Why and How of Evil

We all agree that what Israel is doing in Gaza is evil. The question is, Why is it evil?

Keep in mind that, in the Bible, “evil” is defined in terms of context and outcomes. The word as used in the Hebrew language does not refer to absolute qualities. It refers to a result as defined from the limited perspective of the person speaking. It was always understood that way. Thus, what is evil for one person might not be evil for another. Evil was never some kind of thing that defiled the cosmos; it was just a very unpleasant situation for the person speaking.

The ANE in general, and Hebrews in particular, never dreamed of themselves or their situation as touching eternity; they didn’t take themselves that seriously. If things were evil for some individual, it wasn’t necessarily a problem for everyone in the rest of the world. It was not their concern. And in a broader sense, what was bad for Israel might not be bad for the world. Only a divine being could say what was bad for the cosmos, and it was simply not the kind of thing God ever said one way or another. That crazy binary absolutism is a western idiocy that didn’t infest Hebrew thinking in general, nor biblical thinking in particular.

God alone could speak for any entity larger than a specific community of people, and no Hebrew ever imagined that God would define things on a cosmic scale in human language. They were utterly certain He would not. When God identified something as “evil”, His declaration was limited to the context of His intended audience alone. If it were possible for something to be universally evil, no human could comprehend it in the first place. It was excluded by the status of being mortal.

Let’s get the scale of things first: The actions of the modern State of Israel are evil for Israel and for the Palestinians, but not for the whole world. The idea that Palestinian deaths harm us is not biblical. It harms only Palestinians, and for reasons I’ll clarify, it harms Israel. In a very limited sense, it’s a loss to Islam as a whole, and to Judaism.

The reason it’s evil for Israel is because it perpetuates a huge freaking lie that the modern State of Israel has a moral justification for being in that land in the first place. The question is stained with the lie that Jews have a special status among humans. Regardless how you define “Jew” — whether an ethnic or a religious identity — they are not unique in God’s eyes. They lost any hope of that when they rejected the Messiah. They are now unique in Satan’s eyes only.

The real problem is that, no matter what Jews do, they do it for Satan. They are uniquely the Devil’s lackeys in this world. No other human identity is so deeply committed to Satan’s lies as the Jews — by their mere existence as an identity group. God declared it dissolved on the Cross; to keep it going is purely satanic.

Thus, everything Israel/Jews do as a group is inherently evil. They are constitutionally unable to do good until they disband and all individually renounce the Jewish identity.

As for all the whining about the fate of Palestinian people, I can assure you that you would not want them in large numbers anywhere near your lives in the West. They are part of the human pestilence attached to Islam. Do you understand that Islam absorbed from Judaism that sense of entitlement that makes them so impossible to live with?

The war in Gaza is, in one sense, nothing more than two demonically entitled groups. The world would be a better place, for that matter, if both were gone. It won’t matter if “gone” means genocide or simply a change of heart. If you want a cosmic explanation, Islam was created by the false gods of the Middle Eastern peoples (AKA, members of the Elohim Council) as a weapon that mimics the power of Judaism for evil. It’s a case of two competing evils. Thus, I will not say that Mohammad was insane so much as he was led by what we call demonic powers in the Unseen Realm. Islam was created as a moral weapon against Christianity. That it often is in conflict with Judaism/Zionism is simply a feature, part of the design, the means to harming the gospel message.

And because these two beasts are sponsored by the Devil and his allies on the Divine Council, there is nothing we can do about them. That is, all we can do is trust the Lord to help us respond according to His glory. That’s the only thing that matters for us. So, pray always about what to do in your personal life, but don’t you dare waste time praying about the situation between nations and tribes fighting in this world. Pray only that believers will know what to do about it, not to change the situation itself. God is taking care of that and does not need our advice. It’s all far above the human level; there is no human solution.

You can take action to defend your domain as granted by God, but you cannot change the situation in the rest of the world. You should not care about it, except to notice how it will shape your opportunities to bless the Lord’s name. The same goes when I talk about American politics — there is nothing you can do that will affect the outcomes for others. All you can do is uphold your moral covering wherever it reaches. That is a solid Hebraic and biblical perspective on the madness around us.