At this most blessed time of the year, words cannot describe our sincere gratitude for your support this past year. Your letters, e-mails and phone calls are telling us that our magazine, our bookstore and our website are providing food for thought as you reflect deeply upon the Word of God.

Thomas Jefferson was an American statesman, diplomat, lawyer, architect, philosopher, and Founding Father who served as the third president of the United States from 1801 to 1809.

In 2008, our longtime President, Jim Read, closed his life after a long battle with leukemia . In a previous article, I wrote on how Jim, in 1985, spearheaded a rescue plan for this Association, that at the time, was in danger of going under. His were a huge pair of shoes to fill.

As we enter a new decade our faithful members and supporters can look with hope that the God of Israel will do a new thing to spring forth — “and shall ye not know it?” We are His chosen and the people He formed for himself to show forth His praises (Isaiah 43:19-21).

Remember, Habakkuk was describing a time when darkness covered the earth and gross darkness the people. An apt description of our Israel nations and peoples today. At that time, as it is now, the whole world appeared to lie in the lap of the Evil One, and even the chosen nation [True Israel], so singularly blessed and favoured by the Almighty, had wandered far away from God

First, of course, I want to thank our correspondents who throughout the year submit articles on various subjects. I suppose I should include in this the thoughts of so many past Israel Truth writers, whose articles we have updated for re-publishing.

The Bible teaches that this Golden Age shall be brought in by our Messiah, Jesus the Christ, the coming King and Ruler, Who shall reform the House of Jacob to the end that we shall be used to the uplifting of all nations (Isa. 2:1-5). Let us here stress that word “all.”

It’s been 101 years since the deadliest war in history ended and the noise of battle ceased. With mixed feelings, but with a grim determination that ‘it should never happen again’, the Celto-Saxon peoples faced the then future. For many that future held suffering of body and mind, and for many, too, a sense of deprivation and loss. Yet, surely, it held for all the hope, and perhaps the promise, of lasting peace. It never happened, of course.