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Rabbi Joshua Levine Grater says that Glenn Beck’s Jerusalem rally is not good news for Jerusalem and the Jews.

 

The two-state solution, and President Barack Obama’s attempts to revitalize negotiations based on the same set of principles all presidents, prime ministers and negotiators in the Middle East have used for decades, is the only hope for Israel’s survival as a Jewish and democratic state. But Beck doesn’t care about that because the messianic vision of the “end times” actually involves the destruction of Jerusalem, which paves the way for the Second Coming. This is why Beck and the whole Christians United for Israel movement is actually a false front of “support for Israel,” which, sadly, many Jews have bought into as true support. In the interfaith work that I do, though, Muslim, Jewish and, especially, Christian colleagues of mine all agree: Glenn Beck is bringing nothing positive with regard to the healing of our fractured world.

In fact, Beck’s rally is actually a dream come true for Hamas and Hezbollah. They are, unwittingly perhaps, Beck’s radical, religious fundamentalist partners in crime who also crave the war to end the world. Lovers of Israel, friends of the Jewish people and seekers of peace should do some praying of our own: Pray that Israel doesn’t grant Beck a permit for his circus show. This could be one of the smartest things the Netanyahu government ever does.

via Glenn Beck Rally in Jerusalem: Bad for the Jews! | Opinion | Jewish Journal.

It would be a blessing for many Christians who declare that we must always stand by Israel to understand that standing by Israel is not always what the right wingers tell us it is.

Now I’m politically conservative, and much more so than Joel (HT).  I am also a Fundamentalist, or conservative Evangelical (that kind of depends on which camp you are in- “let him that readeth understand”).  That does not change the fact that we must realize that this “Israel first” theology is more of a political ideology that is quite wrong-headed and hurtful to the Jewish people.

There is a difference between being from Israel, being Jewish, and being a Zionist. Don’t believe it?  Click here.

See also John Hagee Is Of The Devil.

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When analyzing Anders Breivik, Sabrosky began:

“I’m not certain, but it’s my impression that his politics are in the vein of Benjamin Netanyahu and [Israeli Foreign Minister] Avigdor Lieberman. To understand the Israeli political spectrum, their right wing isn’t conservative in an American sense.”

To illustrate the bloodthirsty nature of these Zionist extremists, Sabrosky said of Lieberman: “He’d carry out a policy of ethnic cleansing in a heartbeat. Similar to 9-11, they could easily do these horrific mass murders, much like what happened at Dresden and [Nagasaki] during World War II.”

via Norway Killer 280.

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Half a million trees planted over the past 18 months on the ancestral lands of Bedouin tribes in Israel’s Negev region were bought by a controversial Christian evangelical television channel that calls itself God-TV.

A sign posted a few kilometers north of Beersheba, the Negev’s main city, announces plans to plant a total of a million trees over a large area of desert that has already been designated “God-TV Forest.”

The Jewish National Fund (JNF), an international non-profit organization in charge of forestation and developing Jewish settlements in Israel, received $500,000 from God-TV to plant some of the trees, according to the channel’s filings to US tax authorities last year.

A coalition of Jewish and Bedouin human rights groups have denounced the project, accusing God-TV and the JNF of teaming up to force the Bedouin out of the area to make way for Jewish-only communities.

via Christian extremists assist Israel in displacing Negev Bedouin « Aletho News.

There is no way under Heaven that Christ Jesus our Lord approves of such things as this.  Professing Christians are wasting the Lord’s money as well as promoting a form of ethnic cleansing when they partake in such as this.

God’s covenant with Abraham, of which the promise of the Land was a major part, is of the same kind as Yeshua’s covenant with all of us. It is an unconditional and eternal covenant that God cut with Himself. As such, there is no party involved that can negate the terms of the covenant.

via israel today | Post-Zionist Theology is an Attack on God’s Character.

There’s one serious flaw in this man’s reasoning: the covenant is only entered into by faith in Jesus Christ.  Until Israel acknowledges Jesus as her Messiah, she shall not be partaker of the covenant blessings.  Jesus, Himself, said that Israel would not see Him until they said “Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord” (Matthew 23:39). (My paraphrase.)

HT: Joel

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It is high time that modern Christians stop making an idol out of modern “Judaism” or “Israel.” In fact, it is high time they quit using those names for something those names don’t even rightfully apply. They apply only properly to God’s people in Christ, the Church. The Church is Israel: advance her kingdom and glory, expand her lands, teach her glorious future of world dominion, pursue her peace.

Read the complete article here.

It is important that the church recognize what is being said.  We are too deeply involved in the political maneuverings of Israel.  Zionism is not Biblical Judaism.  Neither is Zionism seeking to promote a truly Jewish state.  Why?  Because the Jews were God’s chosen.  God has revealed to us in the New Testament that His chosen are those who believe Jesus.  With this in mind we should simply pray for the conversion of Israel.  That is how we bless the physical descendants of Abraham.