What Shall We Talk About? – Messianic Insider 14 January, 2026: X-link
We are back from the IAMCS 2026 Rabbis Conference! Messianic Apologetics editor John McKee reviews a number of the critical matters which we are preparing to discuss in the coming weeks.
This is then followed by a review of important stories and issues from the past day or so, largely witnessed on social media.
THEOLOGY ROUNDUP
NEWS ROUNDUP
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Trump sends message to Iranian protesters: link
Average Nick Fuentes groyper: link
Former President Bill Clinton and ex-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton skipped their depositions before the House Oversight Committee: link
Cartoonist, author, and political commentator Scott Adams died on January 13: link
Warned y’all about Ms Rachel. Now she’s doing events with Mamdani: link
Why aren’t these pictures from Iran all over the front pages of mainstream media outlets?: link
Pete Hegseth flashed a Vulcan salute on January 12 as he joined Elon Musk at SpaceX headquarters: link
German Chancellor Merz: “The Iranian regime is close to collapse. These are its final days or weeks.”: link
Speaking earlier on Air Force One, President Donald J. Trump was asked what he meant by ‘help is on its way’ for the protesters in Iran: link
WSJ: Iran’s Arab rivals across the Persian Gulf, led by Saudi Arabia, are pressing the Trump administration to avoid a strike on Tehran: link
PRESIDENT TRUMP: “To all Iranian patriots, keep protesting, take over your institutions, if possible, and save the name of the killers and the abusers that are abusing you.”: link
Why aren’t Greta and her friends already organizing a “Freedom Flotilla” to Iran?: link
Shabbos Kestenbaum: “I find it very bizarre that in a topic that did not include the word Israel. The only country we actually discussed was Israel.: link
U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff secretly met over the weekend with exiled former Iranian crown prince Reza Pahlavi: link
GAZA CEASEFIRE DEAL: President Donald Trump is expected to announce the next phase of a Gaza ceasefire deal: link
U.S. President Donald Trump said that the United States will take “very strong action” in Iran if the regime starts hanging protesters: link
The Israel Defense Force has been raised to a “particularly high security alert” within the last few hours: link
Erfan Soltani, 26, who was arrested on January 8, is set to become the first (this round) Iranian protester sentenced to hanging, with the execution scheduled for tomorrow: link
Reuters: PM Netanyahu’s security cabinet is being briefed on the prospects of regime collapse in Iran and possible U.S. intervention: link
Thousands of Iranian patriots took to the streets of Tehran tonight: link
Despite supporting President Trump’s decision last June to bomb Iranian nuclear facilities alongside Israel, Vice President JD Vance is still worried the United States could be “pulled deeper into a Middle East entanglement,”: link
Mississippi synagogue arsonist Spencer Pittman threw away college, baseball and a promising future: link
CBS News reports that the death toll in Iran is much higher than reported and that 12 000-20 000 anti-regime protesters have been murdered: link
A message for Trump from a young conscript soldier of the Iranian Army (not the IRGC): link
We, The Pizza (1.0 miles from the Pentagon) is experiencing an extreme spike in activity at 278%.: link
Sen. Fetterman says strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities shifted the Middle East and could help fuel protests that is leading to real change in Iran: link
Could the Fall of Tehran Be Israel’s Greatest Trap?: link
Despite public saber-rattling against Iran, President Donald J. Trump has sounded uncertain in private about potential military action: link
“There will be no Iranian regime.”: link
A leaked Iranian government poll showed 92% of Iranians “hate the regime,”: link
We have had more casualties in the last two days. Four times the number of people who were dead as a result of the 9/11 terrorist attack.: link
Message relayed from Iran via Starlink describes a society saturated by loss.: link
Candace Owens outright denies reports of unrest in Iran: link
