I don't want to worry you guys, but...
On Monday, Vice President Mike Pence delivers the keynote speech at the annual summit of Christians United for Israel.
Pence once again pledged that the Trump administration would move the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem, this time to Christian supporters of Israel who have become increasingly restive at President Donald Trump’s failure to make good on his campaign promised for Israel — signaling what some see as a new ideological shift for the White House.
Pence is a willing, servile foil to Trump, but his wife Karen is not amused (The Atlantic, Jan/Feb 2018) “She finds him reprehensible—just totally vile,” a campaign aide said.
When the United States recognized the capital of Israel to be Jerusalem we do so, at least in part, to summon the Messiah and begin preparation for the battle at Armageddon. That is what the Christian Zionists believe, and have relentlessly demanded of the administration. Armageddon is to be the final battle to rid the world of all non-Christians Zionists. The bible tells us Jesus will be back to fix it all.
The Moslems, the Jews, the Buddhists, the Hindus, the Shintos, the Animists, the Voodooists, the Catholics, agnostics, and atheists, et al, will be converted to the Christian Zionists legions of the Lord, The Messiah, Jesus Christ will prevail and undo all evil that now befalls us.
But first they believe ancient Israel must be made whole and unencumbered by Moslem heretics in order to fulfill the biblical prophecy of Christ’s return to earth.
Once the land of Israel is made whole and pure, a series of cataclysmic events, yet to be discovered, will ensure the second coming. That second coming however does not bode well for the Israeli’s according to the Christian Zionist liturgy. Israel will sadly be no more. Israel will be destroyed during this apocalypse. Jesus distressed that the Jews did not regard him as the Messiah will kill all Jews who refuse to convert to Christianity, or more precisely Christian Zionism. Jesus it seems is not one to turn the other cheek when slighted.
If you believe otherwise, if you believe that Biblical prophesies as interpreted by the Christian Zionists are lunacy, you are in the helpless majority. Because the Christian right has extraordinary influence in the administration of President Trump and Mike Pence. Pence is one of their number. He does not attempt to hide this; he is quite deliberate in his public discussions of his re-birth, and his salvation. He was saved from a life of excess, it seems, when he embraced the rigorous teachings of the Christian Zionists. Or perhaps he realized that an Irish Catholic in Indiana did not have a chance in hell to win an election.
The Christian Zionists managed, through the positioning of Mike Pence in the White House an incredible measure of influence over perhaps the most powerful nation on this earth. They believe that only the apocalypse will purify the souls of the heretics, and the United States shall be that instrument which brings forth God’s wrath. The great resources, the military might, of the United States is part of the divine plan to bring the Apocalypse upon us.
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When the United States recognized the capital of Israel to be Jerusalem we do so, at least in part, to summon the Messiah and begin preparation for the battle at Armageddon.
ReplyDeleteMore evidence of shameful ignorance or disrespect of the Old Testament since:
Alas, you who are longing for the day of the Lord,
For what purpose will the day of the Lord be to you?
It will be darkness and not light;
As when a man flees from a lion
And a bear meets him,
Or goes home, leans his hand against the wall
And a snake bites him.
Will not the day of the Lord be darkness instead of light,
Even gloom with no brightness in it?
“I hate, I reject your festivals,
Nor do I delight in your solemn assemblies.
“Even though you offer up to Me burnt offerings and your grain offerings,
I will not accept them;
And I will not even look at the peace offerings of your fatlings.
“Take away from Me the noise of your songs;
I will not even listen to the sound of your harps.
“But let justice roll down like waters
And righteousness like an ever-flowing stream. Amos 5:18-24 NASB
Count me in the helpless majority.
ReplyDeleteYou can't make it up. It's as scary as Planet of the Apes.
DeleteAA, obviously those things have already happened....
ReplyDeleteThey are being disgraced:
“25 For I am not willing for you to be ignorant of this secret, brethren, lest you may be passing for prudent among yourselves, that callousness, in part, on Israel has come, until the complement of the nations may be entering.” Rom 11
Ball is in our court now... we of the nations eventually figure it out first... ie “peace and security” 1 Thess
this era is all a demonstration involving a lot of failure (ie ‘sin’ or missing the mark’) , not a human behavior modification program...
Greatest scene in the entire movie kaivey... huge irony that the anti-authority philosophy behind that wrecked idol image is what eventually leads to all the destruction in the first place... f-ing moron libertarians...
ReplyDeleteI wish I had put it out yesterday with this post. Anyway, Charlton Heston said it was one of the most powerful Hollywood scenes every made. It certainly shocked me as a kid, and it shocks me now.
DeleteWe should just tip that thing on to a barge and push that thing back to France ...
ReplyDeleteOh jesus. More horseshit.
ReplyDeleteOnce the land of Israel is made whole and pure, BY a series of cataclysmic events
ReplyDeleteA glass-paved parking lot would fit the bill perfectly.
Looks pretty pure now... l
ReplyDeleteHe was talking about pagan temples and idols, etc... cleansing it of those things.... don’t see any there today...
ReplyDeleteMostly agriculture today which was the idea to begin with...