Storm clouds continue to hover menacingly over the Middle Eastern sky.
The security of Israel among her neighbors is tenuous as each day new reports of terrorist activity and breakdowns in the peace process plague the possibilities of peaceful accord. The Bible has proven itself to be more reliable than any other piece of literature in predicting the future of the nation of Israel. We need to look to the past and discover what was promised by God to Abraham and his descendants. This means we have to look at that seminal book of the Scriptures, the Book of Beginnings - Genesis. After all, it was God who promised the Land of Israel.