5/14/18: The president formally announces movement of the U.S. embassy in Israel to Jerusalem. Jared Kushner speaks at the opening ceremony. Ivanka is all smiles. Pastor Robert Jeffress offers a heartfelt prayer.
An Israeli newspaper quickly takes issue with the choice of Jeffress to speak. “If the Trump administration’s intention was to offend Jewish sensibilities with its pick of an evangelical minister to give a prayer at the opening of the new U.S. embassy in Jerusalem, it succeeded.”
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Hating Jews, Mormons, Hindus, Buddhists, Catholics, and
Muslims.
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Jeffress, an Evangelical firebrand, has made it clear he believes Jews will someday roast in Perdition. Mormons, he says, are part of a cult. Turn up the flames for them too. Hindus and Buddhists are just as bad. He has labeled the Catholic Church “the genius of Satan.” As for Islam, you just know Jeffress is going to make Muslims in lands surrounding Israel feel better when he claims their religion is “evil,” “violent” and “false.”
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Pastor Hagee and Vice President Pence. |
Even worse, we learn that Reverend John C. Hagee gave the benediction. Hagee is the person you would pick if you wanted to stir anger among Muslims and convince them the U.S. would never be a fair broker in any Middle East peace discussion. “Islam in general,” Hagee has said, “those who live by the Quran have a scriptural mandate to kill Christians and Jews.” In the Reverend’s warped dreams 200 million Muslims want to “come to America or invade Israel to crush it.”
Hagee once claimed God punished New Orleans and nearly drowned the city because a Gay Pride parade was scheduled. The day before the gays were set to march, Hurricane Katrina hit.
God works in mysterious ways, drowning a thousand people, because gays wanted to ride on floats.
Hagee has also insisted that the Holocaust was part of God’s
plan. “How did it happen?” Hagee once asked. “Because God allowed it to happen.
Why did it happen? Because God said my top priority for the Jewish people is to
get them to come back to the land of Israel.” To set the stage, God thought it
might be cool to have six million Jews tortured, gassed, or shot.
Hagee and Jeffress put their faith in Bible prophecy, which is fine. It just might not be the kind of belief on which you want to base your nation’s foreign policy. First, they believe, you’ve got to get the Jews back to the Promised Land. Then they retake Jerusalem. Next, you have a lot of hocus pocus. At least one theory involves Russians and Muslims attacking Israel but being defeated with the help of God and the Antichrist, an unexpected duo, like Batman and Beelzebub. The Jews realize the error of their ways. They accept Jesus and the Son of God returns, ushering in a thousand years of earthly bliss, followed by the less-than-blissful End Times.
And it’s all good – if you’re a Christian, that is.
Has Trump given any of this a moment of thought? The tone-deaf President of the United States tweets: “U.S. Embassy opening in Jerusalem will be covered live on @FoxNews & @FoxBusiness. Lead up to 9:00 A.M. (eastern) event has already begun. A great day for Israel!”
Then: “Big day for Israel. Congratulations!”
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PALESTINIANS ERUPT in fury. Israeli defense forces respond with tear gas, rubber bullets and live fire. The BBC reports that at least 52 Palestinians are killed. Hundreds more are wounded.
Good times. End times.
No peace.
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