For they have not recognized the Hour of their Visitation.
The disastrously entangled situation in today’s Middle East can be said to revolve around a certain question: “Is the Old Testament a property deed in perpetuity, or is it something much greater, i.e., a binding spiritual covenant?” Modern day Zionists and the secular State of Israel generally accept only the first interpretation and are thereby willing to set the entire region ablaze in defense of that position. And yet we are told that upward of 70% of Jewish Israeli citizens are either secular, agnostic, or atheistic – more than confirmed by the highly secularized culture of Tel Aviv and other major Israeli urban centers. And while we in the West have long fretted about the threat of Communism to a Christian based social order, very few seem to recognize that Communism’s younger brother, political Zionism, may actually be the fatal ‘ism’ which draws mankind into a Third World War. Such a scenario appears to be more plausible today than at any time since the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962.
The question then arises as to how Zionism is to be understood in the larger context of Judaism, a crucial distinction that many so-called Christian Zionists and Jewish pundits such as Ben Shapiro seem unwilling to address, despite the fact that there are thousands of orthodox and even many secular Jews who reject Zionism outright. Despite this inconvenient body of Jewish opposition, the Zionist program has expanded greatly over the past 75 years from its original stated goal of a shared Jewish homeland in Palestine into a far more ambitious agenda to transform the Israeli State into the dominant regional hegemon, the seizure of every square meter of Palestinian land, and now the rebuilding a 3rd Temple in Jerusalem, after 2,000 years, for the resumption of animal sacrifice.
Such a project would necessitate the destruction of the Dome of the Rock on the Temple Mount, one of the three most important pilgrimage sites in Islam, an act which would undoubtedly incite the world’s 2 billion Muslims to unprecedented fury. So why would any rational person or government risk such a volatile provocation? And yet it is no secret that countless Zionists of both Evangelical Christian and Jewish persuasions are working hard to achieve this very end which they understand full well would incite a geo-political upheaval of unimaginable scale: a worldwide religious war. It that indeed is their aim, then the American and Zionist State’s two recent perfidious sneak attacks on Iran in the midst of supposed ‘peace negotiations’ may merely represent the prelude to a much deadlier conflict.
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