Having a vision of truth, of clarity and honesty, isn’t very useful to others if I can’t show an application.
First, an honest accounting of where I stand, of how I arrived at my applications. I take the Bible seriously. We might debate what it says, but I find that’s mostly a matter of whose glasses you wear when you read it. Again, there is no objective truth out there we can bring to the question, because humans are not capable of it; I choose my biases openly and wisely. A very fundamental issue in my reading of the Bible is my choice to wear the glasses of the Hebrew intellectual culture which brings us the Bible. In so doing, I reject the lenses offered by Aristotle and all of Western Civilization. Not so much that I have succeeded, but this is my commitment. You can read more about that here if you need an academic accounting of my approach. The point is, I have a bone to pick with almost the entirety of Western Christianity; someone paid big money for my Western Christian education, and I have a BA in Religion, and have not since then ceased to study, so I understand all too well what’s involved. If you are oriented toward the mainstream Western Protestant expressions of faith, we will have much to debate, but we can agree the Book is the basis for proceeding.
From there, it’s a short step to declaring I utterly reject the modern nation-state called “Israel.” I’m asking you to make the sane choice of rejecting it, too. That is, let us regard that nation is the single greatest threat to human life on this planet. Yes, this awful world offers plenty of dangers, and we have no end of things we should call “sin” and demand they stop. However, the problem with Israel is so unspeakably huge because it steers most of what’s wrong elsewhere.
Getting back to that Bible business, my claim to be true to the ancient Hebrew understanding is the primary basis for rejecting any claims modern Israel represents any promises God made in the Bible. I’ll save you a lot of time: So long as Israel does not adhere to the Covenant of Moses, they cannot claim God’s favor as a nation. They do not, so they cannot; that’s in the Bible. As long as they reject Moses, they cannot claim the support of any Christian, either. Let’s pretend for a moment the political machinery of Israel is seized by the Orthodox Jews. Would that fix things? No. They adhere to the Talmud, and Jesus bluntly said that was contrary to Moses. Modern Judaism is Talmudism, a departure from the Old Testament religion. That’s also covered in my link above. Sorry, but unless there is a radical transformation and repentance in Israel and all Jews, they can make no claim to fulfill anything God put in His Bible.
So any Christians who agitate for political support for Israel are agitating against the Bible. I could go much farther, pointing out how Christ on the Cross completely ended the Covenant of Moses in the first place, but we don’t have room for that here. I could also take you to a thousand pages of facts which point out how Dispensationalism is a heresy, tracing the entire detailed history of where those ideas come from, but that’s more than adequately covered by others. If you want to know, you can easily find out how the whole thing came from some lying Catholic priests, ambitious and greedy English Protestant preachers, some wacko teenage girls, and all of it passed along through a series of politically ambitious preachers in the US. Sorry, but Jesus said in no uncertain terms no good thing comes from political activism.
So much is simply a long standing debate with ample record. Should you really want to know the truth, you’ll find it. If you don’t want the clarity and honesty, then nothing I say here will help you. The Bible itself destroys the claims of modern Israel. Any other position is blasphemy. It’s all stolen land, and the folks there are unspeakably evil oppressors of the previous occupants. Our political alliance with them is poking God in the eye. Thus far is theology. And for anyone who really wants to know the truth, almost all our adventures in the Middle East are at the behest of Israel’s political agenda. Any secular searcher of truth could figure that out.
Hussein was our hired thug; whatever he was doing was at the behest of the US political establishment, until at some point we suckered him into something we would not tolerate. Our rulers needed an excuse for a big show of warfare, and he took the bait as our faithful foolish servant. We were already in Afghanistan, in part because of demands from Big Oil. The Taliban, whom we created during the Soviet Occupation, were not showing themselves sufficiently grateful. None of this is secret, either. That there was a bigger agenda, with a plan to attack Iran all along, is also not hard to see. Look at a map. Afghanistan is east of Iran. Iraq is west of Iran. It doesn’t take a genius. And since Pakistan is south of Afghanistan, shifting from Afghanistan to Pakistan, or simply adding it on, hardly changes the underlying narrative of our activities there. Israel fears Iran’s nuclear ambitions because Israel intends to be the only nuclear power in the region.
And so on. The only reason most American Christians don’t see these things is because they are blinded by the Dispensationalist lies. Shed that insult to God and everything else makes sense. You really don’t need me for this part.
Now, let me shift over to another level. As part of my peculiar approach to the Bible, I believe God still uses folks to speak as prophets. I believed it before He gave me a prophetic word. I understood the prophetic background of His nation, ancient Israel, and where the boundaries were. I believe I understand how things were shifted to the New Covenant, and His church. Those things I realize require His Spirit to understand, and I have a strong theological basis for discussing the necessity of spiritual birth to understand how these things work. In theory, at least, anyone whose spirit the Lord has raised up to life inside their soul is in a position to hear a prophetic word on any question in their personal life. Sometimes what He has to say applies to more than the individual who hears it.
My warning about invading Iran could find a logical basis, but I’m not relying on that. While I don’t claim to have a word from God regarding Israel, it is my speculation from that prophetic word any attack they make on Iran is equally doomed. They got away with the last one; I personally believe they won’t get away with it again. I suspect they will act very soon, and that their failure will be what draws us into it. Never mind how I consider the government of Iran foolish and wrong; that’s not the point. This is a word from God, and some reasoning connected to it.
I further speculate this stuff will happen this summer, or perhaps as late as the fall. No, that’s not part of the prophecy; it’s just my personal guess. I hope stay out of it, but I have no doubt it’s part of our government plans, and I suspect this disaster will have something to do with massive political changes in the world, particularly the US. I’m hardly the only sane man who thinks our national debt places us in precarious position, and any day now our currency will collapse in terms of how the rest of the world treats it. And while I don’t quite believe these images are the real thing (seen all over the alternate news and underground blogs in the last few days), the background story of something like a North American Union swallowing the US is entirely plausible. It’s entirely plausible some hidden agency has been trying to entice our government into reckless and endless spending and borrowing as the means to destroying what little is left of our national sovereignty. We have been ruled by some outside power for quite some time now, but getting the mass of citizens to go along with it is cheaper than simply sending the troops into the streets. All the more so since our troops are busy elsewhere right now. So I am utterly certain this whole thing has been set up in advance, and we have been nudged in this direction by conflicting stories which serve to herd us in a controlled panic when it becomes necessary.
I hope I’m wrong on most of this, because it will be very uncomfortable for me when it all happens. My beloved Internet will probably become difficult to access, if not impossible. The fun of fixing people’s computers will disappear for me, right along with the fun I have using my own. Most likely my veterans’ pension will disappear, along with a lot of other government funded support systems. I have little confidence there will be any useful replacement for that, and lots of people will be hurting. It doesn’t matter what I think of them in terms of proper libertarian economic policy; such a drastic change coming so quickly will be painful beyond imagining. I’m not looking forward to these things, but I am quite certain most of it will happen as I describe. The timing is merely my personal guess.
So I am trying to do a few things now which might help me stay focused and sane while the rest of the world goes mad. Part of that is simply keeping track of events and seeing how they confirm or deny my story line. You need to write your own story line. Don’t trust mine; I could be stupid and insane at the same time. That Israel is a big problem is hard to dispute, but you don’t have to swallow my approach to the the Bible to arrive at that conclusion. Realizing that messing with Iran will hurt the West does not require a prophecy from God. That our economy is about the crash is hardly a secret. But if you swallow the lies of our government, as told through the mainstream media, you deserve everything that’s coming.
