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Religion See other Religion Articles Title: ISRAEL: IN THAT DAY THERE SHALL STAND UP A ROOT OF JESSE THAT SHALL BE AN ENSIGN FOR THE PEOPLE ISRAEL: IN THAT DAY THERE SHALL STAND UP A ROOT OF JESSE THAT SHALL BE AN ENSIGN FOR THE PEOPLE September 3, 2006 by: S.R. Shearer "Today, one would be hard pressed to find five countries in the world which support the [dictatorial, blood-thirsty] Salvadoran regime [in Central America]. The United States under Ronald Reagan is at the head of the list of supporters. In this 'honorable' company, one can find Guatemala, a huge concentration camp masquerading as a state [under the headship of Rios Montt (a devil masquerading as a Christian)]; ONE CAN ALSO FIND THE STATE OF ISRAEL." Y. Karny, Yediot Aharonot, Jerusalem October 3, 1984 INTRODUCTION We have spoken often on the pages of this website of the apostasy (or "falling away" - 2 Thess. 2:3) of the church in these "Last Days" - a church which the Bible speaks of as a WHORE (one who sells her sexual favors for money) riding a Beast (i.e., the American New World Order System) [Rev. 17:3-6]. The Bible speaks of this as an "ABOMINATION" unto the Lord. (Rev. 17:4-5) But it's not just the church that the Scriptures picture as having sold herself out to the American New World Order System as a WHORE in the "End of Days;" the Bible also speaks of Israel doing the same thing: of selling herself out to the American New World Order System; of aligning (or partnering) herself with the same evil entity with which the church has partnered herself. And isn't this so today? - after all, think about it! Who in these days are the two great devotees (supporters and even cheerleaders) of George Bush's American New World Order System if not the church and Israel? The Bible calls Israel's "condominium" or "arrangement" (i.e., Israel's "deal" to be America's "cat's paw") - "… HER (i.e., Israel's) COVENANT WITH DEATH AND HER AGREEMENT WITH HELL!" (Isaiah 28:18) What a horrible picture all this is! - These are the two entities (i.e., Israel and the church) that God had "birthed" to His glory; To Israel God had said: "... For I am a Father to Israel …" (Jeremiah 31:9) And to the church, the Bible says: "... Christ ... loved the church and gave Himself up for her …" (Ephesians 5:25) To what other nations or entities has God ever said such a thing? GOD HAS BEEN BETRAYED NOT ONLY BY THE CHURCH, BUT BY ISRAEL AS WELL Nonetheless, God has been betrayed by both! - this is the sad picture of Israel and the church in the "End of Days." Both are pictured as having sold themselves out as WHORES to God's enemy, "Babylon the Great." We have spoken much concerning the church's treachery, but now we turn to Israel's infidelity. As in the case with the church, Israel's "condominium" with the United States is not something that has occurred overnight. The fact is, Israel has been slavishly working on this "deal" for some time now, involving herself as America's TOADY throughout the world - and in the process, entangling herself in the villainous and wicked CRIMES of the American New World Order System. And the depth of her involvement in these CRIMES is truly astonishing - CRIMES THAT ARE NOT CONFINED TO THE MIDDLE EAST AND WHICH, THEREFORE, COULD BE WRITTEN OFF AS "EVILS NECESSARY FOR ISRAEL'S SURVIVAL," BUT CRIMES THAT ENCOMPASS THE WHOLE WORLD AND WHICH CANNOT BE SO EASILY WRITTEN OFF AS NECESSARY FOR HER CONTINUED EXISTENCE; CRIMES THAT CAN BE ONLY UNDERSTOOD FOR WHAT THEY REALLY ARE: THE "FAVORS" OF A "PAID-FOR" WHORE FOR HER "JOHN" (i.e., her client). ISRAEL IN EL SALVADOR For example, take Israel's shameful involvement in America's bloody wars of conquest in Central and South America. What vital interest does Israel have in this area of the world? - she has NO vital interest there at all! Nonetheless, there Israel can be found - up to her neck in the blood of "innocents." As Y. Karny of Yediot Aharonot wrote with tears in his eyes in Jerusalem in October of 1984: "Today, one would be hard pressed to find five countries in the world which support the [dictatorial, blood-thirsty] Salvadoran regime [in Central America]. The United States under Ronald Reagan is at the head of the list of supporters. In this 'honorable' company, one can find Guatemala, a huge concentration camp masquerading as a state [under the headship of Rios Montt (a devil masquerading as a Christian]; and - sadly - ONE CAN ALSO FIND THE STATE OF ISRAEL." A MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING And Karny isn't the only one in Israel who has taken note of Israel's "station in this world" as an American bootlicker. There's also Dr. Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi, an Israeli professor of psychology at Haifa University, who has traced the origins of this Israeli/American, "condominium" back to a "MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING" signed between the United States and Israel "under cover of darkness" in November, 1981. It was an agreement that extended their sordid partnership "OUTSIDE THE EAST MEDITERRANEAN ZONE" and one that made Israel a "full" partner (really, a toady) in America's bloody wars to extend the American New World Order System into areas of the world where Israel has no real interest other than to ingratiate herself to her American masters. Beit-Hallahmi writes in disgust: "Israel’s involvement in Central America has been a collaborative venture with the United States. IN NOVEMBER 1981, BOTH COUNTRIES SIGNED A MEMORANDUM CONCERNING STRATEGIC COOPERATION BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND ISRAEL. Part one of this memorandum dealt with military cooperation between the United States and Israel in areas 'OUTSIDE THE EAST MEDITERRANEAN ZONE', and the third part called for arms sales to 'third' parties." [Please see B. Bahbah, “Israelis and Central America,” Chicago Tribune, June 21, 1983; see also . P. Taubman, “Israel Said To Aid Latin Aims of U.S.,” The New York Times, July 21, 1983.] ISRAEL: A NATION EAGER TO PROVE HER WORTH TO THE UNITED STATES Beit-Hallahmi continues: "In Israel the United States has found a more than willing PROXY. Indeed, in some cases the initiative for Israeli involvement in third world 'troublespots' has come from Israel and not the United States. This was the case in April 1983, when the director-general of the Israeli Foreign Ministry, David Kimche, arrived in Washington with a grand plan for an Israeli 'assistance program' in Africa, Asia and Latin America, financed by the United States. From Israel’s point of view such a plan makes much sense: it gains Israel contacts in the third world, and MAKES HER A MORE INDISPENSABLE ALLY FOR THE UNITED STATES." Now that's what one calls "being a good toady" - someone who not only is willing to do America's dirty work for her, but is EAGER to do it as well - kind of like a groveling puppy panting to "fetch" for her master. The United States couldn't have been more delighted, and it soon followed up on the Israeli suggestion. Beit-Hallahmi goes on: "A meeting between the Israeli ambassador in Washington, Meir Rosenne, and then Ambassador-at-Large Vernon Walters is said to have taken place in early 1984. [“Israel and Latin America: The Second Lebanon War,” Smol, June 1984.] Walters, former CIA deputy director and … [then] U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, reportedly asked for greater Israeli involvement in 'defending the free world' on the Central American front, and Rosenne is said to have concurred. Israel’s role in Central America … [was] indeed crucial for the United States, which … [could not] offer direct and open military aid to states like Guatemala, because of those countries’ blatant human rights violations. BUT ISRAEL CAN AND DOES OFFER SUCH AID, AS IT DOES IN OTHER REGIONS OF THE WORLD WHERE THE UNITED STATES CANNOT OPERATE DIRECTLY, e.g., IN RHODESIA AND SOUTH AFRICA …" ISRAEL: DOING AMERICA'S KILLING SO AMERICA'S HANDS CAN REMAIN CLEAN OF INNOCENT BLOOD Now think about what is being said here! ISRAEL WAS OFFERING TO DO AMERICA'S DIRTY WORK FOR HER; AND NOT ONLY THAT, SHE WAS WILLING TO TAKE THE RAP FOR ITSO THAT THE UNITED STATES COULD BE SEEN AS "CLEAN" IN THE EYES OF THE WORLD. That's pathetic; it's beneath contempt; it's vile and despicable in a most profound and fundamental way! Israel had become a servant in the house of God's enemy; willing to do the work of the devil in order to earn the praise of her masters in Washington. And not only that, she was willing to "partner" with some of America's most contemptible and ignominious "underlings" - the apartheid regimes of Rhodesia and South Africa - in order to do to black Africans what the Germans had done to them during the Hitler era. And it didn't end there: she then volunteered to run death squads in the service of the United States in Central and South America - death squads that were very obviously directed against the "oppressed of the earth" there! It seemed as though the Israeli people had learned nothing from their experience in Germany from 1933 to 1945. It seems that when Israelis raise the cry, "NEVER AGAIN," they mean "NEVER AGAIN" for themselves, but not for other oppressed peoples. It seems that they are more than willing to act as America's SS and do to the people of Africa and Central and South America what the Germans had done to them. Beit-Hallahmi continues: "This obviously was the reason, according to the Hebrew daily, Maariv, that Israel’s Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir proposed the 'Strategic Cooperation agreement in Central America' to Secretary of State George Schultz in 1982. [R. Mann, 'Shamir Proposed to Schultz Cooperation in Aid to Central America', Maariv, October 22, 1982.] Shamir reportedly suggested cooperation in Costa Rica and other countries in Central America … According to the article, a similar suggestion had been made a year earlier, but the Americans were cool to the idea for financial reasons. A 1983 Washington Post article claimed that the Begin Government had for some time sought to play a security role in Central America in cooperation with the United States, and it quoted Israeli officials as saying that 'THEY WOULD BE WILLING TO ACT AS A U.S. PROXY IN AREAS [OF THE WORLD] WHERE … HUMAN RIGHTS CONCERNS RAISE OBSTACLES TO DIRECT U.S. ACTION.” [E. Cody, 'Salvador, Israel Set Closer Ties', Washington Post, August 17, 1983.] ISRAEL AS AN "ARM OF THE UNITED STATES" Beit-Hallahmi elaborates: "This last point was made clear to Israelis in a 1983 Ha’aretz article presenting the Israeli establishment’s point of view of the 1981 'Memorandum of Understanding': 'The revival of the agreement now will have its most practical implications not in the Middle East, but in Central America and in Africa'. In fact, this aspect of cooperation was the only one to be energetically pursued during the last two years ... The director-general of Israel’s foreign office, David Kimche, concentrated on this subject in most of his talks during his visit to Washington during the summer. THE AMERICANS NEED ISRAEL IN AFRICA AND LATIN AMERICA BECAUSE OF THE PROBLEMS EXPERIENCED BY THE U.S. ADMINISTRATION WHEN IT COMES TO GETTING CONGRESS TO RATIFY ALL ITS FAR-REACHING … MILITARY ACTIVITIES … [ESPECIALLY] IN CENTRAL AMERICA, WHICH IS NOW THE MAIN FOCUS OF U.S. ACTIVITIES. THE U.S. ADMINISTRATION HAS LONG WANTED TO USE ISRAEL AS A CONDUIT FOR MILITARY AND OTHER AID." [G. Samet, 'Where the United States Needs Israel', Ha’aretz, November 6, 1983.] Beit-Hallahmi describes Israel's symbiotic relationship with America, not only in the Middle East, but throughout the world, as - "AN ARM OF THE UNITED STATES." [Please see C.T. Toriello, 'On the Role of the United States and Israel', in S. Jonas, E. McCaughan and E.S.Martinez, eds., Guatemala: Tyranny on Trial (San Francisco: Synthesis Publications, 1984).] THE ARM OF THE DEVIL The arm of the United States? - really, THE ARM OF THE DEVIL! And what a terrible and ruthless partner to the U.S. Israel has proved herself to be. Take, for example, what she has wrought in Guatemala. Beit-Hallahmi writes: "In the midst of endless misery and cruelty, Guatemala [which, again, Karny pictures as a huge concentration camp masquerading as a state] stands out as one Central American country where those in power have been fighting those without power, using an unusual degree of ruthlessness and bloodiness. Over the years, numerous reports of the true realities of Guatemala have been harsh in their judgment. [Please see J. LeMoyne, 'Guatemala Crushes Rebels Its Own Way: Ruthlessly', The New York Times, January 13, 1985; A. Lewis 'In America’s Name', The New York Times, March 13, 1982; J. Preston, 'Guatemala: The Muffled Scream', Mother Jones, November 1981.] "THOSE WHO CARRY OUT THE DELIBERATE POLICIES OF ENDLESS KILLINGS THERE PROCLAIM THEIR INDEBTEDNESS TO ISRAEL … Israel has become the main support of the Guatemalan regime, as attested to by both Romeo Lucas Garcia and Efrain Rios Montt. It was Efrain Rios Montt, the born-again former dictator of Guatemala, who explained his easy takeover in March 1982 by saying that '...many of our soldiers were trained by Israelis'." [Please see S. Jonas, 'The Complicity of the U.S. Government and U.S. Capital in the Violation of Human Rights in El Salvador' in S. Jonas, E. McCaughan and E.S. Martinez, eds., Guatemala: Tyranny on Trial (San Francisco: Synthesis Publications, 1984); please also see F. Greve, 'Israel Could Fill The Gap If U.S. Latin Aid Funds Cut' in The Miami Herald, May 27, 1984.] ISRAELI SOLDIERS AS MODELS FOR THE DEATH SQUADS And not only were the butchers and murderers of Rios Montt's blood-thirsty army trained by the Israelis, but the chief of staff of the Guatemalan army declared: "THE ISRAELI SOLDIER IS THE MODEL FOR OUR SOLDIERS." [Y. Karny, 'The Secret Alliance of the Fifth World'. Yediot Aharonot, November 22, 1981; Y. Karny, 'Remove the Shame', Yediot Aharonot, November 26, 1981.] WHAT A PITIABLE AND TRAGIC REFLECTION ON THE CHARACTER OF THE SOLDIERS OF ISRAEL'S ARMY - to be called a "model" for Rios Montt's death squads. And make no mistake about it, the Israelis have been involved up to their necks in training death squads in Latin America. Indeed, the Washington Post reported in December of 1982, the - "… presence of Israeli advisers, who are not just instructors, but are directly involved in counter-insurgency activities (i.e., the creation of death squads)." [Please see E. Cody, 'Sharon To Discuss Arms Sales in Honduras', Washington Post, December 7, 1982, A19.] ISRAEL IN GUATEMALA The Washington Post further reported that Israeli advisers "… helped Guatemalan internal security agents hunt underground rebel groups” and take "direct action" against the poverty-stricken Indian communities of Guatemala; and that's not all; J. Lemieux, writing for the French newspaper, Le Monde Diplomatique, says that - "… Israeli advisers in Guatemala have also been working with the secret police, the NOTORIOUS G-2. Advisers from Chile and Argentina have joined the Israelis in training the secret police in interrogation techniques." [Please see E. Cody, 'Salvador, Israel Set Closer Ties', Washington Post, August 17, 1983; please also see C.T. Toriello, 'On the Role of the United States and Israel', in S. Jonas, E. McCaughan and E.S.Martinez, eds., Guatemala: Tyranny on Trial (San Francisco: Synthesis Publications, 1984); finally, please see J. Lemieux, 'Le role d’Israel en Amerique central' in Le Monde Diplomatique, October 1984.] And again, in all of this it's not as though the Israeli public has not been informed as to what is occurring IN THEIR NAME in Africa, as well as Central and South America. The close contacts between Israel and Guatemala’s military juntas have been discussed widely in the Israeli media. For example, on January 25, 1982, Israel State Television carried a British report on conditions in Guatemala. The announcer in Jerusalem referred to the regime in Guatemala as a “right-wing dictatorship” guilty of atrocities, and added that both Israel and Argentina were arming this regime. Take another example: On July 8, 1983, Israeli State Television carried a report on Guatemala which showed Israeli light weapons to be the standard equipment of the army. Finally, there is the true story - presented as a work of fiction in order to skirt Israeli censorship - of an Israeli operative in an unnamed Central American country. Stationed at the Israeli Embassy and working with a Colonel Garcia, the hero, who is involved in fighting “Indian terrorists,” expresses his guilt and rebels against his superiors. He finds himself identifying with the terrorists, and this means the end of his career in the Israeli foreign service. [Although the story was presented as a "work of fiction, it was widely known throughout Israel as a true story (Please see A. Dankner, "Our Man over There," Ha’aretz, February 26, 1982).]. ISRAELIS PREFER NOT TO KNOW WHAT'S BEING DONE IN THEIR NAME THROUGHOUT THE WORLD On February 16, 1982, an "Open Letter to the People and Government of Israel" from the "downtrodden people of Guatemala" was sent by the International Fellowship of Reconciliation, and by Servicio Paz y Justicia en America Latina begging Israelis to stop their support for the bloody regime in Guatemala. It was signed by the famous Guatemalan peasant leader, Adolfo Perez Esquivel. But the Israeli mainline media chose to ignore the plea. Like Christians in America, most Israelis prefer not to know what's happening IN THEIR NAME in Central and South America - and this willingness "not to know" has allowed their leaders to continue to ingratiate themselves with the American elites, and make themselves "indispensable" in the smooth functioning of the American New World Order System. Most Israelis believe that this proclivity "not to know" what is being done IN THEIR NAME overseas buys them security at home. But all it does is earn them the INDIGNATION of God and makes them complicit in the crimes of the American Empire. ISRAEL AS GOD'S WITNESS? - HA! What, then, does Israel say to Him who gathered them out of the nations to which they had been dispersed? What then does Israel say to Him who called her out to be - "… MY WITNESS … And My servant whom I have chosen ..." (Isaiah 43:1,9-10) Israel as God's witness? - maybe so, BUT ONLY IN GRACE; certainly not in her comportment to the world at large; insofar as her comportment before the world is concerned, she is a DISGRACE to God. Why? - because a witness is called to bear TRUTH to the world - and if one is called God's witness, then such a one is required to be a REFLECTION of God - to reflect His love and compassion; but is that what Israel is doing today? IS THAT WHAT SHE IS DOING BY PARTNERING WITH GOD'S GREAT ENEMY, BABYLON THE GREAT - i.e., the American New World Order System? ISRAEL IN EL SALVADOR AND HONDURAS And it's not just in Guatemala that Israel has been carrying America's water. Take El Salvador where allegations about the Salvadoran military being trained in Israel, and Israeli military advisers being sent to El Salvador, were made as early as 1979 by Shafik Handal, Secretary General of the Salvadoran Communist Party. [“Leftist Says Salvadoran Troops Are Being Trained by the Israelis,” The New York Times, October 10, 1979.] In May 1982, Joaquin Antonion Aguilar, a representative of the Democratic Revolutionary Front of El Salvador, visited Israel and met with a variety of groups and individuals. Like Adolfo Perez Esquivel before him insofar as the poor of Guatemala were concerned, Aguilar begged the Israelis he met to have compassion on the poor of El Salvador and to influence their government to stop its support for the regime - but all to no avail! [I. Klich, “Caribbean Boomerang Returns to Sender,” The (London) Guardian, August 27, 1982.] And it's not just to the poor of Guatemala and El Salvador that the Israeli government has turned a cold shoulder. Take what it did to the indigent and destitute of Honduras: In December of 1982 Ariel Sharon, then Israel's Defense Minister, paid a visit to Tegucigalpa, the Honduran capital. The Sharon entourage included Gen. David Ivri, commander of the air force, and Gen. Aaron Beit-Hallahmi, director-general of the Defense Ministry. Sharon reportedly signed a military accord, including weapons deliveries and training by Israeli advisers, visited military bases, and also visited Contra units on that occasion. The Honduran strongman at the time, Gustavo Alvarez Martinez, told Sharon that he (Sharon) was one of his most admired modern generals - ALONG WITH THE NAZI GENERAL, IRWIN ROMMEL. [Y. Karny, “The Rise and Fall of the General Who Admired Ariel Sharon,” Yediot Aharonot, April 3, 1984.] Eee gads, an Israeli general being compared favorably to a Nazi general! The irony of it all! - and Sharon seemed unable to grasp it. ISRAEL AND THE CONTRA WARS Then there's the matter of the Contra Wars: When the CIA began setting up the contra organization in 1981, the Mossad was also there, carrying out training and providing logistical support for the first units. Indeed, the first advisers and trainers to the Contras based in Costa Rica under Comandante Eden Pastora were members of one of Israel’s leading commando units. Not only that, but a leader of the Contra group, "Nicaragua Democratic Force" (FCN), based in Honduras and led by Adolfo Calero, a death squad leader and the former president of Coca-Cola in Nicaragua, also admitted receiving "invaluable" aid from Israel, as did Enrique Bermudez, another Contra death squad leader in Honduras, who said on the NBC Television News on April 23, 1984 that his group was receiving weapons and training from the Israeli Government. It should be noted in connection with both Calero and Bermudez, that both these death squad leaders were "favorites" of the evangelical community in the United States. Finally, there's Edgar Chamorro, another leader of the FDN, who told Time Magazine on May 7, 1984, that his group had received weapons and training from Israel. Time also reported on that occasion that - "Israeli intelligence experts helped train the Contras and retired reserve Israeli Army commandos had been hired by shadowy private firms to assist the rebels." "The Israelis," says a U.S. intelligence expert, "know how to run a secret operation." The issue of Israel support for the Contras was raised in the Knesset by MK Miari on November 14, 1984. Miari wrote to Knesset Speaker Hillel, proposing to put this topic on the agenda for urgent discussion. Hillel turned down the request - revealing the fact that not only members of the Israeli government per se were involved up to their necks in "carrying America's water," but also most of the members of Israel's Knesset. ISRAEL AS A PARTNER OF THE APARTHEID REGIMES OF RHODISIA AND SOUTH AFRICA Perhaps the most egregious example of Israel's treachery to everything that God had called her to was her involvement with the apartheid governments of Rhodesia and South Africa - governments that confined their black populations to ghettos not unlike the ghettos to which the Jews of Europe had been consigned for most of the their 2,000 year-long dispersion throughout the world. One would think that a people who had suffered so much at the hands of racists and oppressors over the years would have some compassion here for the oppressed of Africa. But not so! - it seemed that the Israelis had learned NOTHING! Instead, according to Jane Hunter, an acknowledged expert on this subject, the Israeli government took upon itself the "arduous challenge" of perfecting the Rhodesian and South African governments' practice of domestic counterinsurgency - practices that the Israelis had developed in Central and South America under the tutelage of the CIA. These practices combined outright BRUTALITY, the use of death squads, and the extensive use of informers and collaborators. In addition, the Israelis instituted the concept of "collective punishment" against the blacks of both countries - another concept that it had perfected in conjunction with the CIA in the jungles of Central and South America. The collective punishment employed by the Israelis against the poor and dispossessed of Central and South America, such as the destruction of a whole family's home when one of its members is arrested as a suspect in an act of resistance, was adopted wholesale by the Rhodesian and South African apartheid governments, and resulted in the South African and Rhodesian practice of sealing off whole townships, and assaulting them. ISRAEL IN ANGOLA AND MOZAMBIQUE In addition, the Israelis joined the U.S. government's BRUTAL and BLOODY war against the peoples of Angola and Mozambique and their effort to avoid being "sucked into" the American New World Order System, and consequently being added as slave-states in the American Empire. To that end, Israel aided the FNLA (Angolan National Liberation Front) proxy forces organized and trained by the CIA to forestall the formation of a socialist government led by the MPLA (Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola). John Stockwell, who ran the CIA operation against Angola, reported in 1983 - as did the Angolan News Agency - that Israeli military experts were training UNITA forces in Namibia, forces that had a perverted reputation for brutality and cruelty, and which - like the Contra forces in Central America - were linked closely to the American evangelical community. In addition, it was reported that Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon was personally involved in the organization, training and equipping of "commando" units (i.e., death squads) which were being organized to operate in conjunction with UNITA. In 1984, the Financial Times (London) wrote of "joint Israeli-South African support for UNITA forces." Other sources also reported the transfer of Israeli arms and financial support to UNITA. Israel also became deeply involved with the South African-backed MNR (Mozambique National Resistance or "Renamo"), which had brought great economic and social distress to Mozambique. Renamo had a particular reputation for BRUTALITY - being regarded by most other right-wing insurgencies as a gang of cutthroats - cutthroats trained and funded by both Israel and the CIA. In 1983, Angola's President Jose Eduardo dos Santos - speaking on behalf of the poor and downtrodden in both Angola and Mozambique - told Berkeley, California Mayor Eugene (Gus) Newport that an Israeli pilot had been shot down during a South African attack in Angola. The Angolan President showed Newport pictures of captured Israeli weapons. The following year, Luanda reported the capture of three mercenaries who said they had been trained by Israeli instructors in Zaire. Similar reports surfaced in Mozambique. THE CHILDREN OF THIS WORLD ARE WISER THAN THE CHILDREN OF LIGHT The whole thing is pathetic and would make Israel's founders - people like David Ben Gurion and the other idealists who had founded the state of Israel (with little help from the religiously oriented Jewish community of the time) - roll over in their graves in distress. As with the church, it seems that the non-religious in Israel are more in tune with concepts of universal justice than is Israel's Orthodox community; after all, it was the religiously conservative Likud government of Menachem Begin that first countenanced the "MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING" between Israel and the United States that led to Israel's pathetic transformation into America's LACKEY and BOOTLICKER throughout the world, not the socialists and secularists of Israel's leftist Mapai Party. Whatever the failings of the Mapai, they are surely not responsible for this hateful alliance, proving once again that - "… the children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light." (Luke 16:8) Clearly, Israel has made a pact with the devil (i.e., the United States - the "OVERFLOWING SCOURGE" of Isaiah 28:18) - an "overflowing scourge" that God warned Israel in the pages of the Jewish Scriptures (no less) and by the mouth of Israel's own prophets would eventually BETRAY them. Specifically, the prophet Isaiah had warned Israel more than 2600 years ago: "... your COVENANT WITH DEATH shall be disannulled, and your AGREEMENT WITH HELL shall not stand; when the OVERFLOWING SCOURGE (i.e., the armies of the United States) shall pass through, THEN YE SHALL BE TRODDEN DOWN BY IT." (Is. 28:18) ["Overflowing scourge?" - this is certainly a pretty good description of the United States: just ask the peoples and nations of the world that the U.S. has reduced to "client-state" status - for example, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Argentina, Brazil, Ecuador, Guatemala, Zaire - the list is endless.] THERE IS A REMNANT IN BOTH ISRAEL AND THE CHURCH All this is enough to make one cry out in despair; specifically, the fact of Israel's and the church's treachery; the fact that BOTH have betrayed God and partnered with His enemy, "Babylon the Great." AND MAKE NO MISTAKE ABOUT IT, THAT IS PRECISELY WHAT HAS HAPPENED, and the entire world bears witness to that fact. Nonetheless, there is a REMNANT in both Israel and the church - a SILVER LINE OF GOD'S REDEEMING GRACE that runs through them, and whose presence will preserve them both. Speaking specifically concerning the REMNANT in Israel, the Bible says: "… there shall be an highway for the REMNANT of his people, which shall be left … "And in that day thou shalt say, O LORD, I will praise thee: THOUGH THOU WAST ANGRY WITH ME, THINE ANGER IS TURNED AWAY, and thou comfortedst me. "Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the LORD JEHOVAH is my strength and my song; he also is become my salvation. "Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation. "And in that day shall ye say, Praise the LORD, call upon his name, declare his doings among the people, make mention that his name is exalted. "Sing unto the LORD; for he hath done excellent things: this is known in all the earth. "Cry out and shout, thou inhabitant of Zion: for great is the Holy One of Israel in the midst of thee." (Isaiah 11:16 - 12:6) THE BLINDNESS OF ISRAEL IS REMOVED And it is PRECISELY this REMNANT that - "… the LORD shall defend … and he that is feeble among them at that day shall be as David; and the house of David shall be as God, as the angel of the LORD before them. "And it shall come to pass in that day [i.e., when all seems lost at the Battle of Armageddon at the very end of the Tribulation period], that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem. "And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the SPIRIT OF GRACE and of supplications: AND THEY SHALL LOOK UPON ME WHOM THEY HAVE PIERCED …" (Zech. 12:8-10a) And the people in Israel shall say unto their Defender: "… WHAT ARE THESE WOUNDS IN THINE HANDS? (Zech. 13:6a) And the Lord of Glory shall answer: "… THESE [ARE THOSE INJURIES] WITH WHICH I WAS WOUNDED IN THE HOUSE OF MY FRIENDS." (Zech 13:6b) And then shall the veil (2 Cor. 3:14) be lifted from their eyes, and the whole House of Israel - both as a people and as a nation - shall at last - AND AT ONCE - recognize Jesus as their Messiah; and - "… they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness [i.e., great sorrow] for him [Jesus], as one that is in bitterness [i.e., great sorrow] for his firstborn. "In that day shall there be a great mourning in Jerusalem, as the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon [i.e., in the valley where the Battle of Armageddon will be fought]. "And the land shall mourn, every family apart; the family of the house of David apart, and their wives apart; the family of the house of Nathan apart, and their wives apart; "The family of the house of Levi apart, and their wives apart; the family of Shimei apart, and their wives apart; "All the families that remain, every family apart, and their wives apart." (Zech. 12:8-14) THE GOSPEL OF THE KINGDOM Now you must recognize something here! - this great day of deliverance for Israel, this day when Christ shall appear in the clouds with ALL His holy angels, this day when the WHOLE House of Israel shall be converted to Christ - shall be the culmination of a specific operation of GRACE on Israel's heart in these "Last Days" (Zech. 12:10); for - "… by the deeds of the law there shall NO flesh be justified in his sight ..." (Romans 3:20) And this operation of GRACE insofar as national Israel is concerned shall be initiated by the preaching of the "Gospel ('Good News') of the Kingdom," which Gospel God has commissioned us to preach to ALL the world - including Israel - during the "Last Days," for - "… how shall they hear without a preacher? "… as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel … and bring glad tidings of good things!" (Romans 10:14-15) It is precisely this preaching that shall - "… provoke them [i.e., the Jews) to jealousy. "[Because] … if the fall of them [had been] … the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fulness? "For if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but LIFE FROM THE DEAD?" (Romans 11:11-12, 15) Now this is a very interesting verse, and it is made more intelligible when we translate the word "jealousy" in verse 11 (above) to "shame" which is closer to its original meaning. When understood in this fashion, we can begin to comprehend the real meaning behind this passage of Scripture - because it reveals the working of the "GOSPEL OF THE KINGDOM" on the heart of Israel, or at least on the heart of those who constitute the "REMNANT" in Israel spoken of in Isaiah 11:16 - "… there shall be an highway for the REMNANT of his people, which shall be left …" And how is that? - the "GOSPEL OF THE KINGDOM" juxtaposes the character of the "Kingdom of God" over and against the character of "Babylon the Great" and puts in stark relief the fallen condition of present-day Israel as a TOADY and SYCOPHANT to this wicked system (i.e., the American New World Order System). Furthermore, it revealsthe INNOCENT BLOOD that Israel has been spilling in Central and South America, in Africa, and throughout the world on behalf of the American New World Order System as something that is dishonorable and outrageous. The Bible says that this shall produce "SHAME" in Israel, and this "SHAME" will result in repentance, which will generate "LIFE FROM THE DEAD." (Romans 11:15) [cf. Zech. 12:8-14] THIS IS NOT THE FIRST TIME THAT THE GOSPEL OF THE KINGDOM HAS BEEN PREACHED TO THE JEWS The "GOSPEL OF THE KINGDOM announces that THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS CLOSE "AT HAND." This, of course, is not the first time that the Kingdom has been announced to the Jews to be "AT HAND." It was announced the first time 2,000 years ago when the angels proclaimed it to the shepherds "in the field" at the time of Christ's birth in Luke 2:10-11: "And she (i.e., Mary) brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn. "And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night. "And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, WHICH SHALL BE TOALL people. "For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord." (Luke 2:7-8, 10-11) Shortly after this - and in conjunction with what the angels declared to the shepherds - the Kingdom was announced to be "AT HAND" by John the Baptist: "In those days came John the Baptist, preaching in the wilderness of Judaea, "And saying, Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. (Matthew 3:1-2) Then by Christ Himself: "And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people." (Matthew 4:23) And finally by the Twelve: "These twelve Jesus sent forth, and commanded them, saying, Go not into the way of the Gentiles, and into any city of the Samaritans enter ye not: "But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. "And as ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of heaven is at hand." (Matthew 10:5-7) A KINGDOM OF EQUITY AND JUSTICE The kingdom being proclaimed here is a kingdom grounded in social justice for ALL mankind, a world of equity where men are not divided up between the "owners of capital" on the one hand and "labor" on the other hand, and where men and women are not divided up on the basis of their race or even their gender (Gal. 3:28); where the rich do not oppress the poor; where every man has equal access to God; where privileges cannot be bought by the wealthy; where there are no death squads, no poverty, no torture, no hunger, no disease, and no room for oppressors of any kind. VERY OBVIOUSLY, SUCH A KINGDOM WOULD BE TOTALLY AT VARIANCE TO THE WORLD WE NOW LIVE IN AND WITH THE AMERICAN NEW WORLD ORDER SYSTEM THAT NOW PREVAILS ON THE EARTH. Think about it: A world based on social justice where the rich do not oppress the poor! A world where there are no John Dimitri Negropontes, no Augusto Pinochets, and no Charles Taylors! This, of course, is something much more than the "good news" of salvation, because while the "good news" of salvation promises redemption to the INDIVIDUAL, it does not promise to "make over" the world per se, and this is evidenced by the fact that from Pentecost until now there has been NO social justice and NO equity between and among men; tyranny and oppression have continued to flourish; and sickness, poverty and hunger have continued to wreak their horrible work on mankind - and it is only getting worse! THE FIRST TIME THIS KINGDOM WAS PREACHED TO THE JEWS, THE JEWS REJECTED IT HOWEVER, WHEN THIS KINGDOM WAS FIRST PREACHED TO THE JEWS SOME 2,000 YEARS AGO, IT WAS REJECTED BY THEM - in fulfillment of the Scripture that - "... THEY [i.e., ISRAEL] WITHOUT US [i.e., THE CHURCH] SHOULD NOT BE MADE PERFECT." (Heb. 11:40) [Please see chapter 3 of the Antipas Papers, "The Distinction Between Israel and the Church."] Now, after an interval of some 2,000 years, the Kingdom is once again "AT HAND!" The so-called "church age" is all but past, and the Jews - once dispersed over the whole earth because of the rejection of their king - have now been re-gathered again to their land. Everything is ready! - and God is raising up a people to proclaim that the Kingdom is once again "AT HAND." THE ETERNAL GOSPEL Concomitant with the proclamation of the "Gospel of the Kingdom" - and in conjunction with it - the "ETERNAL GOSPEL" will also be proclaimed. The great Bible expositor, C.I. Scofield, writes: "The 'Eternal Gospel' (Rev. 14:6) is described as the announcement of divine judgment upon the wicked (specifically, Babylon the Great) ... It is good news for the suffering believers as it heralds their coming deliverance and reward (cp., v. 12). In view of this those who 'live on the earth' are exhorted to fear God and worship Him (v. 7)." The "ETERNAL GOSPEL" is the "other side of the same coin" upon which the "GOSPEL OF THE KINGDOM" has been imprinted. It foretells the destruction of "Babylon the Great," the kingdom of Satan which antichrist will set up in the "end of days" in opposition to the coming kingdom of Christ, and it calls upon ALL of God's people - i.e., all those who "… keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ" (Rev. 12:17) - to forsake any alliances they might have with this wicked kingdom (i.e., the American New World Order System), and to get away from it as fast as they can. Why? - because THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS "AT HAND," and where the Kingdom of God is, there cannot be "Babylon the Great" (i.e., the American New World Order System) anymore than darkness can exist in the presence of light. (John 12:46, I John 1:5). A ROD OUT OF THE STEM OF JESSE: CHRIST AS KING OVER THE JEWS AND THE HEAD OVER THE CHURCH The Bible says: "And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots: "And the spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD; "And shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of the LORD: and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of his ears: "But with righteousness shall he judge the poor [i.e., restore unto them what has been robbed from them by the rich], and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked. "And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins. "The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them. "And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. "And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice’ den. "They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea. "AND IN THAT DAY THERE SHALL BE A ROOT OF JESSE, WHICH SHALL STAND FOR AN ENSIGN OF THE PEOPLE; to it shall the Gentiles seek: and his rest shall be glorious." (Isaiah 11:1-15) WHAT ARE YOU TO DO IN THE LIGHT OF ALL THIS? Now you must understand something: all that has been said here with regard to Israel is also true of the church. The church's condition today before the Lord is every bit as shameful as that of Israel's. Both the church and Israel are involved up to their necks with Babylon the Great - i.e., the American New World Order System. In fact, as we have already suggested, it is not too much to say that Babylon's two greatest allies in the world today are Israel and the church. The remedy or antitoxin in both cases is the "Gospel of the Kingdom" - which entails juxtaposing the character of the "Kingdom of God" over and against the American New World Order System. When we preach the "Gospel of the Kingdom" we purify both Israel and the church by drawing out the dross or impurities in both communities and revealing the gold, silver and precious stones that remain - a REMNANT capable of attracting the unsaved to a saving knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ. We demonstrate to the world by our living and our preaching that Christianity has NOTHING to do with the rich and powerful of this earth, but the poor and downtrodden; that Jesus really meant what He said when He told His disciples: "The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because HE HATH ANOINTED ME TO PREACH THE GOSPEL TO THE POOR; he hath sent me to HEAL THE BROKENHEARTED, to preach DELIVERANCE TO THE CAPTIVES, and recovering of sight to the blind, TO SET AT LIBERTY THEM THAT ARE BRUISED (i.e., THEM THAT HAVE BEEN WRONGED) …" (Luke 4:18) Do you love His appearing? Do you really? If you do, then you will bend all your effort at preaching the "GOSPEL OF THE KINGDOM." BUT TO DO SO, YOU MUST KNOW WHAT THAT GOSPEL IS ALL ABOUT! You must be able to - "Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine." (2 Timothy 4:2) Are you able AT ALL TIMES to "REPROVE," "REBUKE," "EXHORT," "with all longsuffering and DOCTRINE;" you must be able to do so if you are to be effective in preaching the "GOSPEL OF THE KINGDOM." That means that you must be educated and proficient in handling this DOCTRINE. You must be TRAINED; you must - "STUDY to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth." (2 Timothy 2:15) GET INVOLVED FORMALLY IN OUR TRAINING For this reason, I encourage you with all of my heart to get involved in our training. Do not think that you can simply audit the training and that should be enough. You must allow yourself to be subjected to a FORMAL course of instruction, as any good soldier must if he plans to go out to war. Before I went as a COMBAT soldier to Vietnam, I was trained as a soldier first at Fort Lewis in Washington, then at Fort Benning, Georgia, and finally in Fort Holabird, Maryland. I tell you the truth, I could not have survived without that training - and no more can you unless you submit yourself to a similar course of rigorous, STRUCTURED training - with tests, teachers to guide you, and so forth and so on. To this end, you must allow yourself to be placed in a class with others and proceed through the training step-by-step. [Please see our training module.] Brothers and sisters, if you get serious with God, He will get serious with you! As Paul advised Timothy, so now I advise you: Endure the hardness of FORMAL training - "… as a good soldier of Jesus Christ." (2 Timothy 2:3) TO THAT END, I ENCOURAGE ALL OF YOU TO GET IN TOUCH WITH OUR "TRAINING COORDINATOR," FRED PALMQUIST. You can email him at fred@antipasministries.com, or you may phone him at (916) 455-1719. If for any reason you can't reach him there, please feel free to phone us up here in Canada at (250) 397-2555 or email us at sean@antipasministries.com. SHOUT THE GOSPEL OF THE KINGDOM FROM THE ROOFTOPS Then take this training and begin shouting it from the rooftops! That's what Jesus told us to do: "What I tell you in darkness (i.e., in secret), that speak ye in light: and what ye hear in the ear, THAT SHOUT YE UPON THE ROOFTOPS." (Matthew 10:27) As I said previously, EVERYTHING WILL FOLLOW FROM THAT! Do you have doubts about leaving the United States; no need to fret and worry about it - just PRINT OUT THE FLYERS THAT ARE AVAILABLE TO YOU ON THIS WEBSITE AND PASS THEM OUT TO YOUR FRIENDS AND LOVED ONES; PASS THEM OUT TO THOSE YOU WORK WITH ON THE JOB; PASS THEM OUT IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD; GIVE THEM TO YOUR BOSS, TO THE GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS YOU COME IN CONTACT WITH, TO THE POLICE IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD, TO THE FBI AGENTS AT THE AGENCY'S LOCAL FIELD OFFICE, ETC. - AND YOU WILL FIND YOURSELF GLORIOUSLY DELIVERD FROM WHATEVER IS HOLDING YOU BACK, AND PROPELLED ALMOST MAGICALLY ON YOUR WAY. That's what happened to us, and I am certain, that if you do all this, it will happen to you as well. That's called PERSECUTION; but, then, that's what the Lord promised ALL those who really follow Him. Jesus said: "If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you. "If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: BUT BECAUSE YE ARE NOT OF THE WORLD, BUT I HAVE CHOSEN YOU OUT OF THE WORLD, THEREFORE THE WORLD HATETH YOU. "Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. IF THEY HAVE PERSECUTED ME, THEY WILL ALSO PERSECUTE YOU; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also. "But all these things will they do unto you for my name’s sake, because they know not him that sent me." (John 15:18-21) And Jesus went on to say: "But when they persecute you in this city, FLEE YE INTO ANOTHER: for verily I say unto you, Ye shall not have gone over the cities of … [the earth] TILL THE SON OF MAN BE COME." (Matthew 10:23) AND ISN'T THAT WHAT WE ARE ALL WAITING FOR? WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR? - "… the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ." (Titus 2:13) That's what the "GOSPEL OF THE KINGDOM" is all about - that the kingdom is "AT HAND." A SPECIAL WORD FOR OUR JEWISH BRETHREN IN THE LORD Now I have a special word for those of you who are Jewish BY BIRTH, and there are many of you who have contacted us recently who are in fact JEWISH CHRISTIANS by BLOOD: All of us who are Christians - Jews and Gentiles alike - are called to preach the "Gospel of the Kingdom" in these "Last Days" - "For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit." (1Cor. 12:13) But insofar as the nation of Israel is concerned, you Christians who are among us who are JEWS BY BLOOD have a unique opportunity to preach the message to Israel because you possess "THE RIGHT OF RETURN," and that cannot be denied you. You possess the RIGHT to actually emigrate to Israel as a PERMANENT resident, and that obligates you in a very special way TO GO THERE WITH THE MESSAGE OF ANTIPAS AND THE "GOSPEL OF THE KINGDOM." But, again, don't go "willy-nilly" and haphazardly, without any training, and without any real idea of what you are doing. GET IN TOUCH WITH US; INVOLVE YOURSELF IN THE TRAINING, AND WE WILL SHOW YOU WHAT THINGS YOU MUST SUFFER FOR YOUR BRETHREN, THE PEOPLE OF THE NATION OF ISRAEL. But your suffering will produce - "… an highway for the REMNANT of his people, which shall be left … "And in that day … [they (the Jews in Israel) shalt say, O LORD, I will praise thee: THOUGH THOU WAST ANGRY WITH ME, THINE ANGER IS TURNED AWAY, and thou comfortedst me. A WORD TO EVERYONE And now I say to all of you, Let none of us now draw back in fear - "… seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, "Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God." (Hebrews 12:1-2) In THAT day, we want to be able to say with the Apostle Paul: "I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith: "Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, BUT UNTO ALL THEM ALSO THAT LOVE HIS APPEARING." (2 Tim. 4:7-8) God bless you all! S.R. Shearer, Antipas Ministries P.S. Once again, I implore all of you to sign up for the formal training: "STUDY to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth." (2 Timothy 2:15) TO THAT END, ONCE AGAIN I ENCOURAGE ALL OF YOU TO GET IN TOUCH WITH OUR "TRAINING COORDINATOR," FRED PALMQUIST. You can email him at fred@antipasministries.com, or you may phone him at (916) 455-1719. If you can't reach him for any reason, please feel free to phone us up here in Canada at (250) 397-2555 or email us at sean@antipasministries.com. Finally, we urge you to read our article, "The Superman Theology of the International Christian Embassy's Feast of Tabernacles." It will give all you who have a heart to preach the "GOSPEL OF THE KINGDOM" in Israel to come to grips with what you will be up against in Israel.
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#1. To: Arator (#0)
S. R. Shearer as usual posted a long article with much meat in it. but at least this time it isn't as long as normal and I am glad that in this article he didn't repeat his normal admonition that we should leave america. I like his articles, I don't agree with absolutely everything he says. Nice to see he's developing new ideas. and as usual they appeal for money in the end. Shearer finds many verses that seem to apply today in a big way, but are ignored by the bulk of the christian organizations. for those turned off by Shearer's appeal for money - remember the guy lives extremely modestly on a ranch in northern Canada. he left america just as he preaches. and he ain't getting rich. I feel he's got some powerful interpretations.
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