I have heard in one form or another since I was converted, as a teenager - God has a plan for Israel policy, such as the fate of the nation is closely related to the realization of other Biblical prophecy and, in fact, the second coming of Christ !
I do not know where I have heard the first - if I have read in Hal Lindsey's "Late Great Planet Earth", or whether I heard him, at the beginning of the New Zealand white Pentecostal evangelist, Barry Smith. Anyway, I have many times before, and the game is always the same - triumph that Israel has the means neighbours in the east was clearly predicted in the biblical texts, and that until that happens, the "Battle "(" Armageddon ") and the 1000-year reign of peace can not occur.
The message from this spiritual nature of the show is always ", write to Christ, so that you are prepared when it comes back." It is obvious that with a political message too well - that we should all be shot from hand to l 'State of Israel in its battles with their neighbors, for fear that the state of the prophecies of the Bible a little frustrated, or at least a dead point.
"Christian Zionists" is the technical term for this reading of the Holy Scriptures. Irony of fate, they will thrive better in the areas of the church, where there is a strong distinction between the sacred and the secular - between religion and politics. For most Christians Zionists will tell you that the political issues have nothing to do with their belief that the only Hello its staff. The only exception is that deals with issues of Israeli policy, it is still a special role in God's plan of the Hello.
The religions in this respect are very common among evangelical Christians, particularly in the United States, where they are in a dynamic pro-Israel, the foreign policy. In recent years, the Christian Zionist lobby has played an important role in supporting and strengthening the special relationship between Israel and the West. And the members of the church were actively angefleht been by the Israeli nationalists United States and the State of Israel itself!
Ok. That's enough, in the Christian Zionism! If you did not know what that is, you do not. Anyway, I encourage you to address a wide ramp! Why? Because in my opinion, the Christian Zionism is both wrong and dangerous!
It is wrong because it is a misunderstanding of the Bible. It is dangerous because of the sanctions measures, which contribute to the predominance of the State of Israel, without consequences for their largest, and without a serious assessment of the legal nature of the measures themselves.
Now… I think that I am an easy way to prove that they are Christians, Zionist completely outside the slopes! My argument is simple and essential, and I've never met a Christian who is in the Zionist position, with more than usual it was an area where this argument.
And it does not mean anything against what is calls the prophetic texts. I was not necessary to call into question the distinction between sacred and secular. It does not even by me to adopt a policy in the state of Israel. I could very pro-Zionist and believe that this is still that the biblical prophecy is never normative!
Biblical prophecy is never normative. In other words, prophecies in the Bible at all bids work - let's say directly to determine how our relations with our neighbours. They work to us by God - usually by remorse. Allow me to this meat:
If Amos announced the judgement of God - "For three transgressions of Israel and for four, I will not cancel sanctions" - its purpose is not easy to get the people to disrupt and they said that they are on the point d 'be destroyed, nor is to them an invitation to come to him and to destroy Israel. On the contrary, its aim is to his listeners to repentance so that Israel is not destroyed.
When the prophet Jeremiah rails against the sins of Israel, and provides that a "pot boil of the North" in their direction and destroy everything that is not designed to meet the person, political loyalty Israel in the north of the country Babylon (or Assyria).
On the contrary, Jeremiah sincerely hopes has always predicted that the events are not coming there to change, and if things do not run as he had predicted, together wrote a book of Jeremiah of complaints, screaming the tragedy of the destruction of Jerusalem!
See my point? Jeremiah prophesied the destruction of Israel, but that does not mean that he, like a good thing, or wanted to promote someone to help you to do so.
Yes, the destruction of Jerusalem 587 BC was the realization of the prophecy of Jeremiah, but it was still a great tragedy that would have to be avoided, and Jeremiah would have to be avoided, had the people 'is rotated its creator in the Repentance and faith.
Biblical prophecy is not prescriptive. Jeremiah prophecies not the destruction of Jerusalem an act morally acceptable, and if we are a part of the audience, the correct answer would be to go s'enrôler in the army to power the Babel looting. N ° The prophecies have a spiritual purpose, operating something like a shock therapy. The Prophet paints a shocking images from the judgement, to the point of falling to his audience clicks to the point that they ensure that something is very bad!
This distinguishes the biblical prophecy of the two means the assets and elections. Bible prophecy will not be for the sake of satisfying the curiosity of everyone in the future, not more than what they are, to help, 21 Century shape the foreign policy. Prophecies are to designate people to return to God.
It is there that the Christian Zionism, which is obviously still wrong.
Christian Zionists claim that the prophecies of the Bible point to the triumph of the 21st Century policy of Israel to its neighbours and the Middle East. I think that their interpretation of biblical texts is wrong, but that is irrelevant. What is important, even if they were fairly accurate, and in particular that a biblical prophet in fact a military victory for Israel more modern, for example Iran, this does not mean that this is the prophet or the Bible with the approval was as a good thing that deserves our support, not more, that the destruction of Jerusalem requires that Jeremiah was a good thing, deserves to be supported. On the contrary, for example, historical, even if it was, "predicts", the good thing to do, the lettering of a point, perhaps even resistance.
The biblical prophecy never standards for the people of faith. It is that the commandments are standards. You know - "love God and love your neighbour". These are the commands that Divine inform our activities and tell us how we should behave towards our neighbours. And that's only on the basis of these bids that we have a Bibliquement on the basis of foreign policy - and on the basis of love!
I should perhaps not be too hard to judge my brothers Christian Zionists to predict confusion and the command. Finally, the prophet Jonas itself has been guilty of the same confusion.
Do you remember Jonas, is not it? After his adventures with the big fish, it is ultimately not in Nineveh and to manage his message: "But, forty days, and Nineveh is destroyed."
. It was a very simple message, and if even a biblical prophecy seems a simple prediction about the future, it was Jonah.
If at the end of the book, you know that Jonas after promulgation of his message, found a good position outside the city and sits there until the fireworks to start. A large part of his own grief, they do not start. His prediction was not met. Why not? Because the prophecy was successful. See the difference?
The prophecy of Jonas was a success, because it causes people to reverse and back to God. The result was that the city will not have to be destroyed. God will be very happy. Jonas was not the case.
Read the last chapter of the book by Jonas sometimes when you do not have the details. Jonah's prophecy contract as if it were just the people about the inevitable. He has the judgement in full should be done, and considered it right and proper. Because I believe that Jonah had done nothing more than happy if God had given him the privilege to press the button to fire and sulfur attack in Nineveh. But it should not be!
Jonas has the error to see the destruction of Nineveh as a good thing, simply because the prophecy! If the Christian Zionists he had with him, they have an anti-Nineveh foreign policy on the basis of his prophecy. It can also concluded that the consignment of weapons to the enemies of Nineveh was an appropriate response to the prophecy of Jonas. Fortunately, the people of Nineveh reacted, the words of Jonas. They penance, which is the subject of prophecy while!
Biblical prophecy is not normative! It is that the commandments are standards.
Are the two not simply a mistake. It is dangerous and can even be angry because when you order the prophecy and command structures, you run the risk of breaking the bids for the well-being are your prophecy fulfilled.
Let's get specific here:
The suppression of the Palestinian people by the State of Israel in recent years has been terrible. Between the massacres and the killing and the daily routine a system of apartheid, the Israeli Arabs as second-class citizens, all bids have been broken.
If we look at the situation through the eyes of Jesus - with the eyes of compassion and mercy - we can not be delayed, but once pity and anger. Grace for the many victims - the Palestinians and Jews who tried to resist the occupation. And the anger towards the countries of the possible suppression - the countries who understand Australia and the United States.
And the saddest part, in my view is that a large part of this oppression in the name of religion, and with the blessing of the many parts of the Church of Christ, because it is as an indication of a necessary part, the great time to end the theatre, as in the Bible prophecies. How embarrassing!
Biblical prophecy is never normative!
Jonah predicts that Nineveh, decline. Thank God, his prophecy has not been met.
Jeremiah prophesied that Jerusalem is the autumn. Oh, what a good thing and be cautious, then it would be if we was in a position to prevent that from occurring!
The fact that something was predicted does not mean that such a result is a good thing. The events of May things that we should resist. We must take tours of the bids. Bids on our activities, not even prophecies.
Ok. This is the game. Are you convinced? I hope so. I also accept that many Christian Zionists are not convinced.
Even among those who read and understand what I said, some are not convinced, but continue to believe that the Lord Jesus us unilaterally on the support of the State of Israel, regardless of their record level of abuse of human rights. I accept that. People are complex, and to keep these types of bodies for reasons which are often difficult to understand.
But know this - that the Christian Zionist position is not logical, it is not morally, and that is certainly not the Bible, even if his followers add "because the Bible says:" Every time their arguments.
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