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News Flash: Israel is NOT a Jewish state; it is a Zionist state. Judaism is NOT the Old Covenant religion of Jehovah; it is the antichrist religion of the Pharisees. The promise to Abraham in Genesis 12:3 is NOT fulfilled in the State of Israel; it was fulfilled in Jesus Christ (Galatians 3:16). There is NO promised blessing on America for blessing the antichrist Zionist State of Israel; in fact, you fellows are helping to bring God’s curse upon America for leading the nation into supporting the atheistic, antichrist State of Israel and for willingly participating in its acts of international war crimes, murder and genocide.
From The Christian Post:
Notable Evangelical leaders have signed a letter urging key political leaders to take a stand against antisemitism, support Israel and respond to the massacre by Hamas on Oct. 7, which they described as the most “significant since the Holocaust.”
The letter, a copy of which was provided to The Christian Post, urges Congress to “without delay take the following specific steps to fight antisemitism and ensure that the Jewish state survives this horrific attack.”
“We represent many faith traditions and have come together, in one united voice, to defend our shared humanity against barbarism and terror,” the letter released on Monday states.
The Christian leaders call for concrete steps from Congress, such as funding Israel’s defenses, passing acts against antisemitism and overseeing measures to prevent and punish hate crimes in the U.S.
“In the wake of this horrific terror, antisemitic protests erupted in the United States and around the world. We will not remain silent in response. Like the signatories of this letter, the majority of Americans continue to stand by their Jewish brothers and sisters in the United States and in the Jewish homeland of Israel. As Jews remain the target of more than half of religion-motivated hate crimes in the United States and as Israel faces a fight for its survival, Americans of all faiths and backgrounds must take action now,” they wrote.
“With this letter, we issue a united condemnation of antisemitism and proclaim our support for Israel’s right to self-defense. The United States government, and the people’s representatives in Congress, cannot waver both in combatting antisemitism and in supporting the State of Israel.”
Signatories of the letter include: Ralph E. Reed, chairman of the Faith & Freedom Coalition; Timothy Head, executive director of the Faith & Freedom Coalition; James Dobson, founder and chairman of the Dr. James Dobson Family Institute; Robert Jeffress, senior pastor of First Baptist Church in Dallas, Texas; Jonathan Falwell, chancellor of Liberty University; Jentezen Franklin, senior pastor of Free Chapel in Gainesville, Georgia; Jack Graham, senior pastor of Prestonwood Baptist Church in Plano, Texas; John Hagee, CEO and pastor of Cornerstone Church in San Antonio, Texas; Richard Land, executive editor of The Christian Post and president emeritus of Southern Evangelical Seminary; David Olson, senior pastor of Heartland Church in Ankeny, Iowa; Gordon Robertson, CEO and president of The Christian Broadcasting Network; James Robison, founder and president of LIFE Outreach International; Jordan Sekulow, president and CEO of ACLJ Action; and Rabbi Tuly Weisz, president of Israel365 and editor of The Israel Bible.
Let’s set the record straight with some FACTS:
1. Israel is not a victim; it is an aggressor state.
Ever since December of 1947, the Israeli military has committed abominable acts of aggression against the peaceful people of Palestine. With the help of Great Britain and the United States (especially President Harry Truman), the atheistic, warmongering leaders of the Zionist movement led a bloodthirsty attack against an innocent and unarmed population, committing acts of brutality, rape, kidnapping, torture, mutilation, plunder and murder as they carried out massive ethnic cleansing and genocide against the Palestinian people.
You so-called evangelical leaders use the word “holocaust” to describe the actions of Hamas against the Israeli military. If that’s the case, then the French Resistance committed acts of “holocaust” against the occupying Nazi troops in France during World War II, because Israel is no less an occupation force, equal in spirit and act to the Nazi regime.
The REAL holocaust in Palestine has been committed by Israel, not Hamas. Since the assault and occupation of Palestine began in 1947, Israel has murdered more than 5 million Palestinian people. And since Israel’s Six-Day War in which it launched a blitzkrieg-style attack against its Arab neighbors in 1967, the Palestinian people have been treated like cattle in the open-air prison that is known as Gaza and the West Bank.
Dr. Paul Craig Roberts accurately describes Western evangelicalism under the “leadership” of you men listed above:
Every Western institution has failed. Governments represent powerful material interests, not citizens. Universities and public schools are indoctrination centers against Western civilization and white people. Media is a propaganda ministry in behalf of official narratives. Law is no longer a shield of the people; it is a weapon used by those in power against political opponents, which means democracy and free speech are dead. And now Christians have turned from Christ and endorsed genocide. [Emphasis added]
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/30/us-evangelical-christians-israel-hamas-war
Christian evangelicals are obviously a constraint on US foreign policy as Israel’s actions are interpreted as the workings of the hand of God. Human rights and moral conscience are displaced by prophecy.
2. Your Israel prophecies are a devilish counterfeit.
ALL of the Old Testament prophecies regarding national Israel have been fulfilled. Every last one of them! National Israel—or, more factually, the remnant of national Israel in the tribes of Judah and Benjamin, including the city of Jerusalem and the Jewish temple—were annihilated by God, using the Roman army as His instrument of justice—in 70AD. The Assyrians had already destroyed the ten northern tribes some seven hundred years earlier.
The city you call “Jerusalem'' today is NOT the Biblical city of Jerusalem. That city is gone forever. The city called “Jerusalem'' in Palestine today is a Roman city built by Emperor Hadrian in 135 AD and was named Aelia Capitolina—meaning “the city of Hadrian and Jupiter.” The walls around the “Old City'' of Aelia Capitolina were built by the Ottoman ruler Suleiman the Magnificent in 1516.
Modern Jerusalem is a pagan city. In the Revelation, the Holy Spirit inspired the Apostle John to refer to even Biblical Jerusalem as “Egypt” and “Sodom” and “Babylon.” There is no more “holy city” of Jerusalem, just as there are no more biological “Jews” as “God’s chosen people.”
In your signed letter, you refer to modern Israel as “the Jewish homeland.” That statement is classic Scofield propaganda. The Zionist Jews in Palestine today came from Europe, which is why they are called “Ashkenazi” Jews. They have no more Abrahamic blood flowing through their veins than you or I. The homeland of the Ashkenazics is not the land of Palestine; it is the land of the Khazars. The minority Sephardic Jews are the only ones who have a legitimate claim to ancestral homelands in Palestine, and the Ashkenazi Zionists hate the Sephardic Jews and persecute them almost as much as they do the Palestinians. Sirs, what does that tell you?
However, Palestine IS the homeland of, well, the Palestinians. Many, if not most, of the Palestinians whose land has been stolen from them by violence and blood can trace their lineage to the land for up to one thousand years.
Some of you fellows must know all of this, but either for reasons of fear or greed, you refuse to acknowledge this truth.
Plus, under Christ’s New Covenant, God’s chosen people are not people of ANY race; they are people of ALL races who come to faith in Jesus Christ. (Ephesians 1:4)
You fellows deliberately and deceitfully choose to not tell your followers the truth about the New Covenant people of God. You willfully ignore or misapply the vast majority of the Book of Galatians, verses such as Galatians 3:16:
Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ.
And Galatians 3:28, 29:
There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus. And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.
You pretend that Romans 9:6 - 8 is not in the Bible:
For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel: Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children [of God]: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called. That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed.
The same is true for Romans 2:28, 29:
For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh: But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.
Plus, your convoluted teaching of prophecy is not only misguided; it is patently diabolical.
3. Because of your egregious misinterpretation of prophecy, you are happy to endorse and promote racial hatred, theft, kidnapping and mass murder: all in the name of prophecy.
The New York Times reported Saturday that Israel is killing Palestinian civilians in Gaza at a historic pace. The huge civilian death toll in Gaza is explained by the scale of the bombing campaign and Israel’s willingness to drop US-provided 2,000-pound bombs on densely populated areas that are packed with civilians.
Marc Garlasco, a former Pentagon analyst who advises the Dutch NGO PAX, told the Times that he’s never seen anything like it. "It’s beyond anything that I’ve seen in my career," he said. Garlasco added that to find a historical comparison for so many large bombs in such a small area, one would have to "go back to Vietnam or the Second World War."
Israeli officials have frequently cited the Allied strategic bombings of Japan and Germany during World War II to justify their onslaught in Gaza. The comparison includes the US fire bombings of Japanese cities, which killed around 100,000 civilians in Tokyo in one night in 1945, as well as the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Israel has also invoked the US air campaign against ISIS, which killed tens of thousands of civilians in Iraq and Syria. But even the most brutal battle of the ISIS war does not compare to Israel’s onslaught in Gaza. According to an AP investigation, between 9,000 and 11,000 civilians died during the Battle of Mosul. About a third were killed by US-led coalition airstrikes or Iraqi forces, a third were killed by ISIS, and the cause of death for the rest is undetermined.
The Battle of Mosul lasted for nine months, from October 2016 to July 2017. In less than two months in Gaza, the Israeli bombardment has killed at least 10,000 civilians, based on a conservative estimate cited by The Times.
The Times report said, "People are being killed in Gaza more quickly, they say, than in even the deadliest moments of US-led attacks in Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan, which were themselves widely criticized by human rights groups."
The Israeli onslaught also dwarves the civilian casualties in the war in Ukraine since Russia invaded in February 2022. In one year and nine months of fighting, the UN estimates at least 10,000 civilians have been killed in Ukraine, including 560 children.
The last update released by Gaza’s Health Ministry on November 10, after just 35 days of Israel’s campaign, said over 4,500 Palestinian children had been killed in Gaza, which the US State Department acknowledged was considered to be a low estimate at the time.
Despite the massive civilian and child death toll, the US continues to provide Israel with unconditional military aid. The White House has acknowledged that Israel is killing thousands of innocent people in Gaza but has said there are no "red lines" that would impact US support
(Source)
Make no mistake about it, Gentlemen: This is YOUR doing! Evangelical leaders such as yourselves have been providing cover for Israel’s mass murders since Israel became a state in 1948. Yet, you step into your pulpits on Sunday and preach about “the love of God” and refer to Jesus as “the Prince of Peace.” But the wars YOU endorse, promote and cheer are murdering multiplied thousands of your own Christian brothers and sisters in Palestine. Christian brothers and sisters that you show ZERO compassion for.
How can you teach the Epistles of John with a straight face and clear conscience?
I John 3:14:
We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death.
I John 4:20:
If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?
In the letter that you signed, you refer to your “Jewish brothers and sisters.” Are you THAT illiterate of the Scriptures? Modern Jews are Talmudists who deny and mock the deity of our Lord Jesus Christ. The apostle John calls such people “antichrists.” (I John 2:22) Yet you call them “brothers and sisters.” But the only brothers and sisters you have in Palestine are the Palestinian Christians that you, through your vocal support of the war against them, are guilty of murdering.
Do you even think about what you teach about prophecy? You teach that “antichrist” will make a peace treaty with Israel, which he will break. After which, he will unleash his armies against Israel, which will be slaughtered with only a remnant surviving. And only then will Christ return. You say that ALL of this MUST happen before Christ can return.
Question, Gentlemen: If your eschatology teaches you that it is God’s Will that Israel be destroyed by “antichrist,” and that this MUST happen in accordance with God’s prophetic Scriptures, why are you trying so hard to preserve Israel? How do you know that you are not fighting against God’s Will for Israel and hindering the return of Christ?
Oh, don’t think I don’t understand that you think you all will be “raptured” before this takes place. I guess you think that that absolves you from any and all moral and ethical responsibility. So, until the “rapture” takes place, you can take the rich Jew’s money and promote his murders and wars and not have a guilty conscience.
Gentlemen, your understanding of eschatology is a fairytale, but it is a very dangerous fairytale.
4. Have you even read the Jewish rabbis?
From the beginning of the Zionist movement in the nineteenth century, the most notable Jewish rabbis in the world almost unanimously condemned Zionism in the strongest language. Here are just a few examples:
Rabbi Yehoshua Leib Diskin, rabbi of Brisk, Lithuaniaand later rabbi of Jerusalem (1817-1878):
The greatest rabbis should gather immediately and excommunicate the Zionists. They should exclude them from the Jewish people by forbidding their bread, their wine and intermarriage with them.
Rabbi Yechiel, Rebbe of Alexander, Poland (c. 1833-1893):
This entire idea of establishing a state is a decree of forced apostasy upon us, G-d spare us.
Rabbi Yerucham Yehuda Leib Perelmann of Minsk, Russia (1835-1896):
G-d forbid, a person must not allow himself or his children to join the defiled Zionists, for their feet run to do evil and their place is a place of defilement.
Rabbi Chaim Yaakov Naftali Zilberberg, rabbi in Warsaw, Poland:
Imagine how it will be if, G-d forbid, the idea of Zionism becomes a reality. Then the sinners will be kings, the troublemakers will be high officials, and the young snakes will be leaders. Then your enemies will rule over you.
Rabbi Pinchas Eliyahu Rothenberg, rabbi of Piltz, Russia (c. 1902):
There is a new group calling itself “Chovevei Tzion” or “Zionists” who entrap many people in their net, who think that their actions are for the sake of Heaven. I therefore find myself obligated to make known and warn all those who have fear of G-d in their hearts to stay as far as possible from them, and to uproot and cleanse away their actions… All the great rabbis of our time have already warned us to keep away from them, and it is a great deed for anyone who has the power to spoil their plans.
(Source)
Today, Orthodox Jewish rabbis burn the Israeli flag; they march in protests alongside Palestinians against the State of Israel; they are ardent opponents of the Zionist state. They are openly beaten on the streets of Jerusalem by Israeli soldiers. Yet, you blind guides leading America’s evangelicals brazenly support and endorse the Zionist thug Benjamin Netanyahu, who is an international war criminal and mass murderer, who tortures and murders Palestinian Christians and innocent Muslim people and who tortures and persecutes Orthodox Jewish rabbis in his own country.
News Flash, Mr. Ralph Reed and Company: You are on the wrong side of history, the wrong side of human decency and morality, the wrong side of God’s Natural Laws, the wrong side of Just War and, most importantly, the wrong side of Bible eschatology, God’s Holy Word and Christ’s New Covenant Gospel.
Shame on all of you!
© Chuck Baldwin
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