{"id":1405,"date":"2025-08-28T20:35:59","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T19:35:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/?p=1405"},"modified":"2025-12-30T15:38:56","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T15:38:56","slug":"issue-20-4-july-august-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/?p=1405","title":{"rendered":"Issue 20-4 July\/August 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/FlipBook20-4\/mobile\/index.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"597\" height=\"753\" src=\"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20-4-cover.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1408\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20-4-cover.jpg 597w, https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20-4-cover-238x300.jpg 238w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 597px) 100vw, 597px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In this issue:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>David Andrew asks why would the Prince of Peace bring a sword<\/li><li>Steve Maltz visits a pro-Palestinian protest and asks what difference has the war with Iran made?<\/li><li>Kameel Majdali discusses the Trump effect in the Middle East<\/li><li>Alexander MacLaren asks where is Jesus in your storm?<\/li><li>John Maclaughlan looks at the reality of sin and what God really requires of us<\/li><li>Rosemary Bamber encourages us to \u2018love the truth\u2019 in an age of AI!<\/li><li>Chuck Cohen starts a two-part teaching breaking down the division between the Old and New testaments<\/li><li>Charles Gardner looks at Christianity as a Jewish movement<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Philip Wren considers whether the turning of the nations against Israel is a prelude to the appearance of the Antichrist<\/li><li>And finally Peter Sammons asks if 2027 will be a portentous year as it is possibly the 2000th anniversary of the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>You can read the full magazine <a href=\"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/FlipBook20-4\/mobile\/index.html\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this issue: David Andrew asks why would the Prince of Peace bring a sword Steve Maltz visits a pro-Palestinian protest and asks what difference [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,110],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1405"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1405"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1434,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1405\/revisions\/1434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}