Kameel Majdali's Road Ahead

Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be ye holy: for I am the LORD your God. Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be ye holy: for I am the LORD your God — Leviticus 20:7 At first glance, it is tempting to skip Leviticus when reading the Bible. It does not have a riveting narrative like Genesis or Joshua, nor does it give lofty inspiration like the Psalms or Ephesians.   Skip Leviticus? Don’t do it! For starters, the third book of Moses is an indispensable God’s inspired Word and is profitable (2 Timothy 3:16). It is a revered book of the Scriptures, the five books of Moses known as the Pentateuch (Greek) or Torah (Hebrew). Furthermore, it gives an outstanding typology of the person and work of Jesus Christ. Ultimately, it shows us the only way to have access to God. Therefore, it behoves us to make it part of our study of Scripture.   NAME IN HEBREW The original Hebrew calls this book va-yeech-krah, meaning ‘ And he called. ’ These happen to be the first three words of Leviticus ...

  ‘Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven’ — Matthew 6:10 We recite this line every time we say the Lord’s Prayer. Do we understand what it means? We are asking … and declaring … that God’s kingdom is coming to earth, and that God’s will can override the will and ways of temporal earthly rulers. Just like it is in heaven.   Yet you can’t have a kingdom without a king. So in praying for the ‘kingdom to come,’ we are also implicitly asking for the Lord to come, too. Finally, you have to have a capital headquarters for the king and kingdom. Without question, it can be only one place: Jerusalem, the City of David, the City of God, and the City of the Great King (Psalm 48:2; Matthew 5:35).   Scripture is clear that God is coming to the earth. Psalm 96:13 : ' Before the LORD: for he cometh, for he cometh to judge the earth: he shall judge the world with righteousness, and the people with his truth.’ God is going to judge the earth but not from His heave...

We have been exploring the topic of today's Middle East war and how it compares with end-time prophecy. One of the prophetic signs Jesus predicted in the days before His second coming was ‘ wars and rumours of wars ’ (Matthew 24:6). Tragic as it may be, on the positive side it is part of the birth pangs of the coming kingdom. One of the key prophets regarding the last days and Armageddon is Zechariah, He gave some great prophecies of the first coming of Jesus (like the triumphal entry into Jerusalem riding on a donkey and His betrayal for thirty pieces of silver). Here is a key prophecy about the events leading to the second coming of Christ: Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem. 3 And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together...