as national secretary of the Full Gospel Churches, I was invited to be the speaker at a gathering of pastors in Brisbane. Among those present was a nationally known evangelist and other well-known ministers. About twenty minutes before the meeting...