- Distracted by events following the Obama inauguration,
did you miss our latest 10-minute video? Because it was released the day
after the inauguration, I'm afraid thousands did.
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- Short in length, it nevertheless packs a huge wallop.
It clearly and quickly explains the BIG issues behind conflict in the Middle
East. It's probably the fastest eye-opener you can find to enlighten your
media-brainwashed friends and relatives.
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- View it now at <http://www.truthtellers.org/>www.truthtellers.org.
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- Video Script
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- Claims and counterclaims surround the recent crisis in
Gaza. Yet, we can't understand the right or wrong of events in the troubled
Mideast without knowing God's spiritual law about Palestine. This law was
repeatedly set forth over 3000 years ago.
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- If you are a Christian, you must take the Bible very
seriously -- as the written word of God. Jesus said, "Heaven and earth
shall pass away, but My Word shall not pass away." (Mark 13:31) This
means the eternal truths laid down thousands of years ago in Holy Scripture
remain true.
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- Yet, many evangelical Christians say God's law no longer
applies to the modern state of Israel. What law am I talking about? In
the Old Testament, God repeatedly instructed His people, the Israelites,
that the land of Canaan was to be holy. It could only be occupied by a
holy, obedient people. When they rebelled, God allowed them to be driven
out. They could only reenter in repentance. [1] God says that if Israel
rebels, "The Lord will scatter you among the nations"(Deut. 4:27).
But if they repent, "The Lord your God will restore you from captivity"
(Deut. 30:3).
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- God could not have been clearer. He even banned Moses
from entering the land because Moses disobeyed Him on just one point!
If Christians today truly respected Scripture, they would know God's conditional
terms still apply. Those terms are as binding today as in the time of Joshua
or Ezra-righteous men who led obedient Israelites into Palestine.
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- Today, American Christians and Jews both believe the
opposite of the Bible. They say God no longer requires obedience! Many
millions of secular Jews got a green light from evangelicals during the
20th century and returned to Israel in disobedience of Old Testament law.
Religious Jews returned while rejecting their true Messiah, Jesus.
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- When I remind many Christians of God's conditional terms,
their logic goes into lockdown. Somehow they think God wants a disobedient
return! Evangelicals seem to believe He reversed His original terms and
now endorses mass return of millions of Christ-rejecting Jews to Palestine.
Obedience, which once mattered so much, evidently means nothing to God
today!
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- Applying Scripture to Gaza
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- What does this have to do with the present crisis in
Gaza and the Mideast? Plenty.
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- Mass Jewish presence in Palestine violates God's law
in the same way that contact between two bare, electrified wires creates
tremendous conflict in the laws of electricity. It explodes in a shower
of sparks. In the same way, a rebellious Jewish nation in Palestine creates
an explosion of strife. No human peace treaty or negotiations can ever
bring lasting peace.
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- From its beginning, Zionism was birthed in violence.
Jewish terrorists committed major atrocities against the Palestinians in
the months preceding and following independence in 1948. On April 9, 1948,
under orders from future Prime Minister Menachim Begin, 250 sleeping Arab
men, women and children of the town of Deir Yassin were slaughtered by
Zionist Irgun terrorists. Their bodies were hacked in pieces, many stuffed
into a well. The International Red Cross arrived, documenting the atrocity
even while the killing continued.
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- Then the Irgun terrorists proclaimed throughout Palestine
that any Arabs who remained would receive the same fate. Eight hundred
thousand native Palestinians fled Israel. These innocent refugees were
interned by Israel in squalid concentration camps such as Gaza and the
West Bank. They still suffer there today. (See my article "<http://www.truthtellers.org/alerts/israelsfoundingmiraclelandgrab.htm>Israel
Founding: Miracle or Land Grab?", 8/4/08 at <http://www.truthtellers.org>www.truthtellers.org)
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- Is it surprising that after more than 60 years of imprisonment,
humiliation and deprivation by Israeli overlords, many Palestinians have
turned toward violence? They are desperate to obtain not just freedom but
the attention of an indifferent world. The futile, senseless, and counterproductive
rocket attacks of Hamas are the actions of a people frenzied by at least
six decades of endless oppression.
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- These rockets, which arch out of Gaza toward Israel,
aren't acts of effective war-making. They are like flares shot high into
the night sky from a sinking ship, whose passengers desperately hope to
attract notice and compassion.
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- True Christians have no business assisting a nation which
has driven human beings to such acts of desperate madness. If we do, Scripture
warns we "become partakers of their evil deeds" (II John 1:11).
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- Someday Israel will be Humbled
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- Scripture is emphatic that someday Israel's present counterfeit
return will be demolished by the forces of Antichrist. Out of the Great
Tribulation, a remnant of beleaguered disillusioned Jews will at last obey
Christ. Then and only then will He sanction their return to Palestine.
At Christ's return, these Jews will give God the same obedience Abraham
gave, and He will endorse their occupation of a land promised to Abraham.
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- Until then, Christians are way out of line in bidding
Godspeed to the bully of the Mideast: Israel. It is long overdue for Christians
to stop sending tens of millions of dollars to this oppressor. Instead,
Christians should speed with compassion toward the suffering Palestinians,
a proud people sinking lower in their sea of despair. We should protest
Israel's continuing oppressions. We should also help alleviate the poverty
and hopelessness which drives the Palestinians to desperate violence.
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- Christ described the Good Samaritan's mercy on the wounded,
robbed traveler thrown into a ditch and ignored. Today, the Palestinians
have been robbed by Israel of their ancestral lands, dignity, and freedom.
Israel has thrown them into a ditch of contempt in the eyes of self-righteous
Jews and Christians who ignore them. No one should exist beyond Christian
mercy, including the Palestinians. The Good Samaritan broke ranks with
established norms of acceptable compassion. He extended hands of mercy
to a victim who symbolized the Palestinians of today.
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- It is time that Christians identify not with a nation
of robbers who cast people in the ditch to die but with the Good Samaritan
who revealed God's astonishing love and mercy.
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- Christian, are you like the self-righteous Levites and
Pharisees who passed the man by? Or do you have the same compassion as
the Good Samaritan?
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- Endnote:
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- 1. Passages laying down God's terms of conditional occupation
include Leviticus 18:28, 26:27-46, Numbers 14:23, Deuteronomy 4:26-27,
6:18, 7:12, 8:21, 25, 37, 41, 63, 64, 28:58-64, 29:28, 31:3, 18, Ezekiel
13:9, and Jeremiah 29:13.
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