Johannes Pflaum

The catastrophe of World War II not only accelerated the Jews’ return but also Israel’s resurrection from the ashes of history. The State’s founding literally occurred in the fire of history and could never have been anticipated, humanly speaking. In light of this, something else is also significant. In 2022, Israeli historian Dan Diner published Another War. In the book [unavailable in English], Diner shows the developments of World War II from a Jewish perspective, as well as that of Israel...

In the first four trumpet judgments of Revelation 8, we see how the foundations for life on earth are being increasingly destroyed. According to verse 11, many people die after drinking the water, which was rendered bitter. And finally, with the sixth trumpet (Rev 9:15), one third of what remains of humanity perishes. Doing the math, this would mean that half of humanity perishes through the judgments of Revelation 6 and 9. And, the shocking thing is that the rest of the people do not repent...

Israel was born through fire in Egypt, gathered through fire in history, was resurrected as a nation through fire in 1948, and will be saved through fire in the future. A biblical survey through Scripture and redemptive history. In 2004, when Ariel Sharon (Israel’s Prime Minister at the time) addressed the Knesset about the Gaza “disengagement plan,” he said that Israel had been born in blood. He was referring to the events surrounding the nation’s founding on May 14, 1948. And when we look...