Updates on Middle East

The Middle East has of late become a boiling cauldron of uprisings, reminding us of Psalm 2:1 "Why the big noise,nations? Why the mean plots, peoples?" (Message Bible). One day soon nations will gather in coalition to attack the tiny nation of Israel, and that's when the full impact of Psalm 2 will be fulfilled.

In the mid 1980's we in Malaysia and Singapore used to have updates on the Middle East situation and especially on Israel by visiting speakers like Lance Lambert, Derek Prince and their associates. That day is past and gone with the call home of Derek Prince and the ageing of Lance Lambert. However, the Lord is bringing new visiting speakers to keep us abreast of the Christian scene in the strategic spots of the Middle East vis-a-vis Israel.

One such contemporary speaker is Dr. Kameel Majdali, a born-again Arab of Palestinian descent (father's) and Lebanese (mother's). The parents emigrated to USA decades ago and lived as secular Arabs, bringing up their son without religious instruction. However, the Lord had a hand and someone placed a Gideon's Bible in the home library, which Kameel got hold of and devoured. When he became a Christian later, he already had a working knowledge of the Scriptures. Today he is the President of a Christian college (Teach All Nations) in Australia, where he and his Australian wife now live.

Dr Kameel held a seminar in Melaka in Calvary Life Assembly (AOG) during which he expounded in Biblical terms what is currently happening in the Middle East with all its popular tumultuous uprisings. It was Charles Spurgeon who said that Christians should read the Bible on one hand and the newspaper on the other (in a day when there were no computers and internet). Kameel uses his Bible knowledge as a Bible teacher, as well as his first-hand knowledge of Middle East current affairs via personal visits, to present vivid accounts of End Times perspectives in those prophetic hot-spots. The Lord is using knowledgeable people like him to keep our South-Eastern corner abreast of the times. God bless him.