- Grant R. Jeffrey is an enormously popular evangelical
Bible prophecy teacher featured on the globe-spanning Trinity Broadcasting
TV network. His program "Bible Prophecy Revealed" reaches an
estimated 100,000,000 viewers.
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- I was surprised by last week's broadcast
(May 15). Jeffrey said that in the 1948 conflict between Israel and the
Arabs, there were "terrible atrocities on both sides."
- What? Since when has Israel -- whom most
evangelicals believe can virtually do no wrong -- become guilty of atrocities?
The Arabs, yes. But these evangelicals would reply, "Israel was created
by divine intervention not atrocities!
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- I believe the barrage of new arguments for
a more Biblical view of Israel (largely provided by the National Prayer
Network) is beginning to penetrate. Perhaps Jeffrey's listeners have sent
him articles from truthtellers.org, such as "<http://www.truthtellers.org/alerts/israelfoundedonterror.htm>Israel:
Founded on Terror." This article details the sordid record of Israel's
"terrible atrocities" against the Palestinians. These include
the massacres of Deir Yassin, Dawayma, Kibya, Kfar Kassem, Lebanon, etc.
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- Jeffrey: God Loves Arabs
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- Jeffrey also said, "God loves the Arabs
just as much as He loves the Jews."
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- You might pry that statement from some evangelical
prophecy teachers. But I have never heard it volunteered on international
Christian TV. John Hagee, Jerry Falwell, etc., always stress that God has
"special love" for Jews, the "apple of His eye." In
strongly pro-Israel churches, Arab "donkey-drivers and towel-heads"
are unofficially considered inferior to Jews in God's sight.
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- Are we finally seeing hairline cracks
in the previously impregnable wall of evangelical approval of Israel? Since
publication of my book Israel: Our Duty Our Dilemma in 1984, I have sent
a simple, Biblical message to the church. I've said God has a wonderful
destiny for a repentant remnant of Jews; this destiny will be revealed
at Christ's second coming. But meanwhile, historic Judaism is deeply apostate
and anti-Christian. Israel was founded in defiance of God's law, which
says only obedient Jews can reoccupy Palestine; it is a counterfeit, not
the true obedient return prophesied hundreds of times in the Old Testament.
(See, "<http://www.truthtellers.org/alerts/isisraelimproving.htm>Is
Israel Improving? ")
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- For 24 years, the National Prayer Network
has shot missiles of Biblical warning and reality into the seemingly impenetrable
wall of Christian Zionism.
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- Now a prominent, highly respected Christian
Zionist has made significant concessions to our message. I believe more
cracks can develop in the evangelical wall. Unfortunately, such cracks
may have to be hastened through persecution under state hate laws, inspired
by the Jewish Anti-Defamation League. Ultimately, Revelation suggests that
when Christians have suffered bitterly under the "Great Harlot,"
Israel, they will at last comprehend the full hatred of Talmudic Judaism
against them. (Rev. 18:4-7)
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- What if Christians could realize the truth
before then? What if a significant percent of America's 70 million evangelicals
became aware of the threat of anti-Christian Jewish activism and publicly
opposed it? America could well postpone establishment of the Jewish one-world
order, Babylon the Great. (See, "<http://www.truthtellers.org/alerts/israelempireinmideast.html>Israel:
On the Way to Empire in the Middle East") Effective resistance
could last for at least a generation or as long as such faith in God and
love of truth continues.
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- It is a frightful reality that, today, the will
of the "synagogue of Satan" (Rev. 3:9) (that Christ-rejecting
Jews are unconditionally chosen by God) has become the will of most Christians.
Yet the Zionist mortar that has bound evangelicals with Israel and her
injustices can be made to crumble.
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- I pray it will, before it is too late.
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