While not a particularly religious man, I was raised in a hard-core religious community. Although Mormons are not considered, by many, to be Christian, they are indeed. Definitely non-traditional, but Christian nevertheless. Which leads to a completely different path. The principle, in my case, was that The Bible is seen as history. So while flaws I saw in the Mormon ideology prevented me from accepting it as being what it claims to be, the undercurrents were my religious ideological foundation. This made Jews, in my world, a chosen people. While the Christian version of Jews as the chosen people is rather different than the Jewish interpretation, the bottom line is they were favored by God.
There are numerous Biblical references to the troubles we see in Israel: “I am going to make Jerusalem a cup that sends all the surrounding peoples reeling. Judah will be besieged as well as Jerusalem. On that day, when all the nations of the earth are gathered against her, I will make Jerusalem an immovable rock for all the nations. All who try to move it will injure themselves.” (Zechariah 12:2-3). “For I will take you out of the nations; I will gather you from all the countries and bring you back into your own land” (Ezekiel 36:24-28). “And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God” (Genesis 17:8). “And God said unto him, Thy name is Jacob: thy name shall not be called any more Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name: and he called his name Israel. / And God said unto him, I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall be of thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins; / And the land which I gave Abraham and Isaac, to thee I will give it, and to thy seed after thee will I give the land” Genesis 35:10-12. Thus, whatever value the Bible holds obviously extends indicates the current situation and God’s intended result.
In my opinion, we find ourselves in an ironic situation in which Biblical principles, regardless of their obvious value, are increasingly being laughed off, to the point of actual, specific opposition such as we find in the growingly popular ideology of Marxism. Beyond Marxism it is a growing aspect of government, even of the hypothetically “free” (which none of us really are), in which looking to a deistic authority as being superior to government in any way (outside of in your house and your church-house}, is a sign of ignorance. Exemplary of this is the greatest scam ever foisted upon society, the scamdemic, movie theaters, bars and strip clubs remained open but churches were forced to close. Feel free to drink whisky and stick your fingers in a stripper’s g-string as you insert a tip (metaphorically speaking), but keep your ass out of that damn church house!
Some time ago I returned to university in pursuit of a master’s degree, which I achieved in spite of the political ridiculosity of the environment. It had been many years since my previous enrollment and the changes were screamingly obvious. The atmosphere was completely liberal in politic and inordinate attention was paid to students who, in my day, would likely be ostracized rather than endorsed. Thus I found little surprise that Ivy League University students (I’m sure it’s going on in universities of the lower echelons as well) are actually demonstrating in favor of a terrorist regime which has a clear and obvious record of horror, the January 6 event being just the latest in a string of terrorist absurdities going back to the days of Mohammad who was himself a terrorist, holding a legacy of Jihad-holy war against all non-Muslims. The Qur’an instructs the faithful to wipe non-muslims out, “infidels,” to deceive, ambush and enslave them. The religion of peace? I rather think NOT!
In any case on January 6 thousands of rockets rained on Israel from multiple directions, and Hamas gunmen invaded by land, sea, and sky. They targeted young women and children and the elderly. Hundreds murdered and kidnapped. The sexual mutilation conducted against young women was disgusting. Our “media” (propagandia) hesitates to give the details of these horrors, but it is out there: One body was so severely brutalized that recovery people couldn’t tell whether it was a man or a woman; a woman who was shot in the back of her head, lying on her bed, naked from her waist down. A live grenade was planted in her hand; a woman, laying naked and she had nails … She had nails and different objects in her female organs. Her body was brutalized in a way that we could not identify her;” there were girls with broken pelvis due to repetitive rapes, their legs were split wide apart in a split; there seem to be a systematic genital mutilation of a group of victims. This from a CNN article, so we can safely assume the reality was worse than described. This was far removed from an ordinary military attack. It was pure brutality. We have young students on American university camp protesting in favor of “Palestine.”
So, what is Palestine? It’s actually a geographical location rather than a peopling or an ideology. Palestinians are people who live in that region. So, traditionally speaking, the Jews in that region are Palestinians. Unfortunately the political world sees Palestine in a different way, as the home of Islam it contains the Al-Aqsa Mosque where Mohammad is said to have traveled to receive instructions from Allah on his way to heaven. I know, I know, the fate of the planet residing on nonsense, but there ya go. Satan’s influence is stunningly adept.
Looking at the situation in Palestine one has to see the Jews as being unbelievably tolerant of a culture which exists on the premise of destroying Israel, all else non-Muslim, and each other where the different branches of Islam disagree on principle. In view of the fact that the Palestinians are pledged to the destruction of Israel, they have been surprisingly well tolerated, but the Hamas attack changed all that by shining the spotlight on the reality that been residing in the shadows all along, Satanic evil. The Hamas attack came at the end of the festival of Sukkot on Simchat Torah. Young victims were attacked at a music festival; victims were rounded up and shot in the streets; hostages through the streets of Gaza; Corpses were publicly mutilated; Hamas pulled hostages from cars, screaming “Allah hu akhbar!” Hamas called on their people to use all weapons; they were screaming, “Today the most glorious and honorable history begins.”
It’s all both horrifying and Biblical. “One of the most sobering facts about life is that all humans have a supernatural enemy whose aim is to use pain and pleasure to make us blind, stupid, and miserable — forever. The Bible calls him “the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world . . . the accuser” (Revelation 12:9–10), “the ruler of this world” (John 12:31), and “the god of this age” (2 Corinthians 4:4)” (John Piper). Which brings us to the bottom line: “We will not win against the Medina ideology by stopping the suicide bomber just before he detonates himself, wherever he may be; another will soon take his (or her) place. We will not win by stamping out the Islamic State or al Qaeda or Boko Haram or al-Shabab; a new radical group will just pop up somewhere else. We will win only if we engage with the ideology of Islamist extremism, and counter the message of death, intolerance, and the pursuit of the afterlife with our own far preferable message of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” (Manal Omar, who speaks it more eloquently than can I.) Thus the light of reasonable logic shines on the truth that Israel is fighting for, “we will wipe them off the face of the Earth.” Leftists will do everything in their power to stop this from happening. The resulting peace is far outside the Satanic/Marxist goal they are striving for.
~Bacon
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