Israel and Fundamentalism
October 5, 2006 by Dave Earley
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You’re probably thinking this post is going to be about fundamentalist Islam and its opposition to Israel.
It’s not.
It’s about fundamentalist Christianity and its support of Israel.
In the article it mentions a guy who has written several books about the second coming of Christ, put in particular this one titled Jerusalem Countdown.
Hagee explored this from a political standpoint in his interpretation of scripture, “Jerusalem Countdown,” which has sold more than 600,000 copies. The book’s geopolitics are very precise, beginning with an alliance between Russia and the Islamic world.
“Russia is going to get in that position and they are literally, with all that massive military force, going to attack Israel,” Hagee said. “This is recorded in Ezekiel 38 and 39. God himself is literally going to destroy that army. Decimate it.”
And he said that will be followed by a Chinese army of 200 million coming to the city of Armageddon where they will meet British and U.S. forces in the Battle of Armageddon.
This sort of specificity worries me, not because I believe it and immediately start ‘warning’ my friends about this new truth I’ve read, far from it. It’s akin to saying, “Jesus is coming back at midnight, New Year’s Eve 2006! I know it, because my calculations prove it, and we’re going into 2007, seven being a holy number! Everything is aligned!”
It is indeed my Email address that I do not want in the open. Thanks for removing it.
Damn, this was a conversation and a half. You are all wrong. The end of the world will end next year, on September 4. Booyah.
Hey blonde, look top banner of the website, and ‘contact’. I won’t write it here in case spambots pick it up and start mass emailing me. I think the one i’ve got up the top there is supposed to trick them…somehow (i borrowed the code – which isn’t, as it looks, just a simple mailto: html tag)… so click on that.
is it your email address in that comment that you don’t want out it in the open? I’ve preemptively taken that out for now… Otherwise, I have reservations about just deleting comments.
I agree with you, Dave – conspiracy theories abound, and it’s no saner to start telling people the “truth that can be seen if you read the Bible while standing on one foot and squinting sideways at the upside down letters” than it is to swear that the CIA and the Pope have known about it all along and are going to GET YOU!!!
Let’s just have a little logic, and a little common sense. Dave, if we as a family could bottle and sell our cynicism, I think the world would be a much less crazy place. Or not.
This is pretty much what I wanted. My conclusions are too long for a comment. What is your Email address so I can send my conclusions?
Because of the location and nature of my job I prefer that it will be deleted (nothing secret, but to be on the safe side).
Good luck with all the assignments!
For the same reason I didn’t have time to check it out myself, I probably don’t have time to discuss either – seriously, 3 assignments due 4 days ago. If you want to write your conclusions down and email them to me, feel free.
But unless you’ve stumbled across some state secret and your life is in danger, what’s the need to delete your comment above?
I hope you will not be mad, but I went and checked ownership (or rather, sponsors) of the newspapers in the link I gave you. I got to some conclusions I would like to discuss. If you are interested email me in [
edited] (please remove this comment afterwards).Pretty much my point… wack jobs like this – who think they can predict the day, location, and belligerent parties to be involved – don’t help much with anti-christian sentiments.
Mr Carlill and myself had extensive debates about the End of the World. The only point we agreed upon was that no one can predict the End of the World since it was said it will come “like a thief in the night”, so no one can predict it. Hence, the book is bollocks.
Thanks for the link blonde.
I’d like to take the time to respond to this, but I can’t right now – assignments. What I would want to do is go through and check the ownership of those outlets. The reason I’d particularly like to be able to take the time to do that immediately is because of the cross-media ownership laws that might pass here in Australia soon, causing even more concentration of ownership.
And the issue is ownership, and therefore concentration, more than the number of titles. But in Brisbane, there’s only one paper – the Courier Mail. Any other things on that list are suburban rags, not full-blown newspapers, and definitely not competition to the Courier Mail.
Thanks again, maybe look at those things in…a few months? Who knows.
I remember that ages ago you said there are not enough newspapes in Australia. This link (http://www.kidon.com/media-link/au.php) may prove you worng. Or just it seems a lot of newspapers but most of them are news-worthless local papers.