history – Standing with Israel

Let’s Make a Deal

Remember the American TV game show “Let’s make a deal”? The format of “Let’s Make a Deal” involved selected members of the studio audience, referred to as “traders”, making deals with the host. In most cases, a trader was offered something of value and given a choice of whether to keep it or exchange it for aContinue reading “Let’s Make a Deal”

Syria – from Aram to al-Sham

After the worldwide flood mentioned in Genesis, Noah’s son Shem became the father of Aram, whose descendants became the people known as Arameans (Genesis 19:22). They settled in Mesopotamia, within the Tigris–Euphrates river system – also known as the Fertile Crescent. Later, God called Abraham from that area (Ur in Mesopotamia). In Canaan, Abraham sent hisContinue reading “Syria – from Aram to al-Sham”